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Allocate tips

You can use the
Allocate Tips
 screen to calculate and allocate the tips that employees of large food or beverage establishment clients need to reach the required percent of the company's gross tipped sales.
  1. Select
    Actions
    , then
    Allocate Tips
    .
  2. Select the client in the
    Clients
     field.
  3. In the
    Year
     field, select the year you want to allocate tips for the client.
  4. In the Method section, choose whether to allocate tips based on the total amount of sales entered via payroll check entry for the employee during the selected year or based on the total number of hours worked by the employee during the selected year.
    • Tipped sales
      : If you select this method, the employees must have sales amounts entered during payroll check entry.
    • Hours worked
      : If you select this method, the employees must have a pay item set up that uses the Tipped Wages special type.
  5. In the
    Allocated tip information
     fields, enter or modify information as necessary. You can override the retrieved information in certain fields, which recalculates the information in the Calculation grid.
    note
    To display in the Calculation grid, employees need to have at least 1 active pay item that uses the Reported Tips special type and have a payroll check entered for them that contains tipped wages with reported tips.
  6. Select
    Clear All Overrides
     if you need to clear the overrides for the current client's selected year.
  7. When you're done entering or modifying information in this screen and are ready to allocate tips for the selected year for the selected client, select
    Allocate
    . The application will store the
    Year
     and the
    Tips to Allocate
     amount for each employee.

This article applies to:

  • Product: Accounting CS,Accounting CS Client Access
  • Subject: Payroll checks

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