9. Tips and Gratuity Handling

## 9.1 Nature of tips
1. Diners may voluntarily add a tip at checkout or at payment; your staff may record tips a diner hands over at collection. Tips are gratuities intended for your staff. They are not a service charge, and you must not require, demand, or pre-select them (Central Consumer Protection Authority guidelines dated 04.07.2022).

## 9.2 Collection and settlement
2. Tips are collected together with the order amount through your own payment gateway or your counter and settle to you with the order money. The Platform does not hold tips and does not compute subscription or any Platform fees on tip amounts.
3. You receive tip amounts in trust for your staff and must disburse them in full in accordance with applicable law and your internal policy. The Platform's per-staff tip reporting is an operational aid only; Wephoton is not a party to, and bears no liability for, the distribution of tips among staff.

## 9.3 Tax treatment and records
4. Voluntary tips are shown as a separate bill line and are excluded from the taxable value on which the Platform computes GST. You are solely responsible for your own tax, payroll, and record-keeping treatment of tips. Platform analytics and exports report tips separately from revenue to support this.