Splitting a festival trip: should the driver pay less than drinkers?
No install, no sign-up. 100% free.
For example, a 3-day music festival (4 people)
2 drinking, 1 not drinking and 1 who drove. Different people paid for tickets, the campsite and gas.
Split 4 ways? Driver and non-drinker pay the same? Who pays whom back?
With FAMI-KAN, just set the ratios
Who pays whom
WHY FAMI-KAN
No sign-up, no limits, no black box
accounts or installs
Just paste a link in your group chat.
entries and members
No daily caps, no paid plan.
currencies, 8 languages
Works for trips abroad and mixed-language groups.
Shared pot (deposits) supported
Collect money up front; refunds and top-ups are settled automatically. Rare among no-sign-up apps.
Everyone can answer "why this amount?"
Who carries which ratio, what the base amount is. The whole calculation is always visible.
ABOUT THIS APP
What FAMI-KAN is
From everyday bills to trips, decide fairly who pays how much.
Adults 1.0, kids 0.5.
Split per person or per household, and set any ratio. Everyone's share is calculated automatically.
Just share a link.
No app to install, no account to create. Everyone adds what they paid from their own phone.
Who pays whom, how much. Instantly.
The fewest transfers to settle up, and every calculation visible to everyone. No black box.
HOW IT WORKS
How it works, in 4 steps
1Add households and set ratios
Adults 1.0, kids 0.5. Each household's total ratio is computed for you.
2Everyone enters what they paid
One family paid the rental car, another the hotel. Each from their own phone.
3Here's the result
Who pays whom, how much, in the fewest transfers.
4Send it and you're done
Share the result as one image, or copy the text for payment apps.
MoreHistory by date
Who paid for what, grouped by day. You can re-sort it too.
MoreBy Member
Each family's share, what they paid, and what they get back or owe.
MoreBy Item
What the money went on, by date or by category.
MoreSettlement card
One image to post in the group chat. The QR code opens the full details.
Any of these sound familiar?
Four days of partying?
Who got the rounds?
Costumes split evenly?
→ Track street party rounds in real time.
Keep a running tally of drinks, street food, and costume costs over several days of partying. Optimize the final payout to minimize bank transfers. No signup required. Completely free.
Don't let tedious money calculations ruin a great memory.
Over four days of partying, nobody remembers who paid for what.
Log expenses directly on your phone the moment you pay. FAMI-KAN maintains a running tally for the whole weekend, so you can enjoy the fiesta.
We want to split the costumes evenly, but the drinks only among the heavy drinkers.
Apply the 'Everyone' split for the costumes, and simply check off the specific heavy drinkers for the alcohol expenses. One event, fully segmented tracking.
I don't want to make 15 separate micro-transfers to my friends at the end.
FAMI-KAN's algorithm optimizes the debts. Instead of dozens of micro-transactions, you'll be told exactly who to send one lump sum to in order to clear the group's debt.
FAMI-KAN needs no sign-up and no install. Set a ratio once — Adult 1.0, Child 0.5 — and it applies to every expense after that. We compare it with other apps, including where they do better.
Why FAMI-KAN is Best
On a festival trip, the designated driver stays sober so everyone else can drink, so a smaller share for them is easy to justify. Leaving them out of the drink tabs is the minimum; a lighter share of the gas is a way to say thanks on top of that. Say five friends drive to a festival weekend, and Ana is the driver. Gas and parking come to $180: with Ana at 0.5 and the others at 1.0, the total ratio is 4.5, so passengers pay $40 and Ana $20. The $400 in drinks is split among the four drinkers, $100 each, and the $600 rental is split five ways, $120 each. Ana pays $140 in total and each of the others $260. Over several days, costumes, street food, rounds and lodging pile up on different cards. In FAMI-KAN, log each payment as it happens, untick Ana under "Target Members" on the drinks, and use "Change shares for this payment only" to set her to 0.5 on gas and parking. The settlement nets it all into the fewest transfers, so nobody makes fifteen tiny payments at the end.
Simple 3-Step Guide
No app downloads or accounts needed.
- 1
Create the trip
Start an event for the festival weekend and add everyone, including the driver.
- 2
Log gas, parking and lodging
Enter them as they're paid. Set the driver to 0.5, or 0, on gas and parking for those payments.
- 3
Log drinks and food
Enter each round and untick the driver under "Target Members" on the drinks.
- 4
Settle once at the end
Open the Settle tab for the fewest transfers and share the link with the group.
Why we built FAMI-KAN
FAMI-KAN isn't just a calculator. It's a partner that handles the math so you can focus on what matters: "That dinner was amazing", "Where should we go next?" — preserving the afterglow of time well spent together.
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The worst part of any trip comes at the very end — when everyone's tired and someone has to sort out the money. Lining up receipts, punching numbers into a calculator, trying to remember who paid what... it brings a cold, transactional feeling to what should be warm memories.
Existing apps are useful, but often too complex or require everyone to install the same app. For family gatherings spanning multiple generations, we needed something simpler — and warmer.
Need business-style splitting?
FAMIKAN Smart for Business & Dinners
"Seniors pay more", "Students pay less", "Late arrivals get adjusted" — complex tiered splits are set up in seconds with presets. Features like edit-locking and graph-enabled share text are built for organizers.
- • Role-based tiered split presets
- • Edit lock & graph-enabled sharing
- • Perfect for work dinners & mixers
Frequently Asked Questions
Start by leaving them out of the drinks entirely. On gas and parking, a ratio of 0.5 is one option: with four passengers on $180, the passengers pay $40 and the driver $20.
A ratio such as 0.5 scales with the cost of gas. A Special Rule such as "Driver -$30" takes a fixed amount off the driver's share and spreads it across everyone else, whatever the gas came to.
If they're also providing the car, you might set them to 0 on gas and parking with "Change shares for this payment only" on those payments. They still share lodging and food like everyone else, and any gas they paid for is credited back to them.
Enter the lodging night by night and untick them under "Target Members" on the nights they weren't there. They share only the days they came.
Record each person's contribution with "Give to Organizer" and choose "Organizer pays" for food bought from the pool. The settlement shows what's left over or still needed.
FAMI-KAN needs an internet connection. Keep your receipts and enter them when you get a moment, setting the actual date on each payment so the history stays in order.
Yes. Every bill-splitting and settlement feature is free to use, and no registration is required.
No. It runs entirely in your web browser. Just share the link and everyone can access it immediately on their phones.
Yes, you can select the currency when creating an event (almost every official currency in the world). You can unify calculations easily for trips abroad.
Yes. You can switch between three views — "Settlement", "By Member" and "By Item". You can see what each person paid and owes, and for any single expense, who is covering how much. Everyone sees why the number is what it is, on the same screen.