spliit-app
Starting balance
I would love to see an option for setting starting/carryover balances when making a new group. This would be particularly useful for folks migrating from other cost splitting apps. I am potentially interested in contributing this once I get up to speed on the structure of the project.
@PhilipMathieu I achieved this by simply adding the outstanding balances from other apps as new expenses. Is this somehow different to what you have in mind?
That does achieve the same outcome, but my suggestion is that there be an option to do this within the create a new group workflow. I think it should be a relatively simple thing to propose once I get up to speed with the user interface
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Hi @PhilipMathieu, that sounds like a nice feature. I wonder how it would work: the user would enter a balance (positive or negative) for each group participant?
My initial idea would be like this:
- Assuming the current layout for the new group, I would add a checkbox that says "Add starting balances".
- When that is checked, a second field would be visible for each participant.
- When the user clicks create, the amounts would be parsed and added as expenses as @dmlls suggests.