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How to split bills with friends without the awkward math
Dinners, drinks, concert tickets, a shared Uber: here is a fair, fast way to split them, and to keep a running tab when the same group goes out again and again.
One person pays, everyone logs
Splitting the card machine five ways is slow and annoying for the restaurant. It is easier for one person to pay and for the group to settle later. The only rule: log it right away, before anyone forgets.
Even split vs. fair split
An even split is quick and usually fine. It stops being fair when orders are very different. The middle ground that works for most groups:
- Shared food: split evenly between everyone who ate.
- Drinks: a separate line, split only between the people who drank.
- One big extra: (the lobster, the bottle of wine) goes to whoever ordered it.
Example. Five friends have dinner. Sam pays $150 for food and $60 for wine that only three of them drank.
Food: $150 ÷ 5 = $30 each. Wine: $60 ÷ 3 = $20 each for the three drinkers.
So the two non-drinkers owe Sam $30 each, and the two other drinkers owe Sam $50 each. Sam’s own share is $50.
In Parejo that is two expenses: the food split between all five, and the wine with only the three drinkers ticked.
Keep a running tab
If the same friends go out every week, don’t settle every night. Keep one group for the month, let whoever pays log it, and settle once. Parejo nets everything out, so instead of a dozen small transfers you get the fewest payments that square everyone up.
Settle up without chasing anyone
When it’s time, share the summary image in the group chat. Everyone sees who pays whom, and each person taps Mark paid when they’ve sent it.
Questions
Should we split the bill evenly or by what each person ordered?
Evenly is fine when orders are similar. When they aren’t (one person had a salad, another had steak and three cocktails), split the shared food evenly and put drinks or big extras on their own line, shared only by the people who had them.
How do we handle the tip?
Add it to the expense it belongs to. If the tip is on the whole bill, include it in the shared total so it’s split the same way.
What about cents that don’t divide evenly?
Parejo allocates every cent: $100 split three ways becomes $33.34, $33.33 and $33.33, so the total always adds up exactly.
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