Trip costs and comps, counted honestly

What counts as a trip cost

If the visit caused the spend, it is a trip cost — even when it never touched a table. The usual suspects: drinks and tips at the bar, ATM fees on the floor, rides and gas, food between sessions, parking, hotel, dealer tips.

dealt.win ships these as one-tap categories — Drinks & tips, ATM fee, Uber / taxi, Food, Parking, Hotel, Dealer tip, Other — with an optional note per entry, so the record stays specific without slowing down.

What counts as a comp

A comp is value the trip hands you that you would otherwise have bought: free play, a comped meal, comp drinks, a hotel night, show tickets. They add back to the all-in net at what they would have cost you — log the meal you did not pay for and the number reflects it.

The app's comp categories: Free play, Comp meal, Comp drinks, Comp hotel, Show / event, Other.

The habit that keeps it honest

• Log costs the moment they happen — parking on the walk in, dinner when the bill lands. Reconstructing at the end of a trip is how costs get dropped.
• Keep receipts for anything large — a photo of the folio or the ticket is enough. dealt.win attaches photos to the session; they stay on your device.
• Count comps at what they'd cost to buy — a comped buffet is worth the menu price you did not pay, nothing more, nothing less.
• Log the losing nights with the same care — a ledger that only sees the good nights is not a record, and the all-in net is only honest if every session feeds it.

The arithmetic, once

The all-in net is session net − costs + comps. That single line is why both sides matter: costs pull the number toward what the trip really took, comps push it back by the value you actually received. Skip either and the number quietly stops meaning anything.

Example: a night of +180 at the tables, 85 of costs — parking, dinner, tips — and a 30 comped meal is a 125 all-in night. Not 180, not 210: 125.