🎪 How to split a festival weekend

Split a festival weekend by separating the shared campsite costs (tent hire, esky, ice, the car) from personal ones (tickets, merch, your own drinks). Tickets are the trap: usually one person buys a batch in the presale, so put that purchase on a line split among the people whose tickets they were, dated the day it was bought.

Updated 2026-08-23. Example figures are in Australian dollars and made up.

Example: Three days in a paddock$2,090.50 in

LineAmount

Four tickets, presaleIvy paid, split everyone, bought in March

$1,396.00

Campsite pass and carLachie paid, split everyone

$180.00

Gazebo, chairs, eskyRosa paid, split everyone

$239.00

Ice runs, all three daysFinn paid, split everyone

$64.00

Fuel both waysLachie paid, split everyone

$118.70

Breakfast suppliesRosa paid, split the three who ate

$92.80

Settle up in 3 paymentsAmount

Finn pays Ivy

$466.35

Lachie pays Ivy

$200.73

Rosa pays Ivy

$198.55

Person	Position
Ivy	is owed $865.63
Lachie	owes $200.73
Rosa	owes $198.55
Finn	owes $466.35

4 people, 6 lines, 3 transfers to square up. Names and amounts are made up for the example.

What goes wrong

The ticket buyer waits five months to be paid back

Add the ticket line the day you buy them and send the link. Nobody needs reminding twice when the number is on their phone.

Gear bought for this trip lives with one person afterwards

Either split it as a shared cost and accept the gazebo lives at Rosa’s, or the keeper pays a larger share. Decide on the line.

Cash at the bar goes missing from the maths

Personal drinks stay off the ledger. Only shared rounds go on.

Run it in Zeroed

Start a ledger, name it, add the people. Ten seconds, no accounts.
Send the link to the group chat. Everyone taps their name.
Add lines as they happen. Untick anyone a line is not for.
At the end, the settle-up plan shows the fewest transfers. Tap one to send the reminder.

Start a ledger Just split one bill

Questions

How do you split festival tickets bought by one person?

One line, the full purchase, split among the people whose tickets they are. Date it when it was bought so the ledger tells the truth about who has been waiting.

Should camping gear be a group cost?

If it was bought for the group trip, yes. If someone keeps it afterwards and will use it again, it is fair for them to take a bigger share.

What if someone sells their ticket last minute?

Record the sale as a payment from the buyer to whoever originally fronted the tickets, and remove the dropout from the other lines.