Shift Review Settings
Shift reviews are a workflow on the POS that walks employees through declaring cash tips, paying out what is owed to the restaurant, and making sure they get paid for any credit card tips. Check out the article Shift Review Overview to learn how to instruct employees to complete this at the end of their shift.
There are two areas to customize when it comes to shift review:
You can customize the shift review experience the POS.
You can customize the printed shift review report.
Customize the Shift Review Experience
The 3.12 Shift Review permission is required to edit shift review settings.
If you're setting up shift review for the first time, the shift review setup wizard will quickly help walk through all of your desired configurations. In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Shift review setup, and select Customize shift review.
If you've already completed your initial setup, you can navigate to Employees > Shift review > Advanced shift review settings to edit your settings as desired.
If you make changes to your shift review settings, you can update the shift review data of completed shifts by temporarily deleting the employee's clock-out time, which should automatically reopen/update their shift review. If this does not work, you can go to the employee's shift review, select Edit, and reopen the shift to update the data.
Require Shift Review Before Staff Can Clock Out
To configure shift review to be a required step before employees clock out:
In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Advanced shift review setup.
For the Require shift review setting, select Required from the drop-down.
Publish all changes.
Change Shift Review Tip Out Settings
Depending on whether your location tips out employees at the end of each shift or you pay out non-cash tips and/or mandatory gratuity via payroll, you may need to update the following settings under Employees > Shift review > Advanced shift review setup so that your shift review workflow matches your actual tip out workflow. Because you have the option to set the tipping behavior for mandatory gratuity and non-cash tips separately, ensure that you have made the appropriate selections for both.
If you plan to pay out mandatory gratuity and non-cash tips at the end of the night, follow these setup steps:
In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Shift review setup.
Select the Customize shift review button.
Select the Payout button.
Under the non-cash tip/gratuities section or whichever applies, select the Pay from the cash drawer option
Proceed through the steps to Payout options.
Select Publish all changes. When employees complete their shift review, they will be able to select Tip Out at the end of their shift from their shift review.
If you plan to pay out mandatory gratuity and non-cash tips through payroll, follow these setup steps:
In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Shift review setup.
Select the Customize shift review button.
Select the Payout button.
Under the non-cash tip/gratuities section or whichever applies, select the Pay out through payroll option.
Proceed through the steps to Payout options.
Select Publish all changes. When employees complete their shift review, they will not be prompted to remit non-cash tips during the tips portion of their shift review, allowing tips to later be paid out through payroll.
Customize the Shift Review Report
To further refine the experience for employees, you can configure and reorder the information displayed in the shift review report, a summary of activity completed during a shift.
In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > POS report configurations > Shift review report. Here, you can select and drag the grid icons to change the order of enabled sections, such as:
Tips & Fees Earned and Tip Sharing
My Guest Report and Employee Account
Credit Tip Audit and Credit Card Breakdown
Sales & Taxes Summary and Revenue Center
Total Voids, Removals, and Discounts
Total Payments and Pay Outs
Employee Signature
Toast Web automatically saves your changes to this page, but you must select the Publish all changes button to set them live for your staff.
Shift Review Report Components
The sections in your shift review report are customized based on the selections made within your shift review setup. Each section provides a detailed breakdown of your shift's activity, organized into specific rows for easy review. The table below describes each row in the report and identifies any specific permissions or settings required to display that information.
Shift Review Report | Shift Review Report | Description | Required Permission and Settings |
Employee Account heading | Cash in hand (collected cash sales) | The total amount of cash payments taken by an employee is kept separately in their own cash bank. | Apply Cash Payments permission. |
Employee Account heading |
Cash in drawer
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Total amount of cash payments taken by an employee and placed into a cash drawer.
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Shift Review Sales Data permission.
In the Toast POS app:
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Employee Account heading |
Driver bank
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Starting cash balance for drivers to use during their shift.
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In Toast Web, navigate to Takeout & delivery > Availability > Takeout/delivery > Driver cash management > Assign driver bank > Yes, assign driver bank for reporting
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Employee Account heading | Total gratuity and fees | Total gratuity and fees to be paid out to the employee. | In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Payout options |
Employee Account heading | Non-cash tips (%) | Total amount of non-cash tips to be paid out to the employee. | In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Payout options |
Employee Account heading | Tips withheld (%) | The total amount of tips withheld by the restaurant to cover the cost of credit card processing fees. |
In Toast Web, navigate to:
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Employee Account heading | Driver reimbursement | The total amount a driver is reimbursed for wear and tear of their personal vehicle used for delivery. |
Requires a Driver job.
In Toast Web, navigate to Takeout & delivery > Availability > Takeout/delivery > Driver reimbursement > Reimburse drivers > Yes, reimburse drivers for each delivery order completed
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Employee Account heading | Employee owes the restaurant, or the restaurant owes Employee | The total amount that the employee owes the restaurant or is owed by the restaurant to the employee. |
Requires a Driver job.
In Toast Web, navigate to Takeout & delivery > Availability > Takeout/delivery> Driver reimbursement > Reimburse drivers > Yes, reimburse drivers for each delivery order completed
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Tips & Fees Earned heading | Cash tips (declared)(%) | Total cash tips. |
Requires a Tipped job.
In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Shift review setup > Declare cash tips
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Tips & Fees Earned heading | Total tips & fees |
Total tips and fees are calculated as:
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My Guest Report heading | Total guests served | Total guests served. | |
My Guest Report heading | Average spend per guest | Average spend per guest. | |
Credit Tip Audit heading | Credit tip audit |
Displays the total credit card tips amount. Fields include:
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Tip Sharing heading | Sales category (%) | Total tip amount per sales category. | |
Tip Sharing heading | Total | Total tip sharing amount. | |
Delivery heading | Fees to the driver | Delivery driver fees. |
A service charge must be configured.
In Toast Web, navigate to Payments > Checks & receipt setup > Service charges.
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Delivery heading | Fees | Applicable driver fee per check. Includes check number and gross sales. | |
Delivery heading | Reimbursement | Applicable driver reimbursement per check. Includes check number and gross sales. | |
Sales & Tax Summary heading | Sales category | Total number of items and net sales per sales category. |
A sales category must be configured.
In Toast Web, navigate to Menus > Settings > Sales categories.
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Sales & Tax Summary heading | Non-grat svc charges | Total non-gratuity collected by the restaurant and added to the restaurant’s net sales amount. |
A service charge must be configured.
In Toast Web, navigate to Payments > Checks & receipt setup > Service charges.
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Sales & Tax Summary heading | Deferred amount | Total amount that is excluded from the restaurant’s net sales. | In Toast Web, navigate to Menus > Bulk management > Advanced properties > Select your item > Reporting > Defer Revenue > Yes |
Sales & Tax Summary heading | Total net sales | Total paid by guests for menu item selections and service charges. | |
Sales & Tax Summary heading | Tax | Applicable tax amount. | |
Sales & Tax Summary heading | Gross sales | Total amount of (non-gratuity) services and items sold before deductions are taken. | |
Sales & Tax Summary heading | Total amount | Total amount of Gross sales plus Total gratuity and fees plus Non-cash tips. | |
Sales & Tax Summary heading | Paid in total | Total amount of payments for future orders completed within the date range. | |
Cash/Credit Per Sales Category heading | Cash sales by sales category | Total number of items and cash sales per sales category. | |
Cash/Credit Per Sales Category heading | Non-cash sales by sales category | Total number items and non-cash sales per sales category. | |
Revenue Centers heading | Revenue center | Total amount of revenue center sales. The total amount does not include taxes. |
A revenue center must be configured.
In Toast Web, navigate to Front of house > Tables & sections > Revenue centers.
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Total Voids heading | Void amount | Total void amount. |
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Total Voids heading | Void order count | Total number of voided orders. |
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Total Voids heading | Void item count | Total number of voided items. |
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Total Voids heading | Void percent | Percentage of total orders voided. |
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Total Removals heading | Removal amount | Total amount removed from checks. |
In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Shift review report > Total removals.
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Total Removals heading | Removed item count | Total number of items removed from checks. |
In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > Shift review > Shift review report > Total removals.
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Total Discounts heading | Discount name | Total number of discounts applied and discount amount. |
A discount must be configured.
In Toast Web, navigate to Payments > Comps and promos > Discounts and promo codes.
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Total Payments heading | Amount (number of checks) | Total number of checks, credit, and cash payments. |
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Total Payments heading | Tips (%) | Total percentage and amount of credit and cash tips. |
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Total Payments heading | Gratuity | Total amount of credit and cash gratuities. |
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Total Payments heading | Total | Total amount of payments, tips, and gratuities. |
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Total Payments heading | Deposit sales collected | Total amount of payments for future orders completed within the date range. |
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Credit Card Breakdown
A section is created for each credit card type used during shift review
| Credit card name | Amount paid with that credit card type. |
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Other Breakdown heading
A section is created for each alternate payment type used during shift review
| Alternate payment name | Amount paid with that alternate payment type. |
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Pay Outs heading
| Name of payout | Total cash amount removed from a cash drawer per payout. |
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Pay Outs heading
| Total payouts | Total payout amount. |
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Employee Account heading
| Total guests served | Total number of guests served during your shift. |
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Employee Account heading
| Average spend per guest | Total average spend per guest per check. |
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Employee Signature heading
| Employee x | Employee signature line. |
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Employee Signature heading
| Cash received by | Employee receiving cash deposits signature line. |
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Add Sales Category Tip Percentages to Shift Reviews
An employee's shift review can show calculated percentages of pre-existing sales categories. For example, if a bartender is tipped out 2% of a server's beer sales, it will show the calculated percentages according to that sales category (liquor, beer, wine, etc.).
If your restaurant tips out employees based on job roles (i.e. busser), you can divide total tip earnings among all employees in that job. This is a calculation and does not remove or add any tips outs to specific employees. To add sales category tip percentages to the shift review report, follow these steps:
In Toast Web, navigate to Employees > POS report configurations > Shift review report.
Select Details on the Tip Sharing row.
Select + Add new to designate a sales category, tip percentage, and description.
Publish all changes. The tip sharing amounts you'll see on the shift review see are based off of net sales for each sales category.
Add Delivery Service Fees to Shift Reviews
Make sure that any service fees that go directly to a delivery driver are reflected in shift review by following these steps:
In Toast Web, navigate to Payments > Checks & receipt setup > Service charges.
Select an existing service charge or select the + Add button to create a new service charge.
Note: This article only covers delivery service charges for shift review. For in-depth details on creating service charges, see Customize Service Charges and Mandatory Gratuity.
Decide how the delivery fee should appear. For the Assign to check owner (Gratuity)? setting:
If set to Yes, Assign the fee to the owner of the check, the delivery service charge will appear as a Total Gratuity and as a Delivery Fee to the driver.
If set to No, Assign the fee to the restaurant, and the delivery service charge will appear on the driver's Shift Review as a Non-Grat Svc. Charge under Sales and Taxes Summary.
Ensure that Delivery? is checked to Yes.
Save and publish your changes. Your delivery service fee will now appear on the shift review.