Your labels: who a claim was for

A label says who a claim was for: a child, a partner, a pet, or a friend you are buying for. The label groups your items within your total. An item split evenly that you claim for yourself and for a label counts as two parts, one each, as if two people had it. Your labels are kept on your account, so the same list is on every bill and every device you sign in on.

How to find your labels

1. Press Settings in the bar, then Preferences.
2. Press Labels. Your labels are listed in your order, each with its picture or initials and its kind beneath its name.

You can also add a label from Who is this for? on an item, or from Claiming for above a bill's list, and press the pencil beside one there to change it.

Claim for a label on a bill

On a bill's Claim step, press Claiming for above the list and choose a label. Every item you tap is then yours, for that label, until you choose Me again or leave the bill. Your total still counts it all: beneath Your share is what of it is for the label so far, starting at 0.00. Opening the bill again starts on Me.

How to add a label

1. Press Add a label.
2. Type its Name. Two labels cannot share a name.
3. If you like, choose a Kind (Person, Child, Pet or Other), a Colour, up to two Initials, or press Add a picture.
4. Press Save.

With no colour chosen, Auto picks one from the name; with no initials, they come from the name. A label with only a kind shows the kind's icon. You can keep up to 20 labels.

Change, reorder or remove one

• Press the pencil beside a label to change its name, kind, colour, initials or picture, then Save.
• Press the up and down arrows to change the order. The picker on a bill lists your labels in the same order.
• Press the pencil, then Remove. Undo, in the message that follows, puts it back where it was.

A change shows on bills still open. Ready and settled bills keep the label as it was, so what was shared stays as it was agreed. Removing a label changes no bill: a claim that already carries it keeps it.

Who sees a label

Everyone on the bill sees a label's name on your items once the bill is ready for payment. Only you see a label's picture.

Worked example: Maya's labels

Maya buys for her daughter Mia and walks Biscuit, the family dog, past the pub on the way home. In Labels she adds Mia, kind Child, and Biscuit, kind Pet, with a photo. At Luigi's she claims the kids' pasta and puts Mia on it from Who is this for?. Her total does not change; on Splits her row shows what Mia's part came to beneath it.

If something stops you

• Add a label is greyed out. You have 20 labels. Remove one first.
• "You already have a label with that name". Choose another name, or change the label you have.
• Nothing can be changed. Labels change only when online.