The gallery

The gallery holds the photos on every bill you started or have a seat on: the receipt photo of a bill made by scanning, and any photo someone added to a bill, such as the table. Everyone on a bill sees its photos, and opens them from the photo at the top of the bill. A bill you archived is left out.

How to add a photo to a bill

1. Open the bill and press Bill settings.
2. Under Gallery, press Add photo.
3. Press Take photo or Choose file on a phone, or drop the picture in on a computer, then press Upload image.

Photos are added while the bill is open, by anyone with a seat on it, and with a connection.

How to use the gallery

1. Open it from Gallery in Photos and places on Home, or from Gallery on Browse in Settings. From a group's Home it opens with only the group's photos, under In and the group's name: those on its bills on their own and on the bills in its tabs you are in. Press the group's name to see every photo again. From a tab or a bill, under Photos and places at its foot, it opens with only the tab's or the bill's photos, under In and its name, in the same way. Someone on a tab with no account, from a link of their own, opens it from the tab in the same way, with the photos of the tab's bills they are on; their In has no way to everything, which needs an account.
2. Each photo shows its bill's name and its day. Search by bill or place finds a bill by name.
3. Filter, the funnel, narrows it to settled or unsettled bills, an amount you owe, a range of days, or bills you started. Newest changes the order, and the icons at the left switch grid and list.
4. Press a photo to open it full screen, with its place among the rest, such as "1 of 2". Open the bill goes to its bill.

To remove a photo, open the bill's Bill settings, press the photo under Gallery and press Delete. Undo puts it back. The organiser can remove any photo on the bill, and anyone who added a photo can remove their own. A photo taken for one item, rather than added to the bill, stays with its item and has no Delete.

How long photos are kept

A bill's photos are kept while it is open and while anyone still owes on it. Once a bill that is in no tab or group is settled, its photos may be kept for 90 days, and then they are removed: the bill, its items and every amount stay as they were. Where that applies, the bill's Bill settings says so above its photos. Until the bill is settled, whoever may upgrade it is offered Keep them for good, which keeps them as long as the bill; a settled bill cannot be upgraded. Once it is settled, the line says the day they go, and once they have gone, it says so. The photo at the top of the bill then turns into a receipt that says they are no longer kept.

Worked example: Tom's coffee and Luigi's receipt

Maya started Luigi's Trattoria by scanning its receipt, and Tom added a photo of the Heathrow coffee to its bill in the Lisbon weekend tab.

Maya's gallery says "2 photos", the coffee first, as it was added last. Opened, it reads "1 of 2", headed Heathrow coffee, with "Fri 11 Jul. In Lisbon weekend (tab)" beneath. She types "luigi" in the search, and the bar reads "1 of 2 photos": the receipt, from "Sat 14 Jun".

If something stops you

• "No photos yet". None of your bills has a photo. A photo you add to a bill, a receipt or the table, shows here.
• There is no Add photo. The bill is Ready for payment or settled, you are offline, or you have no seat on it.
• There is no Delete. A photo is removed by the organiser or by the person who added it, while the bill is open and with a connection. An item's own photo stays with its item.
• "Sign in to see this tab." You opened a tab's gallery with no account, on a browser that has not opened the tab from a link of your own. Open your link again, or sign in.
• "The gallery needs a connection." It comes back by itself when you are online.