Restaurant tip management software
Automate tip calculations and distribution. Then instantly send tips to your employees’ bank accounts.
Start free trialYour team’s tips,
your restaurant’s way
Never do tip math again
Set your distribution rules to match your restaurant’s current tipping process and you have accurate, automatic calculations every time.
- Add tips manually or have your POS automatically add them for you
- Share tips within or between teams
- Unlimited tip rules
Pay employees in seconds
Be the place everyone wants to work. A paid team is a happy, motivated, and productive team.
- Send tips straight to employees’ bank accounts
- Uphold security, limit labor spend, and automate tip pay documentation
- Removes need for cash on hand or 3rd party services
Accountability and payroll is a breeze
Replace time-consuming, manual admin work with automations that include paid and owed tips on payroll. Easy.
- Automatic tip documentation and reports
- Detailed employee tip breakdowns
- Reliable payroll syncing
Give staff the transparency they want
Your team wants to know how you got their totals. Earn their trust with real-time visibility into your calculations and their tip earnings right from their cell phones.
- View personal earned, calculated, and owed tips from the mobile app
- See a history of all tips paid through 7shifts
- Save time answering questions about tip earnings
"Having multiple places to find most of my tips and other information is a pain to handle. I like being able to find everything in one place with ease. I like 7shifts' tips features since I can check the schedule and check tips in one place."
Kevin Castellanos
Melting Pot
"7shifts is really easy to use. Payroll & tips through 7shifts is also a breeze. I can have the payroll, including tips, completed within 40 minutes."
PJ Lewis
Owner/Operator at Duck Donuts
"When we made the switch to 7shifts [Tip Management], our staff ended up earning more in tips than they were previously because the tips were being managed correctly."
Robin Shearer
Systems Manager at Lucky Eleven Restaurant Group
Why restaurants love 7shifts Tip Management software
increase in time saved per week processing tip payments
hours saved per month on tip calculations
Transparent pricing, no hidden fees
Distribute tips that match your restaurant’s current tipping policy
Pay calculated tips instantly to your team’s debit accounts
View your team’s earned, paid, and owed tips in one place
Automate reporting tips on payroll
Free onboarding, implementation, and support
Dedicated tips expert at your service
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about 7shifts Tip Management
If you want to set up an automated tip pool (where tips are distributed based on a percentage of collected tips or net sales), you’ll need to use Toast, TouchBistro, Square, Revel, or GoTab POS.
For non-automated tip pools, you can create them with any POS—no restrictions there.
If you’re not using automated tip pools but still want tips to show up automatically in Tip Payouts for digital sending, here’s the list of supported POSs: Aloha, Brink, Dinerware, Lightspeed (L-series, U-series, and K-series), Micros (3700 and Simphony II), Oracle Micros Simphony, POSitouch, Qu POS, SpotOn, Squirrel, Square, Silverware, Toast, TouchBistro, HarborTouch Hospitality, Skytab, Future, and Restaurant Manager.
No supported POS? No problem! You can still use Tip Management by manually declaring tips in 7punches, our Time Clocking app.
Tip Management supports automated payroll integrations with ADP Run, ADP Workforce Now, Gusto, and 7shifts Payroll. We can provide CSV export for tip data for ADP Workforce Now, Paylocity, UKG, and Paychex.
Note: with the Tip Management report, you can still report paid tips to payroll even if you don’t use any of the supported payroll providers.
Tips can be shared based on a percentage of total tips or a percentage of net sales. They can be distributed equally based on hours worked, by specific percentages, or by weighted points.
Note: hours worked is a factor in all distribution methods.
By connecting your bank account to 7shifts, you can transfer and reserve your desired amount of funds in 7shifts. After each payout, your float is automatically topped up to ensure the set amount is always available. We recommend keeping 4 days worth of tips in your float to cover weekends and bank holidays. The first time you transfer funds to 7shifts, it takes 2-5 business days for your funds to be processed.
Next, decide whether your restaurant or employees will cover the $1 transaction fee. Then, invite your tipped employees to enter their debit card information via the free 7shifts mobile app.
Employees’ tips can be automatically added through a POS integration, 7punches (our time clocking tool), a tip pool, or you can enter them manually. When ready, review the tip amounts, click ‘Pay,’ and the tips are deposited directly into employees’ debit accounts in seconds.
No, unless you use 7shifts Payroll and choose to have tips taxed there. You can configure your tip calculation settings if you want to determine whether tips should be reported through payroll integrations or exports.
Absolutely! Tip Payouts is an optional aspect of Tip Management, and is not required to use other parts of the feature. By configuring your custom tip calculation logic, you can choose to pay all or partial tips through payroll.