What is SquareUsUp?

SquareUsUp is a simple but comprehensive spreadsheet to help a group split and track its shared expenses.

The most popular expense-sharing apps are powerful tools, but they’re not for everybody. They may charge you money. They may have ads. They may keep your financial data on their servers. They may force your whole group to download the app and sign up. They may have complex interfaces with features you don’t need.

Countless spreadsheets have been published on websites far and wide to provide rudimentary expense-sharing functionality – often with the primary goal of teaching Excel techniques. But they all have huge limitations in their capabilities, and they all lack the ease of use and polish of a professionally designed and written app.

SquareUsUp is different. It is a free, ad-free, preformatted Excel spreadsheet that can be learned in minutes, requires no Excel knowledge, and elegantly automates every essential feature a serious group expense-sharing app must have.

Is SquareUsUp for you? Watch this video and decide.

Is SquareUsUp really free?

Yep! SquareUsUp was developed by Richard Price, a software engineer who plays tennis in a group that was unsatisfied with every expense-sharing solution they found. The solutions from the big players in this field were gross overkill, and every homegrown spreadsheet was awkward to use and lacked required functionality. The spreadsheet Richard created for his tennis group was so much better than anything else out there, the group encouraged him to market it. But he didn’t want the tax headaches that would result from selling it. So here it is. For free.

How do I get started?

Just make sure you have genuine Microsoft Excel installed on your computer. Then download the SquareUsUp template file per the instructions on the Downloads page, open the file in Excel, create a new project, and start using your project. Everything you need to know about using a SquareUsUp spreadsheet can be found right here on this website.