Getting Started

Complete Employee Setup Through the Available Aplauso Flow

How an employee verifies an identity, accepts authorized business access when applicable, completes the setup controls currently shown, and checks payment or guest-entry readiness without relying on automatic activation.

Grant Management Access Through Scoped Invitations and Roles

How an authorized operator invites a management team member with an available role and scope, confirms the resulting capability, and avoids assuming access to financial or personal data.

Aplauso vs. Cash Tipping - Why Digital Tips Outperform Cash

Digital tipping with Aplauso recovers tips that cash never captures, gives employees reliable income, and gives managers the reporting and compliance tools that cash tips can never provide.

Who Can Use Aplauso? Evaluate Your Guest and Operations Flow

A practical checklist for deciding whether an authorized organization can prepare an Aplauso guest entry point, canonical destinations, payments, and operational support for its own use case.

Validate a Test Tip Before Going Live

Use an approved non-live environment to validate the currently available guest entry, recipient, and recorded result without treating a test as proof of Live payment, Wallet, or payout readiness.

Live, Sandbox, and Demo Environments

How Aplauso keeps live, sandbox, and demo records distinct, how property transitions are verified, and how to avoid treating a mode change as an immediate payment or operating action.

How Guests Use an Aplauso Tip Entry Point

How a guest follows the published recipient journey, submits the available rating and tip details, and receives a payment result reconciled through verified provider events.

Publish and Validate an Aplauso Guest Entry QR Code

How authorized operators and recipients use the currently available QR or guest-link controls, verify the displayed destination and environment, and avoid treating a code as a guarantee of payment, allocation, or payout.

Configure Departments and Outlets in Your Authorized Business Scope

How authorized operators use available business-structure controls to organize departments, outlets, recipient assignments, and operational review without assuming a universal hierarchy or guest/payment outcome.

Invite and Manage Employees Within Your Authorized Scope

How an authorized business operator creates a scoped invitation, how a recipient accepts it through verified onboarding, and how to confirm access without assuming payment or payout readiness.

Manager Readiness Checklist for an Aplauso Launch

A permissioned, environment-aware readiness checklist for an authorized manager preparing guest entry points, recipients, payments, and operational support.

Quick Start Guide - Set Up Your Venue in Under 10 Minutes

Follow these six steps to go from a new Aplauso account to accepting live tips: create your account, connect Stripe, add employees, generate QR codes, run a test tip, and go live.

What Is Aplauso? Guest Appreciation and Tip Workflows

How Aplauso connects a published guest entry point to a canonical tip destination, payment processing, Wallet, and authorized Business operations without promising a method, payout, or configuration.