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QR code tips for hotels

If your guests tip by QR code, those tips have to reach your staff. Put them on payroll and you pay CPP and EI on every dollar, as a Controlled Tip model requires.

Estimate your monthly QR tips from your rooms, occupancy and tip rate. Then compare the cost of payroll with paying tips out through Actual as Direct Tips, which are exempt from CPP and EI for both employer and employee.

*2026 CPP rate is 5.95% and EI premium is 1.63%, with employers paying 1.4 times the EI rate. With tips on payroll, employers take on approximately 8.23% and employees have approximately 7.58% withheld. Results are estimates.