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Split bills with friends without the awkward bit.
Settle Without LeavingJosieKettle tells me I owe Nadia £42.30 and then I go to my bank, type it in and come back to mark it paid. Three apps for one number.Support Team Reasonable, and it is the most-asked thing we have not committed to. Being straight about why we are still thinking: handling money means regulation, and half-doing that is worse than not doing it. We are looking at handing off to whatever people already use to pay each other, so the amount and the reference are filled in and the marking-as-paid happens on the way back.Split by ItemNadiaFour of us ate. One of us had three courses and most of two bottles of wine. Splitting evenly isn't the answer, and doing it by hand rather defeats the point of the app.Support Team That's exactly the case where an even split stops being fair. In progress now.A Running TotalFridaHalfway through a week away I want to know what the trip has cost so far, not what I owe. Those are different numbers and only one of them is on screen.Support Team They are different numbers and you are right that only one is shown. Planned: the group gets a spend-so-far figure alongside the balances, with a per-person breakdown behind it.Recurring Household BillsOwenMy flatmate and I use Kettle for holidays and it's the only thing we've both stuck with. We'd use it all year if it could carry rent, broadband and the energy bill on a repeat.Support Team We've given this a proper look and the answer is no, so here it is with the reasoning. Kettle is built around a group that forms, spends and settles up. Everything in it assumes an ending: the balances resolve, somebody pays, the group closes. Household bills never do that. A total that never settles needs different maths, different reminders and a different idea of what finished means, and adding it would make the holiday case worse to serve a case we're not good at. One thing that works better than it sounds: a flat group you settle at the end of each month. Same numbers, and it keeps everyone square as you go.See Who Owes WhatTomasSix of us, four weeks, ninety-odd expenses. The list is accurate and completely unreadable. I want one line per person and nothing else.Support Team Accurate and unreadable is a fair description of that screen. Working on it.