What is a Micros Employee Tip Report?

It's the end-of-shift tip summary Oracle Micros (Simphony) produces for a server: gross receipts, tips charged to cards, cash tips you declared, the total, and what was paid out to you. Toast calls its version a Shift Review and Aloha calls it a Server Checkout.

What is the difference between Charged Tips and Direct Cash Tips?

Charged Tips are tips left on credit and debit cards, which the POS records automatically and exactly. Direct Cash Tips are cash a guest handed you, which the system only knows about because you declared it. Together they make Total Tips.

What does Tips Paid mean on a Micros report?

It's the amount actually disbursed to you — typically the charged tips the restaurant hands over at the end of the shift or routes to payroll. When Tips Paid equals Charged Tips, you've been given everything the house was holding for you.

Why does my Micros tip report show a tip percentage?

Micros can compute tips as a percentage of your gross receipts. Restaurants use it to spot servers declaring implausibly little cash — a tip rate far below the house average is the usual trigger for a conversation about declaring.

Micros Employee Tip Report, Explained: Charged Tips, Direct Tips and Tips Paid

TL;DR: An Oracle Micros Employee Tip Report separates your tips by how they arrived. Charged Tips came in on cards and are exact. Direct Cash Tips are what you declared. Total Tips is the sum, Tips Paid is what was actually handed to you, and Gross Receipts is the sales figure your tip percentage gets measured against.

What makes the Micros report different

Toast and Aloha checkouts are built around a single question: how much cash does the server owe the house? Micros Simphony's Employee Tip Report is built around a different one: how much did this employee make in tips, and by what route?

That's a reporting-first design, and it shows. The report puts charged and cash tips side by side and totals them, because its real purpose is tip reporting compliance rather than the cash drawer.

Practically, that makes it the most useful of the three slips for your own records — and the one where an under-declared cash figure is most visible.

Line by line

Gross Receipts

Total sales rung in under your ID for the period. It's the denominator for the tip-percentage calculation below, and often the basis for a sales-based tip-out.

Charged Tips

Tips left on credit and debit cards. Machine-recorded, exact, and not open to interpretation. The restaurant is holding this money for you.

Direct Cash Tips (Declared)

Cash a guest left you, as reported by you. The POS has no independent way to know this number.

This is where the report gets pointed. A Direct Cash Tips: 0.00 on a shift with meaningful cash sales is exactly the pattern a manager's tip report is designed to surface.

Total Tips

Charged Tips + Direct Cash Tips. Your reported tip income for the shift, and the figure that flows to payroll and eventually to your W-2.

Worth knowing: from 2026, W-2s report tips in Box 12 with code TP and an occupation code in Box 14b. Your reported total is what shows up there — and the 2025–2028 federal tip deduction applies to reported tips, so declaring accurately is what makes the deduction available to you.

Tips Paid

What was actually disbursed. When Tips Paid equals Charged Tips, the house has handed over everything it was holding. A difference usually means some portion is going through payroll instead, or a tip-out was settled here.

Tip percentage

Micros can express tips as a percentage of gross receipts. If the house average is 18% and your report says 11%, that gap is visible to your manager on the same screen.

Note this is a percentage of sales, not of tips — so a big-check, low-tip section can make your rate look worse than your night was.

A worked example

Real figures from a Micros Employee Tip Report:

Line	Amount
Gross Receipts	$39.26
Charged Tips	$5.17
Direct Cash Tips	$0.00
Total Tips	$5.17
Tips Paid	$5.17

Read it: $39.26 in sales, $5.17 tipped on cards, nothing declared in cash, and the full $5.17 handed to you. Tip rate: 5.17 ÷ 39.26 = 13.2% of gross receipts.

That 13.2% is what a manager sees. If the section actually ran cash tips that weren't declared, the real rate was higher and the report understates the server's income — which helps nobody at tax time and quietly reduces the tip deduction they can claim.

What it still doesn't tell you

Even the most reporting-friendly of the three slips stops short:

No hours. So no real hourly wage.
No tip-out. Money you handed the bar isn't subtracted from Total Tips, even though it left your pocket.
No history. One shift, one slip, and access ends when the job does.

Total Tips minus what you tipped out, divided by hours worked, is your actual hourly — and no line on this report gets you there.

Keep your own record

IRS Publication 531 asks for a daily record: date, cash tips, card tips, tips paid out, tips received from a pool, and where you worked. A Micros report covers about half of that, which makes it a good starting point and a poor ending point.

Photograph it at close-out. TipScan reads Charged Tips, Direct Cash Tips and Gross Receipts straight off the photo and adds the two things Micros can't: your hours and your tip-out.

How to read your server checkout slip — the cross-POS walkthrough
Toast Shift Review, explained
Aloha Server Checkout, explained
How to keep a tip log for taxes
Do I have to claim cash tips? — what the IRS actually requires