I use Toast Payroll: Ask Me Anything!

[Grillbird]

Hello Toast Community, 

My name is Matt and I’m the owner of Grillbird located in Seattle, WA! I switched to Toast Payroll over 2 years ago and it’s been a really easy experience for us. I (and my CPA) was hesitant at first to make the switch, but we've never had any issues and it's made so many aspects of payroll from onboarding to making adjustments so much easier. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns if you are thinking about making the switch.

[The_Lamberto]

I'm not an owner but I process the payroll for a couple restaurants, the way we have tip-out running is through percentages of sales (bar/foodrunner/barback), I'm assuming that many other places run this way as well. When switching to toast is there a streamlined feature that either does this for you or can be easily implemented?

[Grillbird]

We do a tip pool system but there are endless ways to configure tip outs in almost any configuration you can think of. It's very comprehensive and likely you'll find a tip out solution that fits your business.

[EV_SEA]

Toast has an add-on feature to payroll called “tip management” and it does exactly like you’ve described. It’s the only part of Toast we haven’t had any problems with lol… I love it. We run a full service restaurant with varying tip outs as a percentage of sales from the servers to the support staff. It can be personalized really well. We’re using it at 3 restaurants that all have a different tip out policy and different positions. 

[Eryn]

What is the deadline for direct deposit? I pay weekly and I find it a problem. 

Also when you pay direct deposit does it pull taxes due and payroll in the same withdrawal?

Thanks

[Grillbird · Accepted solution]

Typically the deadline for submitting payroll is Wednesday afternoon, assuming you're on a Friday payday. Also generally, direct deposit and taxes are pulled a day apart but not always. In our case if we run payroll on a Tuesday then DD comes out the next day and taxes come out a day after that but we have seen them come out together if we submitted late on Wednesday.