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How to track group expenses in Telegram

Add Tabby to any Telegram group and log shared expenses as you chat. It tracks who paid, who owes what, and keeps a running balance for everyone.

1

Add Tabby to your Telegram group

Add @tabbyfinancebot to your Telegram group chat. That's the whole setup — no /start, no enrolling anyone. Tabby sends one message showing the syntax, and the group's very next message can already be an expense.

Pro tip:

Tabby learns who's in the group from whoever speaks in it, so there's no member list to maintain before you can split something.

2

Log a group expense

Tag the bot with an amount and description to log an expense:

@tabbyfinancebot 50 dinner

Log multiple expenses at once with commas:

@tabbyfinancebot 50 dinner, 5 coffee, 12 taxi

3

Split expenses

Use @all to split equally among everyone in the group:

@tabbyfinancebot 100 hotel @all

Or mention specific people to split between them:

@tabbyfinancebot 100 hotel @sarah @mike

You can also set custom amounts per person:

@tabbyfinancebot 100 dinner @sarah 60 @mike 40

Note:Not everyone on Telegram has a username. Pick them off the "@" list anyway — Tabby resolves the tap-to-tag, and if it still can't tell who you meant, it asks with a button for each person it has seen in the chat.
4

Split a photographed bill, item by item

Photograph the bill and send it with a caption that tags whoever shared it. Tabby reads the receipt and asks how to divide it:

@tabbyfinancebot @all  [photo of the bill]

You get three choices: split it equally, item by item, or a custom split. Item by item walks one dish at a time, and you answer in the same syntax you already use — @names to share a dish, @name amount to divide it unevenly.

Tax, service charge and discounts are spread across the items in proportion, so the shares still add up to what the bill actually charged.

Note:Receipt scanning is a Pro feature.

In a group the photo needs a caption that tags someone — @all, an @handle, or a tap-to-tag. Without one Tabby leaves it alone, so a group full of holiday photos doesn't get read as a stack of bills.

5

Choose your logging mode

Tabby supports two modes for groups. Switch anytime with /togglelistenmode:

🟢 Listen Mode ON
Just chat normally. Tabby auto-detects and logs every expense from group messages, so there is no need to tag the bot.
⚪ Listen Mode OFF
Chat freely without logging. Only tag @tabbyfinancebot when you want to record an expense.

Pro tip:

Listen Mode ON is great for trip groups where every message is an expense. Turn it OFF for casual group chats where you only occasionally log.

6

View group stats

Use /stats to see spending breakdowns for the group: by category, by member, or by time period. You can also open the Tabby mini app for visual charts and detailed transaction history.

Ready to try it yourself?

Tabby lives in your Telegram chat — nothing to install.

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