Guides

Splitting a bill in Malaysia is rarely just arithmetic. A receipt from a kopitiam in Ipoh and one from a mall restaurant in KL can carry completely different lines at the bottom, the 10% that looks like a tax is not one, and the moment a second person pays for something the whole thing stops being a division problem and becomes a bookkeeping problem.

These guides are the reasoning behind how BillSplitor does it — written out in full so you can follow the same logic with a calculator and a group chat if you would rather not use the app at all. They are updated when the rules or the app change.

• SST and service charge on a Malaysian restaurant bill

  What the 6% and the 10% on the bottom of your receipt actually are, which order they stack in, why only some restaurants charge them, and how to split them without overcharging the person who only had a drink.

• How to split a bill over WhatsApp without the group chat argument

  The full loop from the receipt on the table to the last transfer landing — who claims what, when to chase, and the five places groups usually lose track.

• Settling a group trip: many bills, many payers, fewest transfers

  Why a trip is a different problem from a dinner, how netting turns a tangle of IOUs into a handful of transfers, and how foreign currency and partial repayments fit in.

• Malaysian receipt terms, decoded

  Subtotal, service charge, SST, rounding adjustment, nett, cover charge, corkage — a plain-language glossary for the lines between the food and the total.

Still stuck on something specific? The FAQ covers the questions people actually send in, how it works walks through the app end to end, and the feedback page goes to a human.