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Everything you need to know about splitting bills with Wallekan — from creating your first group to settling up.
Getting started
Create a group and get your friends in.
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Expenses & splitting
Log costs and split them any way you like.
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Settling up
Turn a pile of IOUs into a couple of payments.
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Privacy & security
How your group data is protected.
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Troubleshooting
When something doesn't look right.
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Getting started
Wallekan is a free web app for tracking shared expenses. Add what everyone paid and it works out who owes whom, collapsing the tangle of debts into the fewest possible transfers.
No. Groups work entirely through a private share link — anyone who has the link can view balances and add expenses from any device, no sign-up required.
From the homepage, tap "Create group", give it a name — "Kyoto trip", "Flat 3B" — add the people who are chipping in, and you're done. You can add or remove members later in group settings.
Share the group link with them (the share button inside the group makes this easy). Opening the link on any device shows the group; they pick their name from the member list and can start adding expenses right away.
Expenses & splitting
Open your group and tap the add button. Enter the amount and a label, pick who paid, and select who shared the cost. The expense appears for everyone in the group instantly.
Split equally between the people involved, by exact amounts per person, or by percentages. Categories (food, transport, lodging…) keep the history tidy and power the insights charts.
Yes — when adding or editing an expense you can take a photo or pick one from your gallery. Receipts are encrypted just like the rest of your group data.
Yes. Log each expense in the currency you actually paid in; Wallekan converts everything into the group's base currency using live exchange rates so balances stay accurate.
Settling up
Wallekan nets everyone's balances against each other and computes the minimal set of transfers that settles the whole group. Five criss-crossing IOUs often collapse into just two payments.
Open the Settle tab, find the suggested transfer, and mark it as paid. Balances update for the whole group immediately.
No. Wallekan tells you who should pay whom and how much — the actual payment happens however you like: cash, bank transfer, or a payment app. It is not a payment processor.
Privacy & security
Yes. Group names, member names, and expense details are end-to-end encrypted. The encryption key is derived from the group link, so the server only ever stores ciphertext it cannot read.
Anyone who has the group link. For extra protection you can enable a group passphrase in settings, or rotate the link to lock out anyone holding the old one.
In group settings, the danger zone lets you delete the group permanently — all its expenses, members, and records are removed and cannot be recovered.
Troubleshooting
Ask another member to re-share it from inside the group. Because your data is encrypted with a key derived from the link, Wallekan cannot recover a group that nobody has the link to.
Yes. Wallekan is a web app you can install to your home screen; expenses added offline are queued and sync automatically the moment you're back online.
Enable push notifications in group settings and make sure your browser or phone allows notifications for the site. On iPhone, add Wallekan to your Home Screen first — iOS only delivers web push to installed apps.
Yes — group settings includes a CSV export with all expenses and payments, handy for spreadsheets or archiving before deleting a group.
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