TipOut Canada

Streamlining Gratuity Distribution across Restaurants

Food and Beverages Tech Review

Shelley Windsor, TipOut Canada | Food and Beverages Tech Review | Top Food Technology Solutions Providers in CanadaShelley Windsor, Owner and President
The idea behind software is generally borne out of the cradle of developers. Rare is the scenario when it is envisioned and designed by the end user. Well, this is the story of Shelley Windsor.

When the pandemic layoffs demanded she and her family take the reins of their restaurants, she immediately noticed a scope for improvement in the tipping and the gratuity distribution system. She designed a platform to simplify the process and hired software developers, First Descent Software to bring it to fruition, creating the TipOut Canada platform and streamlining the tipping system.

The razor-thin profit margin in restaurants discourages extra payments and strives for cost-saving measures. Employing someone just to balance the day’s sales, figure out tips and put it in a spreadsheet can be human error-prone and quite a burden for restaurants. Acknowledging this as a problem across the industry, TipOut Canada set out to offer its platform as a solution.

“The precision and clarity in gratuity calculation offered by our platform frees our clients from the hassle of managing spreadsheets and figuring out tips manually,” says Windsor, owner and president.

TipOut Canada isn’t eliminating a job profile. It just requires minimal management, freeing the employees for more business-oriented tasks. It doesn’t promote a staff reduction philosophy. Good software needs good management to create a balance and an atmosphere of trust. The freedom and trust allow the employees to work on better ideas, balancing and point-of-sales solutions.

Apart from the cost savings, the platform brings a sense of transparency to the entire gratuity distribution system. The money that’s been processed isn’t owned by the restaurant but belongs to the employees. The employees have their wallets in the platform allowing them to observe the distribution of the tips transparently, ensuring nothing has been allocated off somewhere else. The staff have mutually created and agreed upon the distribution process and breakdown before set-up.

Creating and setting up a customized process is of key importance. The platform can be tailored to work with direct, individual or pooled tip models while following current tipping guidelines. It also figures out allocations for other departments automatically. It can interact with various point-of-sale software to collect information and very effectively calculate gratuity.

  • The precision and clarity in gratuity calculation offered by our platform frees our clients from the hassle of managing spreadsheets and figuring out tips manually


The precise and transparent nature of managing gratuity has an added advantage of employee retention. Transparency in tip calculation and distribution creates a sense of trust that promotes employee loyalty while attracting newer applicants. The ability to be customized also frees it from any particular niche and makes it flexible enough to be molded to the needs of a restaurant of any size. TipOut Canada being a platform envisioned by restaurateurs for restaurateurs is more in tune with the needs of a restaurant and is better suited to cater to them.

After installing TipOut Canada in a restaurant, the manager acknowledged it streamlined their entire process as their employees don’t have to approach them regularly to inquire about the gratuity distribution. The clarity has made the manager's job so much easier.

The platform is built to work and support any model. It can even work on the controlled tip model as the cost savings come from the considerable reduction in working hours required for gratuity distribution. Add it to the ease of doing business with the streamlined process, and it becomes a natural fit for food and beverage operations.

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TipOut Canada

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Shelley Windsor, Owner and President

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TipOut Canada offers a platform for gratuity distribution management, streamlining the entire process with a sense of transparency appreciated by both the management and the employees. The gratuity management process is customizable according to the needs and model followed by the restaurant and their employees making it a truly versatile tool that can fit into an establishment of any size.

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