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!

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:

1. take a photo of the receipt
2. select all participants
3. enter how much you have paid in the restaurant
4. mark all items on the receipt photo
5. 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 .

As promised earlier, we have now opened our API to read contact and transaction data. The API is still under development (especially the documentation), but you can already use it for your own apps. If you have any suggestions to the (quite short) documentation or the API, just let me know.

TabSplit 0.7 for android adds a new specialized view for Tabs. This should help you get an overview of the contents of a Tab on first sight. On top is a summary about the sum of all items of the receipt as well as the paid tip (and tax if applicable). Right below are all participants including how much they have paid as well as their share of the bill. If available you will also see a thumbnail of the receipt as well as all entered items and who has to pay for them.

This new view should give a much better overview than the “QuickEntry” activity which is used to enter the Tab. (You can still modify the tab by clicking on ‘Edit’ in the Options Menu).

The full changelog for this version:

• Added a view activity for Tabs
• Removed deprecated Checkbox contact selection preference option.
• Fixed bug for downloading tab photos.
• Improved incremental sync – should work much faster now.
• Added preference to start a background service to sync once an hour.

We have launched two new features:
First – you will now receive email notifications if someone modifies a transaction you are part in. This way if you have activated email notifications your balance will never change again without you beeing notified. This includes modifications of a transaction (Payment, Joint Payment or Tab) as well as removing it or removing you from a transaction. The email will include your current share of the Transaction as well as your new share (if applicable.)

Second – it is now possible to merge two accounts. If you have multiple email addresses it can easily happen that different people add you to transactions with separate email adresses, which might result in you having multiple accounts. You can now fix this by logging into your primary account and start the ‘merge account’ action from your ‘Account Preferences’. It should be a very smooth transition, which will merge all existing transactions, all contacts and all balances into your main account (the one you are logged into) before deleting the old account.

You can now import your friends and debts from Billmonk from right inside TabSplit! Simply head over to your Account Preferences on https://tabsplit.com/ and click on ‘Import from Billmonk’.

Afterwards you have to enter your Billmonk username and password. (We suggest that you’ll change it to a random password). You will have the possibility to choose which friends to import. Afterwards the friends will be added to your TabSplit contacts and the debts will be added. (If a Billmonk user you want to import is not yet on TabSplit they will receive an invitation email.)

Watch our small tutorial video on how to import your contacts from Billmonk into TabSplit: