What changed, and what is true today.
Current state — last true on 25 August 2026.
Payments run in sandbox. No processor is live, no card is charged, and no money moves. Tips, fees and totals are recorded in full so the books are real when the rail is switched on. MidBank is not a bank and does not hold deposits.
This page is the record. If something here stops being true, this is where it changes.
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landing
Published a pricing page with a live fee calculator
/tipping-pricing shows the 4% / $0.50-minimum fee, the exact cents on any tip amount, and every other cost on one page.
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landing
Published how-it-works with a page you can actually tap
/tipping-how-it-works embeds the real guest page running in sandbox. No demo call, no form.
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landing
Published a FAQ hub for workers and guests
/tipping-faq answers what the fee is, who pays it, what happens to a tip, and whether MidBank is a bank. It is not.
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landing
Removed every payout-speed claim from the marketing pages
Forty-four pages said tips were paid instantly with same-day cash-out. The payout rail is not live, so the claim is gone and the pages now say what is actually true.
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landing
Made the whole page readable without JavaScript
Scroll reveals no longer start at zero opacity, so search and AI crawlers, printers and readers with JavaScript off see the full page including the published fee.
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build
Guest, owner and landing work split into three parallel lanes
Commit 'Competitor-gap build 2026-08-25: guest, owner, pages lanes + console sweep'.
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build
The whole tipping app placed under version control
Commit 'Baseline the MidBank tipping app under version control'.
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qa
QA fix pass across the guest and owner surfaces
Worked from QA-FIX-BACKLOG-2026-08-14.
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qa
Every published capability re-verified against the source tree
Each claim on the site was checked against the code and a live request, and the ones that did not hold were removed. Recorded in MIDBANK-TIPPING-RECEIPTS.
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guest
Staff photos moved into private object storage
Owner-supplied and worker-supplied images only, served through a Function. Nothing on the site is a generated image of a person.
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landing
Published a sourced comparison against four competitors
/tipping-compare quotes Kickfin, TipHaus, Grazzy and eTip from their own sites, with links and the date checked — including where they are ahead of us.
Entries are added when something ships, not on a schedule. Every entry here points at a file, a page or a commit in this repository.