With the arrival of summer, people are beginning to take more and more weekend trips with friends. Normally when a group of friends vacations together, one of them gets stuck as the organizer and financier. In other words, he or she is responsible for figuring out the total cost of the trip by adding up the price of gas, food, and hotel rooms. Then they have to split the cost of the vacation and collect money from their friends.

Unfortunately, getting your friends to actually pay their share of the money is the tough part. Some use PayPal to collect money for the group, while others collect personal checks and cash. Even up to the day you leave, you’ll find yourself still hounding your friends to pay up….and that’s the least of your worries! Most likely, you’ll have to collect money after the trip as well. Then you get to chase down your friends for money they owe you weeks after the vacation has ended. This get’s incredibly awkward when you’re dealing with friends that owe you money, so most people just forfeit the money to avoid the problem.

Luckily, there’s an easier way to collect money for a group. With WePay, you can open a group account for your trip and invite your friends. You can send your friends bills through email (kind of like PayPal for groups). Once the bills are sent, you can monitor who has paid and who hasn’t, which makes it easy to keep track of your “I swear I’ll pay you back” friends.

Once your friends pay, you can then spend the money with a WePay debit card, by sending paper checks (right through WePay) or by transferring the money to your bank account. You can book your hotel, buy food, plane tickets, gas, etc. Since you are using WePay, all your friends can track expenses so you don’t have to save receipts- the record keeping happens automatically!

Avoid a stressful trip and use WePay. It’s free to sign up!