Notes on running a mess
How the meal rate actually gets calculated, why bazar ledgers fall apart on paper, and everything else that goes into keeping a shared kitchen honest.
September 17, 2026 · 4 min read
A Custom Domain for Your Mess, in Two DNS Records
Connect a domain you already own to your Eazy Manage workspace — a TXT record to prove it's yours, a CNAME to route it, HTTPS issued for you, and your eazymanage.app address still working beside it.
- domain
August 20, 2026 · 3 min read
How Automatic Meal-Rate Billing Actually Works
The exact math behind a hostel or mess meal bill — how attendance turns into meal units, how bazar spend turns into a rate, and why guest meals and utilities are handled differently.
- billing
- meals
July 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Why Bazar Expense Tracking Falls Apart in a Notebook
The specific ways a paper bazar khata breaks down in a shared hostel or mess, and what logging each market run properly actually needs to capture.
- bazar
- expenses
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Running a Shared Mess Fund Without Losing Track of Who Paid What
How a shared workspace fund, a per-member ledger and settlements work together to keep a hostel or mess's money honest — and what recording a payment does and doesn't do.
- fund
- money
May 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Rent Bills and Meal Bills Are Not the Same Problem
Why hostels that run rooms alongside meals need rent handled as its own bill family — seats, occupancy history and rent amounts don't belong in the meal-rate calculation.
- rooms
- billing
April 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Roles and Permissions for Hostel and Mess Managers
Why 'everyone's an admin' stops working past a handful of members, and how built-in roles, custom permission sets and manage-only members solve it without locking anyone out unfairly.
- team
- permissions