Splitting your first restaurant bill

Tabster is how you easily split a restaurant bill with friends and pay back whoever put their card down.

Scan to split now or later - splitting a restaurant bill can take less than 60 seconds.

One person photographs the receipt. If they don’t have a photo, they can also paste a link to the receipt from the restaurant, email in the receipt, or manually add the receipt. Every line item comes back in a tappable interface, so the rest of the table claims what they ordered on their own phones. Six people split a bill in the time it takes one person to read it aloud. Every way of getting a bill in is covered in scanning and itemizing a receipt.

Tax and tip are apportioned to what each person claimed, which is the part an even split gets wrong. Whoever had a salad stops subsidising whoever had a steak and three drinks.

The people paying you back do not need the app or an account. They open a link, claim their items, and pay from whichever app they already use.

You can do the whole thing at the table, or leave it half done and finish it later. Every claim is saved as it happens, so the receipt is exactly where the group left it. More on splitting a bill at the table or later.

If everyone had the same thing, splitting a bill evenly is quicker than claiming item by item. For a shared starter or a bottle of wine, see splitting appetizers or other shareables.

You can split a receipt right now. No account needed to try it.