Guide
Ways to split a bill — from a napkin to an app
Calculator, spreadsheet, group chat, transfer-as-you-go or an app — what works at which scale, and where each one breaks.
Splitting bills, reading receipts, and keeping track of what everyone owes.
Calculator, spreadsheet, group chat, transfer-as-you-go or an app — what works at which scale, and where each one breaks.
Why everyone paid a different rate, which rate to use for a group settlement, and when a card beats a bureau de change.
Whether you can complain without a receipt, how statutory liability differs from a manufacturer's warranty, and what to do when the print has faded.
Why estimates are always too low, how to separate groceries from the rest of the basket, and what to do about eating out.
Why copying an account number kills settlements, and how the QR code works in the standard Polish banks use.
Why unpaid debts damage friendships more than a miscalculated bill, and how to stop being the person who has to keep asking.
A summary of your spending from receipts: categories, shops, savings on promotions. What already works and what doesn't yet.
A discount on one item, a basket-wide voucher, buy-two-get-one-free and loyalty cards. Who the reduction belongs to when you're splitting a bill.
Who pays for accommodation, fuel and food, how to avoid twenty separate transfers, and how to close the books so nobody ends up short.
When a receipt is enough, when you need an invoice, and why your tax number has to be given at the till rather than a week later.
The designated driver, someone pregnant, someone on a restricted diet, or just not hungry. How to split a bill so nobody subsidises anyone else.
What groups are for in Paragonix, how the running balance works, and when it's worth creating one rather than splitting each bill separately.