TipPool Desk is a tip pool calculator for restaurants and bars, with your state's tip rules built in.
It's 11:48 on a Friday. The doors are locked, there's $1,863.35 on the desk and ten names on the shift sheet.
You've got a phone calculator, hours crossed out and written back in, and the bar asking if they're in the floor pool tonight. Run it twice and you get two answers.
Runs in your browser. No sign-up. Staff names and tip numbers stay on your device.
The calculator link goes here at launch.
| Staff | Hours | Tips |
|---|---|---|
| Floor | ||
| MayaServer | 6.5 | $403.19 |
| AndreServer | 6.0 | $372.18 |
| LucíaServer | 4.5 | $279.14 |
| PriyaBusser | 5.5 | $170.58 |
| JonahRunner | 4.0 | $124.06 |
| Bar | ||
| TheoBartender | 7.0 | $276.88 |
| KaiBarback | 4.0 | $158.21 |
| JonahBarback | 2.0 | $79.11 |
| Not in the pool | ||
| SamCook | 8.0 | Kitchen, tip credit in use |
| DanaManager | 8.0 | Managers can't share |
Ties out: $1,863.35 in tips paid of $1,863.35 taken in, to the penny.
Floor pool: $0.75 in coins stays in the drawer and is paid through payroll.
Nobody took a manager job to do long division at midnight. But your name is on the split when someone thinks it's wrong.
Round every share to the penny and the total drifts over or under. Now you're digging for change before you can lock up.
Priya got $170.58 and Maya got $403.19. The reason is points and hours you worked out on a phone, and none of it is written down.
In Florida, a server's tips have to cover the $3.02 an hour tip credit. Managers can't take from the pool. A cook can join only when everyone is paid the full minimum wage in cash. These are easy to miss at midnight, and payroll has to clean them up later.
Two weeks later, payroll wants card and cash tips per person for every shift. That's ten more shift sheets to add up.
Hours from the time clock, card tips from the POS report, cash from the jar. One pool or separate floor and bar pools.
By hours, by points × hours or by role shares, with tip-outs from sales if you use them. It stays set for tomorrow night.
Each person's line shows their hours, their rate and their payout, so the question gets answered before it's asked.
These are the numbers the calculator shows for the example shift at the top of the page.
Every cent of the $1,863.35 taken in goes to someone on the slip.
Servers get 10 points and the busser and runner get 5. That's 217.5 point-hours, so each one is worth $6.2030.
$514.20 over 13 hours is $39.5538 an hour.
Shares round down to the penny first. That left 3¢ on the floor and 2¢ at the bar, so those cents went to whoever was closest to the next one: Jonah, Andre and Lucía on the floor, Theo and Jonah at the bar.
Dana is a manager. Sam works the kitchen, and the servers are paid with a tip credit. The $180 large-party service charge isn't a tip, so it goes through payroll as wages, and Sam gets $30.31 of it.
You stop being the person everyone double-checks.When Priya asks about her $170.58, you show her the line with her hours and points on it. The conversation takes a minute.
Payroll gets one file.With Pro, every shift is saved to the pay period. At the end, you export card tips, cash tips and service charges per person in one CSV, with qualified tips marked for W-2s.
One price per location, for independent restaurants and bars in all 50 states and DC. No setup fee and no contract.
For closing out one shift.
For the manager who also hands tips to payroll.
Works out to $8.25 a month, 31% less than paying monthly.
14-day refund on your first payment. Cancel monthly any time.
Getting Pro takes a minute. Checkout is run by Stripe and sold through Link, which handles the sales tax. When you finish, TipPool Desk opens with Pro already on and shows your license key. Save the key to turn on Pro on your other devices. There's no account to make and nothing to download.
Founding offer. The first 50 buyers can get lifetime Pro for $49. Get lifetime Pro
Nowhere. Names, hours, sales and tips are saved only in the browser on your device, and we never receive them. Unlocking Pro sends just your license key and a device label to our license check.
No. It runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or the back-office computer. Pro is a license key you paste in, so you always have the current state rates.
All 50 states and DC load the minimum wage, tip credit and cash wage from the U.S. Department of Labor table. Where a state rule on card fees or tip pools hasn't been checked yet, the app says so and applies the federal rule. New York's tipped rates vary by region, so you enter those yourself.
Pro imports the CSV exports most point-of-sale and time-clock systems produce. It matches columns by name and lets you fix any match before the import.
No. It's a calculator that shows the rules it checks and where they come from. Your tip policy and payroll are still yours, so check anything you're unsure of with your accountant or an employment lawyer.
One Pro license covers one location. Activate it on the devices your managers use there.
Your first Pro payment is refundable within 14 days. Monthly plans can be canceled any time and stay on through the month you paid for. The refund policy has the details.