Tip-Pooling
Tip-Pooling is a paid web service that automates restaurant tip pooling, calculations, sharing, and distribution.
What Tip-Pooling is
Tip-Pooling is a paid web service that automates restaurant tip pooling, calculations, sharing, and distribution. Rules can use employee roles, hours worked, sales, or percentage splits. The service supports card tips, cash tips, service charges, and digital tip payouts, and says it pulls tip information from POS systems and sends distributions to payroll. Employees can see a real-time breakdown for each shift, while audit-ready compliance logs record every shift. Its Everything Included plan costs $49 a month, billed at $49 per store per month, with unlimited employees per store. The plan has no setup fees or contracts, can be canceled anytime, and includes ongoing onboarding and support. The company says most restaurants can start in less than a week with help connecting systems, importing employees, and configuring rules. It is intended for restaurants, bars, hotels, and hospitality teams ranging from small groups to multi-location operations. Headquarters are in Costa Mesa, California.
Good
- Supports multiple tip types
- Custom pooling rules
- Real-time employee shift breakdowns
- Audit-ready logs for every shift
- Unlimited employees per store
Watch out
- No free plan
- Costs $49 a month
- Web platform only
- POS providers are not named
Who it suits
It suits restaurants, bars, hotels, and hospitality teams managing shared tips across one or multiple locations. Teams needing role-, hour-, sales-, or percentage-based rules can use the web service.
Verdict
Tip-Pooling centralizes tip calculations and payroll distribution with configurable rules and shift records. The single paid plan includes onboarding and unlimited employees per store, but there is no free option.
Plans and prices
From Tip-Pooling's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Everything Included | $49 a month | Unlimited employees per store · one plan · no setup fees · no contracts · cancel anytime · $49 / store / month |
The facts
Each one read from Tip-Pooling's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The FAQ describes the product as designed for restaurants, bars, hotels, and hospitality teams managing shared tips, from small teams to multi-location operations.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Compliance records
- The pricing page includes audit-ready compliance logs for every shift.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Custom rules
- Pooling rules can be based on roles, hours worked, sales, or percentage splits.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Employee visibility
- Employees can see a real-time breakdown of how tips are distributed each shift.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Tip-Pooling automates restaurant tip pooling, tip sharing, calculations, and distribution.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- The FAQ says secure systems protect sensitive employee and payout data, with access controlled so only authorized people see the information.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Setup
- The homepage FAQ says most restaurants are up and running in less than a week, with onboarding help to connect systems, import employees, and configure rules.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- Ongoing onboarding and support are included in the plan price.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Tip types
- It supports card tips, cash tips, service charges, and digital tip payouts.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- 3191 Red Hill Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- POS and payroll
- The product says it pulls tip data from POS systems and sends tip distribution to payroll, without naming specific providers on the page.checked 7 Oct 2026
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