The console gives you the tipping rules, the records and the people — and no access to a single tip. Set your policy once, and dabdab runs the pools, the cycles, the tronc and the filings.
A location’s tipping policy — the split your team adopted, and what tonight would pay.
There is no money in this console. No wallet, no payouts, no earnings — at any tier.
It is the first thing a regulator screenshots.
Set how tipping works for one venue or seventeen hundred. Every edit is versioned, attributed and takes effect from the next cycle — never retroactively.
Roles, personas, seats and invitations. You see who is licensed and who is still pending. You never see what anyone earns.
One governance timeline per location: every policy version, every vote, every attestation. Export it any time.
One dab sits at the venue. A worker taps it to start their shift and taps it to end it. There is no rota to build, no manager to chase, and no separate shift for anyone to open or close — the shift running right now is simply whoever is on the clock.
Hold the venue dab to a phone. It opens on the join screen, already knowing the venue, the brand and the role. They confirm. They’re in.
One programme for the whole group, or delegate the choice to each brand — or each site. The guardrails stay yours either way, and every exception comes to you.
Staff adopt the split by secret ballot in their own app. dabdab administers the outcome as independent troncmaster — you never allocate, so no employer National Insurance attaches.
You set the rules yourself. Tips then run through your payroll and employer National Insurance applies. Your acceptance is recorded and reported to us monthly.
Staff always opt in individually. Anyone who declines simply keeps their own tips — invisibly to their colleagues. Managers and supervisors never join pools.
Appointment is not a decision you have to make, a firm you have to retain, or a document you have to sign.
Equal split, equal split weighted by hours, or points per role. Whichever your team adopts, the arithmetic is visible to every person in the pool.
An illustration — Friday 27 June · pool €2,400.00 · 30 staff opted in
| Role | On roster | Points each | Each receives | Share of pool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wait staff | 12 | 100 | €93.75 | 46.9% |
| Bar staff | 6 | 100 | €93.75 | 23.4% |
| Kitchen | 8 | 70 | €65.63 | 21.9% |
| Porters | 4 | 50 | €46.88 | 7.8% |
| Front desk | 3 | Direct — not pooled, keeps 100% of their own dabs | ||
| Distributes €2,400.00 | 100% | |||
Every pool member sees this exact maths in their own app, before and after settlement.
Per shift gives every band of the day its own pot. The rest take their boundaries from the calendar.
No one on your team opens a pool, closes a pool, or works out who was in it. There is no button, and nothing waits on a manager remembering.
A persona template is authored once — the public role title, the venue display name, the brand mark from your brand kit, the suggested amounts a guest sees. Attach it to a role, and every licensed persona in that role updates live. Bindings and wallets are untouched.
Want your brand on the disc too?
Nobody authors two policies. The jurisdiction is the compiler.
Revenue: PAYE and PRSI. We generate the tips notice you are required to display. Your staff declare their own tips, with a running record kept for them.
HMRC: PAYE and NIC. The Act applies where a business controls tips; the direct default keeps you outside it, and pooled mode runs as a tronc so the NIC exemption holds.
IRS: income tax and FICA. Managers and supervisors are excluded by design, state tip‑pooling rules are applied per location, and monthly tip reports arrive payroll‑ready.
A single brand programme spanning Dublin and Manchester compiles twice — Irish Tips Act on one side, UK tronc rules on the other, each with its own filings. You wrote one policy.
You see how many dabs your team received, how many people opted in, and whether a policy is current and signed. You never see what any individual earns.
Ballots are secret. Pool membership is counted, never named — no list, no gap, no asterisk marking out whoever declined. That invisibility is what makes the choice real, and it is what keeps you outside the tipping regulations.
dabdab is opening to venues and groups in stages, market by market. Leave your details and we will come to you when yours is next.
No sales call, no obligation. Just a note when there is something real to show you.