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Who pays: billing owner & multi-owner

Ownership can be shared; funding always traces to one person.

A restaurant can have several owners, but exactly one of them funds it — the billing owner. Their card pays the subscription. 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 — during the 60-day trial there is nothing to pay, so the role only starts mattering at checkout.
  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 restaurant running 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

  • The trial doesn't refill on handover. A restaurant gets its 60 days once in its lifetime; changing who pays never grants a fresh trial.
  • 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.

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