The problem PayUp - Carpool Expense Tracker solves

Long before Corona there existed a concept called “Carpooling”. With offices, colleges and schools gradually re-opening across the country “Carpooling“ is all set to make it’s return given the risks involved in using public transport in today’s situation . A major problem that plagued this concept was people having backlogs on payment. The tracking of who owes who what was arbitrary and often, the driver was forced to write off small amounts people owed them.

There already exists many general purpose expense tracking apps, but most people are too lazy to use these to account for the daily expenses and further calculate the dividends among the members. Therefore we decided to build a tracking app tailor built for this use case, where ease of use is the prime design philosophy. We abstract this tedious process to just each member of the carpool to simply pushing a single button. The app will automatically account the expenses for you under the hood, allowing the driver to focus on the road and not their bank account.

Challenges we ran into

1. Firebase cloud messaging was choosen as the default notification medium, but was not configured.
2. Log and Due History is not implemented for the UI.