# Split spend with friends

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/split-spend-with-friends/6547>\
**Category:** Feedback & Ideas\
**Created:** [29 October 2016 12:59 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/split-spend-with-friends/6547 "2016-10-29T12:59:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anon31241600](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@anon31241600](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon31241600)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2016 12:59 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/split-spend-with-friends/6547/1 "2016-10-29T12:59:27Z")

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Here’s an idea, being able to pay for a meal/shop and afterwards, being able to split the spend with other friends who use Monzo.

Monzo sends a notification to the friends phone, the friends can accept the split spend, and money will be taken out of their account accordingly and transferred the the payee.

A simple split would divide the spend equally. A more detailed option could be used to split according to who bought what. This would require inputting values.

If a friend doesn’t have Monzo a invite message could be sent to the friend, also with an IOU message. ‘You owe bill £15.80’ calculated by Monzo as mentioned. The user can pay this in cash or join Monzo and pay through the app.

Idea - Bill Wilkinson

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**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2016 13:02 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/split-spend-with-friends/6547/2 "2016-10-29T13:02:25Z")

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This idea’s one of the features that are up next on the [roadmap](https://trello.com/c/YUOUl31j/11-bill-splitting) so it’ll be interesting to see how similar Monzo’s solution is to the one you’ve described 🙂

@anon60556779 came up with these designs recently -

[https://community.monzo.com/t/split-bill-splitting/6397?u=alexs](https://community.monzo.com/t/split-bill-splitting/6397?u=alexs)

which Hugo said were similar to what they’ve been working on.

Most of the discussion of the feature happened here -

[https://community.monzo.com/t/sharing-bills/2068/2](https://community.monzo.com/t/sharing-bills/2068/2)

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**Author:** ![beningreenjam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/beningreenjam/32/3544_2.png) [@beningreenjam](https://community.monzo.com/u/beningreenjam)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2016 13:04 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/split-spend-with-friends/6547/3 "2016-10-29T13:04:30Z")

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This is a popular request and you can read more about it here

> [@Bill splitting 3](https://community.monzo.com/t/bill-splitting/3869):
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> Great work so far guys! Absolutely loving the app! I’ve seen somewhere about a bill splitting function. Would be really handy for me, and I’m sure others, who are tracking their spending, as at present its saying I have spent an amount (let’s say £100) on food, but because other friends with Mondo have then sent me money to “split the bill” this is now an innaccurate amount, and realistically I’ve only spent half that (£50) on food for myself. If anyone could shed some light on how the functi…

According to the [roadmap](https://trello.com/c/YUOUl31j) it should be available within 3 months.

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**Author:** ![anon31241600](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@anon31241600](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon31241600)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2016 13:09 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/split-spend-with-friends/6547/4 "2016-10-29T13:09:18Z")

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Didn’t see that this had already been suggested, good to see that it’s going to be done!