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Run Your Tronc (UK)

In short: Agree your tipping policy, enter the total tips for the period, add each person's hours and role, pay the tronc, then press Finish and run Tronc. Your tronc is not submitted until you press that final button.

Who this is for: Employers. UK only.

Submit your tronc

Before you start, make sure your JustTronc account is set up and your team have all signed up. See Setting Up Your Tronc Account (UK).

  1. Review your tipping policy. The first page of the tronc flow shows your tipping policy. You can make minor changes, as long as it stays compliant with UK tipping law and reflects how your business actually shares tips. Confirm you agree to continue.
  2. Enter the total tips. Enter the total tip amount in the field labelled Total tips collected for the days below, and select the date range. This is one total for the whole period, not a figure per person or per day.
  3. Add hours and roles. For each person, enter the hours they worked in the period and their role. To do this in bulk, select Download template, which sits immediately to the left of the Upload button. The template already lists your staff names and roles. Fill in the hours and roles, save it, then upload it.
  4. Check the tronc points. Each role has a points value. See "How tronc points work" below. The points you enter are suggestions: JustTip, as troncmaster, oversees and approves the allocation.
  5. Confirm the allocation. Check the breakdown before you continue.
  6. Pay your tronc. Choose how to pay. See Funding Your Tronc and Unlock Tronc (UK).
  7. Press Finish and run Tronc. If you paid by bank transfer, come back to the flow once you have sent the payment and press Finish and run Tronc. Your tronc is not submitted until you do.

The first time you run your tronc, your subscription is set up as part of the run. See Tronc Billing (UK).

How tronc points work

Your tips are shared using two things: the hours each person worked and the points for their role. Each person's share is their hours multiplied by their role's points, as a proportion of the same figure for the whole team.

Points are set per role, so everyone in the same role has the same points. If you want different weightings, for example for more senior staff, set up a separate role for them.

When staff are paid

Tronc payments are made to staff on a Wednesday. Submit your tronc by 11:59 PM every Tuesday, and make sure your payment is complete before the run starts on Wednesday morning.

In the UK we cannot make a tronc payment outside the Wednesday run. If your submission misses a run, contact us so we can make sure it is included in the next one.

Payslips are issued at the same time as payment. They are password protected. The password is the National Insurance number listed on the staff member's JustTip account.

If that did not work

If a staff member is missing from the allocation screen, they may not have created their account yet. See A Team Member Is Not on the Roster. If you see an error, log out fully and log back in, then try again. If the problem continues, contact us at https://help.justtip.net/en/contact-us.

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Last checked: 2026-09-23