Feature Request | Cross-Project, Person-Based balances

[AkshayRao27]

Context

Every aknflw expense-splitting platform (except Splitwise) currently calculate balances within groups / projects / bubbles / whatever else they call it. However, it's entirely possible that there is an overlap between the members of several groups / projects. In such a scenario, being able to calculate balances between people across / regardless of projects would make it significantly easier for users to have an overview of their debts.

Example

I have the following situation:

• Dave & I meet up sporadically & our expenses have no groups.
• James, Jolly, and I live together. James pays the rent, and we pay James back.
• Jolly and I hang out without James and have expenses outside the Home Group.
• Jimmy, Jolly, Bimmy, Luke, and I went on a vacation and our expenses are in the Vacation Group.

So now, we have multiple people who may or may not be part of a group, and multiple people who are a part of multiple groups. In Cospend, I would need to set up at least 4 groups:

1. Group for Dave & me
2. Group for Jolly & me
3. "Home" with Jolly, James, and me
4. "Vacation" with the everyone except James and Dave.

Instead, if balances can be calculated across groups, we have a situation like this:

• Jolly can send me €1060.20 in one go instead of sending me three different amounts for three different groups/projects
• I don't need to set up tons of different groups
• I know exactly how much I owe and how much I get back in total.

This is literally the one single thing that is keeping me from fully ditching Splitwise for good. I despise the direction Splitwise have gone in, but person-based balances are indispensible for me because of the number of friends that share various groups. I sincerely hope that something like that can indeed be implemented in spliit, especially since its trying to be an alternative to Splitwise! There are literally NO other platforms that offer this feature at all right now.

Edit: I think this request is very similar to https://github.com/spliit-app/spliit/issues/19

[ChristopherJohnston]

This would require user accounts (#76) as currently the "participant" concept assumes an exclusive set of people per group.

[xaquib666]

Highly recommended feature request!

[AkshayRao27]

This would require user accounts (#76) as currently the "participant" concept assumes an exclusive set of people per group.

If not accounts, a workaround could be to allow the group admin to "link" people from different groups regardless of what their names are.