What are Remaining Tips in 7shifts?

Remaining Tips is a contribution type in POS Tip Pooling used to redistribute tips left over after an employee’s initial contributions, such as a percentage of sales, are deducted.

Both assigned and unassigned employees will contribute based on the percentage you set, as long as they have eligible time punches within the roles or departments tied to that pool. If no contributions appear, it usually means there were no qualifying time punches for that pool during the selected cadence.

Things To Know

• Remaining Tips is only available for POS Tip Pooling and must be configured via the 7shifts web app.
• Remaining tips can only be contributed once per role.
• When using multiple interacting pools, all pools must share the same cadence (e.g., Daily or Weekly) to prevent calculation discrepancies.

How Remaining Tips are Calculated

The system determines the remaining tips by subtracting any initial contributions (like Tip-in based on Sales) from the total tips earned. 

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

• Amy earns $1,500 in sales and $100 in total tips.
• The initial contribution is set to 3% of sales ($45).
• The "Remaining Tips" balance is $55 ($100 - $45).
• If the pool is set to contribute 30% of Remaining Tips, the contribution amount is $16.50.
• Amy takes home: $100 (tips earned) - $45 (initial contribution) - $16.50 (remaining tips contribution) = $38.50

Setting Up a Remaining Tips Pool

This setup is commonly used for shared POS terminals (Ghost Users) where multiple employees process orders under one profile and need to pool the final remaining balance equally. 

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 Staff + 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.

1. Log into the 7shifts web app and navigate to Tip Management > Tip Pooling.
2. Create a new Tip Pool or edit an existing POS Tip Pool.
3. In the Contributors section, select a Role or Department.
4. Set the Tip-in Based On dropdown to Remaining Tips.
5. Enter the percentage of the remaining balance that should be contributed to the pool:
   
   In this scenario, Bartenders will contribute 100$ of their remaining tips.
6. Complete the Receivers section to determine how those tips are distributed:
   
   Tips will be distributed equally amongst the Bartenders.
7. Review the final details of the tip pool:
   
   Bartenders now share their remaining tips!

Next Steps

Review your Tip Pool reports after the next closed pay period to verify that the remaining tip calculations align with your expected distribution logic.

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