Bioport Software Labs, a mobile application development company announced the release of a major update of its personal finance application Settle Up, which includes many new features. Settle Up is an indispensable app for friends, roommates or colleagues who need to keep track of shared bills and expenses. It comes in handy when you're planning a group trip or a party and don't want to have it ruined by constant discussions over "who paid" and "who should pay". Both iOS and Android Settle Up versions have been downloaded by over 100.000 people with an average user rating 4.7 stars and are available in 17 languages.
Companion for life
Thanks to Settle Up, its users will have an extremely useful companion at hand. It keeps tabs over who paid, what for, how many people participated on the payment, and what is the best way to settle up. Vladislav Musial, the Bioport Software Labs owner and developer underpins the reasons why to use this application: “We all have the experience of going on a trip with a bunch of friends and finding out that there is a number of shared expenses, which need to be recorded and later resolved. It all starts with a full tank at the first gas station, followed by parking fees, grocery shopping, and finally someone covering the restaurant bill with a credit card. At the end of the trip you find out that the list of all payments grew into enormous proportions and the chances to make any sense out of it are close to zero”. Settle Up came to life with group trips and travelers in mind however others will find it useful as well. It can help a great deal to a group of co-workers, roommates or even families and couples, who like to keep their expenses in check.
A great advantage of the application is the fact that it communicates with other group members’ phones (both iOS and Android devices) using cloud synchronization, which gives everyone a chance to actively add payments within their group. Settle Up also works fully offline. In order to make the final settlement simpler Settle Up gives advice about who should pay next, which helps to lower the final amounts and the settlement process smoother.
The new Settle Up is focused on user experience. We made changes to the user interface of the app. We redesigned screens for managing groups and group members, so the process of creating and editing a group is now simplified and much faster. We also optimized the app for smoother UI response. No more lags when processing group data.
