Use case · Closing Hour RulePatent pending

The last hour before close pays the crew that works it.

Everyone clocked in during the final hour before your posted close splits a share of every sale that hour brings in: at the counter, on the phone, online, all of it. The guest who walks in near close meets a crew with a reason to be glad they came.

Every amount here is a Client setting, shown with example numbers.

See each step in detail
01

You set the share. The window sets itself.

The window is the final hour before the closing time you already publish, so there is nothing to schedule. You set the crew's share of that hour's sales, the most the rule can pay in a night, and what a day has to clear before anything pays. The terms are set in advance and apply to everyone.

  • Window follows your posted close, per day of the week
  • Share, nightly cap, and day conditions are yours to set
  • Same terms for everyone on the floor, locked before the hour opens
Rule termsSet by you
Closing Hour
Window
Ends at each day's posted close
Final hour
Crew share of window sales
15%
Most it can pay per night
$60
Day must clear
The pool pays once the day holds it
Labor cap
Who splits it
By minutes worked in the window
Clocked in that hour
Terms lock before the window opens. Everyone on the floor plays by the same numbers.
02

Every sale in the hour adds to the pool.

WaveWage reads each ticket as it closes and checks the clock. A sale inside the window adds its share to the pool the moment it lands, whatever channel it came through. A sale a minute before the window opens is just a sale.

  • Counter, phone, and online orders all count the same
  • The pool accrues ticket by ticket, nothing is promised up front
  • A ticket outside the window is read, logged, and ignored by this rule
Closing windowLive
8:52 PM
Counter · #1187
chicken souvlaki pita, falafel pita
$19.98·
8:57 PM
Online · #1188
steak pita, fountain drink
$13.98·
9:03 PM
Counter · #1189
chicken caesar pita, chips, fountain drink
$14.57+$2.19
9:07 PM
Counter · #1190
2 chicken souvlaki pitas, gyro pita, 2 fries, 2 fountain drinks
$42.53+$6.38
9:11 PM
Delivery · #1191
hummus bowl, lentil soup
$14.28+$2.14
Pool so far, 15% of window sales$10.71
03

The crew watches the last hour pay, while it is happening.

Everyone clocked in during the window sees the pool climb on their own phone and sees their own split. A late rush stops being the thing that keeps them past close and starts being the thing that pays for the ride home.

  • Split among everyone clocked in during the window, by the minutes each worked in it
  • Each person sees the pool and their share, live, no app to install
  • Managers see the same number from the floor
Tonight, live9:50 PM
Closing Hour pool
$52.70
MayaLine$17.57
DevonRegister$17.57
PriyaLine$17.56
Maya, Devon, and Priya have each worked every minute of the window so far, so they split the pool in equal shares. It stops climbing at the $60 cap.
04

The day clears. The bonus lands in payroll.

A set number of minutes after close, WaveWage checks the day against the conditions you set: the labor cap held, the nightly cap was respected, no shift is still open. Then the pool goes into payroll as a WaveWage bonus paycode, one line per person, verified on the way back.

  • Nothing moves until the day clears your conditions
  • One bonus line per person under a deterministic transaction id
  • Payroll runs exactly as it always has
Close + 30 minVerified
Labor cap held26.8% of 30%
Nightly cap respected$60.00 of $60
No open shifts0 open
Closing Hour$60.00
3 employees · $20.00 each · Wed 9 to 10 PM
WaveWage bonus paycodeww-2177-0923-ch-*

Every push is checked before it pays.

During the day
Sales
$2,412.80
Closed tickets from your POS
End of day, close + 15 min
  1. Payroll record, passed6 of 6
  2. Applied Bonus, passed$184.20
  3. Payout ID, passedwavewage-2177-2026-09-24
Applied to payroll
$0.00
6 people, sent 10:15 pm

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