For messes and shared houses
Living together,
made simpler with
Cottage
From the bazar ledger to the monthly bills, all of it in one place.
Member balances
- AAmir+255.00
- BBakir-87.60
- IImran+30.40
The notebook never
settles anything.
Every mess has the same argument on the last day of the month. Four people, one খাতা, and a column of numbers nobody fully trusts.
One member always fronts the bazar money and is quietly four thousand taka down by the twentieth. Another ate twelve meals and is charged as though he ate thirty, because nobody wrote the half meals down.
The arithmetic is not hard. Keeping an honest record of it for thirty days, while four people live their lives, is.
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মিল রেট কত, কেউ জানে না
The mechanism
Divide the bazar by the meals.
That is the whole trick.
Everyone logs their meals
Half meals and guest meals count exactly as much as they should, not rounded up to whole plates.
Bazar duty logs the spend
Whoever is on duty records what they paid. It credits into the ledger in their name, the same day.
Cottage closes the month
Bazar over meals gives the rate. Bills apply on top. Each member gets one figure, then it locks.
Bazar duty
Nobody forgets
whose turn it is.
A bill splitter can tell you what a receipt cost. It cannot tell you who is shopping this week. The roster rotates on its own, shows the window that is currently open, and credits the on duty member's spend straight into the meal ledger.
This is the part a bill splitter structurally cannot do.
Bazar duty roster
AUGUST 2026
Cottage Balance
A shared pot that pays the bills
Members deposit into the Cottage Balance and bills draw from it directly, so no single person is left fronting the house money and chasing it back.
The monthly statement, as a PDF
Category by category, per member. Rent, electricity, meal carry in, discounts and advances each get their own line.
Alex
Split however it really works
Equally, or a custom share per member when the month was not even.
Permissions per member
Decide who can log meals, add costs, or record a deposit.
Who can see what, and who can change it
- Roles
- Logging a meal, adding a cost and recording a deposit are separate permissions. A member can have one without the others.
- Edits
- A bazar entry can be corrected until the month closes. Every change records who made it and when, so a quiet correction is not possible.
- Leaving
- A member who leaves keeps nothing and takes nothing. Their past months stay in the ledger, where the numbers still have to add up.
- Isolation
- Your cottage's data is separated from every other cottage at the database level, not only in the interface.
Questions worth asking
Does everyone in the mess need the app?
No. One person can keep the ledger for the whole house. Members who do join can log their own meals and see their own balance, which is usually what stops the arguing.
What if someone logs their meals late, or wrong?
Any entry can be corrected until the month closes. Edits record who changed what and when, so a quiet correction is not possible.
Does it work without internet?
No. Cottage runs in your browser, so saving an entry needs a connection. If you would rather have it sitting on your phone, there is an Android app on the download page.
Is Cottage really free?
Yes, all of it. No subscription, no charge per member, and no card. Cottage only records and splits what your mess already spends, so there is nothing here to pay for.
Can I get the month out as a PDF?
Yes. The utility statement and the month's meal records both export as PDFs, category by category, per member.
Pricing
Cottage is free. All of it.
No subscription, no charge per member, and no payment details to enter. Every feature on this page is open to every house.
No card, ever
On the 1st, nobody has to
open the notebook.
Create your Cottage, invite the house, and let the ledger do the arguing.
Create your CottageFree to use. Set your house up in about a minute.