Preparing Your Tour Guide Business for the New Tips Bill

The new Tips Bill in the UK is set to revolutionise the way tips are managed and distributed across various industries, including tour guiding. As a business owner, it's crucial to understand these changes and prepare your team for what's coming. To help your business stay ahead and continue to delight guests, here are three vital tips to navigate and adapt to the new regulations.

1. Understand the New Distribution Rules:

1. Familiarise yourself with how the Tips Bill mandates the distribution of tips. The new regulations aim for fairness, ensuring that tips are shared transparently among staff. This means implementing a clear and fair distribution process and communicating it effectively to your team to ensure everyone understands how their earnings might be affected.
   
   How EasyTip Can Help: EasyTip automates the fair and transparent allocation of tips, ensuring compliance with the new Tips Bill. This eliminates manual calculations and guarantees that every team member receives their fair share, making the distribution process seamless and clear for everyone involved.

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2. 2. Stay Informed About Compliance Requirements:

   The Tips Bill includes specific compliance requirements for businesses. As a business owner, it's important to ensure your operations adhere to the law. This might involve regular checks, updating policies, and holding discussions with your staff to make sure tips are handled correctly and legally, thereby avoiding any compliance issues.
   
   How EasyTip Can Help: EasyTip provides detailed reports and real-time tracking of tips received and distributed, ensuring complete transparency and compliance with legal requirements. This tool helps you monitor and verify that tips are managed accurately, giving you peace of mind and ensuring adherence to the new regulations.

1. 3. Clear Tipping Policy and Record-Keeping:

   To stay compliant, tour companies/ travel companies must have a clear and accessible tipping policy for staff and customers. This policy should outline how tips are managed and distributed. Additionally, accurate record-keeping is essential. 

How EasyTip Can Help: A digital tipping platform like EasyTip provides access to detailed transaction records, making it easier to track tips and maintain records for at least three years, as required by the new legislation. Additionally, the EasyTip tipping app generates a digital tipping policy for your business, depending on the set-up configurations you choose. This policy will be accessible via the app and can be downloaded and distributed out to staff members if and when required.

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3. "We wanted a service to allow our customers to tip the drivers while they were out on the road. EasyTip was the most straightforward choice for us to install and implement. Our guests are in the car having previously paid the bill, so it is important that tipping is separate from paying the bill for the guests and goes directly to the driver themselves. "

   - Tony Grant, Head Gasket, Small Car Big City

Stay Compliant with EasyTip

By addressing these key points, travel businesses / tour businesses can ensure they are prepared for the upcoming changes, fostering a fair and transparent tipping environment for their staff. Implementing these practices promotes fairness and boosts staff morale and guest satisfaction. When guides feel valued and appreciated through a transparent tipping platform, they are more likely to deliver exceptional service, leading to a more positive experience for guests. Embracing EasyTip will not only help navigate the complexities of the tipping landscape but also position your travel business/ tour business as a leader in creating a supportive and fair workplace. As the industry evolves, those who prioritise fairness and transparency will thrive, attracting loyal clients and talented staff members alike.

By integrating EasyTip, you can streamline tip management, enhance your business's reputation, and maximise your team's earnings effortlessly.

For more details on how to stay compliant, visit EasyTip's guide on the Allocation of Tips Bill.

To find out more about how EasyTip can help you stay compliant with the upcoming Tips Bill, book a demo today!