Cashinator Updates

Welcome Cashinator 5!

It has been prepared in the background for a long time and now the time has finally come. Cashinator 5 is launching on time for Pentecost and is already being celebrated as a revolution among bill-splitting apps. Cashinator 5 will simplify the lives of traveling families so much that you won't want to trade the app for a notepad or calculator anymore.

But what's new? It's not a redesign, no integration of social media videos, and you won't suddenly be charged for new hidden pro features. Everything stays as it is because you keep making it clear how satisfied you are with it. Thank you for that! It is a single new feature, which you can activate manually and justifies the step towards version 5: It's called "Families & Households".

So now you can finally group travel participants into their households or families. The unique and amazing thing about this initially unspectacular-sounding function: At the end of the trip, only a maximum of one payment between two households is necessary! This even works without hyped artificial intelligence, but is diligently calculated in the background through pure mathematical logic on your smartphone. Finally, the unnecessary back-and-forth movement of money, such as from your own child to a person from the befriended family, even though the child cannot pay anything yet, is eliminated. When entering new expenses, the balance is always correctly and fairly determined, even if there is a different number of people living in the households. Only one selected person from each family takes care of the money transfer between the families. After the cash register has been balanced with as few payments as possible, Cashinator then offers you the option of voluntarily settling the debts within the family.

In summary, the feature makes particular sense when you are traveling with several families, only have one account as a couple, or have children in the household who cannot pay yet. It has been implemented in such a way that it does not affect your existing balances or groups and therefore does not affect the clarity of the app. You can even assign members to a household during an ongoing vacation, and Cashinator will already calculate the optimal settlement payments for you.

Version 5 also brings additional small noteworthy features:

• Notes are now printed in the PDF file.
• If you want to transfer members from old trips, you can clean up the displayed list so that even this corner of the app remains clear.
• When creating new trips and groups, you can directly edit members in case you made a mistake.
• The visible initials of new members are now intelligently preselected. A subsequent change is of course possible.

• Fix for creating new expenses. In rare cases, Cashinator would jump back to the home screen while creating new expenses.

• The number format is now displayed regionally correct (e.g. CHF 123,456.78). If you want to change it, you can now do so in the settings.
• The monthly budget for groups is here. Perfect for the shared flat, never spend too much money again. The whole thing is nicely visualized.
• If you use foreign currencies on your trip, you can look forward to new settings directly when entering expenses. You no longer have to convert anything laboriously.
• The budget function for trips has also been made more user-friendly and now offers a nicer UX.
• After deleting settlement payments, there were occasional incorrect representations of the balances. The issue has been fixed.
• When entering new expenses, the value of the expense was occasionally reset to 0. The issue has been fixed.
• When entering new expenses, the "recipients" were occasionally deselected. The issue has been fixed.
• Cashinator regularly checks the consistency and correctness of all expenses and the balance. If anomalies occur, new dialogs help you fix any problems with a single click.

• Error handling to avoid further annoyance with unnecessary dialog windows.

• With the new budget function for trips, Cashinator can warn you when your money is running out. You can also see at a glance on a new home screen how much money you have left.
• You can now set a travel period. This allows Cashinator to show you additional interesting statistics, such as how much money you can still spend daily before exceeding your budget. Treat yourself!
• Simplified cash register at the end and a countdown before the trip.
• Optimization of the PDF file.
• Various new settings options, so you can display the button for new expenses on every page or always display categories and their names.
• There are plenty of performance optimizations - you will notice it especially on old devices.
• Thanks to extreme optimization during synchronization, Cashinator now consumes extremely little data volume, which is particularly great on long-distance trips.
• If you are traveling alone, you will now have more fun with nicer views.
• Minor bug fixes that do not want to be listed individually.