Hospitality · Nightlife · Entertainment
Nobody carries cash. Your team still deserves the tip.
Guests scan a code and tip in about eight seconds — no app, no account, no fumbling for a five. The money lands in your people's bank accounts by ACH in two business days, split however your house actually works.
Sits beside your POS. Nothing to rip out, no new terminal to buy.
Three steps, then it runs itself
Scan. Tap. Paid.
The whole guest experience fits on one screen, and the whole back end fits in one sentence: money in on Friday, money out by Tuesday.
A guest scans
A code on the check presenter, a card in the tip jar, a tag on the bar rail, or a link in a show program. It opens a web page — there is no app to download and nothing to sign up for.
They tap an amount
Your suggested amounts, or their own. Apple Pay and Google Pay mean most guests are done in two taps, and they can choose to cover the processing fee so your person keeps the whole number they picked.
The right people get paid
Straight to one person, or into a pool that splits on your rules. Funds clear the two-day settlement window and go out by ACH — to your staff's accounts, not through a stack of envelopes.
The part that causes arguments
Your house rules, applied the same way every night
Pooled, point-weighted, hours-based, or straight to the individual. Pick it once. Every split is shown before it happens and recorded after, down to the last cent.
This is not a mock-up. The numbers below are produced by the same largest-remainder arithmetic the platform runs at close, so what you see is what would be paid.
- Nothing goes missing Odd cents are assigned, never dropped or rounded away.
- Every split is explainable Each share records the weight it came from, so a question six weeks later has an answer.
- Corrections are visible A fix is a new offsetting entry, never a quiet edit to an old one.
Split evenly across everyone on shift. Remainder cents go to the largest fractional share, so the split always sums to the exact total.
The fee question, answered plainly
A tip is not a purchase. It shouldn't shrink on the way through.
Card processing costs money, and somebody has to carry it. Most guests, asked politely and once, will — so we ask, with the box unticked, and the answer is theirs.
When a guest covers the fee, the maths is solved rather than estimated, and every rounding remainder lands on your person's side of the ledger. Never yours. Never ours.
See the full fee breakdownA $5.00 tip, guest covers fees
- Tip Dani chose to receive
- $5.00
- Card processing
- $0.11
- Platform fee
- $0.05
- Guest is charged
- $5.16
- Dani receives
- $5.00
Rather than absorb fees? Turn the option off and the $5.00 arrives as $4.84. It's your call, per venue — and either way the guest sees exactly what they pay before they pay it.
Built for how a room actually runs
Everything a shift needs, nothing it doesn't
Codes you can reassign
Reprinting QR cards is expensive, so a code is a pointer, not a person. Move it from Dani to the Friday pool without touching a single sticker.
Two-day ACH, rolling
Tips rest a two-business-day settlement window, then go out on your schedule — daily, weekly, or every other week.
1099s that write themselves
Contract performers and freelance bartenders get a 1099-NEC in January, built from what actually cleared. No shoebox, no spreadsheet.
Reports by jar and by person
Daily or weekly, in your inbox. Scans versus tips per jar is the most useful number you'll get for deciding where a code should live.
Roles that mean something
A shift lead can close a pool and correct hours. Sending money out is a separate permission, held by fewer people.
Beside your POS, not inside it
No integration project, no terminal swap, no renegotiating a processor contract. Print codes and start tonight.
Two ways in
Which side of the bar are you on?
I run a restaurant, bar, club, or room
Pooled or direct, reports that reconcile, staff paid on a schedule you set — all outside your POS, all without a project plan.
Set up a venue For prosI'm a performer, contractor, or freelancer
Your own code, your own bank account, your own 1099. Get paid for the room you worked without waiting on anyone else's paperwork.
Claim your code2 business days from captured tip to ACH-eligible funds
8 seconds from scan to done, on a phone the guest already unlocked
Zero apps to download, accounts to create, or terminals to buy
4 ways to split a pool: evenly, by points, by hours, or by weight
Straight answers
The questions everyone asks first
Does a guest have to download anything?
No. Scanning opens a normal web page, and Apple Pay or Google Pay handles the rest. Behind the scenes their device is issued a real (anonymous) identity so the payment endpoints stay properly authenticated — but the guest never sees a sign-up screen, and we never ask them for a name unless they want a receipt.
Do I have to replace my POS?
No, and that is the point. Tip Tip Hooray! runs alongside whatever you already use. There is no integration project, no new terminal, and no renegotiating your processor contract — you print codes and you're live.
How fast does the money actually arrive?
A captured tip rests a rolling two-business-day settlement window, then joins the next payout run on your schedule. Business days, not calendar days — ACH does not run at the weekend, and telling you otherwise would just make Monday a disappointment.
Can employees and contractors be on the same system?
Yes, and they're handled differently on purpose. W-2 employees settle through you. Contractors — booked performers, contract bartenders, sole proprietors — get their own ACH destination and a 1099-NEC at year end. One room, one set of codes, two correct tax outcomes.
What happens when someone leaves mid-shift-cycle?
Deactivating a person retires their codes so a stale QR stops collecting, and tells you exactly what they're still owed. Their record stays — someone with tip history is a payee and a tax recipient, and deleting them would orphan money that has already moved.
Is a peer-to-peer app not simpler?
Simpler for one person on one night. It falls apart the moment you need a pool split, a reconcilable daily report, an audit trail for a wage question, or a 1099 in January. This is built for a business paying a team, not for splitting a dinner bill.
Your best bartender is having their best night. Let people say so.
Set up a venue in an afternoon, print your codes, and watch the first one come in before last call.