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Splitting Bills and Expenses
Splitting Bills and Expenses

Splitting Bills & Expenses gives you a way to add multiple Budget items or Projects to a single Bill or Expense.

Updated over 3 months ago

Splitting Bills and Expenses on the Budget

Bills and expenses can now be split across multiple budget line items. The process is identical for both bills and expenses!

To split a bill or expense, start by creating a new bill (or expense):

A new section appears at the bottom of the modal for Budget Line Items. By default, the only "line item" is Unassociated Cost. Adding a value here works the same as putting in a cost without a budget line item in the previous system. Part or all of a bill or expense can be unassociated. Unassociated costs do not count against budget line items and show up as Unassociated Costs on the Summary of the Budget.

To add cost to a budget line item, click the "+ Add a Budget Line Item" button below Unassociated Cost.

This opens a dropdown with all budget line items for your project. Select one to continue, then enter the cost in the associated cost field. As costs are entered, the total in the bottom right increases.

Multiple budget line items can be added to a single bill and the total will continue to increase accordingly.

Once the bill (or expense) is saved, it appears in the table with the alphabetical first budget line item appearing in the associated column. If there are additional line items, "+ x more" will appear. Clicking this opens the bill or expense to show all budget line items.


Splitting Across Multiple Projects

Pro Team Admins and Team Owners can split bills and expenses across multiple projects. This can be done from the Global Bills & Expenses page in the More drop down menu. The process is identical for both bills and expenses, but the example below is for a bill.

Multiple projects can be added to the Projects field when creating or editing bills and expenses. At least one project is required for all Bills & Expenses at any time. To select multiple Projects, click on the Project drop down beneath the description to add an additional Project:

When multiple projects are selected, the table is broken up into separate sections for each project. There is also an inline alert at the top of the modal so that users understand what happens with split bills/expenses.

Users can only edit bills and expenses when they have edit-level financial permissions on all projects associated to that bill or expense.

Permissions for Bills and Expenses

Creating and editing bills/expenses are now entirely tied to the Financials permission. From the Selections tab, given that a user has access to selection:

  • Users with Everything access on Financials will be able to view and edit bills/expenses on selections (matching the screenshots above)

  • Users with Read and Comment only access on Financials will be able to view but not edit; they will have access to open read-only modals

  • Users with no Financials access will get a read-only view of the line items with no access to modals

To add bills and expenses, users must have Everything access to financials.

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