Third night of the trip. Before heading back to the place you're staying, everyone stops at the supermarket to restock.
Tomorrow's breakfast is for everyone: bread, eggs, milk. Chillbae grabs a chocolate ice cream bar, Mellow a soda, Cozy a six-pack of beer, and you toss in a bag of chips.
The line is long, so someone says it without thinking: "Just pay together, we'll sort it out later."
You tap your card, and the register hands you a long receipt, covered in the local language, abbreviations, item names, and numbers.
That's when it hits you: paying together is easy. Splitting that one receipt back to each person is the hard part.
You can't read it, but you know how to split it
Receipts abroad are rarely friendly. Korean, Thai, abbreviated English, item names that look like codes. Even once it's scanned, you're not sure which line is what.
But you usually remember the split. Chillbae had the ice cream, Mellow the soda, Cozy the beer. The breakfast bread, eggs, and milk are for everyone.
You can't read the receipt, but you know how this bill should be split. That's where Receipteller starts.
How Receipteller works
Open Receipteller inside your trip, pick who's on this receipt, then write how to split it in your own words and snap a photo. Chillwari takes it from there.
Anything you don't mention splits evenly among the people you picked, and you're the default payer. So you don't have to spell out every line. Just be clear about what isn't shared by everyone.
Like telling a friend
No tapping through line by line. Just say the split in a sentence:
"Chillbae's chocolate ice cream, Mellow's soda, Cozy's beer, the chips are mine, the rest we share."
"Breakfast stuff we split evenly, the drinks are all Cozy's, two snacks are me and Chillbae."
"For the drugstore one: the face masks are No1's, the eye drops No2's, snacks for everyone."
If typing a friend's name feels awkward, call them No1, No2, No3. It just has to land. No need to make it a thing.
Don't know the item names? Receipteller finds them
Describe it in your own words. Even if the receipt is in a foreign language, abbreviated, or the names aren't what you'd normally say, Receipteller works out which item you mean.
Say "soda" and it looks for that drink on the receipt. Say "ice cream" and it looks for the frozen treat. And if a few could match, like a few different ice creams on the same receipt, it checks with you: which "ice cream" did you mean?
It doesn't split blind. It drafts first
Receipteller won't make you let go completely. It splits the line items the way you described first, showing who each one goes to and who owes what.
You just check: is this Chillbae's? is this shared? If something's off, fix it and save. The difference is you're not starting from a blank slate, tapping one item at a time.
Tax, service charge, and discounts get worked in too: a line discount goes back to that item, tax is spread across the items, and the service charge is split among everyone. No reaching for the calculator to do another round.
Best for receipts like these
- Supermarket restock: breakfast stuff for everyone, snacks to whoever grabbed them.
- Convenience-store midnight run: a few beers and snacks. What you grabbed is yours.
- Drugstore haul: face masks, eye drops, skincare. Usually everyone buys their own.
- Souvenir shop: pay together to keep it easy, split it back later.
- Camping or shared-house supplies: shared stuff splits evenly, personal extras stay separate.
Snap a menu for Pic'n Pick. The long receipt goes to Receipteller.
Next time someone at the register says "just pay together, we'll sort it out later,"
let Receipteller take the receipt.
