You put employees on the schedule and WaveWage tracks what actually happens: who worked the shift they were scheduled for, who clocked in on time, who picked up a shift somebody dropped, how many hours each person has worked. You set which of those pay extra and how much. Each person earns from their own record, paid to them alone.
Every amount here is a Client setting, shown with example numbers.
Pick which tracked behaviors pay and what each one pays. The terms are the same for everyone, so no one is earning from a manager's opinion of them. The schedule and the time clock the store already keeps are the whole record; there is nothing new to fill in.
WaveWage reads the schedule and the punches side by side. A shift worked as scheduled is a kept shift. A punch inside your on-time window is an on-time clock-in. A dropped shift that someone else works is a pickup, credited to the person who picked it up. Every line names the one person it pays.
On their own phone, each person sees what their week has earned, line by line, from the schedule and the clock. Nobody else's record appears on it. Behind the scenes, the same record builds toward an endorsement badge for reliability, with the person's name on it, revealed when it is earned.
After close, WaveWage checks the day, then pushes each person's earned amount into payroll as a WaveWage bonus paycode, one line per person, under a deterministic transaction id, verified on the way back. The store pays a known amount for the reliability it already depends on.
The last hour before close pays the crew working it.
Chosen items add a share of each sale to the pool.
Wrong orders held below the store's own normal pay a period bonus.
Guests' own words, read in full, counted as wins and mistakes.
An hour clears its expected number, the crew shares the dollars above.
Each completed job pays the person who did it.
The whole pipeline, ticket to paycheck.
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.
An example Tuesday at a pita shop. The Client's example Coverage terms: $3 for a shift worked as scheduled, $1 for clocking in within 5 minutes of the start, $2 an hour for picking up a dropped shift, and at most $40 a person a week. The day's schedule goes out, then runs against the time clock. Each punch credits the one person it belongs to; Sam clocks in nine minutes late and still keeps the shift. At 1:10 PM the close is dropped and posts open at +$12; at 1:40 PM Devon picks it up, works it, and earns the premium, the kept shift, and the on-time clock-in, $16.00, on Devon's own phone beside the week's hours, which show as record. After close the day clears its checks and goes to payroll as 6 lines, each paid to one person: Sam $3.00, Maya $4.00, Priya $4.00, Lena $4.00, Omar $4.00, and Devon $16.00.
01You set the terms before the schedule goes out.