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How to split an Uber Eats order after you've paid

Uber Eats can only split a bill beforeanybody orders, inside a Group Order, and every guest needs their own Uber account with a card on it. Once the order is placed on one card, there is no way to divide it in the app. The fix is to split the receipt instead: save it as a PDF, upload it, and let everyone claim what they ordered from one link — with the delivery fee, service fee, tax and tip shared in proportion to each person's food.

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Why the Group Order usually falls apart

Uber Eats' own split is genuinely good when it works. It fails for reasons that have nothing to do with the software:

It has to exist before the food does

A Group Order is set up first and joined before anybody adds an item. The moment somebody says "just order, I'll pay you back", that route is closed for good.

Everybody needs an account

Each guest must be signed in to Uber Eats with a payment method attached. In practice one person in the group will not have the app, and that is the whole thing over.

The organiser still eats the fees

Guests pay for their own food and its tax. The delivery fee, the service fee and the tip stay with whoever started the order.

There is a ceiling on it

An order can only be divided so many ways, which is fine for a household and not for an office lunch.

Uber Eats' features are as documented at the time of writing and are not under our control — check their help pages before relying on them.

Splitting it after the fact

  1. 1

    Open the order in Uber Eats

    Tap the menu, then Orders, and choose the delivered order. Open the receipt — Uber Eats also emails one for every order, which is often the faster place to find it.

  2. 2

    Save the receipt as a PDF

    Use the share or download option on the receipt screen, or open the emailed receipt and print it to PDF. Screenshots work too; if the receipt runs past one screen, take several and upload them all.

  3. 3

    Upload it to EachSplit

    Start a new bill and upload the file. Each dish comes out as its own line, along with the delivery fee, the service fee, taxes and the tip.

  4. 4

    Share the claim link

    Drop the link in the group chat. Everyone opens it in whatever browser they already have, types their first name, and taps what they ordered. No Uber account, no app install, no card on file.

  5. 5

    Collect what you are owed

    Fees, tax and tip are shared in proportion to what each person ordered. Copy the one-line-per-person summary into the chat and everyone pays you back directly.

Who should pay the delivery fee?

This is the question every delivery split actually turns on, and there are three defensible answers. Two of them are wrong most of the time.

Evenly, per head

The default nobody argues with, and the one that quietly overcharges the smallest order. On a $12 order with $15 of fees, an even share adds more than 40% to what one person eats — for a delivery mostly carrying somebody else's food.

The organiser pays it

Generous, and fine occasionally. It stops being fine when the same person orders for the house every week, because the fee is not small and it is not once.

In proportion to what each person orderedFairest

The one that survives being questioned. Fees exist because of the size of the order, so they scale with each person's share of it. This is what EachSplit does by default, and it is the only one of the three that produces a number nobody has to be talked into.

Get paid back for the last one

Upload the receipt, share the link, and let everyone work out their own share.

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Questions, answered

Can you split the bill on Uber Eats?

Only in advance, and only in a Group Order. You start the order, share a join link, and choose whether you pay for everyone or each guest pays for themselves. The catch is that every guest must be signed in to their own Uber Eats account with a payment method on it, the order can be split a limited number of ways, and it has to be set up before anybody orders. Once an order has been placed and paid on one card, Uber Eats has no way to divide it afterwards.

I already paid for the whole Uber Eats order. How do I split it now?

Split the receipt rather than the payment. Save the Uber Eats receipt as a PDF — it is in Orders in the app, and it is also emailed to you — and upload it. Everyone claims the items they ordered from one link, the fees and tip are shared proportionally, and each person pays you back however you normally settle up.

Who pays the delivery fee in an Uber Eats group order?

The person who started the order. In a Group Order with guests paying for themselves, each guest is charged for their own food, taxes and fees on their own items, but the organiser carries the shared charges. If you would rather everyone contributed to the delivery fee in proportion to what they ordered, split the finished receipt instead.

Does everyone need an Uber Eats account to split an order?

For Uber Eats' own Group Order, yes — every participant must be signed in with a payment method. That is the single most common reason a group order falls apart. Splitting the receipt afterwards needs nothing from the other people: they open a link in a browser, type a first name, and tap their items.

How should the tip be split on a delivery order?

In proportion to what each person ordered, the same as tax. Someone who ordered a $9 side should not pay the same share of a $9 tip as someone who ordered $40 of food. EachSplit does this automatically and does not offer an even split of the tip — if your group wants one, work it out separately.

Does this work for Uber Eats grocery and convenience orders?

Yes, and it is the case where it helps most. A grocery delivery is thirty lines rather than four, with a mix of taxed and zero-rated goods — see splitting a grocery bill for why an averaged tax split is wrong on those.