satyam kumar@satyasom

Managing shared expenses is a common challenge for friends, roommates, families, students, and travel groups. When multiple people contribute different amounts toward food, trips, rent, events, or daily purchases, tracking who paid, who owes whom, and how much needs to be settled often becomes confusing. People frequently depend on manual calculations, chat messages, screenshots, spreadsheets, or separate payment applications, which can lead to errors, forgotten payments, unnecessary back-and-forth, and unclear financial records. JodTod is a smart group expense management and settlement application designed to simplify this entire process in one place. Users can create or join groups, add shared expenses, record who paid, define how an expense should be divided, view individual balances, and settle outstanding amounts. Instead of manually calculating multiple transactions, JodTod organizes the information and presents each member's financial position clearly. The primary target users are students, friends, roommates, families, travel groups, event organizers, and any group that regularly shares expenses. Users interact with JodTod by creating groups, adding people, recording expenses, selecting participants, and choosing how costs should be split. The application maintains the group's expense activity and provides settlement information so members can understand their outstanding obligations and complete the required payments. What makes JodTod distinctive is its focus on connecting the complete shared-expense lifecycle rather than treating bill splitting as an isolated calculation. Group activity, people management, expense creation, balances, settlement actions, profiles, and notifications are designed to work together as a unified experience. This reduces the need to maintain fragmented information across messaging apps, calculators, spreadsheets, and payment records. JodTod also emphasizes a simple and accessible mobile-first experience so that an expense can be recorded immediately when it occurs. By centralizing group financial information and automating calculations, the application reduces manual effort, minimizes calculation errors, improves transparency among group members, and makes settlement easier to understand. For evaluation and demonstration, a dedicated demo account will be provided so reviewers can access the application directly without completing the signup process. The demo credentials will allow users to log in and explore the application's core features and workflows using a prepared demonstration account. The overall goal of JodTod is to turn shared expenses from a source of confusion and repeated calculations into a structured, transparent, and convenient group-management experience. Project Repository: https://github.com/jha16rohit/JodTod App: [APP LINK]

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