Overview

Tippidy is a cashless tipping platform for hospitality workers. A worker signs up in 30 seconds and gets a personal tip page with a QR code. Customers scan it, pick an amount, and pay with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. No app, no account, no manager approval.

The Problem

Cash is disappearing from cafés, bars and kitchens, and tips are disappearing with it. The card machine closes the transaction before the customer ever thinks about the tip jar, and the people who lose out are the ones who can least afford it.

The Solution

• Personal tip pages at tippidy.com/name, with Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes for the QR code
• Crews: shared tip pages with invite codes, shift clock-in and configurable split weights, so the kitchen gets a share too
• Crew chat and direct messages for the people sharing the money
• 29 locales and multi-currency with daily exchange rates
• 0% platform cut of the tip: the tipper pays a small service fee on top, the worker keeps the tip

Tech Stack

Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, PostgreSQL, Oban for every money-moving job, Stripe Connect for payments and weekly payouts. A Flutter mobile app for workers is in progress.

Read More

The full story of why I built it and how the money model works is in Tippidy: Building a Digital Tip Jar for Hospitality Workers.