Patent ID: 9741050
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A system, comprising: a. a gratuity management system, comprising b. a plurality of client business systems in electronic communication with the server of the gratuity management system, each of the client business systems corresponding to one of the plurality of clients, each client business system comprising: wherein the gratuity sync client application on each client business system is configured to extract transaction information and employee information from the client business system and to initiate transfer of the extracted information to the gratuity management system; wherein the gratuity management system is a cloud computing system remote from the plurality of client business systems and configured to receive the extracted transaction information and employee information from the plurality of client business systems and to store the received extracted information in the database; and wherein the gratuity management system is further configured to execute, independently for each client, gratuity distribution rules for allocating gratuities among at least a portion of the employees and to determine a gratuity allocation based on at least the received extracted transaction information, the received extracted employee information, and the gratuity distribution rules and return the gratuity allocation to the gratuity sync client application of each respective client business system, without requiring the client business systems to execute the gratuity distribution rules.