Shared view: the query already returned owner_name and effective_category, the
table just never rendered them. Paid by sits next to Splits because together
they are whose money went out and whose share it was. Search is client-side —
this endpoint returns all 1,267 split rows in one request with no pagination, so
there is nothing for a round-trip to narrow, and the sort was already
client-side. It matches description, merchant, notes, category and payer, but not
participant names: the dropdown does that, and "sonu" matching every row she is
split on would read as broken.
Trip owed collapses to one settle-up figure per person, with the breakdown
beside it so the net is auditable rather than asserted.
I argued against netting a few hours ago and was wrong. The claim was that the
grouped-payment allocation cleared each trip against the one-directional gross,
so netting would redefine that debt after the fact. The rows say otherwise:
Europe's $802.75 is 56 transactions Sonu actually paid across Rome, Venice, the
Dolomites, Bellagio, Lucerne and Paris on which I hold 25%, and paid_by_me is
$0.00 on every row of every trip because nothing has ever been recorded going
from me to her. Her side looked settled only because the allocation derived her
payment split from her gross, so it lands on zero by construction. The
one-directional view was hiding a live obligation, not protecting an allocation.
Nets now: Auckland Sonu +$1,077.25, Europe Sonu -$802.75, Sonu + Sunny -$936.34,
Europe Molina -$816.16.
Also correcting an error in my own reporting: I said Auckland's mirror was
$0.00. It is $428.39 — 17 Auckland rows Sonu paid that I hold a split on. Two
ad-hoc verification queries mis-joined on a nullable scope column and
under-reported the mirror side. The app code was never affected and the owed
column is still byte-identical.
The footnote now states the trap the netting exposes: a debt settled by a payment
left on the household tab still reads as outstanding on the trip. Payment 5
(Molina to Sonu, $1,605.49) is exactly that case and is left alone as a data
decision.
277 passing, build clean.
Trips were scoped to trips.owner_id, so Sonu saw no trips at all — despite
having paid for 104 of the tagged rows herself. Her own spending was invisible
on the only page organised around it.
A participant is now anyone with a split on, who paid for, or whose payment is
scoped to, a transaction tagged to the trip. Derived, not stored. A
trip_participants table was designed and rejected: the expenses already carry
the fact, and two records of one fact drift apart. Deriving it also excludes
Singapore + Bangkok 2026 from Sonu for free, which a table would have to be kept
in sync to do. Siddharth 4 trips, Sonu 3, Molina 1.
Everything about a trip is shared except delete. Both trip foreign keys are
ON DELETE SET NULL, so deleting Europe 2026 untags 210 transactions and NULLs
the trip scope on 6 payments — where the hand-derived Europe-first allocation
lives, which nothing recomputes. That stays with the owner.
Trip owed now returns both directions and nets neither. An obligation lives on a
row someone else paid for, so a viewer-as-payer figure can never hold it, and
Sonu's Europe read "you are owed $2,408.24" while omitting the $8,004.04 she
owed. Collapsing the two into a signed net is the tempting next step and would
have corrupted the scope allocation: the grouped-payment allocation cleared each
trip against the one-directional gross, so redefining the debt afterwards turns
$8,004.04 already allocated into an $802.75 over-allocation with household
understated by the same amount. Verified byte-identical — Auckland $1,505.64,
Europe Molina -$816.16, Europe Sonu $0.00, Sonu + Sunny $0.00.
getTransactions gained trip_all_rows so a participant sees the whole trip. It is
opt-in and not implied by trip_id, because the same endpoint backs the main
transactions list and its trip filter must keep owner scoping. Participation is
re-checked in SQL, so passing the flag for someone else's trip returns nothing.
Payments can finally say what they settle. trip_id has existed since migration
0022 but POST never read it and GET never returned it, so every payment made in
the app landed on household and the 9 trip-scoped rows were hand-written SQL.
"Both" needs no new shape — one row per scope sharing a linked_transaction_id.
Three write paths had no authorisation at all and were reachable by any
participant: assignTransactionsToTrip checked nothing, DELETE on a payment
deleted by bare id, and POST accepted any from/to pair. All three now check.
Also fixes the test suite, which was pointing at postgres-pantry: container IPs
move on recreation and 172.22.0.47 stopped being postgres-personal. It only
failed safe because the credentials did not match — resetDB now refuses to
truncate anything not named personal_test.
22 new tests, 276 passing, build clean.
Six metric-integrity defects from the UI/IA review, plus two found while
verifying the review's own claims against the code.
The reconciled-row exclusion existed only in queries.ts. Every analytics
route counted the superseded manual rows as spend — 48 rows, $4,474.79 of
double count, invisible precisely because the transaction list looked
right. It is now one fragment both sides import.
The spend-pace chart computed its own totals in the browser: gross
amounts, debits only, no personal share, no refunds, fees, interest or
itemised loan repayments. On live data it ended July at $4,747.31 under a
headline reading $3,597.10 — and its own baseline line was drawn from the
split-adjusted monthly totals, so the two series in one chart disagreed
with each other. Both now come from /api/analytics/daily, built from the
same fragments as the headline.
Fees aggregated every statement ever imported with no date filter, under
a heading with no period, so a lifetime figure read as a current one and
grew forever. Now bounded, labelled, and selectable.
Comparisons no longer measure a month in progress against complete ones:
the in-progress month is out of every baseline, and a selected current
month is compared through the same day.
Two the review did not catch:
- Every analytics window was a day early. toISOString() on a
local-midnight Date converts backwards through UTC. Surfaced only once
fees started reporting the range it had used.
- /monthly rounded per category, /daily per category-day, so the pace
chart ended a few cents off the headline above it.
Shared currency needed amending rather than applying. Reading s.currency
would have labelled every order row AUD, since an order receipt has no
statement and carries its own currency — the opposite convention from a
foreign charge on an AUD statement, where amount IS AUD. NATIVE_CURRENCY's
COALESCE order keeps the two apart. Balances also now count rows whose AUD
value is genuinely unknown instead of netting a foreign figure against AUD
ones. Latent today: no foreign transaction is currently split.
Tag-filtered balance cards no longer claim "owes you". With a filter on,
payments are deliberately not subtracted, so the figure is a split total
and settling against it would record a payment for a debt that never was.
Split-coverage warnings deliberately omitted (user decision).
App-wide retheme done at the token layer: Tailwind's zinc scale is remapped
to warm ink/paper neutrals and indigo to copper in globals.css, so every
page inherits the palette. Fraunces (serif display) added for page titles
and hero figures; all figures now render in mono with tabular numerals.
Analytics page redesigned around a month spine — twelve clickable columns
scaled to each month's spend that act as hero, context, and period
navigation. Adds a 'What changed' top-movers panel vs the previous month,
replaces the 8-line category trend chart with per-category sparkline small
multiples, heat-tints the six-month ledger table, and restyles the Pareto,
pace chart, and cashflow strip. Kept: Pareto, cumulative-vs-typical pace,
drill-downs, regular/occasional split.
Insights and Merchants restyled to the same kit; chart tokens centralised
in category-colors.ts (CHART). Cleared the pre-existing lint errors in
insights (typed tooltip, removed any-casts).
Move splits, tags and overrides from manual to statement side on reconcile
(delete from manual after copying) instead of just copying. Add read-time
filter to exclude reconciled manual transactions from balance and shared
transaction queries. Also adds participant filter to shared expenses page.
- Show created_at as "Imported" column in transactions and shared views
- For reconciled transactions, show original CSV import date (not statement processing date) via LEFT JOIN on reconciled_with_id
- Add has_split filter (all/split only/unsplit only) to transactions page
- Transactions table: sortable by imported date; split filter dropdown
- Shared table: client-side sort by date, imported, and amount
Participant id=1 was named "Me" in the DB, causing Sonu and other users
to see "Me" referring to Siddharth when viewing splits and shared expenses.
- Rename participant id=1 from "Me" to "Siddharth" in the DB
- /api/participants now substitutes "Me" for whichever participant matches
the current user, so the label is always relative to the viewer
- split-modal: default split uses currentUser.id instead of name === "Me"
- transactions/page: filter and display logic uses participant ID not name
- shared/page: split chips show "Me" when participant_id === current user
Also includes add-transaction-modal tags support (pre-existing staged change).
- New split_payments table records actual payments between participants
- Balance = total split obligations - total payments (splits never marked settled)
- Record Payment modal per participant: direction toggle, amount pre-filled with balance, date, notes
- Payment history inline on each balance card with +/- display and delete
- Per-transaction Settle button removed; Action column removed from shared table
- Splits always show the true cost breakdown regardless of payment state
- Rewrite participant balance to UNION both directions (they owe me + I owe them)
- Credits/refunds subtract from owed amount for correct net balance
- Allow secondary users to see transactions split with them
- Add participant balance cards with colour-coded owe direction
- Add inline AddParticipantForm with name + optional email
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