What Are Remaining Tips in 7shifts?

Remaining Tips is a contribution type used in POS Tip Pooling that allows restaurants to redistribute any tips left over after an employee’s initial contribution—typically calculated as a percentage of sales. This second round of contribution helps automate more complex workflows by ensuring leftover tips aren’t left out of the pool. 

For example: Amy is a Server at a restaurant that pools tips by 3% of sales.

• Amy made $1,500 in sales → 3% = $45 (initial contribution)
• She earned $100 in tips
• Remaining Tips = $100 - $45 = $55
• The restaurant contributes 30% of Remaining Tips → $16.50
• Amy takes home: $100 - $45 - $16.50 = $38.50

Let's look at a real-world setup using Remaining Tips:

A common use of Remaining Tips is when bartenders clock into a shared "Ghost Patio Bar" account when processing receipts. Why? A busy weekend bar may see the same terminal passed around frequently, between different bartenders; and it would be too time-consuming to update the specific server for each bartender each time.

At the end of the night, tips need to be pooled and distributed as:

• Ghost Patio Bar contributes 5% of food sales to Support + Bussers.
• Ghost Patio Bar contributes 100% of the remaining tips equally amongst themselves based on hours worked. 

To accomplish this, create a new tip pool. While adding your Contributors, be sure to select Tip-in Based On: Remaining Tips.

In this scenario, Bartenders will contribute 100% of their remaining tips...

...and tips will be distributed equally amongst the Bartenders:A final review of the tip pooling details:

 

And by this Tip Pool, the Bartenders now share their remaining tips!