ShiftTally

How ShiftTally works

Updated 3 August 2026

ShiftTally answers one question: were you paid what you earned? Everything on this page is about how it answers that, starting with the colors.

What the colors mean

Every number on a shift takes the color of the evidence behind it. The color is the label, so one glance tells you how much of that number is proven.

$284.10

Green: cross-verified

Two documents cover this shift and the gap between them is what it should be. Your slip says $220 in charge tips on $1,200 in sales, the deposit is $160, and the $60 difference is the 5% tip-out your house takes. ShiftTally checks against the rate you set, so a 3% house works the same way. Records and trophies are built from green shifts only.

$186.40

Amber: single-source

One document, and nothing yet to check it against. The deposit has not landed, or the slip is lost, or sales were never printed on it. Nothing disagrees. The number is honest, and it is not proof.

$212.75

Red: disputed

Both documents are here and the gap between them is wrong. The same slip, $220 in charge tips on $1,200 in sales, but the deposit is $130. A 5% tip-out should have taken $60 and left you $160. Open the shift and ShiftTally shows you both numbers and the $30 that never arrived.

pending

Gray: nothing linked yet

A shift on your calendar, or one you typed in, with no document behind it. Photograph the slip and it turns amber. Add the tip deposit and it turns green, or red if the two do not agree.

$1,240 predicted

Purple: predicted

Money you have not earned yet. Purple is what your own history says an upcoming shift is likely to pay, and it never counts as earnings.

$209 your average

Blue: your average

Your own average, there so a single shift has something to sit next to. Blue is never a verification color. It says nothing about whether a number was checked.

Color is not the only signal. Nothing linked carries a dash and disputed carries a cross, so neither of those depends on color at all. Cross-verified and single-source share the same check, so open the shift and it names the state in words.

What cross-verified means

A clockout slip is what the POS printed when you clocked out. A tip deposit is what actually reached you. Cross-verified means ShiftTally holds both for the same shift and has checked them against each other: charge tips, cash, tip-out, and the total.

The gap between those two documents is where money goes missing. A tip-out taken at the wrong percentage, a deposit that came up one shift short, a large party split that never landed: none of it surfaces until the two documents sit side by side. Catching it the same week is the difference between a conversation with your manager and a shrug six months later.

It is also why your records mean something here. A best night only one document saw is a memory. A best night two documents agree on is a fact, and a fact is the only thing ShiftTally will write down.

Where predictions come from

Your own history, and nothing else. No industry averages, no numbers borrowed from other users.

ShiftTally looks at which day you worked, when you clocked in, and how long you stayed, then at what those shifts actually paid you. A Friday dinner is predicted from your Friday dinners.

Cross-verified shifts count at full weight. Single-source shifts count at half, because one document is half the evidence. Until your history can support an honest answer, a forecast says it is collecting data instead of guessing. Every prediction carries a range, and the range is the app telling you how sure it is.

What happens to a photographed slip

  1. The photo goes to private storage under your account, over an encrypted connection. No other account can reach it.
  2. Google Cloud Vision reads the text off the image and hands it back. Google is not permitted to keep the image or use it for anything else.
  3. ShiftTally pulls the numbers out of that text: tips, sales, hours, tip-out. Every field that came off the photo wears a small ✦ AI badge, so you can always tell what was read and what you typed.
  4. You confirm or correct the values before anything saves. The app never files a number you did not see.
  5. The original stays attached to the shift as your record. Delete the document, the shift, or the whole account from Settings whenever you want.

Every provider that touches your data is named in the privacy policy.

A number came out wrong

Fix it on the review screen before saving, or open the shift and edit it later. A value you typed is yours, and the app stops marking it as read from the photo. If a whole document format reads badly, send an example to support@getshifttally.com and it becomes a test case.

There is no slip for a shift

Mark the clockout as lost. The shift stays in your ledger with the tip deposit as its witness, marked single-source. The app never promotes a number to proof without a second document behind it.

Something else

Price, privacy, and the iPhone question are answered on the home page. For anything else, email support@getshifttally.com. A person reads it.