PARTNERS · HR / PAYE SOFTWARE
Tip4's PAYE-agnostic model means we hand your customer's payroll team the tronc allocation in a clean, standardised format — ready to import into Sage, IRIS, Xero, ADP, or your platform. Your customer doesn't change payroll software; you don't lose the relationship.
"Working with you, delivering value for everyone."
WHY THIS WORKS
A growing number of HR and PAYE platforms have hospitality customers who need tronc compliance. The build cost for full EATA, HMRC E24, and ERA tooling is significant and the regulatory surface keeps moving. We do the tronc layer; you do payroll. Together it works.
We have a breadth of solutions beyond the tronc and compliancy, and plan to bring on more, we would however prefer to work with rather than replace you, it’s better for everyone, especially your customers.
Tronc to your payroll
Tip4 calculates the tronc allocation per worker per period. The output is delivered as a clean payroll file ready for import. Your platform processes PAYE; that's your baby, we aren't here to spoil that.
Integration
We aim to support an iPaaS model meaning we will over time gain EPOS integrations at the front end, HR and rota integrations, and PAYE files at the back end. Let us handle this additional burden and look to automate this and much more.
Compliance layer for your customers
Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, HMRC Guidance on tips, gratuities, service charges and troncs E24, Employment Rights Act 2025. Your customer's compliance picture improves materially without you having to build any of it.
Recurring revenue share
Earn on every customer who signs up through your platform. Aligned commercial terms to make this good for you, for the life of a customer.
One audit pack, per customer
The full audit pack — policy, consultation record, tronc calculations, PAYE confirmations — assembled across both systems.
TECHNICAL DETAIL
How the data flows.
Tip4 calculates tronc
Per worker, per period, based on policy. Allocation report generated.
Output to your platform
Standardised file or API call into your HR/PAYE system.
Payroll runs as normal
Your platform processes PAYE on the tronc payment. NIC exemption applied per HMRC E24.
Workers paid
Worker sees tronc on payslip alongside basic salary. Full transparency, using your framework.
AN HONEST NOTE FROM TONY
Building tronc software inside an HR/PAYE platform is a lot of regulatory work for a feature most industries won’t benefit from. Partner with a specialist. Same answer if we tried to build payroll inside Tip4 — we'd be reinventing your wheel badly – and you can earn a good revenue in the mean time, and do right by your customers and their staff. So hopefully we can all win together. Tips the way they were meant to be