Add group expenses

Group expenses are visible to everyone in the group and update everyone’s balance at once.

Add an expense to a group

1. Open the group and choose Add expense.
2. Enter a Title, an optional Subtitle and the Total.
3. Under Who paid?, choose one person or several, with how much each paid.
4. Choose how to split it (below) and a category such as Food & drinks, Travel or Home, or your own.
5. Optionally add a Shared note and up to five Receipt images (each under 10 MB).
6. Choose Review expense to see everyone’s balance after saving, then save.

Five ways to split

• Equally: everyone selected pays the same.
• By item: assign each item to the people who had it. Tax, service and tip and Discount are shared in proportion to each person’s items.
• Exact amounts: type each person’s amount.
• Percentages: shares that add up to 100%.
• Weighted shares: for example 2 for a couple and 1 for each single person.

Scan a receipt

Where available, choose Scan a receipt to fill in the shop, date, total and items from a photo. Check the result: OweJar warns you if the items don’t add up or the total or currency is missing. The image is sent to an AI service to be read and is not stored. You can scan up to 30 receipts an hour.

Paid in another currency?

Choose Convert to {currency} for the group. OweJar suggests today’s rate (updated every few hours); choose Use today’s rate or type your own, for example the rate your card actually charged.

After saving

• Conversation: comment on the expense.
• Flag a dispute if something looks wrong, so everyone knows to check it.
• Refund from venue or seller: record money that came back.
• Duplicate: start a new expense from this one.
• Void expense: cancel it while keeping a record that it existed.

Every correction is kept in the expense’s history, so the group can always see what changed and when.