It is now possible to add additional photos (e.g. of receipts) or comments to transactions. Previously the only way to add a receipt was by creating a Tab (itemized bill) – but now you can simply create a payment, or joint payment and later attach a photo, file or comment afterwards. Currently this is only possible through the web interface.
You can now directly upload your Profile Picture to TabSplit instead of using gravatar. This should make avatars much more easy to use. So go and upload your favorite profile picture. ;-)
We have also cleaned up the Account Preferences, moved password change form into it’s own page, etc. Hope you like those changes.
TabSplit now uses SSL encryption for all pages and is from now on only available at https://tabsplit.com/. Because of this switch you might need to reauthenticate TabSplit with your Open ID provider.
We have also just published a new Android App Version (1.5.6) which uses https encryption and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.
As always, drop us a note in the forum if you experience problems or just want to provide feedback. You can also reach us on Facebook and Google+.
We have released a new version for the native TabSplit app for Android into the Google Play Store. It contains many fixes and a new launch icon:
- Fixed crash when adding more than 10 items via single-tapping in quick entry
- Fixed bug preventing Context Groups to be synced
- Use predefined size(s) of photos for quick entry (previously a very low resolution was used on some devices, e.g. on the Galaxy Nexus)
- New and improved launch icon
- Migrated C2DM to GCM (Google Cloud Messaging)
As you hopefully have noticed we have launched a new design yesterday. For all those who didn’t see a difference to the left is the new design (top) and the old one (below)
It should be much cleaner and a bit tidied up and is finally consistent with this blog. The main advantage is that we now have more possibilities on how to structure navigation, etc. It should also work much smoother on mobile devices. Hope you like it.
We just launched a new feature called “Context Groups”. It is still under heavy development, but it will allow you to create so called “Context Groups” which allows you to give your transactions, expenses and contacts some more context. In it’s simplest form it works very much like tags. You simply attach them to your transactions.
But, they are much more powerful. In it’s basic form only you will see these tags, but you can configure them within Contacts -> Context Groups and invite other people into your context groups. You will already have some basic statistics about how many transactions are within a context group, and how much you have spent in total.
In the future we want to significantly improve the statistics feature – so you can see how much you’ve spent in a given context – like on a holiday, or for a given hobby, etc. There will also be a feature to add all contacts from a context group to a transaction or configure a different default currency for a context.
These Context Groups are currently only available in the web application, but expect them to be soon available in the Android App as well!
We just introduced two new features which should make the web application much more usable. The first change involves contacts – since currently all people you ever shared a bill with were kept, you might have a few contacts in your list you don’t have any debts left or don’t see any longer. So we introduced a way to delete those stale contacts – just head over to your contact list, click on the history view and you will have a link ‘Delete contact’. This will hide the contact from all your views. But within your contact list you will get the information how many deleted contacts there are, and have the option to undelete them if you’d like.
The second change allows you to define your “favorite” currencies (by default we add all used currencies to your favorites but you can also configure them within your preferences).
These changes are currently only available within the web application. We will soon put out an android version with the same features!
The first release of our TabSplit iOS app has just arrived at the itunes app store.
You can view all your past bills, transactions and payments as well as view all debts of your friends. It does not yet support any kind of input unfortunately. But if you are a developer you could solve this problem ;) We have released the full source code for the iOS app on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tabsplit-ios/ – So if you want to help, just drop me a line at herbert.tabsplit@filter.poul.at and i’ll get you up to speed. It is just too much work to develop three platforms in parallel (web, android and iOS) – so we want to focus most of our time on the web and android versions while hoping to find someone to maintain the open source iOS app.
If you want to try out this first version head over to the app store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tabsplit/id481763416
It is now even easier to split your restaurant bills with your friends. With the help of the increased screen real estate of a tablet compared to a phone it is much more comfortable to enter your bills. The steps involved are still the same, but it should be much easier – You can even create a draft on your mobile phone and later finish it on your tablet, if you don’t want to work around with your tablet in the restaurant.
First you take a photo of the receipt. Afterwards you enter all friends involved on the receipt and who has actually payed the bill (and how much, including Tip and Taxes).
Afterwards it is time to mark all items on the receipt, associate them with your friends who consumed those items and (optionally) assign labels and values:
Afterwards you simply have to define how much tip you gave and you are all done.
You can also check out the process of how to split bills on your phone in our last post (it also includes a short video which should make it most obvious). The most comfortable way (for me at least) is to quickly take a picture of the receipt, add the people to the items with my phone right in the restraunt, and later finalize it at home from my couch with a tablet :) (Or you can obviously use your PC with a browser at https://tabsplit.com/ )
In TabSplit for Android 1.2 we completely rewritten the interface you can use for entering Tabs (Itemized Bills). We have tried to streamline the process as good as possible within the limited space of a phone display. In the next version we will expand it to use up more space on tablets so it is even easier. Here is a short introduction into this new interface:
First a short note when this is meant to be used – imagine you pay for a meal when you are out with friends so you want to enter their share of the bill. Instead of entering everything up front we tried to get out of your way as good as possible. The purpose is to let you create a draft quickly and easily and later fill out the rest. If you don’t want to remember anything you will need to:
- take a photo of the receipt
- select all participants
- enter how much you have paid in the restaurant
- mark all items on the receipt photo
- assign all your friends to the respective item on the receipt photo
This should be doable in half a minute and you are good to go – nothing to forget.. you and your friends will have a draft in your transaction list you can finish at any time. (If you are even more in a hurry, you can leave out everything except the photo of the receipt and fill it in later)
How to finish the draft? Simply add how much each item was worth, optionally adding a description to them and define how much of the remaining amount is tip and how much is tax (if any). TabSplit will then split it all up and add the depts to your friend’s account.
Still not sure how this can work? here a short video:
We would welcome any kind of feedback about TabSplit, the app and QuickEntry – Just head over to ourpage or write us at team+feedback@tabsplit.net .