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How to Receive and Bookkeep a Customer Tip

Receiving and recording tips separately ensures accurate income tracking by distinguishing tip amounts from regular sales in your bookkeeping.

  1. Create a new income account in your Chart of Accounts specifically for recording tip income.
  2. Add a new product or service called "Tip" and link it to the newly created tip income account.
  3. Create and send your invoice to the customer as you normally would.
  4. Record the full payment amount received, including any tip.
  5. Manually calculate the tip amount by subtracting the original invoice total from the payment received.
  6. Edit the invoice to add a new line item for "Tip" and enter the calculated amount

Written by

Alexandra Kyriacou

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