To start our series of our own use cases, I’d like to introduce a fun way we do things at EditGrid.

After joining EditGrid couple months back, I’ve been having lunch with other the team members almost everyday and have found out they have created a spreadsheet to track everyone’s lunch expenses. It’s quite simple really, one person pays the entire bill and afterwards, back at the office, those who attended will edit the lunch expense spreadsheet with the price of their lunch into a cell under their name for that particular date.

There’s no difference in how much an individual spend, the spreadsheet takes into account the individual cost, so splurge all you want or be frugal as you like and the system will calculate the individual’s cost and ranks them amongst our team. The person having the highest negative balance will be the one responsible for paying the bill. There have been occasions where we use the iPhone on location to check who the responsible person is. There’s really no escaping and no free lunch here!

I’m sure there are similar cases out there but I am guessing it’s through sending emails, modifying the spreadsheet in a shared drive or playing hot potato with the spreadsheet in an email attachment. But, if you have done something similar in EditGrid, we do encourage you to share your story with us!

Sure, this might not seem to be the most productive but it’s fun and convenient and it illustrates a lot of what EditGrid offers, collaboration, calculations and mobility. Now, there’s no more messing around with looking for change and the countless number of IOUs, which sometimes goes forgotten.

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