About SaluTips
We remove barriers between customers and service professionals
SaluTips creates an additional direct way to say thank you. We do not replace cash, checkout flows, terminals, POS systems or platforms: we open a simple option where the usual path does not work.
SaluTips is a European company building personal and team QR channels that help customers thank service professionals.
A customer may want to show appreciation, but a procedure, a platform, a checkout flow, the payment moment or the absence of cash can stand between them and the professional.
Not a new obligation and not a replacement for existing methods, but a separate, clear path where saying thank you is currently difficult.
Why we do this
In the modern service economy, customers and service professionals are increasingly separated by procedures, platforms, checkout flows, terminals and the timing of payment. Sometimes contact lasts only a few seconds. Sometimes the work happens after the guest has left. Sometimes appreciation disappears into a general flow and the link with the person who provided the service is lost.
This is not limited to restaurants. A courier, housekeeping team member, driver, guide, salon professional, barista, seasonal worker or independent service provider can create an excellent experience without having a simple way of their own to be thanked.
We are building SaluTips so that this possibility exists without pressure on the customer and without requiring businesses to rebuild their current processes.
France is our point of origin, not the limit of our audience
SaluTips was born in France, on the French Riviera, in a region where tourism, restaurants, hotels, salons, transfers, seasonal teams and international guests cross paths every day.
Here it is especially clear that appreciation often runs into the absence of a convenient channel rather than the absence of intent: no cash, payment already completed, the staff member not nearby, or service delivered through a procedure or platform.
France is the context that helped shape our approach. SaluTips is built for different countries, languages and market segments where service professionals need a more accessible way to be thanked.
Our principles
We are building SaluTips not around one profession, but around the situation where someone wants to say thank you and the path is interrupted or too complicated.
Additional channel
SaluTips does not replace cash, TPE/POS, checkout flows, platform tips or business rules.
Connection to a person
The customer should understand who they are thanking: a specific professional or a team under a clear rule.
Fewer barriers
If appreciation is possible, the path should be short: QR, amount, payment, without unnecessary steps.
Wider than one segment
Restaurants matter, but the service economy is broader: hotels, delivery, wellness, transport, guides and independent professionals.
What we add and what we leave unchanged
We are not asking the market to rebuild itself around SaluTips. We add a new layer where current ways to show appreciation do not always work.
What SaluTips adds
A separate way to say thank you between the customer and the service professional.
- 1A personal or team QR channel that does not need to be part of paying the bill.
- 2A way to thank someone before, during or after the service contact, when the payment moment has already passed.
- 3A clearer link between the customer’s appreciation and the person or team who delivered the service.
What SaluTips does not replace
Existing methods and rules stay in place.
- 1It does not replace cash, bill payment, checkout flows, TPE/POS, terminals or platform tip flows.
- 2It does not override existing business, team or platform rules.
- 3It does not communicate through pressure, income promises or unverified claims about taxes, payouts and fees.
Where the barriers are especially visible
The further the thank-you moment is from bill payment and the shorter the customer contact, the more important a separate clear channel becomes. That is why we look across different market segments.
Hotels and guest service
Receptionists, concierges, porters and teams who help guests but are not always connected to the payment moment.
Housekeeping and behind-the-scenes work
People the guest may not meet in person, even though their work shapes comfort and trust.
Salons and wellness
Beauty, spa and personal-service professionals where payment may go through reception, the salon or an aggregator.
Transport, guides and delivery
Drivers, guides, couriers and delivery specialists where contact is short, payment has often already happened and an independent channel may not exist.
Our goal is to create more ways to say thank you
When a service professional has created a good experience, the customer should have a simple way to say “thank you”: without pressure, without replacing current procedures and without depending only on cash.