How to split a restaurant bill fairly: 7 methods that actually work
Even split, itemized, by percentage, or let everyone claim their own — seven ways to divide a restaurant bill, and an honest account of when each one is the right call.
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Whose number is it, once someone has claimed it?
Sharing a bill hands a piece of it to other people. Taking it back is a decision about consent, not a toggle — which is why "stop sharing" no longer does it quietly.
One QR code, seven people, zero group chat
One QR code connects a whole trip or flat at once. A group is a roster, not a ledger: it holds no balance of its own.
We refuse to convert your currencies
If you owe someone €40 and £15, HiBill shows you €40 and £15. Why we keep balances separate per currency instead of collapsing them into one number.
What we learned reading thousands of receipts
Receipts are a hostile document format. Notes on tax lines, thermal paper, service charges, and why every scan is shown to you before anything is saved.
Splitting a receipt nobody wants to itemize
Share a bill and walk away. Everyone claims what they had, and whatever nobody claims stays with the person who paid.
Two kinds of transaction is all you need
Expenses, loans, paybacks, settlements — four objects that turned out to be two. A note on collapsing a data model until it stops lying.