For servers, bartenders & everyone who lives on tips
Snap your checkout slip.
Know what you actually made.
Cash + card − tip-out, your real hourly, every shift — read straight off the slip in 3 seconds. And the record never disappears.
- 4M+
- US tipped workers
- $25K
- tax deduction window
- 0
- ads, forever
- Credit tips$201.50 ✓
- Cash declared$86.00 ✓
- Tip-out$40.00 check
Built for 1 AM, one hand, low light
The end-of-shift ritual, minus the mental math and the pocket notebook.
Point your camera at the checkout — Toast, Aloha, Micros, or a gig-app earnings screen. Crumpled thermal paper is fine.
The numbers appear next to your photo. Anything the scan isn't sure about gets flagged so you never save a wrong shift.
Take-home, real hourly, week and month totals — updated instantly. The photo is archived as your proof.
Everything the paystub doesn't tell you
Base pay + cash + card − tip-out, divided by hours actually worked. The number your paystub never shows.
Track exactly what went to the bar, bussers, and runners — and check the math against your house rules.
Month view with take-home on every date, like the pocket notebook — except it does the math and never gets lost.
Which days and shifts actually pay? Weekly, monthly, and pay-period views that make the answer obvious.
Income statements for the apartment application. Cash-tip and tip-out records that never hit a paystub.
Every entry is saved to your account from day one. New phone, deleted app, doesn't matter — it's all there.
The trust pledge — what killed the other apps won't happen here
No video ads before you can save. The record button is sacred.
Backed up from your very first entry — no account setup required.
One tap, standard format, no paywall. Your numbers are yours.
Logging, totals, and real hourly will never cost a dollar.
Free tools, no app needed
The math every tipped worker does on a napkin — done properly, in your browser.
% of sales, % of tips, % of liquor — see what you actually keep.
Estimate your 2025–2028 federal tip deduction and what it saves you.
Tips + base − tip-out ÷ honest hours. Compare any two shifts.
The $25,000 tip deduction window is open.
Your W-2 covers what the POS saw. Cash tips and tip-outs only exist in your own records — the ones TipScan keeps automatically, with the original slips as proof.
Questions
Is TipScan really free?＋
Yes. Unlimited shift logging, calendar, totals, real-hourly math, and CSV export are free forever — with zero ads. A Pro plan will add unlimited slip scanning, photo archive, forecasts, and multi-job tools.
Which POS checkout slips can it read?＋
TipScan is built for the checkout / shift-review printouts from Toast, NCR Aloha, and Oracle Micros Simphony, plus screenshots of gig-app earnings screens. Anything it can't read falls back to a 2-field quick entry.
What about the new tip tax deduction?＋
The 2025–2028 federal deduction lets many tipped workers deduct up to $25,000 of qualified tips. Your W-2 now reports employer-tracked tips, but cash tips and tip-outs still live only in your own records. TipScan keeps that trail — and its report is a reference, not tax advice.
Do I need an account?＋
No signup to start. The app creates an anonymous profile so your shifts are backed up from day one; add an email or sign-in later to sync across devices.
Updated August 2026 · TipScan provides record-keeping tools, not tax advice. Deduction figures reference IRC §224 (2025–2028) and IRS final rule T.D. 10044.