Rent, bills and chores for a shared house, in one place.

Venmo is great for paying one person back, and Venmo Groups lets a group split shared expenses and settle up inside the app. When one organizer needs everyone's share before the money gets spent, TableCash is built for that: everyone chips in by card to one trusted organizer, the organizer approves what leaves, and everyone sees every dollar. Use Venmo to pay a friend or split costs; use a table when the whole group is putting in up front.

Venmo splits; a table collects

Venmo moves money from one person to another, fast and familiar, and its Groups feature goes further: up to 30 people in a group with an owner, shared expenses split automatically, and members paying each other inside the group. If your group covers costs as they come and settles up after, that works well. The harder case is when one organizer needs everyone's share before the money gets spent: the deposit, the tickets, the gift, the rent.

Where collecting is a different job

1. The money needs to land with one person. A table sends every chip-in to the one organizer who runs it, and shows the total as it fills.
2. Who's in has to be obvious. A table shows each person's share toward the goal, and the app sends the reminders, so the organizer doesn't have to text friends one by one.
3. Some people want to promise first. A goal can take promises that are charged only if it fills by its date, and can be taken back until then.
4. What goes out should be visible too. Members request money from the table and the organizer approves or denies it in the open.

What TableCash adds: a shared fund with someone in charge

TableCash is a group fund app. One person creates a table for the thing, everyone chips in by card, and the money lands with that one trusted organizer. Everyone sees the shared balance and who chipped in, one person approves what leaves, and every dollar in and out sits on a record the whole group can open. For a shared house, chores, repairs, house info and votes live in the same app.

The honest framing: Venmo makes paying and splitting easy. TableCash is for collecting and holding a group's money with someone in charge. TableCash never holds the money; cards are handled by Stripe, the money goes to the organizer, and the app is the record. If PayPal Money Pools was more your speed, here's the alive version of that.