Split an item: Even, Units, Shares, Percent and Amount

Most items belong to one person, and a tap on the item claims it. When an item was shared, the split sheet says how its price is divided. A split has five types: Even, Units, Shares, Percent and Amount. Whatever the type, the parts always add up to the item's price exactly, to the penny.

How to split an item

1. On the bill's Claim step, press the mark at the end of the item's row. The split sheet opens.
2. Choose the type at the top of the sheet.
3. Set each person's part. The line beneath the people says whether the parts add up, and what is left.
4. Press Save.

Everyone, Just me and Clear fill the sheet in one press. Anyone on the bill can change their own part; the organiser can change everyone's.

The five types

• Even. Tick the people who shared it, and each pays the same. One person ticked is still Even.
• Units. For an item that is several of something, each person takes whole units. Units nobody takes stay unclaimed until someone does. Units is offered only when the item's quantity is more than one.
• Shares. Give each person a whole number, and the price is divided in that ratio. Use it when someone had twice as much.
• Percent. Give each person a percentage. They must add up to 100.
• Amount. Give each person an exact amount. They must add up to the item's price.

Where the rest goes

Under Percent and Amount, the rest falls on you. When you are on the item, or nobody is on it yet, your own part is whatever the others leave, worked out as you type theirs and marked the rest. Type Tom's 8.90 on an 18.60 item and yours shows 9.70, ready to save. It is saved as your amount, as if you had typed it.

• Type into your own part and it stops following the others. Auto beside your name puts the rest back on you.
• When two people share the item, and nobody else is on it, typing one part fills the other.
• When you set parts only for other people, nothing is filled in for you. The line under the people says what is left, and Fill the rest gives it to the person whose part you were last in, or to you.
• If the others come to more than the whole, your part shows 0.00 and Save waits until they add up.

Who your part is for

Once you have a part of an item, For under your name says who it was for: a child, a partner, a pet, or a friend you are buying for. Pressing it asks "Who is this for?". Choose Me or one of your labels and press Done; on Units, give each label its own number of your units, and the rest stay yours.

• Type a name in the add row and press Add to keep it on your account and put it on this item in one press. Your labels are on every bill you open.
• The pencil beside a label changes its name, kind, colour, initials or picture, or removes it. Your labels are listed in Settings, Preferences, Labels too (see Your labels).
• Your circle on the item's row then carries the label's small mark.
• A label changes no money. Your total stays exactly what it was; the label only says who your items were for.
• Once the bill is ready for payment, Splits shows under your row a line for each label with what it came to, yours first, and your total lists your items under a heading for each, with its part of the extras. Sharing your total adds a line such as "of which Mia 9.35, Sam 5.72". Everyone on the bill sees the grouping; only you see a label's picture.
• The printed bill and its PDF group your part the same way, and the CSV has a For column naming the label on each item line. When the bill is settled, your own email lists what each label came to.
• Only you can label your own part, and only with an account. Giving the item back takes its label off with it.
• Undo, in the message after you choose, puts back what it was before.

Worked example: dinner at Luigi's

Maya, Tom, Priya and Alex had dinner at Luigi's Trattoria.

Item	Price	Type	Who pays what
Garlic bread	6.00	Even, all four ticked	1.50 each
Peroni x3	15.60	Units: Tom 2, Alex 1	Tom 10.40, Alex 5.20
Tiramisu	7.00	Even, Priya and Alex ticked	3.50 each

Tom's Diavola was his alone. Had Maya eaten a third of it, Shares would split it: Tom 2, Maya 1 gives Tom 9.33 and Maya 4.67. Fourteen pounds does not divide into thirds, so one penny goes to one person. The app always gives it to the same person for the same split, however it was entered.

Service of 10% is shared out after the items, in proportion to what each person had: Tom's 25.90 of items comes to 28.49 with service (see Service, tax, tip and discount).

If something stops you

• Save is greyed out. The parts do not add up yet. The line above Save says by how much.
• You cannot change someone else's part. Only that person or the organiser can. Their row shows a padlock.
• The bill is Ready for payment. Its totals are locked. The organiser can reopen it to change a split.