Who pays: billing owner & multi-owner

A restaurant can have several owners, but exactly one of them funds it — the billing owner. Their card pays the subscription, and their free-diner pool covers the restaurant before that. Everything about money resolves to this one person, so co-ownership never makes billing ambiguous.

How it works

1. The first owner starts as the billing owner — their free-diner pool covers the restaurant's AI chat.
2. Whoever subscribes becomes the billing owner. If co-owner B completes checkout, funding moves to B — B's card, B's responsibility.
3. The billing owner is protected while their subscription is active: they can't be removed or demoted, so a paid restaurant can't lose the person whose card keeps it running.
4. To hand over billing: the current billing owner cancels their subscription (it runs to the end of the paid period), after which another owner subscribes and becomes the new billing owner.

If the billing owner leaves

Once their cancellation is scheduled, the billing owner can be removed like anyone else. Their subscription keeps the chat on until the paid period ends — nobody else can manage it (it's their card), so the remaining owners simply wait for it to lapse and then subscribe fresh.

Good to know

• Free diners don't refill on handover. A restaurant gets one free-diner allowance in its lifetime; changing who pays never grants a fresh 1,000.
• Only owners can be the billing owner — managers never touch billing. See Roles.
• Co-owners see billing as "managed by another owner" on the Billing page when they're not the funder.