Tip & Bill Splitter
Split a bill with tip, tax and rounding.
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing you enter is uploaded or sent to a server.
Tipping customs vary enormously by country, and in some places a service charge is already on the bill — adding a tip on top then pays it twice. Check the bill before you use this, and treat the percentages as arithmetic rather than as a recommendation. Read our full disclaimer.
About this tool
A bill splitter that handles the parts most of them skip. You can add tax separately from the bill, choose whether the tip is calculated on the pre-tax amount or on the total — both conventions are in common use and on a large bill the difference is real money — and round each person's share up to a whole number so nobody is counting out small change. Rounding is applied to the share rather than to the bill, because rounding the bill and then dividing just produces an awkward number again; the extra that rounding creates goes onto the tip, and the tool tells you how much that is.
Example
A ₹1,200 bill with a 10% tip between four people is ₹330 each. Round each share to the nearest 10 and it's still ₹330 — round to 50 and it becomes ₹350 each, putting an extra ₹80 on the tip.
How to use
- 1Enter the bill amount before tax.
- 2Pick a tip percentage, or type your own.
- 3Set how many people are splitting it.
- 4Add a tax rate if the bill doesn't already include it, and choose whether to round each share.
Features
- Tip presets plus a custom percentage.
- Optional tax, added on top of the bill.
- Choose whether the tip is calculated before or after tax.
- Round each share up, with the extra shown as added tip.
- Per-person and table totals side by side.
Frequently asked questions
Should I tip on the bill before or after tax?
Both are common and neither is wrong. Tipping on the pre-tax amount is the more frequent advice, on the grounds that tax isn't part of the service; tipping on the total is simpler and slightly more generous. On a ₹1,000 bill with 18% tax, a 20% tip is ₹200 one way and ₹236 the other — enough to be worth choosing deliberately, which is why the option is there.
How much should I tip?
That depends entirely on where you are, and it isn't something a calculator should tell you. Customs range from no tipping at all to 20% being the floor. Look up the norm for the country you're in — the presets here are just common values, not advice.
Why does rounding change the total?
Because it rounds each person's share up rather than rounding the bill. Four people splitting ₹1,100 owe ₹275 each; round to the nearest 50 and each pays ₹300, so the table puts in ₹1,200. The extra ₹100 goes to the tip, and the tool shows that figure so it isn't a surprise.
My bill already includes a service charge. What do I do?
Set the tip to 0%. A service charge is a tip that has already been added, so putting another percentage on top pays it twice. If you want to top it up, work out the difference yourself and enter that as the percentage.
Can I split unevenly, where people ordered different things?
Not in this tool — it divides the total equally. For an uneven split, the usual approach is to work out each person's items separately and then apply the same tip percentage to each, which you can do by running the calculator once per person with their subtotal.
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