Sales and tip distribution occurs automatically, when you create and manage teams for sales and tip distribution, at the close of each check, regardless if the check is serviced by a shift team or a check team. Automatic distribution helps lower the need for back office adjustment of declared tips as a result of more accurate declaration when clocking out; however, the automatic distribution can only do an equal distribution among the employees. If you need to redistribute the sales and tip, you can do so either from the FOH or the BOH, based on your needs and your configuration.

• Use the FOH distribution function for current day activity when you have changes to a team and need an equal distribution.
• Use the BOH distribution function for both current day, if enabled, and previous days, as many times as needed until the payroll end date. You can stipulate to do the redistribution by a designated percentage or equally among all employees on the team. When you redistribute a check on the next business day or after an employee on the team has already clocked out, the system corrects the reported sales and tip amounts, but you need to access Edit Punches to change the declared tips for each employee on the team.

As a best practice and if at all possible, it is best if the final distribution of the sales and tip for each check is complete and correct before your employees clock out and declare their tips for the day. This reduces the number of corrections to declared tips that have to be done later using the Edit Punches function.

Perform the following procedures, as needed:

• Managing teams
• Performing sales and tip distribution
• Checking out and declaring tips at clock out

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