Owesum help

For players

About a minute, and you never have to do sums at the end of the night.

Install it and open it. There is no sign-up. No password, no email, nothing to fill in. It just opens.
Tap Join on the Groups screen, beside New group, and enter the six character code whoever runs your club sent you. If they sent you a link instead, just open it.
That is it. You will see what you owe after each session.

The Join a group screen — Then type the code. Codes never contain I, L, O, zero or one, so a character that looks like one of those is the other one.

When you pay the organiser, they mark it off and your balance updates. You do not have to do anything else.

Add your email in Settings at some point. Without one, if you lose your phone or reinstall the app, your history is gone and nobody can get it back for you. It takes about twenty seconds and it is the only thing in here that is hard to undo.

If you would rather not install it

Tell the organiser and they will add you by name. You still count in every split and you still owe what you owe. The only difference is that you cannot see your own balance, so you will have to ask.

For whoever runs the club

Setting up takes a few minutes once. After that it is about ten seconds a session.

1. Make it a Sports Club group, not an Expenses one

You choose this when you create the group, and it cannot be changed afterwards. Tap New group, give it a name, and pick Sports Club. Sessions and Balances are there from the moment it exists.

Pick carefully, because there is no switching later. An Expenses group records who paid for what. A Sports Club records sessions, who played, and what each night cost. A club has no expense entry at all, by design.

If you pick wrong, make a new group. Nothing is lost if you do it before anybody has played.

2. Add everyone

+ Member opens one screen with three ways to do it, and you can mix them:

Send a link to join. One message into the club's group chat. Whoever opens it picks their own name off the list, so you are not typing fifteen names twice.
Type their name. For the player who is never going to install anything. They count in every split from the moment you add them, and if they do join later their whole history comes across.
Tick someone you already share a group with. They are added as themselves and can see the group straight away.

Nobody has to give you a username any more. That was how it worked before October 2026 and it is gone.

3. Set who is permanent and who is casual

In Balances, each person is Permanent or Casual, and you tap to switch. The only difference is that a casual pays the club's surcharge on top of their share of the night. There is no rate to type, so do not go looking for one.

4. Appoint a second organiser, today

At the bottom of Balances, Who can run this club. Whoever you appoint can do everything you can. Do it on day one: if you are away, nobody else can record a session or take money without it.

Every session

Sessions, then New session. The name is optional. Skip it unless you run more than one court a night.
What this session cost. Court and shuttles together, as one number.
Tick who played. It splits across exactly those people. Anyone who did not turn up pays nothing, which is the point of doing it per session rather than monthly.

The list of sessions — Every session, newest first. The player count tells you at a glance which ones you have not ticked yet.

A session, with its cost and who played — Cost at the top, who played underneath. Each person's share appears next to their name as you tick.

Taking money

When somebody hands you cash, open Balances, tap them, Record a payment, and enter what they gave you. Everyone sees the same number immediately.

Somebody can also pay ahead. Take the money, record it, and it draws down over the following weeks as they play.

Club balances, with record a payment — The balance is the truth. Everyone in the group is looking at the same one.

Cash recorded late is the only way this goes wrong. The app is only as right as the last payment you entered. Enter it at the court, not on Sunday.

If something looks wrong

You reinstalled and your groups are gone

They are not gone. The app makes a fresh account when it is installed, so you are looking at a new empty one. Go to Settings, tap I had Owesum before, and sign in with the email you added. Anything you made on this install comes across with you.

If you never added an email, there is no way back in. That is why the players guide asks you to add one.

The receipt scanner keeps waiting for another page

On iPhone that is the system scanner, the same one Notes uses, and it is built for multi-page documents. Tap Save in the top right when you have your receipt. Only the first page is read.

Something else

Settings, Feedback, Send feedback. It comes straight to the developer rather than to a store review, and every one gets read.