Tip management software Kickfin has announced a new integration with SkyTab, a comprehensive restaurant point-of-sale (POS) system provided by Shift4.

The collaboration will aid restaurants in managing and distributing tips by enabling automatic calculation of tip pools and direct bank payouts to employees, eliminating the need for cash or payment cards.

Marco's Pizza, Dave & Buster's, Beef 'O' Brady's and Bar Louie are already utilising Kickfin and will benefit from the enhanced capability to modernise their tip management processes.

Kickfin is designed for ease of use and flexibility, eliminates difficult tip calculations and cash from the payout equation, and ensures accuracy and compliance.

Shift4 launched SkyTab POS for restaurants in September 2022.

Known for enhancing restaurant operations and guest experiences, it features integrated online ordering, contactless payments, marketing tools, loyalty programmes and comprehensive reporting.

Shift4 SkyTab Product senior vice president Jay Shavitz said: “As an all-in-one restaurant platform SkyTab has helped tens of thousands of restaurants modernise and optimise their operations.

“Kickfin is a valuable addition to our marketplace, helping SkyTab customers realise significant time and cost savings by simplifying and improving the tip payout process.”

With the Kickfin-SkyTab integration, restaurants can now effortlessly implement complex tip policies, taking into account factors such as roles, shifts and sales.

The integration ensures that tips are distributed swiftly and directly to staff's preferred bank accounts with fund transfers completed in seconds, every day of the year.

Kickfin provides payment tracking, enabling restaurant managers to maintain an electronic record of all tip-outs and the calculations behind them, facilitating easy reporting for accounting purposes and streamlining the financial management of tips within the restaurant industry.

Kickfin co-CEO Brian Hassan said: “With fewer cash transactions than ever before, digitising tip management has become table stakes. Now the question is: are you digitising tip management in the best possible way?

“This integration gives thousands of SkyTab customers the power to fully automate their tip distribution process so they can save time, reduce risk, ensure compliance — all while making life easier for restaurant managers and their employees.”