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Can PartyPot track Monopoly salary, rent, and property purchases? For the physical Monopoly board game, yes: PartyPot replaces the paper money and the bank entirely, so passing GO, rent, property purchases, houses, mortgages and trades all become timestamped transfers nobody can dispute. It is not connected to Monopoly GO, the Scopely mobile game, which runs its own in-app currency.

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Can PartyPot track Monopoly salary, rent, and property purchases?

Quick Answer

For the physical Monopoly board game, yes: PartyPot replaces the paper money and the bank entirely, so passing GO, rent, property purchases, houses, mortgages and trades all become timestamped transfers nobody can dispute. It is not connected to Monopoly GO, the Scopely mobile game, which runs its own in-app currency.

Detailed Answer

One clarification first: this covers the **physical Monopoly board game**, where a human banker hands out paper money. It is not linked to **Monopoly GO**, the Scopely mobile game — that title runs its own in-app currency and no outside tracker can touch it. If you are here because counting paper Monopoly money is the worst part of the evening, read on.

Every transaction the bank normally handles

Passing GO. The banker credits $200, timestamped. If someone claims they never collected it, the log answers the question instead of the table arguing about it.
Buying property. Debit the purchase price — $60 for Mediterranean Avenue up to $400 for Boardwalk, $200 a railroad, $150 a utility.
Rent. A direct transfer from tenant to landlord. Both balances move at once, so there is no "I already paid you" standoff.
Houses and hotels. Debit the build cost, which runs $50 to $200 per house depending on the colour group. Selling credits half of it back.
Mortgages. Mortgaging credits half the property value; lifting it debits the mortgage plus 10% interest.
Chance and Community Chest. "Bank pays you $200" is a credit, "pay poor tax, $15" is a debit, and "collect $50 from every player" is a set of transfers.
Jail. The $50 bail is a debit. A Get Out of Jail Free card moves no money at all.
Trades. Player-to-player transfers cover cash-for-property deals and multi-way trades.

Free Parking house rules

The most common Monopoly house rule puts taxes and fees into a pot that whoever lands on Free Parking collects. That is what Center Pot is for: fees accumulate in a shared pot, and the host pays out all of it — or only part — when someone lands there.

Why it speeds the game up

Most of a Monopoly turn is administration rather than decisions, and counting out change is the slowest part of it. Removing that step is where the time goes: no sorting denominations, no banker shortchanging anyone by accident, and no hunt for the missing $500 notes when the box goes away. Younger players can take part without having to do the arithmetic, and because every movement is logged, a disputed rent from twenty minutes ago is a scroll rather than a debate.

Bankruptcy and the end of the game

When a player goes bankrupt their balance goes to zero and their assets transfer according to the rules. If the group plays for real stakes on top of the game, Smart Settlement reduces the final positions to the fewest payments. PartyPot is a bookkeeping tool, not a gambling platform — it never holds or moves real money.

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