Need help with Tips for Tips? You’re in the right place.

Tips for Tips is designed to make tipping in the United States easier to understand, calculate, split, and manage—especially for travelers who may not be familiar with American tipping customs.

Contact Support

If something isn’t working correctly, you’ve found a bug, or you have an idea that could make the app better, please get in touch.

Email: [SUPPORT EMAIL]

When reporting a problem, it helps to include:

• What you were trying to do

• What happened

• What you expected to happen

• Your iPhone model

• Your iOS version

• The Tips for Tips app version and build number

• A screenshot, if relevant

You can find the app version and build number under Settings → About.

Please do not send credit card numbers, banking information, passwords, or other sensitive personal information in a support request.

Common Questions

My receipt will not scan correctly. What should I do?

Receipt scanning uses on-device text recognition and may occasionally have difficulty with unusual fonts, faded receipts, low lighting, reflections, handwritten information, or complicated receipt layouts.

Try:

• Taking the photo in good lighting

• Keeping the receipt flat

• Making sure the entire receipt is visible

• Avoiding shadows and reflections

• Retaking the photo closer to the receipt

You can always review and correct detected values before saving.

If scanning still does not work, choose Enter Values Manually. A receipt photo is optional.

Why do I need to review scanned receipt information?

Receipt recognition is intended to help enter information faster, not to make financial decisions for you.

The app may detect totals, taxes, service charges, gratuities, and other amounts incorrectly. Always review the detected information against the original receipt before calculating or paying a tip.

Does Tips for Tips upload my receipts?

No.

Receipt images and recognized receipt text are processed and stored locally on your device. Receipt text recognition uses Apple Vision on-device.

Receipt content is not sent to the currency exchange-rate service.

Why does Tips for Tips need camera access?

Camera access is used only when you choose to photograph a receipt.

You can use Tips for Tips without scanning receipts and can enter receipt information manually instead.

Why does Tips for Tips need access to my photos?

Photo access allows you to select an existing receipt image from your photo library.

The app does not use your photo library for advertising, analytics, or profiling.

The currency converter is not working.

Live currency conversion requires an internet connection when there is no usable saved exchange rate.

Try:

• Checking your internet connection

• Trying the conversion again

• Confirming that both currencies are supported

• Checking whether a saved rate is being displayed instead

Tips for Tips uses reference exchange-rate data supplied by the Frankfurter currency API.

Why is the exchange rate different from my bank or credit card?

Exchange rates shown in Tips for Tips are reference rates.

Your bank, card issuer, ATM provider, payment processor, hotel, restaurant, or currency exchange service may use a different rate and may also charge foreign-transaction fees or conversion fees.

The currency converter is designed as a travel convenience and should not be treated as a guaranteed transaction rate.

Can I use Tips for Tips without an internet connection?

Most of the app can be used offline.

Tip calculations, bill splitting, saved receipts, notes, tipping guidance, and other locally stored features do not require a continuous internet connection.

Current currency exchange rates require a connection when an appropriate saved rate is not available.

I accidentally entered the wrong information. Can I edit it?

Where editing is available, review and correct the information before relying on the result.

Receipt scanning is specifically designed to require review because detected totals, taxes, service charges, and gratuities may not always be interpreted correctly.

Can I delete my saved data?

Yes.

Go to:

Settings → Data Management

From there you can remove individual categories of locally stored information, including receipts, receipt images, calculations, saved splits, notes, currency data, guide activity, preferences, and recovery data.

You can also use Delete All Local Data to remove the app’s locally stored data from your device.

Deletion cannot be undone, so export anything you want to keep first.

Can I export my data?

Yes.

Go to:

Settings → Export App Data

Tips for Tips creates an export package containing available app data such as preferences, saved receipts, calculations, saved splits, notes, guide information, currency information, and receipt images.

The export stays under your control until you choose where to share or save it using the iOS share sheet.

Remember that once you send an export to another app, cloud service, person, or storage provider, that destination’s privacy and security practices apply.

Tipping Guidance

Is the tipping advice in the app a rule?

No.

Tips for Tips provides informational guidance based on commonly recognized tipping customs in the United States.

Tipping practices can differ by location, business, service type, and circumstance. Businesses may also add service charges, gratuities, hospitality fees, or other charges.

Always review your bill.

Does the app decide how much I have to tip?

No.

Suggested tips are guidance only.

You remain completely in control of the amount you choose to leave, including entering a custom amount where available.

Tipping is personal, and your decision can take into account the service received, local customs, charges already included in the bill, and your own budget.

What if a gratuity or service charge is already included?

Check the receipt carefully before adding another tip.

Automatic gratuities and service charges may already be included, particularly for larger groups or certain restaurants and hotels.

If it is unclear whether a charge is intended to replace a tip, ask the business.

Feedback and Feature Requests

Tips for Tips is built to make an often confusing part of visiting the United States easier.

If you encounter a confusing screen, believe the tipping guidance could be clearer, discover a service we have not covered, or have an idea for a useful feature, please send your feedback to:

[SUPPORT EMAIL]

Bug reports and real-world examples are especially helpful.

Privacy

Tips for Tips is designed around local storage and minimal data collection.

For complete details, please read the Tips for Tips Privacy Policy.

Important Information

Tips for Tips provides general educational and convenience tools.

Tipping recommendations are not legal, tax, employment, financial, or professional advice. Tipping practices, wage laws, taxes, service charges, and business policies can change and can vary between states, cities, businesses, and service providers.

Currency conversions are estimates based on available reference exchange rates and may differ from the rate actually used for a transaction.

Always review the original bill, receipt, and payment information before completing a transaction.

Tips for Tips

Making tipping in the USA a little less confusing.