Settle up after poker — and actually get paid

Who pays who, in the fewest payments

The naive way to settle a 6-person game is a dozen little Venmos flying in every direction. potcount instead computes the minimum number of transfers that squares everyone up. Three people owe, two are owed? You might get away with just three payments total.

Each player sees their own line: exactly who to pay (or who's paying them) and how much. No mental math, no "wait, who am I sending this to?"

Mark a payment as paid

When you send your payment — Tikkie, Venmo, cold hard cash — tap the transfer and mark it Paid. That's your side of the handshake: "money's sent."

potcount never touches the money itself. It's the scoreboard, not the bank — you pay however your table already pays.

The other half: confirm you got it

Here's the bit most trackers miss. A payment isn't really done until the receiver confirms they actually got it. So when you're owed money and someone marks it paid, you get a Confirm received action.

1. Payer marks the transfer Paid ("I sent it").
2. Receiver taps Confirm received ("yep, landed").
3. Now it's truly settled — both sides agreed.

The gentle nagging (so you don't have to)

A day after the game, if a payment's still open, potcount quietly nudges both people: the debtor gets "you still owe €20", the person owed gets "you're still owed €20 — already got it?". It repeats at most weekly, so it's a nudge, not a nag.

On your home screen, any finished game where you still owe or still need to confirm a payment gets pushed to the top with an amber flag — it won't quietly disappear into history until the money's actually sorted.

Bonus: every confirmed payment feeds your settlement-speed stat — a quiet flex for the people who always pay first, and a gentle shame ticker for those who… don't.

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