Tips

Use Employee > Tips in the Back Office  to review checkouts, correct cash tips, and set sharing rules.

The three tabs are Checkouts, Cash tips, and Settings. Choose the business day at the top of Checkouts or Cash tips. The day follows your POS start hour, so an overnight shift stays on the night it belongs to.

Review checkouts

Checkouts shows what each server owes the restaurant or should receive, and what has already been settled.

1. Open Checkouts .
2. Pick the business day.
3. Read each server’s Due, Settled, and Outstanding amounts.
4. Click a server’s name to open their checkout sheet.

A positive amount means the server hands cash to the drawer. A negative amount means the drawer pays the server. A zero outstanding balance shows Settled.

The sheet explains the result with shifts, sales, card and cash tips, tip-outs, transfers, and settlements already made. It ends with Turn in, Receive, or Settled.

This page is read-only. Record cash settlements on the POS server report.

Checkouts requires Use Settle and Drop. If it is off, the page links to Point of Sale > Cash Drawer . If tip share cannot be computed, fix the reported problem before relying on the checkout total.

Record and correct cash tips

Open Cash tips  and pick the business day. Each listed employee has:

• Recorded: tips left on cash payments on the POS. These come from orders and are read-only here.
• Declared: the employee’s cash-tip entries, excluding voided ones.
• Total: recorded and declared tips together.

Add a declaration

1. Find the employee’s card. Review existing entries so you do not declare the same tips twice.
2. Enter the amount and an optional note.
3. Click Add.

You can add only from an employee’s card. An employee with no tips, entries, or timecard for that day has no card here.

Fix an amount or remove a duplicate

1. Find the entry on the employee’s card. Its source and time help identify it.
2. Click Fix, enter the corrected amount, and click Save.
3. For a duplicate, click Void and confirm. The entry stays visible as voided and stops counting toward Declared.

Click History to review additions, corrections, and voids for the day.

When an entry cannot be changed

• The day is locked: a day marked paid in tip share cannot accept additions, corrections, or voids. Unlock it in tip share first.
• Someone changed the entry: the day reloads. Review the current amount before trying again.
• The entry was already voided: the day reloads with its current state.

You can also correct separately entered declarations from Timesheets.

Set tip sharing

Open Tips > Settings . The Tip share card holds the sharing rules and processing-fee setting.

Use the Tip Share guide to enable sharing and build tip-out or pool rules.

For a contributor rule, turn on Include cash tips to share Recorded and Declared cash tips as well. Cash tips have no processing-fee deduction. Recorded tips count once your business turns on declaring cash tips. An unclaimed-online pool has no contributors, so it does not offer this switch.

Set cash handling by job

The Cash handling card on Tips > Settings  controls who holds cash from sales until checkout.

1. Under Business setting, choose servers keeping cash or cash going into the drawer.
2. Under By job, leave each job on Follow business, or choose Servers keep cash or Cash drawer.
3. Click Save.

For example, servers can keep their cash while bartenders use the drawer. Job choices apply to settlement and checkout only when Use Settle and Drop is on. The POS itself follows the business setting.

Changing the business setting to drawer handling requires every POS used in the last 30 days to run Selflane POS 7.7.0 or later. The page lists iPads needing an update. Job choices can save while the business change waits for those updates.

If part of a save fails, the message names the setting or job. The page reloads to show what saved. Review it before trying again.

Related links

• Tip Share: detailed sharing rules and daily results.
• POS settings: Settle and Drop, drawer counts, and station drawers.
• Timesheets: timecards and separately entered cash tips.
• Payroll: pay-period hours, wages, and tips.
• Server report: record a cash settlement on the POS.