You can now follow a refund until it actually arrives. Under the new system you pay the full price in the shop and the tax comes back after you leave Japan. Once customs has checked your things at the airport, your part is over and all that is left is waiting. Remembering that was entirely up to you. After you confirm at the airport, Tabitecho counts what has not come back yet and sends up to three reminders. It gives you the number of receipts and roughly how much, and nothing more. When the money lands is for the shop and its refund operator to decide, so we do not guess at it. Anything you took as cash on the spot is already settled and is not counted. You can write down how each refund is being paid: cash in the departure area, back to the card, bank transfer, or through an app. The shop decides which one. If you forgot to ask, you can leave it as not asked. The last reminder adds where to look for that particular method. Once everything has come back, the trip shows the gap between what you paid out and what you got back, in one line. Fees are taken out, so a little less than the estimate is normal. It is there to help you judge the next trip, not to worry you. Your receipts can now be saved as a spreadsheet: the date, the shop, the amount including tax, how far it got, and how the refund was paid. Three more rules on the rules page. Gold and platinum bullion, gold and platinum coins, and goods that are not taxed to begin with cannot be tax-free. For a single item of 1,000,000 yen or more before tax, the shop sends its details, so the paperwork takes longer. And only what you can carry out yourself can be tax-free.

The tax-free minimum now shows up on your receipts. One shop, one day, 5,000 yen or more before tax. If a group falls short, the card tells you roughly how much is missing. It counts the whole day at that shop, not each receipt on its own, so if you bought twice and the total clears the line, nothing is shown. The rules page now opens with this minimum. It does not change under the new system. There is a new line about what actually happens at the airport. You scan your passport at a kiosk, green means you are done, red means you go to the inspection desk. And before you check your bags: once they are checked you cannot do this, and you cannot get them back. Tabitecho now runs on iPad, in any orientation. When several notices had piled up, they now all appear at once. Before, they came one at a time, so the red dot could stay on after you had read one. When a backup is saved, you are now told right away if any photo could not be read.

The tax-free rules page has been rebuilt. It now reads as a timeline: when you buy, when you leave, after that, with what happens at each point. A new line explains how the refund actually reaches you: bank transfer, card, an app, or cash inside the departure area, decided by the shop. From this page you can go straight to the check before you fly. The 9:16 share card used to always leave room for the buttons down the right side. You can turn that off now and use the full width. Small text on the dark theme did not meet the contrast standard. Fixed. The line along the bottom is no longer squeezed by the one on the right. Some wording in Simplified and Traditional Chinese is more accurate, and the note about deleting photos is complete: hold a photo on a receipt to delete it, and the receipt itself stays.