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September 24, 2026

Expenses in yen, the split in euros

Enter an expense in any currency. DobiSplit converts it into the group currency at the ECB daily rate, and you can correct that rate to what your card actually charged.

Two weeks in Japan, and the group settles in euros. Every dinner starts as a number in yen that you have to convert yourself, in a second app, before you can even type it into the first one.

That part is gone. The currency symbol in the amount field is a button now. Tap it, pick a currency, type the amount in yen. A second line appears underneath with the euro amount already filled in, converted at the European Central Bank's daily reference rate.

The group still runs on one currency: balances and the settlement are in euros, exactly as before. What changed is that you no longer do the conversion before you reach the form.

The rate is yours to correct

The prefilled euro amount is an input, not a label. If your card statement says the dinner was 47,35 € and our rate says 46,80 €, type 47,35 and the exchange rate below it follows.

It is worth doing. The ECB publishes the mid-market rate, and your bank almost certainly did not give you that one. Entering what was actually charged puts the card fee into the split, where it belongs, instead of leaving it with whoever happened to pay.

Once the expense is saved, that rate stays put. We never recompute it. A trip you settled in October is still the same number in March.

What it doesn't do

The ECB table covers about 30 currencies. The picker offers every ISO currency, roughly 180 of them, so in Vietnam or Egypt there is nothing to prefill and the euro field starts empty. Type the amount and the rate is derived from it. Either way the expense goes in.

Splits are still authored in the group currency. Divide a ¥7.800 dinner by exact amounts and you are assigning euros.

One change you might notice: once a group has its first expense, its currency is locked. It should always have been. Switching it never converted anything, it just relabelled the stored numbers, quietly turning 47,35 € into ¥4.735. While a group is still empty you can change it as before.

CSV export carries the foreign amount, its currency and the rate as three extra columns.