How Do I Update Gross Receipts for Tipped Employees? (U.S. and CA)

If you are a Lawson Tips user, you have a number of options for entering gross sales receipts in to the Tips application.

Run the Point of Sale Interface to create gross receipts records for tipped employees in the Lawson Tips application. The application creates gross receipts records by reading a file created from a non-Lawson time record application. You are responsible for creating the time record interface file read by any non-Lawson time record applications.

Use the Hours Worked Allocation to create gross receipts records to use in the Hours Worked method of calculating shortfall allocations for specific allocation levels. You can record charged tips, charged receipts, and service charges of less than 10 percent paid as wages to employees. The application uses this optional information for year-end federal reporting.

Use Gross Receipts by Allocation Level to create gross receipts records for employees in a specific allocation level. The application uses these gross receipts records to calculate shortfall allocations using the Individual Gross Receipts method.

Use Employee Gross Receipts Allocation to record gross receipts for individual employees reporting in more than one allocation level.

Use Gross Receipts Allocation to create gross receipts records to use in the individual gross receipts method of calculating shortfall allocations for specific allocation levels. You can record charged tips, charged receipts, and service charges of less than 10 percent paid as wages to employees. The application uses this information for year-end federal reporting.