Buxfer: Track Shared Bills and Expenses
Do you have a roommate? A partner? A friend to whom you’ve loaned money? Buxfer is a fantastic web-based tool for anyone in a situation with shared expenses. The site’s programmers write:
As graduate students, having food almost always meant eating out with a bunch of fellow sufferers somewhere on Craig Street. With such a high rate of accumulating bills, our memories and scraps of paper were just not enough. So we wrote a small simple script to keep track of our debts. And boy, did we love it! Well, we thought maybe the others would find this useful too.
You can learn more about Buxfer by:
- Taking a tour of the site
- Reading the blog with updates on developments
- Viewing the FAQ to get into the nitty-gritty
Where was this when I was in college? (Oh, right — the whole internet thing hadn’t come of age yet.)
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March 12, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
[...] You don’t have to be as extravagant as me when it comes to record keeping however, J.D. at MoneyHacks talks about a good free program called Buxfer to track your expenses, but all you really need is a [...]
RobRistroph said,
November 5, 2007 @ 9:10 pm
Here are some similar sites, including one I set up:
http://www.withayam.com/
http://slackerfactor.com/
http://blog.genotrance.com/applications/mshare/
The genotrance link, to mshare, may be of interest to those who wish to run the application on their own server and keep the data locally. I had problems getting the authentication part to work last time I installed it. SlackerFactor is a site I set up that runs some software my brother wrote.