How to track tips from two jobs

Why two jobs break most tip logs

A bar on Thursday to Saturday and a café for weekend brunch have different wages, different tip-out rules and different weeks. A single-job tracker forces you to either keep two apps, which halves the habit, or to log everything under one job with the wrong wage pre-filled, which corrupts every hourly rate. Neither survives long.

The fix is a job field on every shift, with the wage and tip-out attached to the job rather than typed each time.

Setting it up in Tillside

Each job in Tillside has a name, a colour, a default wage, a default start time and duration, and a tip-out rule. With more than one job, the New Shift sheet shows a job switcher at the top; choose the job and the wage and tip-out re-fill for it while the money you have typed stays put. The Shifts screen gains a filter, all jobs or one job, that the week card, the 30-day card and the list all respect.

Multiple jobs are a Tillside Pro feature, US$3.99 a month or US$24.99 a year, with a 7-day trial on the yearly plan. If the subscription ever lapses, the jobs you already created stay visible and editable and their shifts stay in the list and the export. Only adding another job is gated.

How to compare the two jobs fairly

Filter to one job, note the week card's hourly rate, then filter to the other. Do it over three or four weeks, because a single Saturday at the bar will beat a single Sunday brunch every time and tell you nothing. Then look at the shape: the bar might pay £24 an hour on Saturday and £13 on Thursday, while brunch pays a steady £17. That is a schedule decision, not just a ranking.

Remember travel and turnaround. If the café shift costs you an hour each way that the bar does not, add it to the hours before you compare.

Tax time with two employers

One export covers both jobs: every row carries the job name and its currency, so filtering by job in a spreadsheet takes seconds. That matters in the US, where each employer needs its own monthly tip report, and in the UK, where cash tips from both venues add up to one figure you declare. Our guide to tracking tips for taxes covers the records to keep.