Running a restaurant is demanding, and tip management can eat hours you don’t have. The right tipping software automates calculations, improves transparency, and pays your team accurately—without spreadsheets or late-night reconciliations. Below are the must-have features to evaluate in 2025, with examples from operators using TipHaus today.
Integrate with your POS to pull sales and labor data and auto-calculate tip-outs by role, revenue center, category %, points, or hours. This replaces spreadsheets and late-night math, reducing errors and speeding close.
Learn more about tip calculations.
Look for a rules engine that supports pooling and sharing across FOH/BOH, events, credit-card fee handling, and service-charge flows. Change rules seasonally or for one-off events, without calling support.
Watch this step-by-step guide to creating a tip pool using the TipHaus platform. Designed for restaurant owners and managers, it walks you through setting up and managing tip pools efficiently, handling different scenarios, and exploring distribution methods. Plus, learn why the Time-of-Sale method is the most popular approach for calculating tips.
Staff should see today’s earnings, historical detail, and adjustments in a clean, mobile web app—no install required. This reduces disputes and builds trust.
Learn more about TipHaus employee app.
See how this bartender from Grano Arso in Connecticut describes life before TipHaus, splitting tips by hand, jotting numbers on paper, and double-checking the math. Now, with just one click in the TipHaus app, users can see exactly how much they earned each night, along with a clear breakdown of every tip. Total transparency. Watch the full video!
Keep cash out of the building and pay tips daily to bank accounts—no ATM cards or bank runs. Operators report higher retention when staff don’t wait for payroll.
Learn more about TipHaus's daily tip payouts.
Make it easy for guests to tip concierge, housekeeping, valet, baristas, and event teams via QR. QR brings tipping to places the POS doesn’t.
Learn more about QR code tipping.
Demand certified integrations with your POS and the ability to export payroll in your provider’s exact format—one-click, no rekeying.
Learn more about TipHaus's integrations.
Look for role-based access, audit logs, SOC/AICPA compliance, and up-to-date rules for managers/owners and BOH eligibility. This reduces risk and legal exposure.
SSP America shares that TipHaus keeps their employees safe by eliminating cash handling, so staff no longer have to leave an airport late at night to collect tips. With a complex multi-brand operation, TipHaus was able to provide solutions for all their tipping needs while ensuring compliance and transparency. Watch the full video to see how it works.
Your software should auto-reconcile voids, refunds, missed clock-outs, and card fee rules, so tips balance nightly and payroll is right the first time.
Learn more about tip reconciliation.
You’ll need tip and payroll reports by role, shift, location, and employee—with export to CSV/PDF. This simplifies audits and end-of-period close.
Learn more about TipHaus reporting.
Implementation should be measured in hours, not weeks, with your rules configured on a kickoff call and payouts starting the next day. Admin screens must be non-technical and updateable by managers.
Discover how simple it is to implement TipHaus into your own tech stack! Read the full case study to hear from Brenden McCarthy of Ballyhoo Hospitality: "Integrating TipHaus with our Toast POS systems was easy, and any issues were resolved quickly. TipHaus is now an integral part of our tech stack, working seamlessly with our other tools to streamline operations and promote transparency among our staff."
Your tipping software should be able to get specific and granular, especially when handling events or unique service scenarios. TipHaus’s Custom Team Adjustments feature does exactly that, allowing you to create tailored tip distributions for large tables, private events, or staff working both special functions and regular shifts. Select the checks, choose your tip types, pick the employees, and distribute tips equally or by points for precise amounts or percentages. With this level of flexibility, every payout is fair, accurate, and fully transparent.
Bottleneck Management frequently holds events, and now they can efficiently pay out multiple employees. For each event, they create a Custom Team Adjustment to ensure the right people are paid accurately. With all their managers trained on the process, it’s simple to use, and every event now has a reliable, accurate tip-out structure. Watch the full video!
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Expect meaningful savings on manual work and cash handling.
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☐ Automated calculations by role/category/points/hours
☐ Pooling & sharing with event/fee/service-charge support
☐ Employee transparency (mobile web app)
☐ Daily digital tip payouts
☐ QR tipping for non-server roles
☐ POS/payroll integrations + custom exports
☐ Auto reconciliations & audit-ready reporting
☐ Security & compliance (SOC/AICPA)
☐ Fast rollout & easy admin controls
☐ Measurable ROI (hours and $ saved)
Ditch spreadsheets, bank runs, and tip disputes. Book a live demo to see how TipHaus automates tip management end-to-end and kick of your free trial today!
