The Take Home Enabled feature allows you to set up an alert for job codes that are not eligible for take-home tips. Its primary purpose is to alert you whenever employees in non-tipped job codes receive tips in error, helping ensure your tip distribution and payroll are accurate.
This feature is especially useful for roles such as:
General Managers.
Training positions.
Ghost Employees, such as drawers.
Any other job code that should not receive tips.
How It Works
Setting up an Invalid Take-Home Alert for a Job Code
Navigate to your client dashboard.
Go to Settings > Locations > Job Codes.
Locate the job code you wish to modify.
Disable the Take Home Enabled toggle for that job code.
⚠️ Disabling Take Home for a job code only turns on the invalid take home alert; it does not automatically reallocate undistributed tips
The Alert System
If a job code has Take Home Enabled disabled but receives tips greater than $0.00, the system will automatically generate an alert on your Breakdown Page.
The alert, labeled "Invalid Take Home Found," will remain visible until you resolve the discrepancy.
This ensures that no unallocated tips are overlooked.
How To Review and Resolve an "Invalid Take Home Found" Alert - 
Common Causes for Invalid Take-Home Alerts
An invalid Take-Home for a non-tipped job code usually occurs for one of three reasons:
Not in Tip Logic: The job code that received the tips (e.g., Manager) is not included in any of your active tip-sharing rules or tip pools.
Incorrect Timing: A sale was closed outside the schedule established in your tip distribution rules or tip pools.
No Tip-Eligible Employees Clocked In During the Distribution Frequency: The employee who made the sale retains the tips because no one was clocked in under a tip-recipient job code during the rule/pool's distribution frequency (Daily, Hourly, Time-of-Sale).
Reviewing an Invalid Take-Home
Understand how the tips should have been distributed: As a first step, navigate to the Tip-Distribution Logic page to see how the job code distributes the tips.
Some organizations set Tip-Sharing rules for the non-tipped job code to share 100% of the tips with another job code.
Some organizations split the tip distribution, such as 30% for servers, 30% for bartenders, and 40% for the rest of the staff.
Some organizations use a Tip Pool where the non-tipped job code is set to 0 points, so it puts all its tips into the pool without keeping any.
Some organizations use a combination of both, sending tips through Tip-Sharing rules and then using a Tip Pool with the non-tipped position set to 0 points.
Review the conditions that must be met for the tips to be fully distributed, whether your organization uses Tip Sharing Rules, Tip Pools, or a mix of both to distribute the tips for non-tipped job codes. These conditions could be a schedule in the rule/pool, or a review of the distribution frequency (daily, time of sale, etc.).
Now that you know what conditions must be met for the tips to be distributed, it's time to review the actual invalid take-home and the sales that led to it. Follow these steps:
Open the Alert: From your breakdown page, click the Invalid Take-Home alert to see the date of the incident and more details, including:
Employee Name
Job Code
Location
Date
Take-Home Amount
Click the Link to Breakdown button on the alert details screen. This opens the breakdown for the date in question.
View Sales Data: In the daily breakdown, find the employee and click the blue number in the Total Sales column to access their sales report.
Identify the Sales: On the Sales report page, examine the Distributions column. This will show you exactly which sales transactions resulted in undistributed tips.
How to Reallocate Incorrectly Assigned Tips
After using the reports to identify the sales with undistributed tips, the next step is to reallocate those funds to the correct employees or tip pools. The right method depends entirely on the specific situation.
Common Methods to Resolve Invalid Take-Home
There are different ways to resolve an invalid take-home. Here are some solutions for the most common scenarios. Review the options below to determine the best course of action for
Distributing Tips to a Specific Employee or Group of Employees: Choose this method when tips from a sale should go to a single person or group of people.
You can use the Custom Team adjustment feature to relocate the tips from a single or multiple sales. Click here to learn how to create a custom team adjustment here.Changing the Sale(s) Opened or Closed Times: Use this method when tips should have been included in a Tip-Sharing rule or Tip pool (e.g., Bar Pool, Server Pool), but the tips were not distributed because the sales were opened or closed outside of the Tip-Sharing rule or Tip Pool's schedule.
TipHaus lets you modify the date and time of sales through the Edit Sale Window by navigating to Reporting > Sales and clicking the edit buttons in the far-right column.
Pro-Tip: If the tips should have been distributed automatically by an existing rule, verify that an eligible employee was clocked in according to the rule's distribution frequency when the sale occurred (Daily, Hourly, Half Hour, Time of Sale)
Still have questions? Contact our customer success team here or click the Chat icon in the bottom-right corner of your Client Dashboard.