Uber Eats brings bill splitting to deliveries

Uber Eats is getting a gaggle order and invoice splitting function that ought to make it simpler to make sure your family and friends members are selecting up their share of the tab.

As a substitute of passing your cellphone round to everybody within the group to allow them to place their orders, you’ll now be capable to begin a gaggle order from inside the Uber Eats app. To do that, you’ll need to navigate to the restaurant you wish to order from, hit the three dots within the top-right nook of the web page, after which hit “group order.”

From there, you possibly can invite group members by deciding on out of your cellphone’s contacts; they’ll every obtain an order hyperlink over textual content message (and should obtain the app in the event that they haven’t already). Your visitors can then select and pay for the meals that they need.

However when you’re feeling additional beneficiant, Uber Eats offers you the choice to foot your entire invoice whereas additionally letting you set spending limits to discourage anybody from ordering the most costly merchandise on the menu. Whether or not you pay for or break up the invoice, Uber says all of the meals will get delivered on the identical time.

And when you’re planning some sort of get-together, Uber additionally offers you the choice to create group orders as much as seven days earlier than the deliberate occasion. Folks can decide their meals inside a particular window of time, and Uber will notify them in case they overlook.

As somebody who orders from Uber Eats a ton — and likewise finally ends up selecting up the tab more often than not — I can say that the invoice splitting function is a welcome addition. It eliminates each doable excuse within the e book, starting from “I’ll pay you again tomorrow” to “I don’t have Venmo,” and likewise means you don’t need to awkwardly nudge folks to get them to repay you.