Hostess tip tracker
Updated September 22, 2026
Clock in as Hostess
Choose Hostess on Home and clock in. The Hostess hourly wage in Settings is copied onto the shift. Host stands are often wage-heavy: the tips may be a few bills at the door or a share someone handed you, and the wage is most of the night. TrackMyTips still adds them the same way it adds a server close. Total earnings are net tips plus wages, and $/hour divides that by the hours on the clock.
No tip-out prompt on this role
Hostess shifts do not ask “Did you tip out?” after clock-out. Server and Bartender shifts do, because those roles usually give money away. You can still save a Total Tip-Out on a Hostess shift if your house works that way. Leave it blank, or enter $0, when you did not give anything away. Blank and $0 both subtract nothing until you enter a real dollar amount.
Money you received is a tip, including a few dollars a server passed you. Log that as a tip amount. Putting received money into Total Tip-Out subtracts it from your night, which is the wrong direction.
A host stand in numbers
Five hours, $15/hour, $22 in tips, no tip-out. Wages are $75. Total earnings are $97. The rate is about $19.40/hour. The same five hours with the tips forgotten would show $15.00/hour, which is the posted wage and not the night. Enter that $22 only as Total Tip-Out, and never as a tip, and net tips are −$22. Total earnings fall to $53, about $10.60/hour.
Notes are optional. “Door” or “cash” is enough if you want to remember where the $22 came from. There is no separate cash field.
A second door shift in the same week — four hours, the same $15 wage, $8 in tips — is $60 in wages and $68 total, exactly $17.00/hour. The two shifts together are 9 hours and $165, about $18.33/hour. That week rate sits between the two nights. It is what Reports shows for the range, and it is not either shift by itself.
Why a tips-only goal misreads a host week
The two door shifts above are $165 in total earnings and $30 in tips ($22 plus $8). A weekly goal set to total earnings is measuring the wage plus those tips. The same goal set to net tips only is measuring the $30. On a host stand those are different weeks, and the app will not move the wage into the tips metric for you.
That choice lives on the goal, which is covered in earnings goals. It is the host-stand reason to pick the metric on purpose.
Three door shifts, not one night
Add a Saturday to the two door shifts above: six hours, the same $15 wage, $18 in tips, nothing given away. Wages are $90. Total earnings are $108, exactly $18.00/hour.
The three shifts together are 15 hours and $273, exactly $18.20/hour. Tips across those doors are $48. The week rate sits next to the wage, which is what a host stand usually looks like once more than one night is on the calendar.
Where this sits next to the other roles
Reports can break earnings down by role, so a Hostess week stays visible beside Server and Bartender weeks instead of disappearing into one average. The shared steps are in how to track restaurant tips, and the formula is in hourly rate with tips. Expo is the other role without the tip-out prompt: expo tip tracker.