Patent ID: 8498900

Claim:
A method for allowing a customer to view and at least partially pay a bill incurred in a bar or a restaurant, the method comprising: operating a POS system at the bar or the restaurant for tracking the bill and the bar or the restaurant having staff, wherein the POS system communicating with a customer mobile computing device; receiving, via the POS system, customer check-in data at the restaurant or the bar in response to checking-in via the mobile computing device and customer payment account data as a payment security in response to authorizing access to the payment account data via the mobile computing device; validating, via the POS system, the received payment account data for payment capability; receiving, via the staff, an order from the customer using the POS system and associating, via the staff, the order with the validated payment account data in the POS system through utilizing the check-in data, wherein the check-in data indicating the customer as being physically present in proximity to the POS system; displaying the bill in real-time via the mobile computing device upon the associating, the bill including the order; receiving at least partial payment according to the validated payment account data in response to authorizing the at least partial payment via the mobile computing device; tagging other visitors by the mobile computing device, tagging indicative of presence of the other visitors in the bar or the restaurant, the customer and the other visitors splitting the bill via the other visitors submitting the other visitors payment information only, the other visitors operating personal mobile devices; and tagging the other visitors by the mobile computing device when the other visitors also check-in via the personal mobile devices.