Tipli: TipCalc scans restaurant receipts, identifies service fees, included gratuity, calculates tips, and helps diners split checks without manually entering the bill.
Tipli AI today announced the launch of Tipli: TipCalc, a receipt-scanning tip calculator designed to help consumers better understand and make informed choices about restaurant checks.
TipCalc uses your phone’s camera to scan restaurant receipts and identify the subtotal, tax, service fees, included gratuity, discounts, comps, line items, totals, and more. The app organizes this information into a consistent breakdown and helps diners calculate tips without manually entering anything.
The product addresses a common problem at restaurants: receipts are not standardized.
Restaurants use thousands of different receipt styles, layouts, point-of-sale systems, abbreviations, and names for service charges and fees. A service charge at one restaurant may appear under an entirely different name at another. Suggested tip calculations can also be difficult to evaluate when tax, fees, discounts, or gratuity are involved. Most restaurant proprietors do it right, a small number sneak charges in fine print that often go unnoticed.
Many consumers simply put down a card, select a suggested tip, and sign without closely reviewing the receipt.
TipCalc is designed to make that process easier to understand.
Paper Receipts Are Still Part of Dining Out
Paper restaurant receipts are far from a thing of the past. They remain widely used by restaurants and familiar to patrons. The check arrives, a card goes down, and the receipt comes back for a signature. Sometimes the itemization is gone until you ask. Sometimes getting and tracking copies of paper recipts is time consuming.
Doing mental math after a nice dinner with friends or family can be awkward.
Tipli AI sees an opportunity to use technology to improve that part of the dinning experience. TipCalc lets diners use their phone to handle the tedious work of reading the numbers, identifying charges, calculating a tip, and splitting the check.
Helping Consumers Understand Restaurant Fees
Service charges and other restaurant fees have become an increasingly visible part of the dining experience.
These charges can appear under names such as service fee, kitchen appreciation fee, wellness fee, or other restaurant-specific terminology. Included gratuity can sometimes be easy to miss, the blank line to add more tip unknowingly isn’t. Most servers will happily tell you gratuity has been included, TipCalc tells you every time.
TipCalc identifies these charges and presents them separately so consumers can see what has already been added to the bill. Tipli AI believes transparency around restaurant charges and support for hardworking servers can and should coexist.
The company supports servers who deserve living wages and wants to help consumers better understand proper tipping culture and customs. TipCalc provides information about the bill so diners can make their own informed tipping decisions.
TipCalc makes suggestions, the final tip generosity always remains the customer’s choice.
Turning Thousands of Receipt Formats Into One Familiar View
Restaurant receipts have no universal format.
The order of the subtotal, tax, fees, gratuity, discounts, and total can change from one restaurant to another. The terminology can change as well.
TipCalc is designed to take these different formats and present the information consistently.
Users open the app, point the camera at the receipt, and review the amounts TipCalc detects. Recognized amounts can be edited when necessary, keeping the user in control of the final calculation.
The result is a familiar view regardless of how the original restaurant receipt was designed.
Making It Easier to Split the Check
TipCalc also addresses another familiar part of dining out: figuring out who owes what.
Splitting a restaurant check evenly is easy, but it is not always fair. One person may have ordered considerably less than everyone else. Some items may have been shared. Others may belong to only one person.
Working out those differences manually can turn the end of dinner into an accounting exercise.
TipCalc can split a check evenly among as many as eight people, including the appropriate portions of tax, fees, and tip.
Groups can also split a check item by item. Diners can select what they ordered, divide shared items among multiple people, and calculate each person’s portion of the final check.
The completed split can then be shared directly from the app.
Helping Travelers Understand Tipping Customs
TipCalc is designed for travelers who may encounter unfamiliar receipts and unfamiliar tipping expectations.
The app supports 20 languages and does conversions for 30 currencies.
Optional AI Insights provides advanced scanning and locale-specific information about tipping customs. This can help travelers better understand a restaurant receipt and the tipping expectations of the place they are visiting.
AI Insights uses Insights Credits. Each device receives an initial free allowance, and additional credits can be purchased as one-time purchases without a subscription.
Tipli AI’s Approach to Consumer Artificial Intelligence
Tipli AI is a consumer-focused artificial intelligence company dedicated to shaping the next generation of AI-powered consumer applications.
The product is designed first as a useful consumer utility. The optional Artificial intelligence works behind the scenes to provide better insights and receipt auditing. Through user initiated reported issues, the underlying AI model will be fined tuned to improve receipt recognition and additional format support.
Tipli AI believes consumer AI applications should solve recognizable everyday problems without making the technology itself the center of the experience.
With TipCalc, that means using modern technology to make an existing part of dining out easier rather than attempting to replace it.
Consumers can still receive a paper check, hand over a card, write down a tip, and sign the receipt. TipCalc simply helps them better understand the numbers before they do.
- Scan receipts and calculate tips instantly.
- Split checks evenly or by individual items.
- Divide shared dishes among the group.
- Spot service charges, surcharges, and sneaky fees.
- See included gratuity before you accidentally tip twice.
- Avoid inadvertently tipping on top of tax or service fees.
- Round your final total for easier expense tracking.
- Get optional AI-powered insights and local tipping guidance.
- Save and search past receipts.
- Built for dining at home and abroad.
- Currency conversion for major currencies.
About Tipli AI
Tipli AI is a consumer-focused artificial intelligence company dedicated to shaping the next generation of AI-powered consumer applications.
The company develops user experience and privacy-minded utilities that use artificial intelligence behind the scenes to provide consumers with useful insights, greater transparency, and simpler ways to handle everyday tasks.
Tipli: TipCalc is the company’s receipt scanner, tip calculator, and check-splitting mobile app for restaurant dining. TipCalc helps consumers understand restaurant receipts, identify service fees and included gratuity, calculate tips, split checks, and make more informed decisions at the end of a meal.
Available now for iOS on Apple App Store and for Android on Google Play
Tipli: TipCalc. Scan receipts. Catch sneaky fees. Tip smarter.