The Nightly Count — Interactive Shift & Tip Tracker for Cash-Paid Workers: True $/Hr on Every Shift, Week & Month Totals, Running Averages & the Tip Money Split on Every Night (Single HTML File, Works Offline)

If you work for tips, the number you remember at the end of the night is almost never the number you earned — part of it went back as tip-out, the hours blur together, and a great Friday quietly covers a terrible Tuesday, so you can't say what a shift actually pays you or whether the job is getting better or worse. The Nightly Count is an interactive shift and tip tracker, delivered as one single HTML file, built for cash-paid and tipped workers: one row per shift — date, hours, tips, tip-out — and it computes everything else. Each row shows its net (tips − tip-out) and its true $/hr the moment you type it; a headline panel keeps four running figures current — your overall true $/hr across every logged shift, total net tips kept, average gross tips per shift, and average net per shift; two period tables break the same numbers down by week (Monday to Sunday) and by month, each with shifts, hours, gross tips, tip-out, net, and true $/hr, so a slow week can no longer hide inside a good month; and the Tip Money system's split — Bills 50%, Life 20%, Set-aside 15%, Buffer 10%, Yours 5% — is applied to your total net in its own panel and to every single night individually, from a button on each ledger row or all rows at once. Proof you can check from this listing alone: the tool opens with a clearly labeled sample of six shifts — Oct 30 (6 hrs, $138.00 tips, $16.00 out), Oct 31 (7 hrs, $192.00, $24.00), Nov 2 (6 hrs, $142.00, $18.00), Nov 3 (5.5 hrs, $118.50, $15.00), Nov 6 (6.5 hrs, $154.25, $20.00), Nov 7 (8 hrs, $210.00, $25.00) — 39 hours, $954.75 gross, $118.00 tipped out, $836.75 net, a true $21.46/hr, and a Tip Money split of $418.37 / $167.35 / $125.51 / $83.68 / $41.84, which is exactly what the tool displays when you open it; the shares are rounded to the cent with the Bills share absorbing the one-cent rounding difference, so they always add back to your exact net, and the math engine was verified against an independently written recomputation of every figure, matching on all scenarios including the edge cases. The edge cases are handled honestly and say so on the page: a shift with 0 hours still counts its tips but shows no $/hr and is flagged instead of dividing by zero; a night where tip-out is larger than tips goes negative and is shown negative, in red, counted negative in every total — never rounded up to zero; and if your whole total is negative, the split shows negative shares with an explanation rather than pretending there is something to set aside. Any row can be edited in place or deleted, new shifts take one tap, a Print button produces a clean paper ledger, and everything saves automatically in the browser on your device — no account, no login, no subscription, and the file works fully offline. One tap clears the sample for your own shifts, and Reset brings the sample back. What this is: a private counting tool that tells you what your shifts really pay. What it isn't: it counts tips only — true $/hr does not include an hourly wage unless you add a night's wage to its tips yourself (the page explains this) — and it is not tax, payroll, or financial advice, and it never uploads your numbers anywhere. Do not buy it if your pay has no tip or cash component to track, if you need an app that syncs between devices or connects to a payroll system, or if you want wage, tax, and overtime calculations — this is deliberately a focused, offline ledger for the tip side of the night. The price is $15, once, for the file, yours to keep: on the sample alone it turns six blurry nights into one exact number — $21.46 an hour — and it will do the same for every shift you log from tonight on. Ideal for servers, bartenders, server assistants, barbacks, delivery drivers, valets, and anyone paid partly in cash tips who searches for a tip tracker, shift log, tip-out calculator, true hourly rate tracker, or a nightly earnings ledger that works offline.