BaatLo vs Spreadsheets: When to Use What Spreadsheets are powerful tools. They handle complex modelling, data analysis, budget planning, and financial projections with a flexibility that purpose-built applications rarely match. If you need to build a custom formula, pivot a dataset, or model a scenario with a dozen variables — a spreadsheet is the right…
Office Lunch Splits: Stop Using That Messy Spreadsheet Somewhere in your office, there’s a Google Sheet. It was created months ago by someone who’s probably moved to a different team by now. It has seventeen tabs, three broken formulas, a column labeled “misc” that nobody understands, and Rahul from accounting hasn’t updated his row since…
Settling Up: How BaatLo Minimizes Payments You just got back from a week in Goa with four friends. Between the flights, the hotel, the seafood dinners, the scooter rentals, and that one inexplicable ₹2,400 bar tab that nobody fully remembers — there are expenses everywhere, paid by different people at different times. Now it’s time…
How to Add People Who Don’t Have a BaatLo Account (Ghost Members) Every group has that one person. They’re happy to come on the trip, split the dinner, chip in for the birthday gift — but ask them to sign up for anything and you’ll get a response somewhere between a heavy sigh and complete…
How Invite Links Work in BaatLo You’ve created a group on BaatLo. Added the first expense. Everything’s set up and ready to go. Now you just need to get everyone else in. This is where most group tools fall apart. You ask five people to sign up, three say they will, one forgets, and the…
The idea of BaatLo was born a couple of years ago – I needed a simple thing: a way to split expenses with friends after a trip. Not a spreadsheet. Not a WhatsApp thread full of “you owe me ₹350” messages. Just a clean tool where everyone could see who paid what, who owes whom,…
It’s the last evening of the trip. Someone opens their notes app and squints at a list of numbers that stopped making sense two days ago. “Okay, so I paid for the hotel… and Meera got the cab from the airport… wait, was that split four ways or five? Priya wasn’t in that cab, right?”…
You bought groceries again. Third time this month. You’re not upset about it exactly — it’s not a big deal, it’s just groceries — but you are starting to notice. The WiFi bill came out of your account last week too, because it’s in your name, and nobody’s mentioned it. Your flatmate ordered a water…
The bill arrives. Everyone suddenly has somewhere else to look. Someone reaches for it, hesitates, pulls back. Someone else says “I’ll get this one” and you’re not sure if that’s generosity or an IOU you’ll hear about in three weeks. A third person is doing arithmetic on their phone under the table, trying to figure…
You went on a trip with friends. Someone paid for the hotel, someone covered the cab, someone bought snacks at every rest stop. Now you’re back home and nobody can agree on who owes what. Sound familiar? BaatLo was built for exactly this moment. It’s a free expense-splitting tool that runs right in your browser…