Restaurants
Payroll software for Canadian restaurants
From your back-of-house team to your front-of-house staff to the servers you bring on for patio season, Wagepoint makes sure everyone gets paid accurately and on time — without having to become a payroll expert.
Why Wagepoint
Restaurant payroll software that works the way you do
Built for the realities of restaurant payroll, Wagepoint helps you manage tips, variable hours, and seasonal staff with less manual work.
Tips and tip pools, covered
Wagepoint supports both controlled and direct tip structures so you stay on the right side of the CRA.
Variable hours, calculated automatically
Enter hours each pay period and Wagepoint handles the rest for every team member.
Seasonal staff, easily managed
Restore returning seasonal hires without starting from scratch — their records are archived in your account.
Record of Employment, handled accurately
When a team member leaves or wraps up for the season, create and submit ROEs directly from Wagepoint.
Why Canadian restaurant owners choose Wagepoint
Running a restaurant means making a hundred decisions before noon. Payroll shouldn’t be one of them. Here’s what restaurant operators across Canada tell us they value most:
Easy to get started.
Easy to get started. Over 30,000 businesses trust Wagepoint because we’ve built it to be straightforward from the moment you log in.
CRA compliance you can count on.
CRA compliance you can count on. Calculations run on current Canadian rates. We stay up to date with changing regulations so you don’t have to.
Support you can trust.
Get the answers you need, right when you need them from a team that knows small business payroll.
Focused on payroll, so you can focus on customers.
We don’t try to be everything to everyone. We focus on what Canadian restaurant operators actually need so you’re free to focus on customers.
I see restaurant payroll from both sides: as an accountant supporting restaurant businesses and as a restaurant owner myself. Wagepoint helps keep the moving parts organized — tipped staff, variable hours, seasonal employees and year-end reporting — so payroll is easier to manage for owners and accountants alike.
For every kind of restaurant and foodservice business
Wagepoint works across the full range of restaurant and foodservice operations in Canada.
Full-service restaurants.
Front-of-house and back-of-house teams, tipped servers, and hourly kitchen staff all paid correctly in the same pay run.
Quick-service and fast-casual locations.
Fast-moving teams and constantly changing hours without the payroll headache.
Cafés and coffee shops.
Whether it’s one part-time barista or a small rotating crew, you’ll get payroll right from the first pay period.
Bars, pubs and breweries.
Tip pools, late-night variable hours, and staff who move between roles mid-shift. Wagepoint keeps the calculations straight so you don’t have to.
Catering, food trucks and mobile foodservice.
Event-based teams, changing work locations and irregular hours managed in one payroll system that keeps up with your business.
Multi-location restaurants.
Employees, managers and hourly teams can be managed across multiple locations, with payroll organized by workplace, team and pay type.
Integrations
Sync with the software you’re already using
Wagepoint connects to the tools Canadian restaurants already rely on. Approved hours from scheduling tools like 7shifts flow directly into your pay run. Payroll syncs to QuickBooks Online, FreshBooks, and Xero so your books stay accurate without double entry.
In the restaurant business, things change at a fast clip. Payroll needs to keep up without creating more work behind the scenes. Wagepoint does exactly that — it’s simple enough to use, structured enough to rely on, and gives me a payroll process I can trust.
FAQs
Questions we hear from restaurant owners
It depends on how tips flow through your business. Controlled tips — where you collect and redistribute them — are treated as employment income, and CPP and EI apply. Direct tips that go straight from customer to employee are generally not reported by the employer. Wagepoint supports both structures and handles the calculations correctly based on how your restaurant operates. If you’re unsure which category applies to you, it’s worth a conversation with your accountant.
Part-time and casual employees are generally entitled to stat holiday pay based on their average daily earnings over a recent reference period — but the exact formula varies by province. Wagepoint offers two statutory holiday calculation options so you can choose the one that best fits your province’s requirements.
No. When a seasonal employee comes back, their records are already in your Wagepoint account. You restore them, update any details that have changed, and they’re in your next pay run. When the season ends, you deactivate them and issue their ROE directly from Wagepoint.
Yes. Wagepoint handles hourly, salaried, and tipped employees in the same pay run. Each person’s deductions, overtime, vacation accruals, and pay type calculate correctly without any manual adjustments from you.
Complete the T4 workflow in Wagepoint to generate, review, and submit T4s for your whole team at no extra cost. Seasonal patio staff, part-time servers, kitchen crew — everyone who was paid through Wagepoint during the year gets a T4.
