What Biller looks like while it's working

Some things take a moment -- signing in, opening a bill, scanning a menu photo. Whenever Biller is waiting on something, it tells you in the same two ways everywhere in the app, so you never have to guess whether your tap registered.

The amber light

While a screen is loading, a soft amber light rises from the bottom of it, with fine golden specks drifting up through it. It appears on the sign-in screen while your account is opening, and on any board -- Bills, Menu, Inventory, Insights -- while its data is on its way.

The light means Biller is working on it. It has no progress bar because most of these waits are short and a bar that jumps to 90% and sits there tells you nothing useful. The copy in the middle of the screen names what is actually loading: Loading data for Bill Details, Creating your outlet, and so on.

Buttons say what they are doing

When you tap a button that needs a moment, its label changes to describe the work, and a band of light runs along its lower edge:

A button in this state is already working -- it is not waiting for another tap, and tapping it again does nothing. That is deliberate: it stops a second bill, a second invite or a second charge being created by an impatient double-tap.

You can tell the three button states apart at a glance:

• Ready -- full colour, tap it.
• Working -- same colour but slightly softened, with the label describing the work.
• Not ready yet -- grey, because something is still missing (a phone number, a price). Fill in what's missing and it turns back on.

"Waiting for permission…"

Turning on notifications shows Waiting for permission… rather than Registering…, because at that moment Biller is not doing anything -- your phone is asking you to allow or block notifications, and nothing continues until you answer that dialog. If you dismissed it by accident, tap Turn on notifications again.

If it seems stuck

• The light keeps going for a long time. Usually a slow connection. Nothing is lost -- anything already saved stays saved. Pull down to refresh, or check your signal.
• A button stays in its working state. Leave the screen and come back. If the action had already gone through, you will see it (the bill, the team member, the scanned items); if not, tap again.
• Nothing happens when you tap. Check whether the button is grey rather than working -- grey means a required field is still empty on that screen.

Prefer less movement on screen? Biller follows your device's Reduce Motion setting. Turn it on in your phone or computer's accessibility settings and the light stops animating -- it stays as a still glow, and everything still tells you the same thing.