Tipsta announces the UK’s first cashless tipping platform

TIPSTA ANNOUNCES THE UK’s FIRST CASHLESS TIPPING PLATFORM THAT GIVES CUSTOMERS A SIMPLE AND TRANSPARENT METHOD TO PAY A TIP.
Have you ever wanted to leave a tip, but had no change on you? Or ever asked the staff at a restaurant, ‘Who keeps the tip?’. We are proud to introduce Tipsta, the cashless tipping app! Providing a simple and transparent method to pay a tip directly to your server or chef.
For the first time, restaurant owners and staff can benefit from a more cost effective and autonomous method of receiving and sharing tips. Removing the heavy cost burden and customer uncertainty surrounding card gratuity and service charge payments.
TIPS ARE CHANGING
The truth is that cash is no longer king. The proportion of UK transactions paid for with cash fell by a fifth in recent years and is forecast to plunge by at least a third more over the coming decade (*1). As this trend continues, fewer people are paying tips due to the combination of a lack of convenience and uncertainty surrounding card tips.
TIP CONTROVERSY
Over the past 18 months tip policy has been front page news, putting a spotlight upon the fairness of current practices such as; service charge (which is still currently allowed to be considered as revenue), unfair deductions of staff tips and in some of the worst cases, staff having to pay the restaurant if their tips do not cover a percentage of their sales. The increase in public awareness generated from this coverage resulted in protests outside of large restaurant chains and famous boutique stores across the UK.
THE TIPSTA SOLUTION
The new trend in cashless payments and growing customer awareness presents the opportunity for the humble tip to be redefined. Tipsta provides a new way for customers to connect directly with service staff in the moment they are most inspired to pay a tip. Empowering staff to control how they receive and share their tips, reducing the cost and management burden that tips place upon restaurants and providing absolute transparency to customers.
THE TIPSTA APP
Customers and staff can download the app and register completely free and be ready to pay or receive tips instantly. Tipsta deducts a small fee (4% + 20p) from the tip and allows staff to share tips between one another, completely free of charge.
JOIN THE DEBATE
Tipsta presents the opportunity for staff, customers and restaurant owners to redefine what fair tips really are. Join the debate here.
Tipsta is available now on the on the App Store.
Visit tipsta.co for more information.
REFERENCES
- *Source: Payments Council UK Cash & Cash Machines Report 2014
