July 14, 2026
Payment info, or: what was your IBAN again?
Group members can now store how they want to be paid. It shows up right when you record a repayment, encrypted like everything else.
Dobi Split has always been good at telling you who owes whom. What happened after that was your problem. You'd leave the app, open a chat, ask for an IBAN, and get a screenshot of one, taken years ago, slightly cropped.
That gap is now closed. Every group member can store payment info: an IBAN, a PayPal.me name, or a free-text entry for anything else (Wero, "cash only", the tip jar on the kitchen counter). When you record a repayment, the recipient's details appear directly in the dialog, with the amount already filled in where the payment method supports it.
The QR code is the good part
If someone stored an IBAN, you get a copy button and a QR code. It's the EPC format ("Girocode") that most European banking apps can scan, so the transfer form fills itself in. For euro groups the amount is included too.
The code is generated in your browser. No QR service, no third party, no request leaving your device.
Doesn't PayPal mean trackers?
Fair question to ask an app that markets itself on privacy. Embedding PayPal's buttons or scripts would indeed pull their cookies onto our pages, so we didn't. The PayPal option is an ordinary link with the amount in it. Nothing loads from PayPal until you actually click, and if you never click, they never hear about you.
Encrypted, like everything else
Payment details are encrypted in your browser with the group key before they reach us, same as names and expenses. We store ciphertext and can't read it.
One consequence worth being honest about: we also can't check anything. Whether your IBAN is real is verified by your browser before saving. Our server couldn't tell an IBAN from a limerick, which is exactly how we want it.
For payers that means: treat the details like your friend texted them to you, and give them a quick look before sending money. Your banking app verifies the recipient's name on SEPA transfers anyway, and PayPal shows you who you're paying before you confirm.
Set it once on your account
If you have an account, you can store your payment info there and it carries over to any group member you've claimed as yourself. Change your IBAN once, and every group you're claimed in gets the update.
Claiming also locks things down: once a member is claimed, only the claiming account can edit that member's payment info. So nobody in the group can quietly swap your IBAN for their own the day before rent is due.
As always, none of this requires an account. Payment info works in plain share-link groups too. You just have to type it in each group yourself.