Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on the benefits of Splitwise

Travelling can get expensive, but Megan Singleton's unveiled a solution to keep track of costs.

The Splitwise app can add up expenses and reveal a total of who owes what to whom when you're travelling in a group.

Megan explained further - read more of her travel tips here.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Speaking of talking loudly and inappropriate, praiss I did have
a very funny text from someone saying, my dad was
dictating an email recently on an aeroplane while everyone was
waiting to get off. I can just picture that. That's hilarious.
Thank you for your text. Joining us now is Meghan
Singleton Block at large dot com. Good morning, Good morning.
I'm about to go away on a trip with there's
twelve of us altogether down in Wanica and the Lovey

(00:41):
National Park down there, and it requires a lot of
you know, paying everyone paying for different things, and then
you're trying to divvy it up and work out whoo's
what and everything, and you've completely offered me a solution
this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I have because I too have sat at tables and
apparently it's a women thing. We tot up every last
dollar in cent and the blokes will just go put
it all on my cards, swings and roundabouts, not us eighties.
We want to get it all itemized, so there's an
app for us, and it's called split Wise. We've been
using it in our family and I'm actually going to

(01:15):
try and use it on my next tour. I don't
know how many people I can put in a group though,
but we've certainly used it with our family group. So
basically what you do is say I've paid for the uber,
so I pop that in and I've got my mum
and my sister and my niece and bo. We're all
in there together, and it automatically divvy's up the portion
of the uber to all of those names. Then one

(01:35):
of them buys around a drinks and it automatically does
a tot up. So then some people are in credit
and some people are endeavors. Oh, end of your holiday,
you just see who goes what to home, and it's
only you know, you'll probably pleasantly surprised about fifteen dollars
ninety five and you'll definitely pay that to the cent.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
That is brilliant. Is that a free?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yet we use it free? I mean, I don't know
if you like, I want to put seventeen people on it.
But here's the other thing. Will so we'll only bit
four to an uber, right, So I need to make
sure those four stay in there that little split wise
tab if they go on to have a meal together
at the table. So it's got its little extra conundrums,
but we'll see how we go. Certainly it's helpful and

(02:17):
probably a group like yours where you are all together
and people are buying around a drinks or lunch or
the tickets for that boat ride or whatever. You know.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
So much of traveling comes down to sort of what
traveling comes down to money and how you're paying for
things and currencies and currency conversions and things. Doesn't that.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, So this little tip has probably been staring us
all in the face for years, but I was only
last year years old when a millennial told me about it.
This is to do a currency conversion without Wi Fi.
So if you go onto your phone and you go
open your calculator, you'll find in the top right hand
corner a little picture of a teeny weeny calculator, So

(02:58):
you click on that. You tap that and a little
menu will open, and there's an option in there to
select convert, so you choose the currency of the destination
you're in. I've currently got mindset just do it, I know,
So I've put like, so now when I'm out and
about in Japan on my tour later this year, I
can go, oh, what is fifty million thousand year worth?

(03:20):
And da da, and I don't even need to be
in Wi Fi like you do with the other currency
conversion apps. Now, amazing that.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
And now we've just been talking about old people who
are really sort of not appropriate, you don't use their
tech appropriate. And I'm just sitting here going that is
I'm looking at this. This is amazing. I had no
dear it existed. I'm sure there's a lot of people
sent they're just rolling their eyes going.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh, yeah, we've been using that for a decade.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
That is amazing.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
No, it is amazing. And so I actually use it
for currency conversions just at home. If I'm looking to
buy things online, I'll use that, and then I'll also
use my exchange rate apps because I'm in Wi Fi
at home. But when you're not, that is just a
simple little out and about. It immediately shows you the
converted rate. Now, obviously it could be a buying or
selling rate, so you would want to, you know, put

(04:07):
pin your life on it, put a mortgage on it
sort of thing. But within Cooey, it's about right.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Okay, So do all calculators have this? I've got an Apple.
Was it on all calculators? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Well, someone messaged me because it's on my tips, on
my Ultimate Tips, which I've pushed to the front page
of my blog. And I thought it was an iPhone
thing and someone said, no, I've got a Samsung. It's
on that as well.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I love it, Megan. If you want more great tips
for traveling, headtook blogger at large dot.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
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