[{"question":{"category_id":1368784,"account_id":12867,"created_at":"2026-09-23T07:53:30.091Z","tag_names":["set up tips","tips settings","enable tipping","allow tips","tip presets","maximum tip","tip cap","custom tip amount","apply technology fee to tips","post tips to","tip income","tips payable","gratuity item","tip label","customer defaults allow tips","install tips add-on"],"answer_sample":"This article walks through installing the Tips add-on, choosing your settings and","long_answer_sample":"This article walks through installing the Tips add-on, choosing your settings and letting your customers tip. For what Tips is and who can use it, start with Tips at a Glance. Before you begin You are on the Premium plan, or on a Premium trial.\nIf you use QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop, your sync is connected and healthy. Biller Genie creat","language_id":1,"id":3952606,"last_published_date":"September 23rd, 2026","last_published_avatar":"\u003cimg class=\"avatar circle\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"background: url(\u0026quot;/initials_avatars/TA?bg=e0633a\u0026amp;s=192\u0026amp;fg=fff\u0026quot;) 0% 0% / 96px 96px;\" src=\"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/841e7ea85ebda058cdd7ee30638e7bee.png?s=96\u0026amp;d=blank\" /\u003e","last_published_user_name":"Thomas Aronica","indexable_body":"article walks installing tips add-on, choosing settings letting customers tip. can use it, start glance. begin premium plan, trial. quickbooks online desktop, sync connected healthy. biller genie creates gratuity item tip account turn tipping on. see connect desktop page settings. xero. available right install add-ons (see managing users genie). step 1 add-on merchant portal, click marketplace. narrow results tools category, find tile. open tile continue. now appears sidebar. changes nothing yet. stays next step. 2 choose \u0026gt; tips. two cards, suggested amounts. every setting explained below. save done. amounts cards. default enable turns customers. turning exist post income (recommended) revenue. payable (liability) hold owed staff. records owe paying clearing balance done payroll accounting software; never distributes existing \"use default\" posts choice above, creating one accounts instead, follows account's type. only, shown reaches quickbooks. label read only. name pay. rename software remap mapping tab. software, items first tipped payment. apply technology fee surcharge. on, rate applies (the times tip, compounding). gateways surcharge applied full charged amount, including gratuity, shows changed. dual pricing merchants setting. fees account. tax item. used split collected receipt still totals customer paid. strongly recommend leaving non-taxable, case leave 0. 0 type percentage (%) fixed amount ($). percentages calculated paid, fee. switch numbers preset slots stay typed, 10, 15 20 become $10, $15 $20. presets (three slots) buttons see. slot blank skip it. must greater zero, support decimal places, exceed 100%. 15, maximum percent payment caps amount. = cap. cap hidden customer, typed rejected. (no cap) allow custom off, keep non-taxable adds make taxable quickbooks, splits later refund books cents. 3 let everyone once, type, time. wins default. control panel defaults global type). set want. update have, pick bulk dropdown value types. exception, save. new inherit row general tab, selected. greyed controls disabled installed off. first. 4 check connected, service named bg payable, depending choice. integration will tab matching item-linked accounts. \"your reached yet\", wait sync. offered exists change later. repoints without rewriting past transactions. liability locks created. decide want different label. renaming item, show \"service award\" instead \"gratuity\", (or map tab). receipts issued with. stop offering keeping uninstalling same; customer's flag kept, reinstalling picks left books. related articles glance sees adding checkout refunds work","name":"Setting Up Tips","votes":0,"is_published":true,"slug":"setting-up-tips","first_category":"Features \u0026 Addons","categories_display_for_views":"Features \u0026 Addons","parent_categories":[1368784],"is_internal":false,"is_private":false,"extra_categories":[],"url":"/features-and-addons/setting-up-tips?from_search=240336141","host":"https://helpcenter.billergenie.com","body_txt":"article walks installing tips add-on, choosing settings letting customers tip. can use it, start glance. begin premium plan, trial. quickbooks online desktop, sync connected healthy. biller genie creates gratuity item tip account turn tipping on. see connect desktop page settings. xero. available right install add-ons (see managing users genie). step 1 add-on merchant portal, click marketplace. narrow results tools category, find tile. open tile continue. now appears sidebar. changes nothing yet. stays next step. 2 choose \u0026gt; tips. two cards, suggested amounts. every setting explained below. save done. amounts cards. default enable turns customers. turning exist post income (recommended) revenue. payable (liability) hold owed staff. records owe paying clearing balance done payroll accounting software; never distributes existing \"use default\" posts choice above, creating one accounts instead, follows account's type. only, shown reaches quickbooks. label read only. name pay. rename software remap mapping tab. software, items first tipped payment. apply technology fee surcharge. on, rate applies (the times tip, compounding). gateways surcharge applied full charged amount, including gratuity, shows changed. dual pricing merchants setting. fees account. tax item. used split collected receipt still totals customer paid. strongly recommend leaving non-taxable, case leave 0. 0 type percentage (%) fixed amount ($). percentages calculated paid, fee. switch numbers preset slots stay typed, 10, 15 20 become $10, $15 $20. presets (three slots) buttons see. slot blank skip it. must greater zero, support decimal places, exceed 100%. 15, maximum percent payment caps amount. = cap. cap hidden customer, typed rejected. (no cap) allow custom off, keep non-taxable adds make taxable quickbooks, splits later refund books cents. 3 let everyone once, type, time. wins default. control panel defaults global type). set want. update have, pick bulk dropdown value types. exception, save. new inherit row general tab, selected. greyed controls disabled installed off. first. 4 check connected, service named bg payable, depending choice. integration will tab matching item-linked accounts. \"your reached yet\", wait sync. offered exists change later. repoints without rewriting past transactions. liability locks created. decide want different label. renaming item, show \"service award\" instead \"gratuity\", (or map tab). receipts issued with. stop offering keeping uninstalling same; customer's flag kept, reinstalling picks left books. related articles glance sees adding checkout refunds work","categories":{"current":{"id":1368784,"name":"Features \u0026 Addons","url":"/features-and-addons"}},"category_param":"features-and-addons"}}]