If you'd rather pay your team yourself - cash at the end of a shift, a bank transfer, or through payroll - set a distribution rule to "Send everything to the business". Every tip under that rule is paid out to your business account in a single transfer, including the part each employee earned.
Nothing about the split changes. The rule's percentages still decide what each employee earned; that amount simply becomes what you owe them instead of a transfer we send on your behalf. Employees don't need their own payout account for this, which is useful for seasonal or newly hired staff.
Seeing what you owe
The Staff balances tab on Dashboard → Tips → Payments lists each employee with what they earned, what you've already handed over, and what's still owed. People who are square drop off the list unless you switch them back on.
When you pay someone, click Record payment and tick the tips it covers. The amount is worked out from the tips themselves rather than typed in, so every cent traces back to a specific tip. Add a date, and a note or reference if you want one on the record.
You can record a payment for tips that haven't reached your account yet - handy if you pay cash the same night and our transfer lands days later. Those tips are marked so you know you're fronting them.
Proof for both sides
The employee sees the same numbers in their own portal and can tap to confirm they received each payment, which gives you a record neither side has to take on trust. Recorded a payment by mistake? Reverse it - the shares go back to being owed and the entry stays, marked as reversed.
Export CSV gives your accountant a line per tip, and Statement produces a printable PDF for one employee showing what they earned, what they've been paid, and what's outstanding.
What this means for you
Collecting tips into your own account makes paying your staff your responsibility, not ours - Delitip records what's owed but never holds or transfers that money. It can also change how those tips are treated for tax, payroll, and social contributions compared with tips paid straight to an employee, so it's worth checking with your accountant before you switch a rule over.