One person covered the bill
How to Split a Bill When One Person Paid.
It is common for one person to put the whole restaurant bill on their card or e-wallet and collect everyone’s share afterward. The fairest reimbursement still starts with what each person actually consumed.
See it in recEAT
From one messy bill to everyone’s actual share.
Add the receipt items, tap who had each dish, and recEAT turns it into a clean per-person breakdown you can share.
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1. Calculate what each person actually owes
Assign individual items, divide shared dishes, and add the agreed shared charges. Do this before thinking about who paid, because consumption and payment are two different questions.
2. Record the person who covered the restaurant bill
If one person paid the full amount, they have advanced money for everyone else at the table. Their own meal share does not need to be paid back to themselves.
3. Everyone else reimburses their own share
Each other diner sends the payer the amount shown as their final share.
The bill is ₱3,000. Aki paid the restaurant. CJ owes ₱700, Kiko owes ₱850, and Noy owes ₱600. Those three amounts go back to Aki; Aki’s own ₱850 share is already part of what Aki paid.
4. Keep the breakdown visible until everyone settles
A shared breakdown avoids the usual follow-up question of where the reimbursement number came from. It also gives the payer one place to check the meal instead of reconstructing it from chat messages.
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