Your settings

Settings is where your account lives, in groups: You, your profile and how people pay you; App, how it behaves and looks; Communication, what you are told; Data, your account and everything you have in TabApp; Billing, where upgrades are sold and what you paid is listed; and Support, help and about. It is the button at the far right of the bar.

How to change your settings

1. Press Settings in the bar.
2. Press Profile to change your Name, "Shown to the people you share bills with.", your Initials and your Phone number. Press Add a photo, then Take a photo or Choose a photo, to give yourself a profile picture; once you have one, Change photo and Remove sit beside it. It is seen by the people you share a bill, tab or group with, and by your friends, never on a bill's public page or in emails.
3. Press Preferences and set:
   • Language: Automatic reads TabApp in your browser's language, and "Your browser:" says which. Press a language to read TabApp in it at once, on every device you sign in on. Your device's language comes first, and once the list is longer than the screen, Find a language above it finds one by its own name or its English name. The emails, texts and notifications TabApp sends you are written in it too, and so are the PDFs and spreadsheet files you save or are sent. As a guest, the choice stays in this browser. TabApp comes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Simplified Chinese and Hindi, and in Arabic every screen runs right to left. A PDF in Japanese, Arabic, Chinese or Hindi is written in English. TabApp's own pages, its start page, help, the terms and the privacy policy, have the same list behind the language button beside Sign in, which names the language the page is in; choosing there opens the page in that language and keeps it for the app on this device. When your browser's language is another one TabApp is written in, a line at the top of those pages offers it, and never moves you.
   • Home currency: "New bills use it, unless you're abroad"
   • Always show my currency: "Shown first on bills in other currencies"
   • Sound effects: Off or On. With them on, recording or confirming a payment, or a payment to you arriving while the bill is open, makes a coins sound; the payment that settles a bill, or the one that settles a tab while you are on its Balances, makes the settle sound. They are off until you switch them on, and set on each device. Settling shows confetti either way.
   • Session recording, where offered: off until you switch it on, on this device only.
   • Labels: who a claim was for, such as a child or a pet. See Your labels.
4. Press Appearance, back on Settings, and set:
   • Light or dark: System, Light, Dark or Tactical Turtle Neck, set on each device. Tactical Turtle Neck is dark with a pure black page, a step darker than Dark, with any skin, free.
   • Skin: "Colours your screens, buttons and links. Amounts owed and paid keep their colours." Press a skin and the whole app changes to it at once, on every device you sign in on. A skin changes the colours of your screens, buttons and links. It does not change the green of what you are owed, the red of what you owe, the colours that say where a bill or payment stands, the typeface, or the green TabApp logo. See Skins, below.
5. Each is saved as you change it.
6. Press Signposts, back on Settings under Communication, to choose which notes about what happens next you see. See Signposts.

Signposts

A signpost is a short note, at a moment like Done claiming or your first tab, that says what happens next and who acts next, with a link to the help about it. Each one has two buttons:

• Got it closes it for now. It can show again the next time that moment comes round. Close does the same.
• Don't show again switches it off for good, on every device you sign in on.

A signpost also stops on its own once you have done what it explains, for example once a bill you claimed on is ready for payment.

To turn them back on, press Settings, then Signposts:

• Show signposts turns every signpost off, or on again.
• Switched off lists the ones you chose Don't show again for and the ones you have done, with where each shows. Press Turn on beside one, and it shows the next time its moment comes round.
• Turn them all back on turns every one on at once. Press Undo in the message that follows to put the list back as it was.

As a guest, with no account, Don't show again on this device keeps your choice in this browser only, and there is no Signposts page. Clearing the browser's data for TabApp turns them all back on. If you make an account to keep your seat, the ones you switched off come with you.

Skins

Default is always free. Where upgrades are sold, every other skin comes with Skins, bought once for your account: "Default is free. Others come with Skins" Press a skin with a lock to try it: the whole app takes it while you stay on Appearance, a sample under the skins shows a bill, the totals and a button in it, and a bar at the bottom says Previewing and the skin's name. Nothing is saved, so Done, leaving the page or reloading puts your own skin back. Press Unlock skins, on that bar or under the skins, to see the price, then press Buy skins. The skin you were trying is picked as soon as they are yours.

Emails from TabApp take your skin's colour for their buttons and links, and a bill you print or save as a PDF has its headings underlined in it, including the PDF sent when a bill is settled. The rest of the paper stays black on white.

If skins are refunded, your screens go back to Default, and the skin you had picked keeps its place with a lock, so buying again brings it straight back.

Signed out, and on a bill you joined as a guest, TabApp shows Default.

What else is in Settings

• You: Payment methods, how people pay you, beside Profile.
• Communication: Notifications, what you are told and how, beside Signposts.
• Data: Account, for how you sign in, exporting your data and deleting your account; Browse, a page of its own with Balances, Statement, Tabs, Bills, People, Groups, Map and Gallery; and Recently deleted, for tabs and bills you can bring back. Tabs and Bills on Browse open the same lists as the bar. Going back from one of them returns to Browse.
• Billing: Upgrades, where upgrades are sold, and Purchases, what you paid, with receipts.
• Support: Help, and About, which leads on to the developer, Terms and Privacy. Contact is in the bar at the foot of Help.
• Install TabApp, where your browser can install it.
• Sign out, at the foot.

Worked example: Maya after Lisbon

Back from the Lisbon weekend, Maya opens Settings, then Preferences. Her Home currency is British Pound. She switches on Always show my currency, so a bill in Euro leads with pounds: her 24.00 share of Dinner at Ramiro shows first as ~£20.69, and sets Sound effects to Off. Back on Settings she opens Appearance and sets Light or dark to Dark.

If something stops you

• "Your home currency did not save. Try again." The change did not reach the server. Try again with a connection.
• "Profile didn't load. Can't change it yet". Press Try again.
• "Your skin did not save. Try again." The skin shows on this device, but the change did not reach your account, so your other devices keep the one before. Press Try again with a connection.
• "Connect to buy skins" Buying needs a connection.
• "That did not save. Try again." on Signposts: the change did not reach the server and was put back. Press Try again.
• "Reconnect to change signposts". Signposts are kept on your account, so changing them needs a connection.
• "Sign in to see your account." Settings belongs to an account. Press Sign in.