Delivery apps don't hand you a paper receipt — just a screen full of items, fees, and tip. Here's how to import that screenshot into SplitSnap, assign every line, and share a clean split card before the food even arrives.
What you'll have after this
By the end of this walkthrough you'll have imported a delivery screenshot, confirmed every item and fee, assigned dishes to the right people (including shared plates), and sent a summary card to the group chat. Expect about 60–90 seconds once you've done it once — no retyping prices into Notes, no napkin math over delivery fees.
What you need
An iPhone with SplitSnap installed (free tier includes 5 scans per month)
A screenshot of the order summary from Talabat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats, or any delivery app that shows item names and prices
The names of everyone splitting the order
A moment to glance at the extracted lines before you assign (this step saves arguments later)
Why screenshots are different from paper receipts
A restaurant receipt is one thermal slip. A delivery order is a stack of UI: menu items, discounts, delivery fee, service charge, and tip — often on a dark theme with tiny type. SplitSnap treats that screenshot the same way it treats paper: Claude Haiku Vision reads the lines in about 1–3 seconds, including fees that usually get "forgotten" when someone tries to split in a group chat from memory.
The workflow is almost identical to scanning a paper bill. The difference is how you get the image in — and what you do with those extra fee lines.
Step 1: Capture a clean order screenshot
Before you open SplitSnap, take (or find) a screenshot that shows the full itemized summary: every dish, every price, and the fee block at the bottom. Scroll if you need to — one tall screenshot that includes items and totals is better than three cropped ones.
Tips that help the AI:
Capture after the tip is entered, so tip appears as a line instead of a mystery number later
Avoid overlapping system banners (battery, Dynamic Island) across price columns when you can
If the app uses a dark theme, that's fine — SplitSnap handles it; just keep the text sharp
Save it to Photos. You're ready.
Step 2: Import from Photos (don't start a live camera scan)
Open SplitSnap and start a new split the same way you would for a restaurant bill — then choose Import from Photos instead of pointing the camera at a table. Select the delivery screenshot from your camera roll.
Claude Haiku Vision extracts item names, prices, delivery fees, and service charges the way it would on paper. When you're offline, VisionKit on-device OCR is the fallback so a dead elevator or airplane mode doesn't strand the split.
Step 3: Review the extracted lines — especially the fees
This is the step people skip, and it's where delivery splits usually go wrong.
Check three things before you assign anyone:
Menu items — names and prices match the screenshot
Discounts / promos — if a coupon applied, confirm it landed as its own line (or adjust if the scanner merged it)
Delivery fee, service charge, and tip — these should appear as separate lines so they can distribute cleanly
If a crumpled font or a busy UI confused one line, tap it and fix the name or price. Five seconds here prevents a "wait, who owed the fee?" thread an hour later.
Who ordered what, at a glance.
Step 4: Add the group
Add each person by name, or pull them from friends you've split with before. Delivery groups are often smaller and messier than restaurant tables — roommates, a Slack lunch crew, three people who "just wanted fries" — so naming everyone up front keeps assignment fast.
If this is a recurring crew (same flatmates every Friday night order), tag the split to that group when you're done so History and balances stay tied to the right people. SplitSnap's group pages are built for exactly that kind of repeat crew.
Step 5: Assign items; split the shared ones
Tap each dish and assign it with the name chips. Shared appetizers, a family pizza, or a bottle someone said "we'll all have" can go to multiple people at once so nobody silently covers the whole thing.
A practical pattern for delivery:
Personal mains and drinks → one person each
Shared sides / desserts → equal split across who actually ate them (not always the whole group)
Someone's wrong order that got remade → assign the charged line to whoever owed it, even if the food went to someone else
Bulk assign and sub-groups help when the cart is long; the equal-split toggle is for the nights when everyone truly ordered for the table.
Step 6: Let fees and tip distribute — don't invent a rule on the fly
Once items are assigned, SplitSnap distributes tax, tip, and similar charges proportionally based on each person's food subtotal — or flat if your group prefers that. Delivery fees and service charges behave like those extras: they follow the same fair split logic instead of landing on whoever happened to place the order on their phone.
That's the quiet win of screenshot splitting. The person who tapped "Place order" shouldn't automatically eat the full delivery fee unless the group agreed to that.
Step 7: Share the card before anyone asks "how much again?"
Open the summary. Each person sees what they owe. Share the split card to iMessage, WhatsApp, or AirDrop so the group has one source of truth — not five conflicting screenshots of the same order page.
If someone asks later, pull the split from History and re-share. No digging through Photos for the original receipt screenshot.
Common delivery-split mistakes (and the fix)
Only splitting the food total. Fees and tip vanish into "I'll get you later." Fix: confirm fee lines in the extract step, then let proportional distribution handle them.
Assigning shared items to one person "for simplicity." Simplicity for the assigner becomes resentment for everyone else. Fix: multi-select the names who actually shared it.
Using the live camera on a phone screen. Glare and refresh artifacts make scans worse. Fix: always Import from Photos with a proper screenshot.
Skipping the review because "AI is usually right." Usually is not always — especially on promo lines. Fix: five-second glance, every time.
FAQ
Does SplitSnap work with Talabat, Deliveroo, and Uber Eats?
Yes. Import a screenshot of the order summary. Claude Haiku Vision reads item names, prices, delivery fees, and service charges the same way it reads a paper receipt. Other delivery apps work the same way as long as the screenshot shows an itemized total.
Do I need Pro to split a delivery screenshot?
No. Import, assign, proportional tax/tip (and fee) distribution, and the shareable card are available on the free tier. Free includes 5 scans per month. Pro unlocks unlimited scans, multi-currency conversion, PDF export, and iCloud sync — useful if your group orders constantly or you're splitting while traveling.
What if the screenshot is in another language?
SplitSnap reads receipts and order screens in 30+ languages. The import flow doesn't change.
Are my receipt or screenshot photos stored on your servers?
No. Images are processed in real time and discarded. Split history lives on your device (and optionally in your private iCloud if you use Pro sync).
Can I type totals instead of importing a screenshot?
Yes. If you only need a quick tip-style split and don't care about line items, use manual entry. For delivery with different orders per person, the screenshot path is almost always faster and fairer.
Try it on your next group order
Next time someone drops a cart in the group chat, don't retype every line. Screenshot the confirmation, import it into SplitSnap, assign in a minute, and send the card. Fairer totals, fewer awkward Venmo notes, and the person who placed the order stops subsidizing everyone's delivery fee by default.
This article was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor before publishing.