Cash and card, apart
Log shift has a field for cash tips and one for card tips, because that's how you count them at the end of the night. Sales has its own field too, for tip outs worked out from it. Your tips are the two added up.
Tip outs and tip ins, line by line
Behind a bar, money moves in both directions. You tip out a barback, a food runner or the house pool. You get a share from servers who sold drinks off your well. In Tipmik each one is its own line under Tip shares: who it went to or came from, the amount, and how it was worked out, like 4% of $640 in sales.
Give each job a tip-out rule, a percentage of sales, a percentage of tips or a flat amount, and Tipmik fills it in on every shift. Change it for the night when the split was different.
If your bar pools tips, record your own share. Tipmik doesn't work out the whole team's split.
Paid out has its own field: what the tip card or payroll actually paid you. Tipmik checks it against your card tips plus tip ins minus tip outs, to the cent, and tells you when they don't match.
Scan the checkout instead of typing it
Tap Scan checkout or payout in Log shift and photograph your checkout slip, or pick screenshots from a tip payout app, up to four photos at once. Tipmik reads them together, so a payout spread over three overlapping screenshots still counts each tip share once.
It fills in the shift for you to check. Nothing is saved until you do. Scanning needs a connection. With no slip, type the shift in yourself.
More than one bar
Pick up shifts at a second place, or work the floor some nights? Add each job with its own wage and tip-out rule. A shift keeps the wage it was worked at, so a raise doesn't rewrite last year.
Take home per hour
Take home is your tips plus tip ins and wages, minus tip outs. It doesn't subtract taxes. Tipmik divides it by the hours you worked, so a slow double and a packed Saturday close can be compared fairly. In More, Day cells under Calendar can switch each day you worked to its hourly figure instead of its total.
Find your best nights
Under each Totals page, the breakdown ranks your best shifts, then your weekdays, parts of the day (morning, lunch, dinner and late) and jobs. Rank them by take home per hour, per shift or tip percentage. Week and pay period views look back over 13 weeks. A group with fewer than three shifts is shown but not ranked, so one lucky Tuesday doesn't top the list.
From any shift you can compare it with last week's same night, the same weekday last month, or that weekday's average over 12 weeks.
Goals
Set a target for a day, week, month or year: take home, tips, hours, average hourly or tip percentage. Daily goals tint the Calendar's days, weekly goals fill the column beside each week, and the month's goal sits at the top. With no goal set, Tipmik suggests one from the shifts you've logged.
Tax tools for qualified tips
Bartenders are on the Treasury's list of occupations that customarily receive tips. If you want help with the no tax on tips deduction, turn on Tax tools in More. Tipmik then keeps the daily tip record: cash and card tips apart, service charges apart (they aren't tips), and what you tipped out. It checks your monthly declarations to your employer, helps you check your W-2 against your record, and exports the record as a PDF.
Tax tools are off until you turn them on, and Log shift shows no tax fields until then. Tipmik keeps the record and does the arithmetic. It isn't tax advice.