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Short answers about Evensies on iPhone and iPad, one question to an article.
Getting started
- Getting startedSign in with your email, or try the demo first. Then create a group, or join one from an invite link.
- Signing inEvensies signs you in with a 6-digit code sent to your email, with no password. How long you stay signed in, and your name.
- Sign in with AppleOn an iPhone or iPad, continue with Apple instead of an email code. Your name, Hide My Email, and when it signs you out.
- Creating a groupName the group, choose its currency and invite people. Creating groups is one purchase, paid once; joining is always free.
- Inviting peopleSend someone their own link from Contacts, share one link with a group chat, or add a name for someone who won't use the app.
- Joining a groupOpen the link with Evensies installed, pick your name if the group already has it, and join. Joining is always free.
- Evensies on iPadEvensies runs on iPad in any orientation and beside other apps, with the same account and groups as your iPhone.
Expenses
- Adding an expenseType the amount, say what it was for, who paid and how to split it. Starting from anywhere, remembered expenses, and the details.
- Splitting an expenseEqually, by exact amounts, percentages or shares, with adjustments, or line by line with tax and tip shared out.
- A group's default splitSet New expenses split in a group's settings, and every new expense there starts split that way, on everyone's phone.
- Duplicating an expenseDuplicate an expense to start a new one from it, dated today, with the same amount, people and split.
- Repeating expensesSet an expense to repeat weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly or yearly. When it is added again, who is told, and how to stop it.
- Currencies and exchange ratesEach expense can be in its own currency. Where the rate comes from, typing your own, and why a group's currency locks.
- Editing and deletingOpen it and tap Edit, or delete it. Anyone in the group can, and the balances update for everyone.
- Restoring and edit historyRestore a deleted expense or payment from Activity, and read every change made to it in its History.
Receipts
- ReceiptsAttach a photo, a screenshot or a PDF to an expense, from the expense itself or by sharing it into Evensies.
- Reading a receiptWhat a receipt fills in where your device can do it itself, what it marks for you to check, and what happens on other devices.
- Saving a receipt offlineYes. The expense saves at once and the receipt waits on your phone, then is attached when you are back online.
Balances and settling up
- Balances and simplifying debtsWhat you owe and are owed, in each group and overall, and how Simplify debts reroutes who pays whom without changing anyone's total.
- Settling upEvensies suggests who pays whom. Pay outside the app or through one, then record it, in full or in part. Editing a payment.
- Paying through an appAdd how you get paid, and people who owe you can open your payment app from Settle up, or copy your details into their bank's app.
- A friend's pageTap a person on Friends to see everything between you across groups, remind them, ask to be paid, settle up at once or export.
- Just between you and a friendAdd an expense just between you and a friend on Evensies, without a group. When it is free, and what it can't do.
- Totals and chartsA group's Totals, for all time or a month, by category and month by month, and Your spending across all your groups.
- Sharing a summaryShare a summary of a group as text: what it spent, who pays whom, and a link to the page with its live balances.
Notifications and activity
- Notifications and remindersGet told when your groups change, a weekly reminder or email of what you owe, and remind a friend who owes you.
- The weekly emailOnce a week, by email: what others changed in your groups and what you owe. It is off until you turn it on.
- Activity and commentsThe Activity tab shows what happens in your groups, and every expense has comments the whole group can read.
Groups
- Group notes and cover photosNotes everyone in the group can read and change, such as the Wi-Fi or the address, and a photo at the top of the group.
- Archiving or leaving a groupArchive a group once it's done, leave one you no longer need once you're settled, remove someone from a group, or delete one.
- Deleting a groupThe owner can delete a group for everyone, and restore it from Activity for 30 days. After that it is deleted for good.
- Importing from SplitwiseExport the group from Splitwise as a spreadsheet, choose the file in Evensies, and check the balances match to the cent.
- Exporting your dataExport one group, everything you share with one friend, or every group as a CSV file a spreadsheet opens.
- Using Evensies offlineAdding, editing and settling up work offline and sync later, receipts included. What needs a connection, such as signing in.
Account, privacy and help
- Signing outSigning out deletes your groups, receipts and changes not yet sent from this phone. Nothing on our server is deleted.
- Locking Evensies with Face IDTurn on Require Face ID in Account, and Evensies asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode when it opens and after time away.
- Deleting your accountDelete your account in the app, at once. What is deleted, what stays with your groups, and what happens to your purchase.
- PrivacyWhat Evensies keeps and who can see it, the anonymous usage data switch, and where to read the full privacy policy.
- TroubleshootingNo sign-in code in your inbox, changes that won't sync, being signed out, and invite links that open the website instead of the app.
- Contacting usEmail support, or use Send feedback in the app, which adds the details that help us look into a problem.
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