Splitting a bill shouldn't need a spreadsheet
Photograph the receipt and PayUp reads the line items. Tap who had what. Tax and tip are shared out in proportion to what each person ordered — not divided evenly, which quietly overcharges whoever had the salad.
Why not just divide by four?
The spreadsheet way
Someone types every line into their phone. Tax and tip get split evenly because working them out properly is tedious — so the person who had a salad pays part of somebody's steak. Then four people owe four other people, and nobody settles up.
The PayUp way
Photograph it. Tap the items you had. Tax and tip follow what you actually ordered, to the cent. At the end of the trip PayUp works out the smallest number of payments that settles everyone up.
The proportional split is the part other tools get wrong, and it is the reason to bother.
What it does
Photograph the receipt
PayUp reads the line items for you, so nobody is typing prices off a curled-up bit of paper.
Tap who had what
Assign items by tapping — or split the whole bill evenly when that is genuinely what happened.
Tax and tip, in proportion
Shared out against what each person actually ordered, accurate to the cent.
A whole weekend, not one meal
Multiple receipts per trip, so the Friday dinner and the Sunday coffees end up in the same reckoning.
The fewest possible transfers
No chains of people owing people who owe other people. PayUp collapses them.
Invite by link
Your friends do not need an account before you invite them — the link sets them up.
Built for the group dinner, the weekend away, the shared house — anywhere “I'll get this one, you get the next” stops being enough. All the features.
Questions people ask
- What does it cost?
- 3 free scans to start, then 1 a month — and costs with no receipt are never metered at all. Beyond that it is $2.99 a year — one payment, not a monthly subscription. See full pricing.
- Do I need an account?
- Yes, and it is free. You can be splitting a bill in under a minute.
- Does everyone else need one?
- Only if they want to see the split themselves. You can add people as names and settle up without them signing up.
- What happens to the receipt photos?
- Deleted automatically after 30 days, or 90 on the paid plan. The split stays correct forever; the photograph does not linger.