Stop splitting tips across 12 locations in a spreadsheet like an absolute maniac
GratuityEngine automates tip pool calculations, distribution, and tax withholding compliance across multi-location restaurant groups drowning in inconsistent state tip credit laws. It ingests POS data in real time, applies jurisdiction-specific pooling rules, and spits out IRS-audit-ready 8027 filings without a single spreadsheet touched by human hands. Built this after watching a restaurant group eat a $340k back-pay judgment over tip pooling math errors and thinking yeah okay someone has to actually fix this.
- Real-time POS ingestion with jurisdiction-aware tip pooling rules applied before the shift ends
- Covers 47 state tip credit law variants with sub-cent rounding precision on every distribution
- Native 8027 filing export compatible with ADP, Gusto, and Paychex payroll pipelines
- Automatic FLSA tip credit clawback detection with retroactive correction queuing. No more surprises.
- Multi-location group support with per-location rule overrides and unified audit trail
Toast POS, Square for Restaurants, Aloha POS, Lightspeed Restaurant, Revel Systems, Gusto, ADP Workforce Now, Paychex Flex, TipMetrics, VaultBase Payroll, NeuroSync Compliance, Stripe Connect
GratuityEngine runs as a set of loosely coupled microservices — an ingestion layer, a rules engine, a distribution processor, and a filing exporter — each deployable independently behind an internal message bus. All tip transaction state is persisted in MongoDB because the flexible document model maps cleanly to the chaotic variance in per-jurisdiction pooling schemas, and I'm not apologizing for it. Redis handles long-term audit log retention so nothing ever falls off the ledger. The whole thing is containerized, horizontally scalable, and has been running in production under real restaurant-group load since day one.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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