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Anatomy of Billsup bills and data export


In case you didn't know, our service is retiring. You can now download your data from the menu As part of our final blog post, we'd like to leave you with the inner-workings of Billsup's bills.

How Billsup's bills work How about debts? A debt or a payment has the same inner workings as the above. It's basically the above bill with one item. For example, let's say you input a debt - Tom owes Mary $100

Posted by Caleb at 8:30 PM 9 comments: 

All good things come to an end

Apologies for the recent issues and slowness with our site. We don't like what's happening, and we would actually fix issues quickly if things were fully in our control.



Billsup is hosted on a business pro hosting plan with arvixe, which means that arvixe, as the hosting provider, control the server capacity, resources, and admin privileges on our servers, while we (Billsup) have to rely on them to fix uptime issues. We chose them 6 years ago due to budget contraints and arvixe had great value and reviews at the time.We used to love arvixe as did many others until recently when they changed owners. They are no longer reliable as many of you have experienced - in fact the recent data loss, migration mistake, and outages can be directly attributed to their lack of competency.

In detail...

We're sorry that our users had to endure this pain with us 😖 😭


1. Build an export feature

We want to make sure all your bills can be downloaded so you feel safe. This should be available within 3 weeks.

2. Move away from arvixe

As arvixe is no longer reliable, we plan to move away from it even though we still have another year of contract with them. In case you didn't know, we moved to AWS for a short while a few years ago, but we just couldn't bear the cost. This time, we will try to migrate our services to azure for a more stable experience and keep it running there for at least a couple months. This will take a few days to a week, so bear with us while we move over.

3. Retire our services

Wait... what?!? Well, it has been 6 years since we started Billsup. Between the mobile app compatibility and hosting issues, along with the changing world of technology and needs, we felt that we couldn't dedicate the time or financial resources to continue to provide a high quality and stable service for you.

You may feel all sorts of emotions - anger, frustration, sadness - well, us too. It has been an extremely difficult decision to make as we use Billsup for our own bill tracking, and we have spent endless hours and sleepless nights building and maintaining the system. For those geeks out there who are just curious, we will be later blog about our algorithms here.
Before we go, we want to make sure you can download your data, and also find a new home for your bill tracking. Here are some apps to try if you liked Billsup:

We are thankful for our supporters over the years, especially those who have stuck with us since the early alpha stages,Your friends at Billsup
Posted by Caleb at 7:07 AM 22 comments: 

Billsup mobile app 2.0 released

Hi Billsup'ers!

It's been a while since we've blogged. But we wanted to start the new year by telling you that we've released version 2.0 of our Android and iOS apps!

They are now available on iOS and Android. We've fixed a couple bugs, and redesigned the UI for Android. The mobile version is a very light version of our web application, so you can keep track of debts on the go!


Download the new apps now: Current limitations:

Please support us by rating our apps :) Feel free to give us feedback so we can improve in our future versions.

Caleb @ Billsup team
Posted by Caleb at 6:47 AM 22 comments: 

date format setting

Many of you have been requesting for a different date format for your locale. Well, you can now set your date format setting within the website settings! This feature is currently only available for our website.

Happy billing!
- Billsup team

Posted by Caleb at 2:06 AM 1 comment: 

Introducing Bill Attachments

Hi billsup users,

We've just introduced a new feautre called "Bill attachments". Using our web interface, you can now attach files and pictures to your bills. This would be useful for receipts, bills, and anything for reference when you add your bills and debts with your friends. Under attachments, choose your picture or file to start the upload, then save your bill - that's it! Now you're sharing files with your friends! Hope this helps with your shared billing!

PS This feature is currently only available through our website.
Posted by Caleb at 7:33 AM 4 comments: 

Android app updated with copy and delete features

Hi Billsup users,

just wanted to let you know that our Android app has been updated. We've fixed a few bugs and added some simple features to help with your billing needs.

In this new version, we have made the delete functionality available to all users. Before, the delete function is only accessible via the options menu, which wasn't made available to Android 3.0+ within our app. Now, the delete function is available for everyone in the action bar. As well, you will notice the new copy feature, which will make creating those frequently-added bills easier to enter. Once the icon is clicked, all details are copied, and the date is automatically set to today for your convenience. Update or Download our new Android app now! Note: As before, only simple and editable bills can be edited, deleted, or copied. The bills that are more complicated, such as those involving one or more items, will not be editable in the Android app yet.

Posted by Caleb at 3:05 AM 10 comments: 

Debt balance graph


in case you didn't notice, we added a "debt balance" graph within the friend's details page to let you visualize your balance with your friends. This is one of the requested features by many of you :-) A positive balance means your friend owes you money, whereas a negative balance means you owe your friend money. update on iOS app

We know that the iOS app has not been behaving well on certain devices. We're trying to get this working better and resolved - thanks for your patience! If you're experiencing trouble, feel free to contact us regarding your issue. Meanwhile, if the app isn't working, please navigate to our mobile site https://www.billsup.com for your bill sharing needs!

Posted by Caleb at 2:01 PM 1 comment: