Expenses & Splitting

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This page is a stub. Screenshots and step-by-step walkthroughs are coming.

Expenses are the heart of HomeLog. Each expense records what was spent, who paid, and — optionally — how it's shared with the rest of the household.

Recording an expense

From the Expenses tab, add an expense with an amount, date, category, and the member who paid. Categories and subcategories are configurable in Settings → Categories.

Splitting

When an expense is shared, HomeLog creates a split for each participating member. The split records how much each person owes. The payer never owes themselves, so their own share is marked as settled automatically.

Household-wide defaults (split equally, by share, or not at all) can be set once, and individual expenses can override them.

Balances & settling up

The Balance tab shows who owes whom across all unsettled splits. Recording a settlement pays down those splits oldest-first, and the amount is yours to choose: pay part of what you owe and the rest stays outstanding, with each share showing how much of it is already covered. Deleting a settlement reverses only what that settlement paid.

Long-term debts

Some expenses are too large to sit in the running balance. A mortgage down payment one member fronts would net against every ordinary expense, so the other member never gets reimbursed for the groceries — their share is silently swallowed by the big debt.

From its row in Unsettled expenses, an expense can be moved to the Debts tab. Its shares leave the running balance and become a standalone debt with its own remainder and progress, repaid whenever and however much you want. Day-to-day expenses keep splitting and settling normally in the meantime.

A debt is paid down in two ways:

• Record a payment — an ordinary transfer, of any amount, against that debt.
• Compensate — when the person who owes the debt has a credit on the other member (they fronted a shared expense), the credit is offset against the debt. No money moves; both sides drop by the offset amount.

An expense can be moved back to the balance as long as nothing has been repaid on it yet.

Templates

Frequent expenses (weekly groceries, rent…) can be saved as templates so you can add them in one tap. Manage them in Settings → Preferences.