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Is there a way to split tip among workers and owner?

anhmazingfood — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 02:27:04 GMT

Because of this pandemic. We (the owners) are running our shop by ourselves. Now we have brought back a worker. Because we don't clock as owners. Does that one worker get all the tips? Is there a way to split without having to clock in? We have square payroll and timecard.

Re: Is there a way to split tip among workers and owner?

mattd — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 04:45:50 GMT

Hi @anhmazingfood,

If you are using Square Payroll, then you can pool tips between all employees working during a pay period or workday. There is a detailed article about Square Payroll Tip Importing here, but what you are looking for is stated as follows:

"To enable Tip Importing with pooling and splitting:

Sign in to the Settings tab of your online Square Payroll dashboard.
Toggle Enable Tip Importing on.
Select Pool and Split Tips.
Select a Pooling Interval:
- Pay Period: Square Payroll will include all tips collected for the entire pay period and split them based on hours worked per employee.
- Workday: Square Payroll will include all tips collected for a workday and split them based on the employees who have hours for the day.
Click Save."

Re: Is there a way to split tip among workers and owner?

anhmazingfood — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:35:20 GMT

@mattd

That is currently how we have it set up but we (the owners) don’t clock in so we are not able to be part of the pool. We are trying to figure a way around that.

Re: Is there a way to split tip among workers and owner?

mattd — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:53:37 GMT

Makes sense @anhmazingfood. My initial thought would be to add yourselves to the payroll at $0 per hour and clock in when you want to share tips, but I am not sure if this is possible to set $0/hour. Maybe a Square admin may have more to add.

Re: Is there a way to split tip among workers and owner?

anhmazingfood — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:58:42 GMT

@mattd

we have tried that and it does work but then we would get a paycheck and w2 and a owner can’t be a w2 employee

Re: Is there a way to split tip among workers and owner?

anhmazingfood — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 02:23:07 GMT

I have just figured out that you can manually enter the tip when doing payroll. That is what I did to resolve my question. Thank You

transferring tips to business account

yghernandez — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 01:28:16 GMT

Hey- so we have one employee who clocking in and out and is therefore receiving all of his allocated tips. However, there are other tips that technically belong to the employer but they are not clocking in and out. How do we go about getting them those tips?

Re: transferring tips to business account

nika — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:45:38 GMT

Hey @yghernandez- Check out this thread for some guidance!

Re: transferring tips to business account

anhmazingfood — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:13:06 GMT

@yghernandez If you're using square payroll, when doing the payroll, you're actually able to click on the tip section and manually type in the tip. We have situations like yours so we use an excel for tracking it and manually changing the tips in the payroll.