What TabApp does

TabApp shares a bill between the people who were there. Each person claims what they had, and the app works out every person's share to the penny. It then shows who owes whom, and keeps track of each payment until it is confirmed. TabApp does not move money itself: you pay each other in the usual way, and record it here.

How TabApp works

1. Start a bill. Press the create button in the middle of the bar at the foot of the screen. A bill can be one amount shared out, a receipt you scan, or items you add by hand.
2. Bring people in. Add people by name, or send them the bill's link. Someone with no account can open the link, take their seat and claim, with nothing to sign up for.
3. Claim and split. Each person claims the items they had. An item that was shared is split between the people who shared it.
4. Make it Ready for payment. The totals are locked, and each person can see what they owe and to whom.
5. Pay and confirm. Someone who owes pays the person owed, outside the app, and records it. The person owed confirms it. When every balance is zero, the bill is Settled.

For more than one bill between the same people, such as a trip or a shared flat, a tab keeps them all in one running balance. A group holds a set of people and their tabs and bills.

Is TabApp free?

Yes, while it is in beta. There are no paid plans, and we will say so here before that changes.

What Home shows you

Home is where you stand across every tab and bill.

• You owe and You're owed are the totals across your tabs and bills, one figure for each currency. Amounts in different currencies are never added together.
• Payments pending, an amber bar, lists beneath it what waits on you: a payment to confirm, an amount to pay, or people who have not paid you yet. When items to claim are among them, the bar says Needs you.
• With nothing waiting, Home shows a green All settled bar and nothing beneath it.

The first time you open TabApp, Home says Nothing here yet. Split your first bill. with Quick split and Scan a receipt.

Worked example: dinner at Luigi's

Maya, Tom, Priya and Alex had dinner at Luigi's Trattoria, and Maya paid the whole bill.

Who	Items	Share with 10% service
Maya	17.00	18.70
Tom	25.90	28.49
Priya	17.50	19.25
Alex	10.20	11.22

The shares add up to the bill's total of 77.66 exactly. Maya paid all of it and her own share is 18.70, so the other three owe her 58.96 between them.

Once the bill is Ready for payment, Maya's Home shows You're owed 58.96, from 3 people, and a row under Payments pending that says "Tom and 2 others have not paid 58.96". Tom's Home shows You owe 28.49, to 1 person, and a row that says "You owe Maya 28.49" with Pay.

If something stops you

• Home shows nothing owed. Amounts count once a bill is Ready for payment. While a bill is still open, people can claim, and nothing is owed yet.
• Someone says they paid you, and You're owed has not moved. It moves once you confirm the payment.

Who makes TabApp

TabApp is made by one person. The Developer page says who, in their own words, with links to find them elsewhere. Reach it from Who makes TabApp on About, reached from Settings, or from Meet the developer at the foot of Help.

Saying thanks

If TabApp has helped you, you can say thanks with a tip on the Say thanks page, reached from Say thanks on the Developer page or on About. Once a few bills you ran have settled, a one-time note on the next one, Glad that worked, offers it too; it shows once and never again unless you turn it back on under Signposts. A tip is a gift to the developer: it goes to them directly, by card on Stripe's own page, through PayPal, or through Buy Me a Coffee, and it changes nothing in the app. Choose 3, 5 or 10 in your currency, or another amount with pence, such as 7.50, for a card or PayPal tip: PayPal opens with the developer and the amount filled in. Buy Me a Coffee asks for the amount on its own page. Tipping needs a connection.