Nobody wants to do arithmetic at eleven at night.Nobody wants to do arithmetic at eleven at night.

How it actually works at the table

Whoever wants to pay opens the bill on their phone and their share is already there: every item runs under the name of whoever ordered it, so there is nothing to select. They pay with their own card and sit back down. If they are covering somebody, they add that person’s items and pay both shares. The next person sees what is left rather than the original total, so two people cannot pay for the same bottle of wine and nobody is quietly covering a round they did not drink.

• Items carry the name of whoever ordered them, and that is where each share comes from, without anyone working it out.
• Anything shared gets divided between whoever claims it.
• A long table can run two separate bills side by side, for two groups that have nothing to do with each other.
• Someone who leaves early settles their share and goes. What they had stays off everyone else’s total.

Why by item rather than into equal shares

Because that is what people would choose. In a study by Gneezy, Haruvy and Yafe published in the Economic Journal in 2004, 80% of diners preferred to pay for what they had consumed instead of dividing the bill evenly. The same study is the reason we do not sell this as a way to make more money: splitting evenly is what inflates a bill, because nobody is spending only their own money. Paying by item is the fairer arrangement, not the more profitable one.

The guest who wants one bill still gets one bill

Plenty of tables have someone who is paying for everybody, and that has not become harder. They open the bill, take all of it, and pay once. Others hand a card to the waiter at the counter as they always have, in cash or on your own machine, and Klevra takes nothing from those payments at all.

What your staff stop doing

The part they hate. No more standing at a table reading a receipt out loud, no more four separate trips to the card machine, no more working out what a third of a shared starter comes to. The bill arrives already itemised and already attributed. What is left for them is the part that is actually service.

What it costs and what stays the same

Splitting is on every plan; it is not a tier above. From €19 per location per month. We keep between 0.5% and 1% on payments taken online, depending on the plan, and nothing at all on cash or on cards tapped at your own counter. Tipping is asked after service and stays optional. At settlement your own till issues the receipt exactly as it does today.