CheckPlease enhancement - Show Actual Tip % after Rounding

[yeegan]

Hi, I like the new feature to round up/down the tip or to round up/down total.
However, is it possible to add a display to show actual tip percentage after rounding?
This will be very helpful to see how much we over/under tip as a result of the rounding.

[HardyMacia]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Right now my suggestion is to set the tip to exact then move the slider until you get something that is close.

My settings are round up, tax rate of 10%. If I set the bill amount to $50 and tip rate to 20% then the tip is $9.09 and total $59.09. If I have round total or round tip set then it will round to $10 tip and $60 total. Setting it back to Exact and moving the wheel until I get something close to $60 shows that 22% is the exact.

So, unless you need the exact tip amount for some reason. The 2% fluctuation in the tip percentage for the rounding up seems unlikely to cause most people to say. Rounding this up to the next dollar raises their tip from 20% to 22% so I'm not going to round up.

It makes the biggest difference with smaller amounts (less than $10). Say $10 total, 15% tip, and 10% tax rate. Has a total of $11.36 rounded up $12 up means you are tipping at 22%, or rounded down only tipping 11%.

Of course people could be using CheckPlease in ways I've never thought of where knowing that when I round up that $50 bill at 20% tip, that I really need to know the tip percentage is 22%.

I don't think it adds anything to the application, so I'm leaning against adding it.

Hardy

[yeegan]

Hi Hardy,

Thanks for your consideration. I tried what you suggested but it seems to make the rounding buttons less useful. Can you please look at the TipOver app? TipOver has what I'm suggesting but I like CheckPlease because the keypad is on the same screen.

http://jossware.com/tipover

It would be helpful to show the actual tip % after rounding. Perhaps, you can make it optional. It might be useful for some others as well. Once again, thanks.

[gvaughn]

Hardy,

I love your app, but the tip rounding % is an issue (and source for confusion) with me as well. It's especially problematic when splitting bills with multiple people the tip total and % are incorrect in the bill breakdown (when rounding total). (EDIT: Actually, the % does reflect the correct % in the breakdown, but the tip total doesn't reflect the rounded tip, it remains as the unrounded tip, thus the amount and % are not correlated in the breakdown when rounding).

Is this something that is difficult to fix? It doesn't make sense that the bill breakdown tip amount and the total tip amount (on bottom left) differ from each other.

Greg