Clover feature · Bars & breweries
A practical walk-through of tip management on Clover for pubs: what happens, who does what and what to set up first.
✓ Installed by our team and supported by phone. Rates and equipment are quoted to your business.
Merchant Fund Express configures this Clover capability with your devices, menu and team, so it is working from the first shift.
Tip management decides how tips are asked for, captured and paid out, so nothing is settled by memory at close.
For a pub, the detail that matters is this: open tabs are central, often with a card held or pre-authorized. Last call means a rush of tabs to close at once. Checking ID is the pub's responsibility.
Suggested tips are chosen to fit the typical ticket.
The prompt appears before the card is read.
Each tip is attributed to the employee on the sale.
Shift and employee reports drive the payout.
In a pub, tips are part of how people are paid, so how they are asked for and counted matters to morale as much as to the books.
A pub that handles tips loosely invites arguments at payout. A prompt, a report and a written rule end most of them.
Bartenders, servers and kitchen staff share the system. Individual logins and manager-only voids protect against comps and lost tabs. At last call, every bartender closing tabs at once needs to see which tab is whose, which is far easier with names attached to each tab.
We stage the system before it ships, install it with you in the room, and rehearse a real service so launch day is not the first time anyone uses it.
Letting tips be added after the batch closes and then reconciling from memory.
It matters more in a pub because pubs fill after work and on weekends, with game nights and quiz nights creating peaks. Many guests open a tab and add rounds throughout the evening.
As explained by Merchant Fund Express. Updated 2026.
Yes. Tips are attributed to the employee on the sale and show in employee and shift reports.
Yes. Suggested amounts are configurable and can differ by order type.
Yes. Prices can be set to change at certain times so staff do not need to adjust them manually.
There is no price list on purpose. Your quote is built from your monthly card sales, your average ticket and the devices you need, so call (305) 384-8391 and we will price your actual setup.
Yes. Send or read us a recent statement and we will walk through what you pay today, with no obligation.
Call Merchant Fund Express. We install it, train your staff and stay on the line after launch. Ask for a free rate review while you are at it.
