The Sunday spreadsheet
Someone rebuilds the week's tips by hand, one shift at a time, and hopes the formulas still work.
Tip pooling that runs itself
Pools calculate from Toast every day. No spreadsheets, no Sunday math, no retyping totals into payroll.
Tip day shouldn't be a project
Who got what?
When staff can't see how the split worked, every short week turns into an argument.
Payroll retyping
The totals get keyed in again for payroll, and one typo costs someone real money.
How it works
Set up your pools
Choose who pays in, how it's split, and which tips count.Tips calculate every day
Every pool is worked out from that day's real checks and hours.Payroll gets the exact numbers
Tips flow into the payroll file, so nobody retypes a total.
What it looks like
Here's a real pool setup: bartenders give 20% of each check, bussers get half of the pool, and cooks and hosts share the other half as a group.
- Who pays into the pool
- How the pool is split
- A group of roles sharing one slice
- Adding a group
- Adding another pool
- Testing the setup on past weeks
- Seeing who is and isn't in a pool
What you can set up
Split it your way
By hours, by job title percentage, or by points. Split once a day, or check by check as each one is paid.
Every kind of tip
Card tips, declared cash, auto-gratuity, and service charges can each feed a pool, or not. You choose.
Tip-outs by sales
Servers tip out a set percent of their sales, across everything or by category, like beer and wine.
Partial contributions
A role can give part of its tips to the pool and keep the rest.
Groups that cover for each other
When one role in a group isn't working that day, its share goes to the rest of the group first.
No clock-in, still counted
Someone with order money but no clock-in for the day can still be included in the pool, when it's clear which outcome they'd get.
When something needs fixing after the fact
Sometimes tips need to move after a shift is already done: someone covered a task a coworker usually handles, or a pool needs a correction after the fact. A manager can move tips for a specific day and location, check by check, and every change is logged.
Move tips check by check
Send part of one person's tips to whoever actually helped, tied to the specific checks involved.
A record of every change
Who moved what, from whom, to whom. Nothing is adjusted without a trace.
Keep it with the person who earned it
Send a check's tips back to the person who originally earned them, out of that day's pools and tip-outs entirely.
If a refund shrinks a day's tips after a move has already gone out, the person who gave up tips never ends up owing money back: their share stops at zero, and the business absorbs the difference.
Learn more
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