May 26

Have a way to manage return transactions so they reduce expense

Let's say I have paid a meal with my friends. I paid the 100€ bill. We split the bill so each of my friends pay me back 20€ in 4 different transactions. I would have these transactions in the app: * Meal payment: -100€ * Person 1 return: +20€ * Person 2 return: +20€ * Person 3 return: +20€ * Person 4 return: +20€ This will create a cash flow with 80€ of income and 100€ of expense, when it should have just been 20€ of expense. The same happens with purchase returns. Let's say I pay 30€ for something, and after returning it, they give me back my 30€ in another transaction. I would have a cash flow of 30€ of income and 30€ of expense, when it should be 0 of both. The easiest solution that came to my mind would be to consider positive transactions when they are categorized as expense. For example, in the first situation, I could set all transactions as "Meals". The cash flow should consider that if I have +80 and -100, the actual expense of Meals during that month is -20. This is the actual solution that came to my mind as the easier one, but feel free to propose others! Happy to help in the development of it if needed 😄

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