Home, Tabs, Bills and Settings

The bar at the foot of the screen leads to the four places in TabApp: Home, Tabs, Bills and Settings, with the create button in the middle. Home says where you stand and what needs you. Tabs and Bills list everything you are on. Settings holds your settings and the rest of the app.

How to use Home

1. Read the two tiles at the top. You owe and You're owed total your tabs and bills, one line for each currency. With one currency, the line beneath says how many people it is spread over.
2. Press a tile to open Balances on that side: what you're owed, or what you owe.
3. Read the bar beneath them. All settled, in green with a tick, means nothing waits on you. Payments pending, in amber, means something does, and the rows are listed beneath it; the bar says Needs you instead when one of them is items to claim. Work down the rows. Each row names the bill, or the tab, beneath it:
   • "says they paid": press Confirm once the money has reached you.
   • "You owe": press Pay to see how to pay.
   • "has not paid": the row opens the bill's payments, where you can send a reminder.
   • "Claim your items": the row opens the bill, ready for you to claim.
4. Use the two buttons at the top: the magnifying glass searches everything, and the bell opens your Inbox, with a count of what you have not read.

Below the status bar and its rows, Tabs and bills shows the two open tabs that changed last, each with where you stand on it, and beside them, on the right, the two bills you are on that changed last, each with what you owe or are owed, or Settled. Press a row to open that tab or bill, or press Tabs or Bills beneath to see them all. Archived tabs and bills, and closed tabs, are left out. Before you have a tab, press Start a tab beneath the Tabs tile; before you have a bill, press Split a bill beneath the Bills tile to start one.

Below that, Photos and places shows a peek of your Gallery of receipt photos and your Map of where your bills were. Before you have any photos or places, each shows empty and still opens its page.

Below that, People and groups shows the four people and the four groups you shared something with most recently, the latest top left. Press a face to open that person or group, or press People or Groups beneath to see them all. Before you have split anything with anyone, People shows empty outlines, and so does Groups until you are in one: press Start a group to make one.

How to use Balances

1. Press You're owed or You owe on Home, or Balances in Settings.
2. Press the chips at the top to switch between You're owed and You owe.
3. Read each currency on its own, with its flag and total. Amounts in different currencies are never added together.
4. Read a row: the bill's or the tab's name, whether it is a bill or a tab, who owes you or whom you owe, and the amount. The largest is first.
5. Press a row to settle it: a bill opens its payments, and a tab opens its balances.

Opened from a group's Home, Balances shows only that group's tabs and bills, under In and the group's name. Press it to see everything again.

With no connection, Balances shows the tabs and bills saved on this device, and says they may be out of date.

To see how a figure got where it is, press Statement at the foot of Balances.

How to use the Bills list

1. Press Bills in the bar. Every bill you are on is listed, a bill in a tab included, under the day each last changed, most recent first.
2. Read a row: its state's mark, its name, and at the end what you owe or are owed on it, or the bill's total when nothing is between you and anyone. A dot after the name means something on it waits on you.
3. Press a chip to narrow the list: Needs action, Open, Ready for payment, Settled, Archived or Has receipt. The state chips widen the list among themselves; the other chips narrow it.
4. Press the search button to search the list by a bill's name, its place, or the names of the people on it.
5. Press New bill to start one.

An archived bill is listed only under Archived, or when you search for it. You can also slide a row left on Tabs or Bills and press Archive; Undo brings it back.

Tabs in the bar is the same list for your tabs, with the chips Open, Settled, Closed and Archived, and New tab.

How to search everything

1. On Home, press the search button. The field is ready to type in.
2. Type a name, a place or an amount. Results come as you type, grouped under Bills, Tabs, Items, Payments and People.
3. A group shows its first three; press Show all for the rest.
4. Press a result to open it. A person opens Bills, searched for their name.

An amount finds an item's price, a bill's total, someone's share or a payment of exactly that much, in every currency unless you type one.

What is in Settings

Settings has You, with Profile and Payment methods; App, with Preferences and Appearance; Communication, with Signposts and Notifications; Data, with Account, Browse and Recently deleted; Billing, with Upgrades, where upgrades are sold; and Support, with Help and About. Browse is a page with Balances, Statement, Tabs, Bills, People, Groups, Map and Gallery; Tabs and Bills there open the same lists as the bar.

Worked example: Maya after Luigi's

Luigi's Trattoria is Ready for payment, Maya paid the 77.66, and Priya has said she paid her 19.25. Maya opens Home:

• You're owed reads 58.96, from 3 people. Priya's payment does not count until Maya confirms it.
• The bar reads Payments pending, with 2 at its right, and beneath it are "Priya says they paid 19.25", with Confirm, and "Tom and Alex have not paid 39.71", which opens the bill's payments.

Maya presses the search button and types 19.25. The line beneath the field reads "2 found for 19.25.": under Bills, Luigi's Trattoria as Priya's share, and under Payments, "Priya paid you".

If something stops you

• A bill is missing from Bills. It may be archived. Press Archived, or search for it.
• "Nothing matches." No bill fits the chips and the search together. Press Clear to show them all again.
• No connection. Home and Bills show the bills saved on this device, and say so. Confirming a payment needs a connection.