Turn the rush
into your raise.
WaveWage pays you a share of the sales you help drive: tracked live, settled the same night, dropped straight into your paycheck. More money in your own pocket for the shifts you already crush.
Hourly pay quietly roots against the rush.
A packed shift means more work for the same paycheck. WaveWage flips that math, so the harder the night, the bigger your share.
The rush is just… more work.
Lunch slams, the line backs up, the late table walks in at 9:55. You sprint all night, and the paycheck reads exactly the same as the slow Tuesday. The math privately hopes it stays quiet.
- Busy shift, same flat hourly
- No reason to chase the upsell
- Closing crew wants the door shut early
The rush is your bonus pool filling up.
Every ticket your team turns, every add-on, every late walk-in you welcome in. It all feeds a pool you can watch grow in your pocket. Push harder at lunch, get paid for it that night.
- Busier shift = bigger share
- Upsells land in your pool
- That 9:55 table is money, not a groan
WaveWage rewards hospitality, not just the hours on the clock.
No mystery.
Just your money.
Open WaveWage mid-shift and it's all right there: your base pay, your bonus, the team pool, and exactly which rules are putting money in your pocket tonight.
See every dollar
Base pay and bonus, broken out line by line. The number is the number: settled at end-of-shift, accurate to the cent.
Watch the pool grow
The team bonus pool ticks up as tickets close. Your share is always shown, so you know where the night stands in real time.
Know what's paying
Every active rule is listed. You can see the exact incentives in play and how to chase them on your shift.
- ✓Weekday Morningsactive
- ✓Lunch Rushactive
- ✓Late Night Warrioractive
- ○$4K Day Shareoff
- ✓Catering Crushactive
Every rush has a hero.
Your manager builds the rules, but these are the shifts where showing up strong actually pays you back.
- 11:00 – 13:00
Conquer the Rush
Lunch lands like a wall. You push back.
The line's out the door and tickets are flying. Every order your crew turns inside the window feeds the pool.
+$24added to the pool on a strong lunch - 21:00 – Close
Late Night Warrior
The 9:55 walk-in? That's your favorite guest.
Closing crew owns the back half of the night. Beat the dinner threshold and the warriors split a real cut of it.
+$58typical pool on a $4k+ dinner night - Big-order days
Catering Crush
The 200-sandwich order is everyone's win.
When Friday's catering clears the Client's line, a flat pool opens for the whole team that pulled it off.
+$140flat pool once catering clears the line
Illustrative figures. Your real pools depend on the rules your restaurant turns on and the sales your team drives.
From the rush to your paycheck.
No app to download for payouts. No waiting on a manager's spreadsheet. Just your bonus, on the check you already get.
- 01All shift
Tracked live
Your bonus pool updates as tickets close, on the back-office screen and in your pocket. You always know where the night stands.
- 02End of shift
Settled accurately
When the day closes, WaveWage settles every pool against the real numbers. No rounding games, no “we'll sort it later.” The figure is final.
- 03Payday
Into your paycheck
Your bonus is pushed to payroll as a WaveWage bonus paycode through TimeForge. No separate app to chase, no card to activate. It's just on your check.