Bjarke-bill-splitting

[safe lark]

Hey! Can you elaborate some more on the use case

[regal oasis]

These threads are cool. First time trying it

Yeah, so, we have an app where you book a table with accompanying drinks/drinks-package. Usually it's a group-booking. Splitting the bill atm. would involve

1. A person books the table (aka. the "booker") he wants to split the bill with his group of friends
2. Calculating each persons debt
3. Asking for the money from each friend
4. Each friend sending the money to the booker through services like MobilePay
5. The bill has been split

I wonder if these steps can be skipped by:

1. The booker books the table and invites each individual through our platform to the booking
   1,5. If the friend is not signed up they'd have to do so of course (the growth mechanic)
2. The system then splits the bill automatically and requests auth from each person involved
3. Once authorized the booking is ready to be accepted by the venue.

Does that make sense?
Writing it out I realized it might be easier with a flowchart demonstrating the interaction. If the above doesn't make sense I'll sketch one up 😁

[safe lark]

Hmmm, I guess the only way to achieve this would be auth/partial capture. But not sure how that would work with the multiple payment method dynamic

i.e. I think the auth is on the original card, so any capture needs to be on that card too

Otherwise I guess you'd just dynamically create multiple Payment Intents that represent the share for each friend

[regal oasis]

Yeah I guess that would be possible. Thank you for the insight!