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Our new iPhone application

Sleek Tip Calculator is an iPhone app built in clean, elegant style. It offers a lot of options for its U.S. and International customers. You will not get confused using it even after a celebration and a few drinks.

Doing everything cleanly and efficiently is a challenge when you have tons of extra features.

Sleek Tip Calculator stands out from the Tip-App jungle with allowing tax exclusion from tip, or dividing drinkers and teetotalers, Twitter and Facebook update/post feature, online map with locate functions, while it preserves its unique "one touch to get the Total" design.

Sleek Tip Calculator allows you to preset three service level classes, tax rates, round up option, exclude tax from the tip and change of upper limits of split sliders. Lazy split sliders can be skipped, just tap the text fields next to them to enter the numbers easily...

It has multiple application background choices from sleek to geeky.

With our default settings we calculate tips using the bill's pre-tax subtotal rather than the grand total's calculating from the higher post-tax number which can result in unnecessarily high tips that may quickly wind up costing you more than the Sleek Tip Calculator itself.

We do not just divide the bill evenly between multiple participants, but users can optionally take into account different tallies for drinkers and non-drinkers (i.e. teetotalers) at the table. Sleek Tip Calculator speaks to you, but you are able to mute it.

Changing our setting is a breeze, just few taps and you have your own customized application, so in the restaurant the only thing you need is to add the bill amount and touch the main screen.

We wanted an easy to use solution that fulfills our daily needs. We are dedicated to sleek design and functionality, so we aimed to achieve the perfect fit for the iPhone and iPhone Touch, and it's users.

Version 2.0 is available now.

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Quick User's Guide

Installation

The first step of the actual installation is just like installing most other iPhone products. It starts with the welcome message, which lets you know that you’re about to use our product. Touching OK will lead you to the Settings page. Please note that configuration data is stored in your iPhone/iPod setup area. Check it out: iPhone -> Settings -> TipCalculator

Setup

Tap the Settings tab bar at the bottom of the screen to change the configuration. Wait a second or two until the busy icon disappears from the status bar. Sleek Tip Calculator needs to load all of application data from your iPhone.

- Tip rates: Tap the number you want to change. The keyboard will pop up. Give a new rate (like 12.50) and touch Done to finish editing. Invalid data is set to 0.00. Custom tip amount can override these settings on the main screen.

- Tax rate: Sales tax is supported. Tap the number and set the value on the popup keyboard (like 6.5). Touch Done. Valid data is limited to 50.00 %.

- Tax method: Enable it to set our algorithm to bill amount includes sales tax. In this case you tip on the entire check. Most of us tip this way, so the default value is enabled.

Many of us feel strongly about tipping on the tax. "The tax has nothing to do with the service of the wait staff, runners or kitchen. And it varies from county to county and state to state. To equalize I just ignore the tax and tip on the subtotal." Disable this variable to let us calculate with the bill amount before sales tax.

- Round up/down option: Total rounds up to the nearest dollar when enabled. Disable to None to get exact sums.

- Split limit: Set the maximum value of sliders here. Default is 10. Upper limit is 100. Sliders are practically unusable above 20.

- Sound effects: Sound effects can be muted. Disable it.

- Skins: Select your favourite colors and schemes by touching the row. Touch Tip Calculator to see changes.

Note: Please be patient while Settings screen is loading. Older gadgets need 2-3 seconds to find all the items our setup page is searching for.

Calculating tip and total

1. The keyboard automatically pops up allowing for much faster data entry of bill amount. The amount must be a positive number but less than 1,000,000.

2. Touch the upper half of the screen area or the thin close line of our numpad to dismiss the keyboard. You can modify the bill amount by tapping the number field. Its background becomes white. Editable fields have dimmed background. It is easy to find and change them.

3. Select tip category by touching any of the service level icons. Tip is calculated at the preset rate. See Settings for details.

4. Adjust Tip manually when needed. Touch text field to get the keyboard. When the tip is more than 50% of the bill amount the text color changes to red. Tip can't be negative.

5. The calculation of the total sum is based on these settings: bill amount, tax inc/exl method, tax rate, tip and round up of total option. When round-up option is enabled the tip is adjusted.

6. Touch Split and Drinkers navigation items when you are dividing a restaurant check. Drinkers' part of total can be entered by touching the appropriate number field. Activate keyboard by tapping the text field or use the thin sliders to select the number of drinkers. Its background becomes white.

7. Touch Twitter if you have a Twitter account and want to post an update for your friends and followers. Enter your account information by touching the appropriate text fields. Type your message and tap Send to post your update.