Four steps from a closed ticket to a bigger paycheck.
WaveWage reads every sale the moment it closes, runs your incentive rules against it in real time, shows the crew the number climbing mid-shift, and pushes the result into payroll at close. This page walks the whole pipeline, end to end.
Plug in once. The data flows on its own.
WaveWage connects to your time and attendance and your POS, then keeps itself in sync. Employees, roles, clock-ins, and every closing ticket stream in on a 60-second cycle. No exports, no spreadsheets, no one keying in numbers at midnight.
- Employees and roles sync automatically, new hires just show up
- Clock-ins and clock-outs flow straight from your time clock
- Sales arrive ticket by ticket, tagged by window, item, and category
Time and attendance
POS salesMore integrations on the way
Describe a great shift. The rules do the math.
Incentive rules stack in order, each scoped to a time window, a sales tag, or a threshold. Write them yourself, or hand the AI Rule Tuner a sentence: it drafts the rule, simulates it against your last 28 days of real sales, and retunes until it clears your labor cap.
- Percent of window sales, flat bonuses, or dollars per hour
- Qualified employees split each pool in proportion to hours worked
- A labor cost cap keeps the whole stack inside your budget
“Reward the closers who push late night.” became rule 3, tuned in 2 passes.
The crew watches the number climb, mid-shift.
Every qualifying ticket moves the pool, and everyone can see it. Employees sign in with a PIN from any phone, no app to install, and see exactly what tonight has earned them and which rules produced it. Managers see the store's position against every active rule while there is still time to act on it.
- Live earnings with a rule-by-rule breakdown, not a mystery total
- Updates settle every cycle, steady enough to trust
- No app download, a PIN and a phone is all it takes
Pools split by hours worked inside each rule's window, so the person who carried the rush carries home more of it.
At close, payroll is already right.
A set number of minutes after close, WaveWage snapshots the final pool and runs its pre-push checks: totals reconcile, the labor cap holds, no shift is still open. Then every bonus lands in payroll as a WaveWage bonus paycode under a deterministic transaction id, verified on the way back. Payroll runs exactly like it always has.
- Fires automatically on your close-out schedule
- Every push is verified round-trip and never posted twice
- Your payroll process is unchanged, the bonus is just there
- Snapshot final pool$214.60 across 9 employees
- Pre-push checks12 invariants passed
- Push to payrollWaveWage bonus paycode · 9 lines
- Verify round-triptxn ww-2043-d7 confirmed
That’s the whole machine. Four steps, no new hardware, payroll unchanged.
See it run on your numbers →Every push is checked before it pays.
- Payroll record, passed6 of 6
- Applied Bonus, passed$184.20
- Payout ID, passedwavewage-2177-2026-09-24
Run it on your own floor.
We connect your systems and write your first rules with you, and the demo is free and unlimited until your POS is connected. Once you're live, plans run $3 to $5 per active employee. No new hardware, and payroll runs exactly like it always has.