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Restaurant tip pooling software

No more tip math required.

Sync tips from your POS, distribute by hours worked, and tip out in payroll.

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Best Small Business Payroll 2025

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Best Payroll Services 2025

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Best Payroll for Small Business 2026

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90,000+ food & beverage businesses rely on Homebase.

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Restaurant tip management software

Set up your tip pool right the first time.

Automated, compliant, and fair tip pooling without spreadsheets.

Homebase timesheet showing each employee's hours with their calculated tip out.

Calculate tips automatically, no formulas needed.

Tips sync from your POS and get distributed automatically, saving you from manual data entry and math.

Homebase app missed break resolve interface with options to select whether employee took a break or agrees to waive it

Get peace of mind with tip compliance.

We'll apply tip credits based on your state rules, so you're protected against wage violations.

Homebase mobile app showing an employee's tips earned alongside their tipping policy.

Give your team an easy way to track the tips they earn.

Your team always knows what tips to expect—no more questions on payday.

Automate tip pooling from punch in to payout.

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Restaurant tip management

Run payroll without doing tip math.

  • Set up your tip pool in minutes without complicated spreadsheets.
  • Automatically distribute tips based by hours worked or percentage by role—no formulas needed.
  • Add custom amounts and cash tips before you run payroll.
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Homebase timesheet showing each employee's hours with their calculated tip out.

Restaurant tipping software

One app for tip outs, timesheets, and payroll.

  • Automatically add tip outs to timesheets for faster payroll prep, factoring in credit card fees.
  • Tipped wage reporting and Social Security Tip Tax Credits flow into Homebase Payroll automatically.
  • Your team can keep track of their daily tip payouts in the same app as their schedules and time clock.
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Homebase interfaces for syncing timesheets to payroll and showing a breakdown of hours, breaks, and tips earned for an employee.

restaurant payroll and tip management

Records that protect you, and transparency that builds trust.

  • Keep detailed records of your tipping history and policy changes if wage disputes or audits come up.
  • Your tip pool is set up for your state's rules on tip credits and employee eligibility, so you're always compliant.
  • Your team sees their tips instantly in the app—helping you build trust and avoid paycheck questions.
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Homebase mobile app showing an employee's tips earned alongside their tipping policy.

Tip Manager is the next iteration of my spreadsheet. It just does it without me doing anything, using the information that I already have in Homebase.

Andrew CampolongOwnerIdyllwild Ice Cream ShopIdyllwild-Pine Cove, CA

Get tips from your POS to payroll in 4 easy steps.

Set up your tip pool once and let it run automatically with fair distributions, state compliance, and full transparency built in.

Employee profile set up with role, job details, and pay.

1. Connect your POS & team

Automatically pull in hours and tips from your Square or Clover POS.

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2. Set your tip pool

Set up your tip pooling policy based on hours worked or percentage by role.

Homebase app time clock interface with employee location and button to clock in

3. Auto-calculate

Distribute tips automatically, adding any cash tips as needed in payroll.

Homebase app interface with toggle on for syncing timesheets to payroll

4. Run payroll

Tip-outs flow to timesheets and payroll for accurate earnings that you and your team can track in the app.

Real impact on real teams.

The restaurant tipping software that makes work easier.

90,000+

Food & beverage businesses

Over 90,000 food & beverage businesses run their teams on Homebase.

85%

Rated very easy to use

85% of customers rated Homebase as extremely easy to use, helping teams stay organized with less manual admin.

4 in 5

Would recommend

4 in 5 of our customers would recommend Homebase to another small business owner to manage their teams.

Forget the formulas with tipping software built for restaurant teams.

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Restaurant tip pooling explained.

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Integrate with the tools your restaurant already uses

Connect your POS and payroll to track your sales, tips, and team's hours together.

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