Save up to 8 hours per week managing your tip pool with custom contribution and distribution rules, automatic calculations, comprehensive reports, and payroll export options. To collect your tip data, there are two contribution methods:
POS Integration Contribution - Companies using Toast POS or TouchBistro POS will be able to automatically collect and divide tips and gratuities among employees.
Manual Contribution - If you do not use a supported POS or want to use tip data from a specific source, you can use this method to enter your daily tip data into 7shifts for redistribution among your employees.
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Enabling the Tip Pool feature in your Acccount
Setting up your Tip Pool - Toast POS Integration Contribution
Setting up your Tip Pool - TouchBistro POS Integration Contribution
Setting up your Tip Pool - Manual Contribution
Managing / Editing multiple Tip Pools
Enabling the Tip Pool feature in your Acccount
To access the Tip Pool feature:
1. Head over to the 7shifts logo > Add-ons.
2. Select the 'Tip Pooling' add-on.
3. An Admin, Manager, or Assistant Manager has the option to start a free trial if you'd like the try out the feature. Only Admins will be able to proceed with purchasing the Tip Pooling add-on at the end of the trial.
4. Next, select the 'Go To Tip Pooling' button to get started right away.
Going forward, this tool will also be available by heading to More > Tip Pooling.
Setting up your Tip Pool - Toast POS Integration Contribution
1. An Actual Sales integration with Toast POS. (If you're not using a supported POS system, learn how to access the Manual Contribution option here.)
2. 7punches for time clocking or an Actual Labor integration with Toast POS (since this feature relies on employees' worked hours in order to redistribute tips).
3. Have Role and Employee mapping completed. This will ensure that Employees will be assigned the correct tips, based on their hours and Roles.
For Toast POS users, click here to see other steps to consider.
To set up your Tip Pool :
1. Head to More > Tip Pooling. Click on 'Create a tip pool.'
2. Select your Location, enter a name/title for your Tip Pool, and then click on 'Next.'
The name is required since you'll later have the option to create multiple Tip Pools for the same Location.
3. Here, be sure to select the option 'Pull in tips automatically from my POS', then click on 'Next.'
4. Next, you'll need to select the fields on your POS that you wish to pull in tip data from. This will be the initial source to calculate the Location's total tips, which will then be divided out between your staff from there.
Check any boxes that apply, then click on 'Next.'
5. For transactions that are assigned to Employees, you will need to select which Roles will be your Contributors. Contributors are usually customer-facing employees that gather tips, gratuities or collect payment during their shift.
Example: Severs can contribute 100% of their tips and still receive 50% from that initial 100% that was put into the Tip Pool.
Enter what percentage of the tips or sales they collected will contribute to the Tip Pool at this Location.
- Click on '+ Add Contributor' to include more Roles.
- Click on the copy icon to duplicate any contributes including its filters.
- Click on the trash icon to remove any Roles from the list of contributors.
6. With Toast, you can filter the tips received by Revenue Center, Dining Option, and Sales Category. These filters are to determine what amount of tips will go into the Tip Pool, before any redistribution calculations.
For each Contributor, you can set up these filters by clicking on the filter icon and selecting your filter rules.
7. For transactions that are not assigned to any employees, you will need to enter and select what percentage of tips or sales will go into the Tip Pool.
8. With Toast, you can filter the tips for these unassigned transactions by Revenue Center, Dining Option, and Sales Category. You can set up these filters by clicking on the filter icon and selecting your filter rules.
9. When finished, click on 'Next.'
Equal Distribution
How Equal Distribution works:
Each person will receive a portion of the tips based on the hours they worked.
Let's say the Tip Pool is $500 and employees worked a total of 25 hours.
$500 / 25 hours = $20 in tips per hour worked
Server A: worked 10 hours and receives $200
Server B: worked 7 hours and receives $140
Food Runner: worked 8 hours and receives $160
Percentage
How Percentage Distribution works:
Each role group is entitled to a specific percentage of the Tip Pool. Each person who worked that role will then receive a portion of the tips based on the hours they worked.
Let's say the tip pool is $1000, Server distribution is set to 60% ($600) and Bartender distribution is set to 40% ($400).
Server A worked 8 hours and receives $240
Server B worked 12 hours and receives $360
Bartender worked 5 hours and receives $400
Note that since only 1 bartender worked, they will receive $400 regardless of the number of hours they work
Points Weighting
11. Next, you will need to select your Receivers:
- Click the dropdown and select a Department or specific Role.
- Click on '+ Add Receiver' to include more Departments or Roles.
- Click on the 'Trash' icon to remove any Departments or Roles from the list of receivers.
If you chose to use the 'Percentage' or 'Points Weighting' distribution methods, you will need to enter a percentage or amount of points beside each Department or Role.
12. After you have set up which Departments and Roles will be receiving tips, click on 'Next.'
13. Lastly, you will be given an overview of how your Tip Pool will be set up. Here you can go back through any steps to make any changes needed, or click on 'Save my tip pool' to finalize it.
Success! You've just created a Tip Pool.
Now you're ready to create more Tips Pools or access any of your Tip Pooling reports.
Setting up your Tip Pool - TouchBistro POS Integration Contribution
1. An Actual Sales integration with TouchBistro POS. (If you're not using a supported POS system, learn how to access the Manual Contribution option here.)
2. 7punches for time clocking or an Actual Labor integration with TouchBistro POS (since this feature relies on employees' worked hours in order to redistribute tips).
3. Have Role and Employee mapping completed. This will ensure that Employees will be assigned the correct tips, based on their hours and Roles.
To set up your Tip Pool :
1. Head to More > Tip Pooling. Click on 'Create a tip pool.'
2. Select your Location, enter a name/title for your Tip Pool, and then click on 'Next.'
The name is required since you'll later have the option to create multiple Tip Pools for the same Location.
3. Here, be sure to select the option 'Pull in tips automatically from my POS', then click on 'Next.'
4. Next, you'll need to select the fields on your POS that you wish to pull in tip data from. This will be the initial source to calculate the Location's total tips, which will then be divided out between your staff from there.
Check any boxes that apply, then click on 'Next.'
5. For transactions that are assigned to Employees, you will need to select your Contributors. Contributors are usually customer-facing employees that gather tips, gratuities or collect payment during their shift. Select which Roles, and enter what percentage of the tips they collected will contribute to the Tip Pool at this Location.
Example: Severs can contribute 100% of their tips and still receive 50% from that initial 100% that was put into the Tip Pool.
Click on '+ Add Contributor' to include more Roles or click on the 'Trash' icon to remove any Roles from the list of contributors.
6. You will also need to enter what percentage of tips will go to the Tip Pool for transactions that are unassigned to any employees.
7. When finished, click on 'Next.'
Equal Distribution
How Equal Distribution works:
Each person will receive a portion of the tips based on the hours they worked.
Let's say the Tip Pool is $500 and employees worked a total of 25 hours.
$500 / 25 hours = $20 in tips per hour worked
Server A: worked 10 hours and receives $200
Server B: worked 7 hours and receives $140
Food Runner: worked 8 hours and receives $160
Percentage
How Percentage Distribution works:
Each role group is entitled to a specific percentage of the Tip Pool. Each person who worked that role will then receive a portion of the tips based on the hours they worked.
Let's say the tip pool is $1000, Server distribution is set to 60% ($600) and Bartender distribution is set to 40% ($400).
Server A worked 8 hours and receives $240
Server B worked 12 hours and receives $360
Bartender worked 5 hours and receives $400
Note that since only 1 bartender worked, they will receive $400 regardless of the number of hours they work
Points Weighting
9. Next, you will need to select your Receivers:
- Click the dropdown and select a Department or specific Role.
- Click on '+ Add Receiver' to include more Departments or Roles.
- Click on the 'Trash' icon to remove any Departments or Roles from the list of receivers.
If you chose to use the 'Percentage' or 'Points Weighting' distribution methods, you will need to enter a percentage or amount of points beside each Department or Role.
10. After you have set up which Departments and Roles will be receiving tips, click on 'Next: One last review.'
11. Lastly, you will be given an overview of how your Tip Pool will be set up. Here you can go back through any steps to make any changes needed, or click on 'Save my tip pool' to finalize it.
Success! You've just created a Tip Pool.
Now you're ready to create more Tips Pools or access any of your Tip Pooling reports.
Setting up your Tip Pool - Manual Contribution
If you do not use a supported POS or want to use tip data from a specific source, you can still use the Tip Pooling feature. Here's how you can set up your Tip Pool and enter your tip data manually into 7shifts for redistribution.
1. 7punches for time clocking or an Actual Labor integration with a POS (since this feature relies on employees' worked hours in order to redistribute tips).
2. Have Role and Employee mapping completed. This will ensure that Employees will be assigned the correct tips, based on their hours and Roles.
To set up your Tip Pool:
1. Head to More > Tip Pooling. Click on 'Create a tip pool.'
2. Select your Location, enter a name/title for your Tip Pool, and then click on 'Next.'
The name is required since you'll later have the option to create multiple Tip Pools for the same Location.
3. Then, click on 'Next.'
4. Then, in the dropdown determine how you'd like tips to be redistributed to your team. All distribution methods will reallocate tips based on employees' actual worked hours. Select any 1 of the 3 distribution options:
Equal Distribution
How Equal Distribution works:
Each person will receive a portion of the tips based on the hours they worked.
Let's say the Tip Pool is $500 and employees worked a total of 25 hours.
$500 / 25 hours = $20 in tips per hour worked
Server A: worked 10 hours and receives $200
Server B: worked 7 hours and receives $140
Food Runner: worked 8 hours and receives $160
Percentage
How Percentage Distribution works:
Each role group is entitled to a specific percentage of the Tip Pool. Each person who worked that role will then receive a portion of the tips based on the hours they worked.
Let's say the tip pool is $1000, Server distribution is set to 60% ($600) and Bartender distribution is set to 40% ($400).
Server A worked 8 hours and receives $240
Server B worked 12 hours and receives $360
Bartender worked 5 hours and receives $400
Note that since only 1 bartender worked, they will receive $400 regardless of the number of hours they work
Points Weighting
5. Next, you will need to select your Receivers:
- Click the dropdown and select a Department or specific Role.
- Click on '+ Add Receiver' to include more Departments or Roles.
- Click on the 'Trash' icon to remove any Departments or Roles from the list of receivers.
If you chose to use the 'Percentage' or 'Points Weighting' distribution methods, you will need to enter a percentage or amount of points beside each Department or Role.
6. After you have set up which Departments and Roles will be receiving tips, click on 'Next.'
7. Lastly, you will be given an overview of how your Tip Pool will be set up. Here you can go back through any steps to make any changes needed, or click on 'Save my tip pool' to finalize it.
You've just created a Tip Pool! Now you can enter your tip data into 7shifts.
8. To enter your tip data, head to More > Tip Pooling. Next to the appropriate Tip Pool, click on 'Add Tips.'
9. Then, enter in your Tip data under the appropriate date. You can enter data for other weeks by using the date selector.
10. Be sure to hit 'Save' before leaving this page or changing the week.
Now you're ready to create more Tips Pools or access any of your Tip Pooling reports.
Managing / Editing multiple Tip Pools
1. As an Admin, you can access your Tip Pool dashboard by heading to More > Tip Pooling.
You can also sort your list of Tip Pools by name or Location.
2. Click on the 'Manage' icon to Edit, Delete, or view the details for an existing Tip Pool.
3. Simply click on 'Create Pool' to create an additional Tip Pool.
