Actual vs Troncbox

Actual provides hospitality businesses with tools for tip distribution, payroll processing, employee scheduling, and operational workflows. Its tip tools automate calculations, division, and payments while giving employees detailed reports. Teams can define custom pool rules, allocate tips by shift, and keep records at both levels. The Canadian tips product is intended for restaurants, hotels, and coffee shops working with federal and provincial requirements for Direct Tips and Controlled Tips. Actual lists integrations with 7shifts, OpenTable, Toast, ADP, Clover, Homebase, Lightspeed, QuickBooks, and Payworks. In the United States, payout schedules can range from daily to bi-weekly; employees can receive tips on Branch debit cards or directly in bank accounts, with Branch card payments described as free for employers and employees. Pricing is on request, with a free one-to-one product demo. Actual is the business name of Atlas Restaurant Management Systems Inc., headquartered in Ontario. Primary infrastructure is hosted in Canada, with some processing in other jurisdictions.

Troncbox is web software for hospitality businesses that calculates, reconciles, and distributes tips and service charges. Allocations can be based on equal shares, hours, points, minimum awards, or a mix of methods. Employees can use a mobile app to view how allocations are calculated, check earnings and history, and access related information. Managers have dashboards, reports, historical data, and analytics on tronc funding and allocations. Listed EPOS integrations include Square Up, Tevalis, PointOne, Lightspeed, Quadrant, and Toast. WMT says it can process payroll or work with other providers, showing wages and tronc on one payslip, and manages tronc arrangements in relation to tax, National Insurance, minimum wage, and employment requirements. The free Troncbox plan is available to WMT Troncmaster Services clients and includes online management, basic reporting, employee access and app, and digitally stored and signed tronc letters. Troncbox Plus is listed at £20 a month, billed +VAT per site, for those clients; its features are marked coming soon. WMT is regulated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Troncbox is freemium and lists a free plan.