FairShare FAQ

A1: An expense splitter for people who live together: flatmates, roommates, a couple, or friends on a trip. You note down what anyone pays for the group, choose how each bill is shared, and FairShare keeps everyone's balance to the paisa and works out the fewest payments that settle you all. It also handles rent and bills that repeat, people moving in and out, a fair rent split by room, UPI pay codes, statements and spending insights.

A2: Nothing. It is free, with no registration and no limit on groups, people or expenses. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, it is supported by advertising.

A3: No. Open the page in any modern browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari or Opera) on a computer, tablet or phone. Your groups are kept in that browser, so there is nothing to sign in to. Each flatmate uses FairShare on their own phone or computer, and you share the group by a link or a file.

A4: No. Names, expenses, balances and UPI IDs are worked out by this browser on your device and never sent to a server. The page itself loads the site's ads and analytics, as every page on the site does; the Privacy Policy explains those, and your figures are never part of them. The page title never shows a name or an amount.

A5: Anyone who shares costs with the same people over time: a flat or PG, a shared house, a couple splitting the household, a hostel room, or a trip with friends. It is built around a home, with move-in dates, rent and bills that repeat, and bills shared by the days each person stayed, but a trip works just as well.

A6: 31: the Indian rupee, US dollar, euro, pound, UAE dirham, Saudi and Qatari riyals, Kuwaiti dinar, Singapore, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and Hong Kong dollars, ringgit, baht, rupiah, yen, won, yuan, Swiss franc, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish krone, zloty, rand, real, Mexican peso, and the Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Nepalese rupees and the taka. Amounts are written the usual way for the currency, or as you choose (1,00,000 or 100,000).

A7: Press Add an expense (or N), type the amount, what it was for and who paid, choose how to split it and save. The category is guessed from what you type (Swiggy is eating out, BESCOM is electricity) and you can change it. Save and add another keeps the date, the payer and the split for the next one.

A8: Digits with or without commas (1450, 1,450 or 1,45,000), with a decimal point, with k, L, lakh, cr, crore, m or million (1.2k, 2.5L, 1.5 cr), and sums such as 450 + 320, 180 x 4 or 1500/3. A currency sign or code in front is fine too: Rs1450, Rs. 1450, S$500, Tk 300. The line under the box shows the amount it read. An amount over 1,000 crore rupees (10 billion in a currency with cents) is refused as too large.

A9: Yes. Under Paid by choose Several people and type what each person paid; the amounts have to add up to the bill, and the form says how much is still missing or too much.

A10: Money that comes back to the group, such as a refund, a returned deposit or cashback. Whoever received it is credited as owing it to the people whose money it is, so the balances go the other way from an expense.

A11: Yes. Open "Note, another currency, repeat it", tick Paid in another currency, choose the currency and check the rate: how much of the group's currency one unit cost. For most currencies the rate is filled in from the European Central Bank's reference rates of 6 November 2026 as a starting point; type the rate you were charged if it was different. The expense keeps the amount and rate it was paid at.

A12: Yes. Open it from Expenses to see who paid what and each share, then Edit, Duplicate or Delete. A new expense, a deletion, a payment and most other changes can be undone from the message that appears for a few seconds.

A13: Seven. Equally between the people you tick; Amounts, what each person owes, adding up to the bill; Percent, adding up to 100; Shares, for example 2 for the big room and 1 for everyone else; Adjust, equal plus or minus an amount for someone; Items, the lines of a receipt with who shares each; and Days stayed, a bill for a period shared by the days each person lived there.

A14: Type each line of the receipt with its amount and tick who shares it; each item is shared equally by its people. Whatever is on the bill but not in the items (tax, delivery, a tip) is shared in proportion to what each person's items came to, or equally if you choose. The form shows each person's total and what is left over.

A15: Give the period the bill covers (an electricity bill from one meter reading to the next) and press Count from move-in dates: each person gets the days they lived there in that period, from their move-in and move-out dates, and the bill is shared by those days. You can type the days yourself too.

A16: Every amount is counted in whole paise (or cents), so the shares always add up to the bill exactly. When a bill does not divide evenly, the leftover paise go to the people with the largest remainders, and a tie is settled by the bill itself, so over many bills the odd paisa does not always land on the same person.

A17: Only people living there on the bill's date are offered and ticked, from their move-in and move-out dates; Show people not living there on the day adds the others if you need them.

A18: What a person paid for the group minus their own share of it, with payments between flatmates counted. A plus means they get money back, a minus that they owe, and all the balances add up to zero. Open a name in Balances for their statement: every entry they are part of, with the running balance.

A19: It looks for the largest number of small groups of people whose balances cancel out among themselves; each group of n people needs n - 1 payments, so the total is as small as it can be. For up to 20 people with money owed it finds that split exactly; with more it uses a quick method that still settles everyone. It can ask someone to pay a person they never shared a bill with, and the amounts still come out right for everyone.

A20: The other way to settle: every debt stays between the two people who shared the bill, and the two directions between a pair are netted. It usually needs more payments, but nobody pays a person they did not share with. Choose it under Settle up or in People and group.

A21: Press Settle beside a payment in Settle up (or Record a payment, or P): who paid, to whom and the amount are filled in. Choose how it was paid (UPI, cash, bank transfer or other) and save; the balances change at once. Record all as paid records every payment of the plan in one go, only once the money has really changed hands.

A22: For a group in rupees, add each person's UPI ID under People and group. When someone settles up with that person, the payment window shows a QR code and an Open a UPI app button; any UPI app opens with the payee, their name and the amount filled in. FairShare does not see or confirm the payment: record it after paying.

A23: A friendly message to send the person who owes, with the amount and the UPI ID of the person they owe where there is one. Edit it if you like, then copy it into your group chat, or use your phone's Share button. Copy for the group chat copies the whole plan of who pays whom.

A24: Under Repeating bills, add the rent, Wi-Fi, the maid or a streaming plan once with its amount, who pays it, how it is shared, how often (every week, 2 weeks, month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months or year) and the first day it is due. It is then added to the expenses on each day it falls due, including any days that already passed. Coming up in Balances lists the bills due in the next two weeks.

A25: Tick The amount changes each time, as for electricity or water. When such a bill falls due, Balances shows it under Bills waiting for the amount; type this time's amount to add it, or Skip it. A bill shared by days stayed counts the days from people's move-in and move-out dates each time.

A26: A bill shared by everyone follows the people living there on each day it is added, so it leaves out whoever has moved out. A bill shared by named people is not passed on to the others when they have all moved out; it waits with a note until you change it. If the person who pays a bill has moved out, the bill is not added and FairShare says so.

A27: Yes. Pause stops it; the times it fell due while paused are skipped when you start it again. Edit changes it from the next time, and expenses it already added stay as they are. Delete stops it for good.

A28: Under Repeating bills, Split the rent fairly. By room size: a share you choose (for the kitchen, hall and shared bathrooms) is split equally and the rest by each room's size, raised by a percentage you agree for extras such as an attached bathroom, a balcony or an AC. By what each room is worth: each person writes what they would pay for each room; the rooms go to the people who value them most in total, and the prices are set so that nobody would rather have someone else's room at its price. Either split can become your monthly rent bill.

A29: That nobody would rather have someone else's room at that room's price. When everyone says what each room is worth to them, such prices always exist; among them FairShare picks the ones that leave the least happy person as well off as possible. The shares are rounded to whole rupees and still add up to the rent.

A30: People and group, Share with your flatmates: Copy a link to the group, Save the group as a file, or Share (on phones). When a flatmate opens the link or the file, it is added to their FairShare. They add their own expenses on their phone and send the group back the same way.

A31: They are merged: for each expense, person and bill, the newest change wins; something deleted in one copy is deleted in the other unless it was changed later; and nothing is counted twice. A repeating bill never goes back to a date it has already added. Before updating, the window says what the copy brings: new, changed and deleted entries, new people and new bills.

A32: The group travels inside the link itself, after its # sign. Browsers do not send that part to any website, and when the link is opened the page takes it off the address before its ad and analytics scripts load. But anyone who has the link can read the group, names and amounts included, so send it only to the people in it. A very long link (a large group) is safer sent as a file.

A33: Yes. In Splitwise, export the group as a spreadsheet (CSV). In FairShare, People and group, Import from Splitwise, choose the file, match each name in it to a flatmate (or add them as new people) and import into the open group or a new one. Payments come in as payments. Amounts in another currency are converted at a rate shown before importing, filled in from the European Central Bank's rates of 6 November 2026 where it can be. Importing the same file twice adds nothing twice.

A34: In this browser's storage on this device, so it is there next time. Nothing is written until you start a group, and a private window or cleared browser data starts empty. Back up everything keeps a copy in a file, and Restore a backup brings it back (merged with the groups you have).

A35: Yes. Export a spreadsheet (CSV) writes every entry with what it did to each person's balance, in the layout Splitwise uses, with a total balance row; it opens in Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice and can be imported back into FairShare. Print the statements prints the balances, the payments to settle up and each person's statement.

A36: People and group, Your data: Delete this group removes the open group; Delete everything removes every group FairShare keeps in this browser, after you confirm. Your flatmates' copies are not touched, and the rest of the site is left alone.

A37: Try it with an example flat opens four flatmates over three months, with rent split by room, Wi-Fi, a maid, electricity shared by days stayed, a deposit, a weekend trip, a refund and someone moving in halfway, so you can see every part of the tool. Delete it from People and group when you are done.

A38: Groups saved by the earlier FairShare in this same browser are brought over the first time the page opens, and so is the data of the older one-page FairShare, with a note saying what was moved. Files and links saved by either version can be opened too.