🤝 Tips
Fair tips, on the record
Pool and split tips by your own rules and keep a clean payout record you can export straight to payroll.
- ✓Split per shift by hours, evenly, or by shares
- ✓Every payout on the record, per person per shift
- ✓Export straight to payroll
Works on its own
If you are comparing options, the tip pooling software page goes deeper: the three ways to split a pool and which room each one fits, why the payout record is the part that protects you, and an honest account of what Smooth Ops does not do about tip credit and tipped minimum wage.
Your split rules, not a template
Tips get split by hours worked, evenly, or by shares, per shift. Most tip disputes are not really about the math, they are about the rule being unclear or applied inconsistently. Setting the rule once and applying it every shift removes most of that, and the people being paid can see how the number was reached.
A payout record you can hand to payroll
Every payout is recorded per person per shift, and exports straight to payroll. Tip records are the kind of thing nobody thinks about until they are asked to produce them, and reconstructing them after the fact from memory and a notebook is genuinely painful.
The record is the part that protects you
Tips are one of the most common sources of wage disputes in restaurants, and the disagreement is almost never about a whole shift. It is about one night, months ago, that nobody wrote down properly. A per person per shift record is not exciting, and it is the single most useful thing you can have when somebody asks.
Tips, answered
Can it handle tip pooling across front and back of house?+
Yes, by shares, which is the usual way kitchens are included in a pool. You set who is in the pool and at what weight.
Does this handle tip credit and minimum wage rules?+
No, and you should be careful with anyone who says their software does. Tip credit rules vary by state and change, and getting them wrong is a wage claim. Smooth Ops records what was earned and paid so your payroll provider or accountant has clean numbers to work from.
Can staff see their own tips?+
The payout record is per person per shift, so you have a clear figure to share rather than a total nobody can check.
Does it export to my payroll system?+
Payouts export in a format you can hand to payroll rather than retyping shift by shift.
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