Recipes
How to split just about anything
Step-by-step recipes for the bill-splitting situations that come up most. Each one uses Split The Bill specifically — actual button-by-button instructions, not generic advice. Free tier covers most of them.
These are step-by-step recipes for splitting a specific kind of bill: rent with roommates, a trip with friends, a restaurant table, a shared grocery run, a group kitty. Pick the one that matches your situation and follow it button by button — each takes a few minutes to set up and works whether or not the other people use the app. If you are comparing bill-splitting apps rather than looking for a how-to, the comparisons are linked at the bottom of this page.
Bill-splitting apps treat every situation the same: throw a receipt at it and divide. But splitting rent is not the same problem as splitting a Costco run is not the same as a 7-day trip with friends. Each has its own friction — recurring vs one-off, fixed vs variable, app users vs holdouts who refuse to install yet another thing. These recipes show how to handle each one in under 5 minutes of setup.
Everyday
Rent, roommates, restaurants, groceries — the bills that come every week or every month.
Split rent with roommates
PopularSet rent + utilities once, the app creates a bill every month and applies your saved split.
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Split a restaurant bill
PopularSnap the receipt, item-level splits, settle-up in one tap.
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Split expenses with partner
PopularShared finances for couples — without keeping a Splitwise scoreboard between you.
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Split a utility bill
Recurring template for fixed costs, OCR for variable bills, automatic monthly creation.
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Split a shared grocery run
Item-level assignment for the "you bought it, I'll pay you back" Costco run.
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Manage a shared household
Rent + utilities + groceries + subscriptions in one app — for roommates, families, and shared houses.
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Travel
Trips, Airbnbs, multi-currency runs. Settle at the end, not after every meal.
Split a trip with friends
AI receipt scan + multi-currency + settle-up links — the toolkit built for travel.
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Split bills in different currencies
Pay in EUR, split among USD/GBP/RSD friends — FX locked at the date of the bill.
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Split an Airbnb with friends
One-time deposit + nightly rate + cleaning fee + groceries — split fairly across the trip.
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Events
Weddings, bachelorettes, big group dinners — uneven splits, multiple payers.
Tracking
Loans between friends, personal spending, splits with someone who refuses to install the app.
Split with someone not on the app
Public share link or email invite — peer doesn't need an account to settle.
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Track a loan between friends
Lent your friend $200? Set installments, track who paid what, no more "did I pay you back yet?" texts.
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Track personal spending
Log what you spent, where, on what — without inviting anyone to a group. Solo ledger, no splitting.
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Manage rental properties
Track rent, utilities, and split-with-tenants across one or more apartments — one app, no spreadsheets.
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Budget shared household spending
Set a monthly limit per category — groceries, utilities, household supplies — then watch real bills land against it as they come in.
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Collect rent as a landlord
Set up a property, invite tenants, and collect rent each month with invoices, reminders, and one-tap settle-up.
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Export expenses for tax season
Tag deductible and reimbursable expenses all year, then export a clean CSV your accountant can actually use.
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Import from Splitwise
Export your Splitwise group as CSV, drop it in, and preview every expense before you migrate.
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Manage a group kitty
Everyone chips into one shared pot, spends from it, and reconciles the leftover once at the end — no running IOUs.
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Organize department budgets with sub-groups
Nest per-team groups inside one parent group — each department splits its own costs, the parent rolls everything up.
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Plan upcoming payments
List everything due in the next few weeks, see it on a timeline, and mark each one paid — which logs it to your ledger automatically.
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Run team and office expenses
Sub-groups per team, a shared kitty for the float, and CSV reports that reconcile to the cent — office spend without the spreadsheet.
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Send an invoice to a client
Turn any bill into a branded PDF invoice, save the client to your address book, and share a public link.
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Split a vacation rental with a group
Pool the deposit into a trip kitty, then split the house by room with per-person adjustments.
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Order from a menu you cannot read
Scan a menu in a language you do not read, share it with the table so everyone picks and sees their own total, then show the waiter the whole order written in the restaurant's language.
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Show the waiter what each person ordered
A page that lists your table's order by person, in the restaurant's language, showing only what is new since the last round — so plates reach the right seats.
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