BILL SPLITTING
Splitting a restaurant bill across three or four cards used to mean a back-of-envelope calculation, a confused server, getting out a phone, and a slower turn time. Slower turning of tables is costing you money and efficiency, and creates a bad impression at the final point of customer interaction. Tip4's bill-splitting works on the terminal itself: even splits, uneven splits, and — where the EPOS integration allows — item-level splits. You can even let the customers do this, and never miss one of the splits – we even show this mid flow on the main page.
"Enhanced and simpler splitting of bills." “Hospitality payments, how they were meant to be”
HOW IT WORKS
Most card terminals can't split a bill at all —ring up multiple transactions, manually divide the total, or fussing with smartphones and calculators. We built splitting into the terminal app directly. More professional, looks great, and even can be used by a customer and hand the terminal around the table.
Even split
£86.40 across four people? Tap the four-way split, four card prompts in sequence, done. The terminal handles rounding cleanly so the last card pays the same as the first.
Uneven split
Custom amounts per card — "I'll put £25 on mine, my friend's putting £40." Enter each amount on the device, the terminal sequences the authorisations and tracks the balance live. Clear remaining values, and reports the number of splits.
Itemised split (with EPOS integration)
Where the EPOS integration is in place, the device pulls the bill items and lets the customer assign items per card. "I had the steak and a glass of wine, she had the salad." Tax and service charge prorated automatically.
Better reviews
This may sound contrite, but a poor payment experience, can turn a great experience into a negative one. Don’t make paying you a hassle. Frcitionless payments, mean customers pay you more. Ensure you roundoff that great customer experience with a slick payment solution, and help get the TripAdvisor reviews you want and need.
ON-DEVICE CALCULATOR
Do the maths at the table, no back and forth, no additional tools.
The split calculator is a native part of the Tip4 terminal app. The customer sees what they're paying, in real time, on the same screen they tap their card against. No phone-based workarounds, no QR redirects, no "please ask the server". So intuitive you may even ask the table to do this themselves. Pass the terminal around to the next person, tap and go! Add service charge by default, or have it added with a click. Whatever works best for you.
Live running total as splits are entered — customer always sees the remaining balance
Tipping prompts apply per card or to the bill total — your call on configuration
Service charge handled cleanly across splits (pro-rata’d, not duplicated)
Full audit trail per transaction, all on the dashboard and turn receipts on/off or print on request.
Faster turn times. Fewer disputes.
Bill-splitting is one of our more boring-sounding features on the platform, and one of the ones operators actually thank us for most. Getting this done right is however why we are hospitality centric, and not generic. Three reasons:
Faster turn times
A four-way split on a manual terminal takes minutes of fumbling. On Tip4 it takes seconds. On a busy weekend that can be the difference between turning several extra tables in over the period. More revenue to you. No back and forth to the till, do everything there and then.
Fewer disputes and error
Manual splits go wrong. Miskeying, over-payments cause complaints, under-payments cause lost revenue. It’s hard with high staff turnover and busy environments to get this right, so we take the hassle out of your hands, and make this intuitive.
Better tipping outcomes
When the split is clean, the tipping prompt lands cleanly. Customers tip more confidently when they're not already mid-argument about who is paying what, and with RoundUp (hyperlink) we aim to drive more tips to your staff.
Better reviews
This may sound contrite, but a poor payment experience, can turn a great experience into a negative one. Don’t make paying you a hassle. Frcitionless payments, mean customers pay you more. Ensure you roundoff that great customer experience with a slick payment solution, and help get the TripAdvisor reviews you want and need.
Bill splitting comes as standard with our Hospitality solutions, as long as this is on our terminals with our UI. It’s not every day na provider does something for nothing, but we want to become a hospitality and beauty centred payment solution.