Claim what you had

Tap what you ate or drank on a bill's Claim step, and your share is worked out as you go, service and all.

To claim an item is to say you had it. Everyone on a bill claims their own items on the Claim step, and the organiser can claim for anyone. Your share is what you claimed, with your part of any service, tax, tip or discount, and it is shown at the foot of the bill as you go.

How to claim

  1. Open the bill and go to the Claim step. Someone opening a bill's link lands there.
  2. Tap each item you had. You are added to it, and the row is tinted as yours.
  3. To take it back, tap your own circle on the row.
  4. If you are not the organiser, press Done claiming when you have finished. It tells the organiser, and changes nothing on the bill.

A tap only ever adds you. On an item others have claimed evenly, you join them and the price is shared evenly between you all. On an item that is several of something, such as three beers, each tap takes one more, and a tap on your circle gives one back.

The mark at the end of a row is a tick when the item is claimed and a warning when it is not, or only partly. On an item that is several of something, it counts the units taken, such as 2/3. Press it to open the split sheet, for a split that is not even (see Split an item).

Finding what is left

  • All, Unclaimed and Mine above the list narrow it. Unclaimed shows how many are left.
  • Unclaimed at the foot of the bill is the amount nobody has claimed yet. It reads All claimed once everything has been.
  • The organiser can press Split what's unclaimed evenly to share out everything left between everyone on the bill.

See the receipt

A bill with a photo, such as the receipt it was scanned from, shows a small square of it at the top of the bill, beside the menu, on every step and once the bill is Ready for payment or Settled. Everyone on the bill sees it, guests too.

  1. Press the photo at the top of the bill. A number on it says how many photos there are.
  2. Pinch, double tap or press Zoom in to read a line, and swipe or press Next photo for the next one.
  3. Press Download to save the photo to your device, or Share to send it from your phone's share sheet, where Save image puts it in your photos.
  4. Press Close to go back to the item you were on.

Claiming for someone else

Claiming for above the list says who your taps claim for, starting on Me each time you open a bill. Press it to open Who are you claiming for?:

  • Choose one of your labels, or add one, and every item you tap is yours, for that label. The line above the list names the label, such as "Tap what Mia had", and beneath Your share at the foot of the bill is what of it is for the label so far. See Your labels: who a claim was for.
  • Tap an item split evenly that you already have, and the label gets a part of its own beside yours: with Tom also on a 9.00 garlic bread, you and Mia have 3.00 each and Tom 3.00, so 6.00 is in your share. Your circle on the item shows 2. Tap your circle while claiming for Mia to give back only her part, or while on Me to give back only yours.
  • On an item split by shares, percent or amount, a tap opens the split sheet with For already set to the label, and the part you enter there is for it. Press For to change it before you save. A part you already hold is left as it is.
  • The organiser also has Other people, with each person on the bill and what they have claimed so far. Choose a person, and every tap claims for them. Use it for someone who has no phone with them, or who was added by name and will never open the bill.

Worked example: dinner at Luigi's

Maya runs the bill. Tom and Priya open its link, and Alex was added by name.

  • Garlic bread, 6.00. Maya taps it and has it for 6.00. Tom taps it and they pay 3.00 each, then Priya, at 2.00 each. Maya claims for Alex, and it is 1.50 each.
  • Peroni x3, 15.60. Tom taps it twice and holds 2 of the 3, for 10.40. One unit, 5.20, is still unclaimed. Maya claims it for Alex.
  • Tiramisu, 7.00. Priya taps it and has it for 7.00. Maya claims for Alex, and they pay 3.50 each.

With the pizzas and the Carbonara claimed too, Unclaimed reads All claimed. Priya has the Margherita at 12.50, 1.50 of garlic bread and 3.50 of tiramisu: 17.50 of items. With 10% service, her share reads 19.25.

If something stops you

  • The row does nothing. Claiming needs a connection. The line above the list says so when you are offline.
  • You cannot take someone else off an item. Only that person or the organiser can.
  • The bill is Ready for payment. Claims are locked. The organiser can reopen it.

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