EDVD · Tour

How to split your first expense — in 7 steps

EDVD (Eavadi Dabbulu VaaDivee) keeps shared spending honest. This walkthrough takes about 3 minutes end-to-end.

  1. Create your account

    Tap Sign up on the home page. Use any email plus a password (12+ characters, mix of cases, numbers, and symbols). You can also choose Email me a sign-in linkif you don't want a password.

    Already have an account? Use Sign in instead.

  2. Open your groups

    Once you're signed in, head to /groups. This is your dashboard. The big card at the top shows your Total balance across every group: green means people owe you, orange means you owe.

  3. Create a group

    Tap + New group. Give it a name (e.g. Goa trip, Apartment 4B, Office lunch) and pick the type: Trip, Home, Couple, or Other.

    The type drives the default emoji on the group card and helps you spot it at a glance later — it doesn't change how splits are calculated.

  4. Add members

    In the Add membersbox, paste the email addresses of the people you're sharing expenses with — separate them with commas, spaces, or new lines. You're added automatically as the creator.

    Each email must already belong to an EDVD account. If someone hasn't signed up yet, the form tells you which ones are missing — ask them to sign up first, then add them later.

  5. Add your first expense

    Open the group, tap + Expense, and fill out:

    • Description — what was it for? (e.g. Hotel night 1)
    • Amount + currency
    • Paid by — defaults to you, but pick whichever member actually paid the bill
    • Category + date (optional)
    • Split equally between— every member is checked by default. Uncheck anyone who shouldn't share this particular expense.

    Phase 1 supports equal splits only. Unequal / by-percentage / by-share splits are coming.

  6. Read the balances

    Inside a group, the balance card tells you two things:

    • Your totalin this group — green if you're owed, orange if you owe.
    • Per-member breakdown— for each other member, either “owes you ₹500” or “you owe ₹200” or “settled”.

    Each row in the expense list shows whether you lent or borrowed on that line and how much.

  7. Keep going

    Add more expenses as you spend. Different payers, partial groups (e.g. only three of five housemates went to dinner), different currencies — the math reconciles automatically.

    Your dashboard rolls everything up so you always know the bottom line at a glance.

Quick answers

  • Is my data private?

    Yes. Only members of a group can see its expenses. Read the Privacy policy for the full picture — we don't sell or share personal info.

  • Can I edit or delete an expense?

    Editing and deleting individual expenses are coming in the next update. For now, expenses are append-only — you can balance things out by adding a corrective expense.

  • Can I settle up inside the app?

    A dedicated Settle up flow (mark a payment between two members) is on the way. Until then, pay each other through cash, UPI, Venmo, etc., and add a settlement expense to zero out the balance.

  • What about multiple currencies in one group?

    Each expense stores its own currency. The Phase 1 dashboard treats the total as the most recent group's currency. Real multi-currency conversion is coming.

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