End nightly restaurant tip spreadsheets, manual math, and guesswork at close for staff and managers. With TipCalc, you can automate your tip pooling and payouts so every night closes on time and workers leave with fast, fee-free access to their tips.
Built for Precision, Not Guesswork
Minimize errors in spreadsheets and ensure that tips are distributed correctly every time.
Transparent by Design
Eliminate disputes over tip distribution with clear, automated calculations and reports.
Remove Payout Friction
Unlock fast, fee-free cashless tips for workers—no bank runs or pre-funding required.
We’ve successfully delivered more than $28 billion in worker payments.
Restaurants face constant headaches at the close of each night—complex distribution policies, manual spreadsheets, and dozens of wasted hours.
TipCalc transforms your time-consuming, manual processes and replaces them with automated tip pooling software that ensures your team can spend more time doing what they do best: delivering exceptional service.
Automate Your Tips Data
Branch works with the leading POS systems, with seamless POS integrations allowing TipCalc to pull in real-time check and labor data.
Build Custom Rules for Your Tip Pool
Easily create tip pooling or tip sharing rules based on your revenue centers, job codes, and more—ensuring gratuities and tip allocation are automated, accurate, and on time.
Make Fast, Cashless Tip Payouts
At the close of each night, TipCalc crunches the numbers and distributes digital tips, including cash tips and credit card tips, directly to workers, even on weekends and holidays. No pre-funding or bank runs required.
It’s never been easier to take care of the people who take care of your guests. TipCalc’s rule-based pooling and sharing runs the same way every night, ensuring errors get resolved before payouts.
Create Custom Tip Pooling & Tip Sharing Rules
Effectively split tips among your teams. Pool tips from a group of employees, including bussers and bartenders, and then distribute them after calculations are run. Or set rules for employees to contribute a portion of their tips or revenue to another group.
Add Check Holds for Additional Security
Flag tip amounts that exceed set thresholds to enable manager review before funds are distributed.
Generate Reports for Clarity Across Teams
Generate pay period tip reporting for transparency across owners, managers, back of house, and front of house.
Simplify Nightly Closing
Rule-based tip pooling and tip sharing rules run the same way every night, ensuring error-free tip payouts.
Give Workers Flexibility
Workers can receive their tips directly in their Branch account through the mobile app for free or direct to their debit card for a small fee.
Custom Branded Solutions Available
Keep your brand top of mind on payday. With Branch’s white label offering, we can create a custom payments experience and debit card for your entire workforce.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Branch is the leading workforce payment platform that delivers fast, flexible options for people to get paid. Companies choose Branch because faster payments help them strengthen worker loyalty, save time and money, and unlock productivity to drive business growth.
Tip pooling is the practice of combining all tips received into one pool and distributing them among eligible employees according to a predetermined method. Learn more about tip pooling and tip sharing here.
Tip pooling is the practice of combining all tips received into one pool and distributing them among eligible employees according to a predetermined method. Learn more about tip pooling and tip sharing here.
Yes! Branch can offer accounts to minors 14+ and workers who have limited documentation, so you can support more of your workforce.
TipCalc currently integrates with Aloha Cloud. We will add support for additional POS systems in the coming months.
TipCalc has a wide variety of rules that can be customized based on sales, tips, distribution frequency, revenue centers, job codes, distribution points, and more. If you have specific questions, a member of our team would be happy to give you a demo.
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