When paying someone back directly, place the payment here. Eg. if Sue owed Larry $5.00, Sue could give Larry $5.00 in person and then add the $5.00 credit here. She would put her own name as the Creditor, "Larry" as the Reciever and "5.00" as the total. Note: as with the recipts, if proper support is enabled, you can enter equations into the "total" field. The syntax is that of bc(1).
Add grocery receipts, bills, etc. here. The payer is the person who paid the receipt or bill. You can enter multiple items that are on the receipt individually, just start from the top and fill the rows as needed.
This is the final output of all the various expenses summed and sorted. Although specific expenses that affect this may not be shown, totals will remain correct. There is no way to modify these values, short of adding receipts or credits.
The start time and any other time field uses the Time::ParseDate module and thus supports a very large number of time formats. eg:
This view will show only expenses relating to the given people. This can be useful for printing out receipts to give to housemates who don't use their computer and who don't pay their part of the bills on time. The printout is reversed in this view showing the most recent expense first. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)