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Split a trip booking the moment the confirmation lands
Hotel and flight confirmations are long, itemized, and always emailed — never printed. Forward the confirmation to your Split The Bill address and it becomes a bill ready to split with the group, the same day you booked.
Last reviewed: September 2026
Travel bookings are a natural fit for email-to-bill: they're detailed, they arrive as email, and they're exactly the kind of expense a group wants settled early rather than after the trip. Instead of typing the total into the app by hand while still on the booking confirmation page, forward the email — from your own account address or a trusted travel-booking inbox — and let the app extract the vendor and total.
Step-by-step
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Get your forwarding address
On Pro, open Settings → Email-to-bill and copy your personal forwarding address.
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Confirm your sender is trusted
Booking confirmations usually arrive at your own account email, which is trusted automatically. If a travel agent or partner books on your behalf, add their address to the trusted-sender list first.
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Forward the confirmation
As soon as the hotel or airline confirmation arrives, forward it to your Split The Bill address — no need to wait until the trip.
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Split it with the group
Open the new bill, check the total the app extracted against the confirmation, and split it across the travel group the same way as any other shared expense.
Settle the big costs before the trip starts
The room and the flights are usually the largest line items of a group trip, and the ones most likely to be forgotten once everyone's distracted by the actual travel. Filing them the moment the confirmation arrives means the balance is already tracked before anyone boards a plane.
Works alongside photographed receipts
The booking confirmation covers the big shared cost; the group still photographs restaurant and taxi receipts as they go, the normal way. Email-to-bill isn't a replacement for the rest of the app — it's the right tool specifically for the receipts that only ever existed as email.
Frequently asked questions
Does this work for a booking made through a travel site like Booking.com or Expedia?▾
Yes, as long as the confirmation email contains a clear total and either a PDF/image attachment or the amount in the email body. Forward it from your own account address the same way as any other confirmation.
What if the confirmation email doesn't have a clear total?▾
The app only creates a bill when it finds a total, a currency, and a vendor or line items; a vague confirmation with no price won't produce one — add the bill manually in that case.
Can our trip organizer forward bookings made on everyone's behalf?▾
Add the organizer's email address to your trusted-sender list first (Settings → Email-to-bill), then their forwards will be accepted into your account.
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