Tracking bills that you split while you are on a trip or travelling with friends can be difficult. In this post, we will walk you through some simple stuffs that you can do using Beezang which will make tracking trip expenses easier.
- Link your twitter id to Beezang. You can learn how to do it here. This will enable you to enter bills via sms. In case you will have internet access and would prefer to enter bills via email, know more on how you can go about entering bills via email here
- So while you are on the go just enter the bills as and when they happen or whenever you are free via sms or email.
- Once you are back, create a group for your trip. Say you went out on a road trip name it “Road Trip” and invite your trip mates too
- All your bills will be in the notes tab.
- Save them as group bill with the group ‘Road Trip’.
- Once you have made sure you have entered all your bills, settle the group and all your friends will be notified how much they owe each other.
And thats all that you have to do. Now you have one less reason to worry about when you are travelling with friends
Last week we released a new feature using which you can send your bills via twitter direct message. The idea was to make it easier for entering bills. Today we release another feature that will make your life easier. Now you can email your bills to bills@beezang.com. Enter the bill details on the subject of the email. Once you have sent the email, your bills will appear on the Notes tab. Next time when you sign in just save the note as appropriate bill type. Turn your email client into a bill entering machine thats fast and easy. We hope you enjoy using this feature
Hi everyone,
Recently we released a new feature of sending you an email with your account summary. The first batch of emails was sent yesterday. Unfortunately we discovered a critical bug due to which some of you might have received incorrect/garbage data. We have fixed this bug. We are sorry for this mistake.
Regards
Team Beezang
Beezang grew out of our own needs.
I (Archis) used to track our expenses on a google spreadsheet, courtesy my senior who designed an elaborate spreadsheet which worked perfectly fine. Well, just that there was this occasional problem of bill duplication and the hours you have to spend going through the entries when its time to settle up. And then of course, more often than not we would procrastinate on entering the bills. Plus you could use the spreadsheet only for tracking the expenses I shared with my room mates. But there were other instances when I did split bills with other folks. There was this one instance when a bunch of us had a get together. The get together was fun, but after that we had to start an email thread that went for around 10 mails to figure out who is going to pay whom how much.
Shivul on other hand used a simple note book with his room mates to track expenses. Data entry was super easy. Anyone who paid a common bill or got groceries made an entry in the note book. However, consolidating all expenses was painful. They would spend an hour or so going through the entries, checking if there were any mistakes and then doing the maths.
That’s when it hit us maybe we should try building something that solves this. After all money management shouldn’t be this huge a task. Beezang is still in a very early stage. But our goal is to ultimately build a service that is super easy to use and doesn’t feel like a lot of work.
