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By default, Dripos splits tips evenly — every clocked-in employee with a tip-enabled role receives an equal share. Weighted Tip Splitting lets you give each role a tip proportion (1–100%) so that, for example, a Kitchen role earns a smaller share of the pool than a Barista role, automatically, on every transaction. Weighted Tip Distribution is an opt-in feature. It must be enabled before any proportion values take effect. When disabled, tips continue to split as before.
  • This setting is per-location. It must be turned on separately for each location where you want it active.
  • Roles are company-wide. Since Roles are shared across all Locations in your Company, any tip weight you set on a role will apply at every Location where Weighted Tip Distribution is enabled. You cannot set different proportions for the same role at different locations.

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How It Works

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By Transaction

Every clocked-in employee contributes their role’s tip proportion to a total pool weight. Each employee’s share is:
Employee Share = (Employee Role Weight ÷ Total Pool Weight) × Total Tip Amount
Example — 1 Barista (100%) + 1 Kitchen (25%), $10 tip:
  • Total Pool Weight = 125
  • Barista → (100 ÷ 125) × $10 = $8.00
  • Kitchen → (25 ÷ 125) × $10 = $2.00
Example — 2 Baristas (100% each) + 1 Kitchen (25%), $9 tip:
  • Total Pool Weight = 225
  • Each Barista → (100 ÷ 225) × $9 = $4.00
  • Kitchen → (25 ÷ 225) × $9 = $1.00

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By Day, By Week, and By Period

With these methods the pool covers a whole day, week, or pay period, so each employee’s weight is their hours worked multiplied by their role’s tip proportion:
Employee Share = (Hours Worked × Role Weight ÷ Total Pool Weight) × Total Tip Amount
Example — 1 Barista (100%) + 1 Kitchen (25%), each working 40 hours, $1,000 in tips for the period:
  • Barista weight = 40 hours × 100 = 4,000
  • Kitchen weight = 40 hours × 25 = 1,000
  • Total Pool Weight = 5,000
  • Barista → (4,000 ÷ 5,000) × $1,000 = $800.00, or $20.00 per hour
  • Kitchen → (1,000 ÷ 5,000) × $1,000 = $200.00, or $5.00 per hour
Each time card saves its role’s tip weight when it is created, so updating a weight only affects shifts going forward. Learn more about when tip weights apply.
When every active role is set to 100%, the math is identical to the standard even split — so enabling the feature with all roles at the default has no impact on tip calculations.

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Enable Weighted Tip Distribution

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Log in to the Web Dashboard and navigate to Shop Settings > Employee Management
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Locate the Enable Weighted Tip Splitting setting and toggle it to Yes
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Once enabled, configure each role’s proportion from Team > My Team > Roles

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Set or Update Tip Weights

All Roles default to a Tip Weight of 100. You can configure each Role’s proportion at any time, but it will only impact your Employees’ tip splitting when it is enabled.
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Navigate to Team > My Team > Roles
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Click Edit on the role you want to update
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On the Role Information page, click Edit Information
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Update the Set Tip Weighting field and click Save
Each time card saves its role’s tip weight when the time card is created, and tips are always calculated from that saved weight. Turning the feature on or off, or updating a role’s weight, only affects shifts worked from that point forward.
If you update a weight partway through a pay period, that pay period will contain time cards at both weights, and each one is counted at its own weight. Learn more about when tip weights apply.
If a role has Tips Disabled set to Yes, that role is excluded from the tip pool entirely. The remaining clocked-in employees split the tip based on their own proportions, unaffected.

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Viewing Tip Calculations

Weighted tip values are reflected everywhere tips appear in Dripos:
  • Dashboard > Finance > Reports > Time Cards — the Tips column shows each employee’s weighted earnings for the selected period, using the tip splitting method you select on the report.
  • Payroll Export — weighted tip amounts are included in payroll calculations
Once a payroll period is closed, the tips recorded on those timesheets are frozen. Changing a role’s tip proportion after a payroll closes will not affect previously closed periods — only the current open period reflects the updated weights.