Hi, This seems to be turning into a feature request, so I'd like to add my weight behind it too. I would find a "Shared Expenses" feature very useful.
Thanks! On Dec 8 2008, 6:36 am, _ct_ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I am in a similar situation. I have created two additional buckets > for this: A "Credit"expensebucket and a "Reimbursements" income > bucket. When I go grocery shopping with my flatmate or pay the > internet bill, I create a split. For example, our internet bill is > $40 is gets deducted from my credit card. Thus, I create a new > transaction with $40 on my credit card but I split it so that $20 are > counted against my "Internet"expensebucket and $20 are counted > against my "Credit" bucket (because I did not spend the latter $20 on > internet but rather gave them as credit to my roommate). Since I > don't have a spending plan for "Credit", the bucket will be > overspent. I will fill up the bucket with a money flow from the > "Reimbursements" bucket (which is probably overspent now). When my > flatmate pays me the $20 in cash, I create a $20 transaction on my > Cash Account and put it into the "Reimbursements" bucket. When all > debt is paid, both "Credit" and "Reimbursements" are zero – before > that, the "Reimbursements" bucket shows me how much money I am still > waiting for. > > Things can get tricker when I am not getting paid directly by cash for > every single item. For example, my flatmate might pay the next > grocery trip which might come to approx. $40 as well. Then I usually > create two cash transactions with one in the "Reimbursements" bucket > and one from my "Groceries" bucket (i.e., I pretend to have handled > cash which I in fact never really got or spent, but the cash account > balance and the bucket cash flows are correct in the end). > > Hope that helps, > Christian > > On Oct 27, 7:13 pm, Chris C <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > We have 3 people sharing expenses, and I have problems to fit > > Moneywell for the workflow. The problem is, we pay forsharedthings > > first, and then pay/get back the differences between how much you paid > > and you should have paid (eg if I pay $30 for Groceries, then I get > > $20 back from housemates) at the end of every fortnight. > > > Let's say we have 3 categories: Groceries, Petrol and Internet, and I > > paid $30 for each (ie $90 in total) and I should have paid $10 for > > each category (ie $30 in total). I'm not sure how to setup the money > > flow so that by the end of fortnight, I can put back the difference > > ($60) and allocate $10 to all 3 categories asexpense? > > > Thanks, > > Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
