# Kickfin Reviews **Vendor:** Kickfin **Category:** [Tip Distribution Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/tip-distribution) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 70 ## About Kickfin Ranked the #1 tip distribution software, Kickfin gives restaurant pros the power to tip out their whole team in 60 seconds. Thousands of restaurants use Kickfin to auto-calculate tip pools and send real-time payouts directly to their employees’ bank of choice, no cash (or math!) required. Save time, cut labor costs, and track everything — all in one place. Auto-calculate tips pools or shares: Automate calculations for even the most complex tip pooling policies when you integrate Kickfin with your POS. Distribute tips in real-time, no cash required: Kickfin connects to 100% of all 10,000 banks, so you can send instant, cashless tip payouts directly to your staff's existing accounts. Close out at warp speed​: Tip out your whole team in 60 seconds. Plus: eliminate spreadsheet math, reduce bank runs, and minimize admin time for your managers. Easy, breezy implementation​: Personalized onboarding, 24/7 support — and no contracts, setup fees or hardware. ## Kickfin Reviews ### 1. Effortless Tip Management with Kickfin **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** joshua g. | Restaurant supervisor and event coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** I find Kickfin incredibly intuitive and easy to use, which makes setting it up a breeze. Its online capabilities eliminate cash handling issues, allowing seamless tip distribution even when I'm not in the restaurant. This system ensures that servers always receive their tips fast and reliably, enhancing efficiency and peace of mind. Kickfin's simplicity and effectiveness ensure that it just gets things done, making it a dependable solution for my needs. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I didn't like how the tips were limited to $500. If more than $500 was made, then depending on how much needed to be tipped out the procedure, though easy, would have to be repeated. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find the product solves cash handling issues, allowing me to manage tips online easily, even remotely. It's intuitive and ensures servers receive their tips consistently, simplifying my workflow. ### 2. Great experience so far **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy P. | Bookkeeper, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Software is very easy to navigate, and the customer support has been fantastic so far! They are very quick to respond to any questions, or help with any adjustments needed. I really like that you can set it up to reflect data for each pay period individually. I also like that each section is broken out nicely by tab, making it easy and quick to access. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** It would be nice if you could assign dual roles to individuals. We have some employees who receive tips, but are also responsible for paying out tips to others, so they have to set up two different profiles, one as an employee and one as manager. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to pay our servers out nightly and that is a huge employment incentive in a competitive industry **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thank you for leaving a review, Amy! We're thrilled you've found Kickfin so easy to use. We want to note that Kickfin does have permissions that allow a user to issue and receive payments — and we have features to prevent any security issues when those permissions are in place. Please reach out to support@kickfin.com to learn how it works. (You can also check out this blog post, which highlights some recently added security features: https://kickfin.com/blog/cybersecurity-for-restaurants/) ### 3. Great for employers! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashley E. | General Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Kickfin is user friendly for both management and employees. Super simple to use, and set employees up on. Perfect for everyday use. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The only thing with Kickfin is that a user with admin functions can pay themselves. We have never had in issue, but it could be an issue if someone untrustworthy has that kind of access. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kickfin has helped up decrease the amount of money we have to keep on hand, as we are now able to just simply pay our staff's tips electronically. We can also easily go in and double check payments if there is ever a question about tips. ### 4. Kickfin is a great way to disperse tips to our team and keep our team members happy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachelle G. | General Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Overall great platform easy to use. We mainly utilized it for tip dispersement. Our team really liked how quickly the tips were transferred into their accounts. We were able to send out tips daily with this platform. Our staff was able to sign up quickly and easily through a text message. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The only downside is it could take a long time to reup funds sometimes but overall no complaints. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us keep our staff happy with daily tip dispersement versus waiting for their tips on their paychecks. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > We appreciate your 5-star review, Rachelle. It's great that your team is reaping all the benefits of instant payouts, 24/7/365! Regarding your note on the retainer: We currently replenish funds every Monday through Friday, and the funds are available by approximately 1:30pm PST each day. (The only gap in retainer funding is on Saturday and Sunday because the banking network does not process these types of transactions on weekends.) As always, if you have questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us at support@kickfin.com. ### 5. First timer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel L. | Bar Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** I like the speed and transparency of the app, it’s so easy to get paid. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I wish that the Kickfin app would show me what everyone in my tip pool was making. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves ripping out from out tip pool at the end of the workday, **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your review, Manuel! We're glad to hear that Kickfin is solving your tip pool issues. We want to make sure you're aware that within Kickfin, managers and admin roles do have complete visibility into the tip pool — that is, the amount all members of the tip pool were paid and how each amount was calculated. An individual employees can see their *own* tip amounts and how those amounts were calculated, including how much they tipped out to other employees. If you have questions about viewing tip calculations or payment history, please let us know at support@kickfin.com. ### 6. Loved using kickfin as a manager, helped deal with less cash on late nights **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** What I love about kickfin the most as a manager is not having to deal with so much cash at the end of the day. Was able to make payments at the click of a button, and so so easy. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Nothing, it’s extremely user friendly everything is very straightforward and customer service is helpful if ever needed. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kick fin is allowing the managers to streamline payments to make cash handling less to ensure no errors are being made. ### 7. Kickfin is a lifesaver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor S. | General manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Easy to use and direct to employees, less issues with deposits and cash advances **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Honestly not much at all. I would say you need WiFi to use that’s about it **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Negative deposits, less money handling in store ### 8. Best Tipping Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alfredo M. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Ability to instantly able send tips to my workers. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The only thing that could make the service better is if they get a app. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to send my driver there tips instantly. ### 9. Instant payments **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Payments are quick and easy, review and distribution is not complex either **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** There is little scope of merging with other ERP and payroll software making data reporting for tax not easy at all. The manual nature of exporting data is a big negative **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of distribution of Tips, leading to employee satisfaction ### 10. set up was much more efficient than other companies we have tried **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barb P. | Director of Operations Franchise Stores, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** not having to replenish cash - immediate deposit for team members **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** cost seems high - they charge us a fee and then additional fees from the recipients **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps us from having to make frequent trips to the bank and keeping too much cash on site ### 11. Very easy interface & great customer service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James A. | Butcher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** It is very easy & very user.friendly. There’s never been in an issue in payments with any of the staff ever **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The holidays affecting reloads. Made it hard to pintooint consistent reloads **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not having to keep cash on hand at restaurants ### 12. Great platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MARK D. | VP of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Very easy to set up and update. Team appreciates the rea-time payments **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Need to pay attention to busy holiday periods and maintain the holding account. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduced the need for having cash on hand for nightly payouts to staff. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your review, Mark! We know holiday weekends lead to higher sales volumes, which is why we always send out reminders to our customers and help ensure they have enough funds on hand to pay out tips. We do want to note that we offer a Zero Prefund option for customers that qualify based on a credit review. Please reach out to our team at support@kickfin.com if you have questions. ### 13. Great product! I work on the accounting side of the restaurant and we like the product! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** We enjoy the design of the product and its integration. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The reporting could be enhanced so people like us can use it better. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not having to wait so long to pay out tips to our staff. ### 14. Excellent Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yoshi N. | General Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** The software is designed exactly what we need for our company **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** None. There no much to describe about he company **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to make adjustments or look if you’re paying over helps ### 15. Good app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Get paid instantly and consistently anytime **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** There is nothing i don’t like about this app **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** I get paid instantly without having to wait ### 16. management lvl **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** safety, direct payment, no delays in staff payment **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** onboarding new staff could be streamlined, interface can be more minimalistic **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** less cash on hands in the venue so solve a big safety for the staff not to walk home with bills in their ends. Instant payment so they feel safe and valued. ### 17. KickFin is great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Like many restaurants, the majority of the tips made to our servers were a credit card tip. We had to run to the bank almost every day to get enough cash out to pay out our servers. We started KickFin and we only go to the bank 2-3 times per month and only for change. Our staff was initially skeptical but they ended up loving it. One server told me that KickFin depositing money directly into her account has helped her manage her personal finances so much better. Now she always has enough money in her account to pay her bills. Servers feel safer as well not having to walk out with large amounts of cash. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The only downside is navigating federal or bank holidays and the fee. However, with enough planning and organization, those have not been real issues. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Paying our staff their tips at the end of the night was a real hassle. KickFin has fixed that. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Mike, we appreciate you taking the time to leave a review! We're seeing the same thing: instant, cashless tip-outs aren't just a convenience; they help improve the financial wellbeing and security of hardworking hospitality employees. Regarding your note on bank holidays, good news -- there are improvements in progress that will speed up the replenishment process. Be on the lookout for an announcement when we roll out those updates later this summer/early fall! ### 18. Review from an accountant who works with multiple clients that use Kickfin **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** My favorite part about Kickfin would be the reporting functions - especially the "Business Date" feature. With other software and with earlier Kickfin versions, we spent a lot of time simply assigning tips to the correct dates and summing up each day. Now, Kickfin does all that sorting for us - we just plug your reports into a spreadsheet, and we have our answers. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** My least favorite part about Kickfin is easily the date ranges used to pull each report. Kickfin's website tends to crash when pulling more than 800 rows of data, I believe. For us, that's about a month and a half of data. Trying to do any large scale analysis is a pain simply because of how long it takes to pull all the reports. Also, sometimes the date range display glitches, and won't allow you to scroll forward to the current month - you just have to refresh. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kickfin solves the problem of manually adding up each day's tips and attempting to tie them back to our internal reporting. We work much faster now; it used to be that we had to interpret the reports from both the tip distributers and our client's own tips tracking system, then compare the two of them. Nowadays, we know for a fact that the Kickfin reports are accurate - we just have to check your reports against our own to see what issues our clients' reports might have. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your feedback, Erik! We're glad our reporting is making life easier for you and your team. (We recently made enhancements to our reporting that addressed the issue you're referencing with the exports -- but if you're still continuing to experiencing the crashing that you referenced, please email us at support@kickfin.com so that we can resolve the issue together!) ### 19. Want your staff to be Safe and lower your cash on hand? **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Being able to pay your staff out immediately and have it hit their bank accounts within 30 seconds to 3 minutes, you can't go wrong. Organized reports of daily payouts. Keeping less petty cash on hand so there is less to steal or less for bad people to grab. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Mistakes happen. Fat fingers, being tired and not paying attention. Please do a negative amount and return the money if there are mistakes. It would undoubtedly make it cleaner if that could happen. That would be my biggest negative. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to keep much less cash on hand, which is excellent for several reasons. Less money can come up missing. Less cash for some would-be robber to take. Less opportunity for theft overall. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks Patrick! We agree -- employees love getting their tips sent straight to their bank accounts and skipping the hassle of cash is a big win. We also understand how payment mistakes you referenced can cause issues. While there are some limitations related to banking regulations that govern the type of transactions we use, we're taking this feedback into consideration and evaluation if there is a way to address this concern! ### 20. Kickfin is wonderful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brad P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Kickfin let's me easily pay employees , without having to have cash on hand for the tips. Easy to keep record of payments without having to keep a log. Works perfect! **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** There's not much to not like. It could be a little easier to dismiss employees , which can be time consuming with the current system. Other than that it's pretty simple. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kickfin gives more opportunity to not go to the bank. I like not having to go to the bank in a weekly basis. It also helps me keep record of tip distribution, in case a ream member needs help with it. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your rave review, Brad! P.S.: We're constantly looking for ways to make Kickfin even easier to use, and we've passed your feedback regarding dismissing employees to our product team! ### 21. Kickfin is awesome! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Phillip A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** The best part about Kickfin is how easy it is to use. The interface is highly user-friendly. Our tipped team members love they don't have to worry about getting cash to the bank! **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** If there was one thing I could do to improve Kickfin, it would be to have daily/weekly reports sent out so payments can be validated and reconciled with POS reports. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem Kickfin solved for us was the amount of cash we have to keep in the restaurant. It also eliminated the need to replenishing our petty cash every week. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your feedback, Phillip! Not having to hassle with cash — or make trips to the bank! — is one of the things employees love most about Kickfin. Regarding your note on reporting: We're currently planning to make significant updates to our reporting later this year. Your suggestion has been noted and will be taken into consideration. If you ever have any other specific requests or needs, we're all ears — please email our support team at support@kickfin.com! ### 22. Great for management, great for employees **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Employees love it because they don't need to wait for their CC tips to go on their checks or walk out with wads of cash each shift. Managers love it because you don't need as much cash on hand in the safe. Accounting loves it because it's easier to track than cash and you see what's paid out each night. Been using Kickfin for years and would never do it any other way at this point. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Big weekends and bank holidays can be frustrating with your retainer- just takes some careful planning (like raising your retainer before holidays) to ensure there's always enough balance to tip out. **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** Do it, your life will be better. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlines credit card tip outs and accounting **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > We're thrilled Kickfin has worked so well for your team! We hear you on the retainer — while we send out regular reminders ahead of holidays to help you plan, we're currently working on improvements that will speed up the replenishment process. Those will be available the coming months, so be on the lookout for the announcement once they're live! ### 23. Happy employees and easy to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael M. | Managing Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Setting up new users is very simple and our staff gets their tips paid instantly. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** There really aren't any things I dislike about Kickfin. The only recommendation I can make is having enough funds in the account for long holiday weekends. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to have to pay tips in large amounts daily and Kickfin eliminated that by paying it electronically. This saved us many trips to the bank to replenish petty cash on hand. It also helps eliminate cash handling errors. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for taking the time to review Kickfin, Michael! We're working on improvements that will speed up the replenishment process, and we should have them available in the coming months — be on the lookout for an announcement from our Customer Success team! ### 24. Efficient and Purposeful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelly Ann C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** I love that Kickfin gives my job the opportunity to pay our employees efficiently and with purpose. It's so user friendly and easy to learn. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I don't think there is anything I dislike about Kickfin. It is great and I think more employers should use it! **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our servers used to leave with a lot of money in their pockets which can be unsafe in certain areas. It eliminates that worry and let's their tips go straight to their bank account. ### 25. General Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Myles W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** I like being able to pay my crew nightly. They seem to appreciate that as well, greatly. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I've only had one hiccup with Kickfin, and because the payment didn't go through immediately, the staff ended up double paid. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** I know plenty of people in this industry that won't accept a job if they don't receive their tips nightly. Being able to pay people nightly is amazing since more and more companies are putting all tips on paychecks these days. ### 26. Makes life a lot easier. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawn L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** The ability to pay the tipped employees instantly is amazing. It also eliminates the need to have to keep more cash in the store for tip outs. Very easy to sign people up. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Nothing. I like everything especially the reports. Kickfin makes it easy to find and audit the tip reports. If I had to pick one thing to improve it would be the option to link it to a few extra payment methods. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** The need to keep cash in the store for tip outs or to have to write checks to our entertainment are no longer necessary. Kickfin solves all those problems with the push of a button. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > We designed Kickfin to make life easier for hardworking hospitality pros, so we're thrilled to read reviews like yours! (Good news — we're currently exploring adding additional payout methods for employees — we appreciate your feedback!) ### 27. User friendly system speeds up paperwork **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** It streamlined our system, making things easier on our management team, and our staff love how organized everything is **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** We have a lot of users, or payees that all use personal logins. Viewing payments made by each payee is a bit difficult **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Messiness, or a general streamlining of our system. It is also freeing up more time, and creates less confusion in regards to tip sharing **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for the feedback, Ryan! On our Paid Payments report, you can filter the report by payee. Also on the Employee record, you can see a history of the payment details for that employees. Hope that's helpful, but as always -- if you have questions, contact us at support@kickfin.com! ### 28. Quick & easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Celeste V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** All information you need is there on the app and easily accessible. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Calculator to figure out information to be put into kickfin can be frustrating. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kickfin has helped get our employees their tipped money and make it easier for them to handle. No longer need to make a extra step to deposit money its always just already there for them. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your review, Celeste! We're glad you're finding the Kickfin platform easy to use. We're taking your suggestion regarding the calculator into consideration as we plan future enhancements. In the meantime, be sure to contact support@kickfin.com if you have any questions! ### 29. A very convenient and user friendly way to deposit tips directly into your bank account. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jo G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Allows the employer to deposit tips instantly into an employees bank account. Keeps a record of all deposited tips. The website is easy to use. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** There is currently no app for kickfin, it's a bit inconvenient to have to login to the site each time you want to review your account. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not applicable **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks so much for your 5-star review, Jo! While we don't have an app at this time, our website is designed to be mobile friendly and can be easily used on any mobile device. (To make it easier to access the website on your mobile device, you can create a shortcut on your device’s home screen.) As always, if you have questions, our support team is available to help at support@kickfin.com! ### 30. User friendly, very easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittny S. | Restaurant Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Being able to carry less cash on site and pay employees directly to their accounts and immediately. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** When employees work at different locations or transfer, it's a little clunky to get them added and paid. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Honestly I am not entirely sure. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your feedback! We'll take this into consideration as we plan future enhancements to Kickfin. ### 31. MADE MY LIFE BETTER!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MICHAEL K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Not having to have weekly cash runs to my restaurants; assists tremendously on petty cash management. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Nothing really. I have enjoyed my experience with the product. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cash Management, Needing to get cash requirements on a weekly basis. Paying subcontractors. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > No cash runs = the best! Thanks for your review, Michael! ### 32. Kickfin is a cash game changer! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hollis S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Having less cash in the restaurnt and not doing 20 cash exchanges with servers everyday. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Nothing, it is a great system! kickfin is great. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do less bank runs and we do have to handle cash with servers. ### 33. Makes my life much easier! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Helps manage cash flow much better. Simple to onboard and use. Good controls in place to manage risk. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Looking for deeper integration with POS. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Eliminates having to run to the bank all the time to pay out tips. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Stay tuned, Andrew -- we're currently working on integrations with some of the top POS systems in the market! If you're interested in an integration with your POS, please reach out to support@kickfin.com. We'll evaluate if your POS is on our integration roadmap, and put you on the waitlist if applicable! ### 34. Sr Director **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cassie D. | Sr. Director of Ops Services & Training @ BigShots Golf, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Easy to us and the employees get their money without the cash in the building **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I wish we could connect it to adp to stop the manual reporting on it **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running out of cash **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Hi Cassie -- thanks for your review! Kickfin has a payroll report that you can download into a CSV file, and as long as ADP will allow you to import that file, you should be able to use the report to eliminate manual steps. (We're currently evaluating creating accounting and payroll system-specific file formats to make this process easier for customers. ) If you have a specific need, please drop us a line at support@kickfin.com to let us know what would be useful for you! ### 35. Great Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monte P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Ease of use and support, simple system great for the end user as well **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The software is so simple there is nothing to dislike. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Eliminating cash, and administrative work **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your review, Monte! We're happy you and your team are getting value out of Kickfin. ### 36. Easy to Use, Convenient Rerporting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angelica S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Extremely easy to use with tools to ensure accuracy. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Onboarding multiple people at once is cumbersome. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tip distribution throughout the week that maintains a paper trail. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > We're glad to hear you've found Kickfin easy to use and that your team is taking advantage of our robust reporting capabilities! Thanks for the feedback on user management — we know how important that is, so we're always looking for ways to make Kickfin's simple onboarding process even more seamless. We're taking this suggestion into consideration as we plan future enhancements. ### 37. Great system vary simple to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Can pay multiple people at once. Has various reports can be run that is easy to read and run. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** There is no way to get payment back from being sent. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** not having to keep cash in the restaurant and not having servers carry various amounts of cash. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > We appreciate your 5-star review, Thomas! While we've designed the platform to minimize the risk of erroneous payments, we definitely understand that mistakes can happen. There are some limitations related to banking regulations that govern the type of transactions we use — but with that being said, we're evaluating ways to address this concern! If you ever have any questions about payments or Kickfin in general, our Customer Success team is here when you need us at support@kickfin.com. ### 38. nice service to offer tipped ee **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sallye M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** quick payment to ee's so they have access to their daily tips quickly **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** must have a debit card and some ee's don't use banks so they can't use this **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** so we have to have less cash on hand to tip out from credit card customers **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your 5-star review! It's so important for restaurant employees to have instant access to our tips — we're glad to hear your team is reaping the benefits of Kickfin. We're exploring additional payout methods for employees, and we'll keep you up to date as we make any changes! ### 39. Kickfin Rules! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Loved not having to go to the bank. Saved me time. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The fees. But they weren't enought to worry considering time and gas I saved. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saved time for business and personal life. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for the feedback, Michael - we're glad you're getting so much value out of Kickfin! ### 40. Kickfin has been a wonderful experience! My servers love the convenience. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicole B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** I like how simple and easy it is to send payments. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** There isn't anything I dislike about kickfin. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having no cash is excellent and very convenient for the staff. ### 41. We love using Kickfin at Hanna's Restaurant and Bar! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danielle F. | Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** The convenince of not needing to go to the bank every other day is huge. We are able to keep a much smaller amount of cash on site and logging server tips is simplified for us. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I wish there was a space to write notes about money sent! We tip out employees for various reasons. Most of the time it is for server checkouts, but we also send money out for catering jobs and special events. I have to keep a seperate log sheet in excel to keep track of where and why money is being sent. **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** It is worth trying for any restaurant. Money is sent directly to server's debit accounts and we are able to monitior money going out easily. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is less room for error for us when it comes to giving out money. There is less reason to go into our safe often and we can see the exact amount going in and out. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Hey Danielle -- we appreciate the 5-star review! We want to make sure you're aware of our Notes feature. There are two places where you can enter in a note regarding the tip payment. The first is a general description that applies to the entire group of tip payments. It's located on the right hand side of the tip payment screen if you are looking at it on a desktop browser. Additionally, you can enter in a note for each individual employee's tip payment. To the right, near the Net Payment amount line, there is a link to "Add Note". This will open a notes box where you can enter the note for that employee. The employee can see this note, and the note populates to the Paid Payments report for tracking purposes. Reach out to support@kickfin.com if you're got any questions! ### 42. Multi-Unit Kickfin User **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris M. | Vice President Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Kickfin has proven to be easy to implement and to use. Support and help are always an email or call away and very responsive to our needs. Adding new locations has also been proven to be very easy as well. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I don't think we have dislikes! Our managers and hourly staff have been 100% happy without Kickfin experience. We have also seen them constantly work to improve the product and add features. **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** If you are looking for a way to automate tipping out hourly team members and to make it easy to administer for them and your managers, I would highly recommend Kickfin. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have improved the speed and frequency that our hourly team members have gotten their tips, and it has allowed us to lower cash on hand in every location! ### 43. Easy and straightforward **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabby K. | HR Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Divvying out tips all at once rather than several times a night saves so much time and less cash handling = less accounting errors. Staff really seem to appreciate the convenience as well! **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I do wish it was possible for their to be 7 days a week replenishments so we didn't have to have quite so much in our reserves but not a big deal once you get it all figured out. **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** Go for it! Make your life a little easier! **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less of a chance of becoming cash poor when there are high credit tip nights, saves us trips to the bank to replenish our cash drawers. Saves our managers time checking out staff as well. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your review, Gabby! We're glad Kickfin is saving you time and reducing the risk of accounting errors. We hear you on the replenishments -- as you mentioned, once it's set up, the pre-fund isn't an issue for most teams. However: while the banking system doesn't process transactions over the weekend right now, we've identified a solution that will cut down the 48-hour turnaround time on replenishments. It's in development right now (we're working with the banks to facilitate this) -- and it should be available in the coming months. Stay tuned! ### 44. Less Cash Less Hassle **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** The ability to maintain and handle less cash while keeping our tipped staff happy and paid in a timely manner. The less cash handling our team does, the more secure and easier things are, for both the teams in the store as well as the corporate staff that audits and checks their work. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** We would like the ability to recover funds that were sent in error, but we do understand the limitations of the tech. Less lag in account replenishment would be nice as well. **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** The benefits outweigh any of the detractors. Kickfin found us when we desperately needed better options to the old cash tip-out standards. If you rely on armored car services or you and managers are having to continuously do bank runs to replenish your tip money... especially on holidays, this will save you lots of time and money. I personally have saved over 4hrs a week that I would have spent going to the bank, and we save thousands of dollars a month by not needing armored cars any longer. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving two main pain points. Cash management is huge by reducing the cash the stores keep on hand and the cash our team walks out with at the end of their shift is a big improvement to security making them much less likely to be a target. Reducing cash management also reduces the chances of internal theft and the amount that might be taken. We have saved thousands of dollars each month by canceling the armored car services since they are no longer needed in our model. The other problem we solve is not actually a problem but an added benefit. Our tipped employees were very leery of the Kickfin and not getting cash in hand at the end of their shift. That attitude quickly changed and is now a benefit many team members mention to their friends and prospective new hires. This has helped maintain and bring in new staff during this difficult staffing period. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > You hit the nail on the head! Digitizing the tip payout process ensures your employees get paid instantly, while minimizing risk for your team and your business. As an FYI: we're currently working to reduce the replenishment timeframe even further. This is in development and we anticipate having it available in the coming months. Stay tuned! ### 45. Mollie's KickFin Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Not having a shortage of cash, being able to instantly pay staff and cutting down on the risk associated with staff leaving the property with large sums of money in hand. It's easy to use and learn and train new management staff on and you can easily track usage. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** The only thing that I dislike is having to authenticate the account every day when logging in with proper email. The new way to look back on payments was a little complicated at first before I had a chance to play with it. I do miss having every employee listed for the payments. That would make tracking accurate payments much easier. **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** Do it! We had very little issue with KickFin since starting use. It's cut down on time and trips to the bank and kept staff safe. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of my staff consists of college students who don't have a bank and that allows them to have money deposited in their accounts. I do think staff is happier and I think we are saving money because we aren't having to deal with the issue of if someone reads the cash out report wrong and gives the wrong amount of money out to staff. Much easier to track any errors when it's all kept in a vault. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your 5-star review, Mollie! Kickfin was designed to solve for cash shortages, save time and keep your people safe — we're thrilled to hear that you're getting so much value out of the platform. We understand that updating to 2-Factor Authentication created an extra login steps. That's become a standard security measure for many financial apps in order to protect customers from phishing or other scams. (We've included a link that provides more information about 2FA.) We also appreciate the feedback on the employee payments — we're always evaluating ways to make Kickfin even easier for our customers to use. You can get in touch with our Customer Success team at support@kickfin.com to share additional feedback, and we'll provide a few more details about upcoming enhancements! ### 46. Great Product! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parker R. | Director of Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Very quick for managers to use. Less cash handling and the mistakes that come with that. Happy staff that get their money ASAP with no need to go to the bank. Concise records of who was paid and when is a huge help if there are any discrepencies. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** No real downsides. Any change in an operating system will come with it's hiccups, but they were short lived and everyone is on board and moving forward! **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** Do it! **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** No more bank runs with massive amounts of cash on hand. Staff gets out much faster, making for quicker more effecient closes. ### 47. Kickfin, easy to use alternative to cash tips **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bradford B. | D, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** With the lack of cash availability due to credit card tips Kickfin solves our problem of not having enough cash on hand to tip delivery personnel **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Sometimes the login process can be a little buggy, it would be great if there was an app for the managers that used biometrics **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** If you pay tips to employees Kickfin is a must! It's way to easy to use. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not having cash, instant payouts, the drivers were skeptical at first but quickly realized this is actually better for them as well as us **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Thanks for your review, Bradford! So many restaurant teams are dealing with cash shortages because of the increase in credit card transactions. Kickfin is a great way to ensure your delivery folks receive the instant payouts they deserve. Like many other financial applications, we've updated the login process to improve security. If you ever have a problem logging in, get in touch with our Customer Success team at support@kickfin.com and we'll help you troubleshoot! ### 48. Great Solution for Restaurants **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jan H. | Comptroller, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** From Set up to daily utilization is very easy and user friendly. I used to have problems balancing out my daily reports since our tip payouts usually exceeded cash receipts, but now everyone is happy and I am not running to the bank on a daily basis to increase our cash bank **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** I cannot think of anything - working very well!! **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cash handling problems are not an issue at the store and the tipped employees still get paid every night. Everyone is happy! ### 49. Fantastic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John K. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Very easy to use. For both admistrators and employees it is very user friendly. **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** If we could have the search bar for employees pop up on the employee list, not at the initial page in the begining where all the balances and the begining day totals are. **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having cash available in house and not having to make as many bank runs. In addition, too, it also makes our staff safe due to not having to carry cash when they leave the building. **Official Response from Keely Hungate:** > Hi John — thanks for your review! We wanted to let you know that you actually can search for employees by name in a couple of different places within the platform. If you find the Filter icon (looks like an upside down triangle or a funnel shape), it will give you option to filter the list. On pages where employee names are listed, one of the options is to filter by the employee name. If you'd like us to show you how to filter by name, please let us know at support@kickfin.com, and we can send you a quick tutorial to watch! ### 50. Easy, fast & convenient way to tip employees. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devlyn S. | Office manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Kickfin?** Convenience of sending the tips from anywhere **What do you dislike about Kickfin?** Cannot retract a payment if an error is made **Recommendations to others considering Kickfin:** When beginning over estimate the amount of tips being paid out so u put enough funds into your reserve to cover tips for the week **What problems is Kickfin solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is always an accurate report of what employees were paid in tips . 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