Poolkeep checks who is in tonight's pool against the federal rule and your state's before it is split, splits it by hours to the cent, and keeps every night on record.
Opens in this browser with an invented club already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed. Never holds a customer's name, a card number or a bank account.
The problem
Since 2018 no manager or supervisor may share in a tip pool, and back-of-house staff only when no tip credit is taken. California and New York go further. The pool gets split at 3am by whoever is closing.
the FLSA amendment that bars employers, managers and supervisors from tip pools.
Davis Wright Tremaine →can be stricter - New York keeps back-of-house out whatever the wage.
Davis Wright Tremaine →Not a reminder. Split the pool refuses an owner, a manager or supervisor, a cook while a tip credit is taken, or anyone your state bars. The shares add up to the pool to the cent. A tip credit is refused in a state that allows none. A pooled night is never changed. There is no override.
How it works
Role and duties - who manages, who directs, who hires.
Your state, and whether you take a tip credit.
Tick who worked and their hours; the shares come out to the cent.
What it will never do
Poolkeep holds staff, hours and shares, nothing more.
Pricing
For one venue.
Every pool, every shift.
Monthly, per venue. Your bank statement says Poolkeep Software. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.
Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.
Questions
Yes, unless they meet the whole manager test - primary duty management, directing two or more, and hiring and firing.
Only if you pay everyone the full minimum wage with no tip credit - and not in New York.
By hours. Leftover cents go to the largest remainders so every dollar is paid out.
No. It is the record and the gates.
The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.
The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.
An invented club's floor manager is on the staff list - and Poolkeep will not let tonight's pool be split with him in it.