Background Needs of a common expense sharing utility Listing Individuals who will share the expenses Person 1
this week.. Vegetables - 25/Fruit juice -150/Chips - 40/Dish wash - 15/-
June 09 bills Electrici ty- 800 /Internet - 960/Newspa per-380 /-
Total Rs.1750
Provision to calculate personal as well as collective expenditure
Total Rs.900
Person 3
Total= amount of money spent Total Rs.650
Person 1
ow Rs es .66
Total Rs.200
ow Rs es .3 18
Personal expenditure log (possibly categorized)
Person 3
Person 2
Person 2
Background
Common expenses (in shared living) Possible cases where expenses may be shared for eg. groceries, TV cable, Telephone, internet, electricity bills, cooking gas, milk and newspaper
Cooking
Gas
These aspects can be utilized as tags to categorize expenses an individual bears
Features Provisions for each user Assigning color codes to each person sharing the app data or naming them through contacts list on phone for eg: The Primary user may customize the colors assigned for other users in the group They may share this data with other group members as well
Entering expenses and being able to categorize them using tags provided by the app or self-created ones
Contact
1
Myself
Contact
800 Kitchen stuff..
App can have the image option for creating these tags Add tags
800
3
Contact
4
300 TV
300
Features Visualizing the data for the user Users can view the current status of the total shared expenditure at any point of time, as the data will be updated on mobiles of the people who are part of the group larger icon for the primary user
larger icon on the basis of amount spent
1500
800
1500
Pie View depicting share of each member and choosing to view individual expenses
800 500
500 200
200
Viewing expenses in user customizable formats only personal expenses
expenses by all people My Expenses
Spent on
Spent on
200
Myself
Contact1
Contact2
200
50
100 +
+
+
+
900
100
300
0
Find Share
300
350
100
Owes
Myself
Contact1
50
100
+ 500
1600
Split
To split the expenses into share among group members
Contact2
Work flow Create Sharing Group Name group members Add contacts Assigning identities (picture | icon | color)
Share | Send group to contacts
Enter Expenses Add tags for categorizing Customizing tags (picture | icons | text)
View own expenses View group expenses Split expenses | Find share