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How do I add a refund or reimbursement?

in Balances and expenses

If a shared expense has been refunded or reimbursed, you may want to add this to Splitwise to include it in your group or friendship balances.

For example, you booked flights for a group trip and split the cost among everyone. You later had to cancel those flights and the airline issued you a refund. Now you need to redistribute that money back to your friends.

Refunds and reimbursements can be added from our web app — this feature isn't supported on the mobile apps yet.

To add a refund or reimbursement from the web app: 
  1. Go to www.splitwise.com and open the group or friendship where you want to record the refund.
  2.  Click the "Add an expense" button.
  3.  Enter the amount and any other relevant details (description, date, etc.).
  4.  Click "equally" (the split method button) to open the split options.
  5.  Click the dollar bill icon to switch the split method to "Reimbursement."
  6.  Enter the amounts each person should receive and save.

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