Reminders, and forgiving an amount

When people owe you on a bill that is Ready for payment, Remind sends them a reminder from TabApp. It reaches only people with an account; for anyone else, Copy a message gives you words to send them yourself. Forgiving clears what someone owes you without money moving, and is offered in a tab.

How to remind people who owe you

1. Open the bill's Payments. Below the people, a box headed Remind people holds Remind, named for who it reaches, such as Remind Tom.
2. Read the line above it. It says who the reminder goes to, and who has no account and needs a message from you.
3. Press Remind. The line then says who was reminded.
4. For someone with no account, press Copy a message and paste it into a chat with them.

Someone who has said they paid is not reminded: the next step is yours, to confirm it. You can remind the same person on a bill once a day, and Remind says when you can next. After a few reminders about one bill TabApp sends no more, and Remind says to ask them yourself.

In a tab, Remind is on each person's sheet in its Balances.

Auto reminders

If you run a bill that is in no tab, you can have TabApp remind people for you. On the bill's Pay step, under Ready for payment, switch on Auto reminders. Once the bill is ready for payment, everyone who still owes is reminded in your name, up to once a day, until they have paid, within the same limits as Remind: someone you reminded yourself that day waits until the next, and after a few reminders about one bill TabApp sends no more. Someone with no account is sent a text where there is a number on their place.

Where the bill needs upgrading for this, the switch says what it costs each person and offers the upgrade once you switch it on; the reminders start when it is upgraded. To stop them, switch them off in the bill's settings.

If you run a tab, the same switch is in the tab's settings, beside its upgrade. Everyone who still owes on the tab's balances is reminded of what they owe in all, and start once the tab has a tab pass, or a weekend pass while it lasts. To stop them, switch them off there.

How to forgive an amount

1. Open the tab, and its Balances.
2. Press the row of the person who owes you. Their sheet opens.
3. Press Forgive, at the bottom of their sheet. The button names what they owe you, such as Forgive 24.00.
4. TabApp asks first, naming them and the amount. Press Forgive to go ahead, or Cancel to leave it as it was.

Forgiving clears what they owe you without money moving. It is recorded and shown, and you can undo it from the same sheet. Only the person owed can forgive, and it needs an account. A bill that is not in a tab has no Forgive.

Worked example: Maya reminds, Priya forgives

Maya paid for Luigi's Trattoria. Tom owes her 28.49, Priya 19.25 and Alex 11.22. Tom has an account; Priya joined through a link with no account, and Alex was added by name.

Maya's button reads Remind Tom, and the line above it says "Remind goes to Tom. Priya and Alex have no account here, so message them yourself." She presses it, and the line says "Reminded Tom. Priya and Alex have no account here, so message them yourself." Copy a message copies "Luigi's Trattoria - Tom 28.49, Priya 19.25, Alex 11.22. Pay Maya:" followed by the bill's link, which she pastes into the group chat.

In the Lisbon weekend tab, Priya is owed 122.20, and Sam owes her 24.00, his share of the dinner at Ramiro. Priya decides to let it go. She opens Sam's sheet from Balances, presses Forgive 24.00, and says yes when asked. Sam is paid up, and Priya is still owed 98.20: 76.40 from Tom and 21.80 from Maya.

If something stops you

• Remind cannot be pressed. Nobody who owes you has an account, or you reminded them lately, or they have had every reminder TabApp will send. The button says which.
• There is no Remind. You are on the bill through a link with no account, the bill is settled, or you have no connection.
• There is no Forgive. The bill is not in a tab, or the person owes you nothing.