View an individual employee's tip breakdown and summary

Admins and Managers can use the Employee Tip Breakdown to view detailed tip calculations and shift-level data for individual employees within 7shifts. This report can be used to help answer employee questions about their tips and providing clear insight into how their total tip amounts are calculated.

Things To Know

• Important: The Tip Management add-on must be enabled to access this feature, and the Tip Management Overview setup must be completed.
• Certain features displayed below may require an upgrade from your existing plan.

Access the Employee Tip Breakdown

1. Log in to the 7shifts web app.
2. In the left navigation bar, select Tip Management > Overview.
3. On the Tip Overview dashboard, click on the row for a specific employee to open their tip details.
   
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Understand Tip Summaries

The summary displays the following totals for the current pay period.:

• Outstanding Tips: Tips that were owed to the employee from previous pay periods and carried forward.
• Earned Tips: The total amount of tips earned by the employee during this pay period (before any payments).
• Paid Tips: The total amount of tips already paid to the employee this pay period. Below, you can see a breakdown of the payment source(s) for paid tips (e.g., Paid in Cash, External Payroll, or 7shifts Tip Payouts).
• Owed Tips: The current outstanding total of tips owed to the employee for this pay period.
  • Calculation: Owed Tips = Outstanding Tips + Earned Tips - Paid Tips
    

View Shift Details

You can drill into the specifics of a single shift by clicking the arrow next to that shift entry. This reveals a detailed breakdown for that specific workday:

• Tips Collected: Auto-gratuities and credit card tips synced from an integrated POS system.
• Tips received from pool: Total tips distributed to the employee from configured 7shifts tip pools.
• Tips earned: The total tips the employee earned on that specific shift.
  

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