A MEET TIPPY, MEETTIPPY, SQ *MEETTIPPY, or SQ TIPPY charge on a credit card, debit card, or bank statement usually represents a cashless tip submitted through Tippy.
Tippy is a digital tipping platform used by salons, spas, barbershops, pet groomers, fitness professionals, restaurants, valet services, auto shops, housekeeping staff, and other service businesses. The final transaction generally includes the selected tip plus a Tippy processing fee.
What Is the Meet Tippy Charge on Credit Card?
The Meet Tippy charge on a credit card usually represents a tip paid electronically to a service professional through Tippy.
The payment may relate to:
- A hairstylist or barber tip
- A nail technician or beauty-service tip
- A massage, facial, or spa-service tip
- A pet-grooming tip
- A fitness instructor or trainer tip
- A restaurant, bar, winery, or hospitality tip
- A valet or concierge tip
- A hotel-housekeeping tip
- An auto-service or repair-shop tip
- A tip submitted through a QR code, payment link, or NFC tap
- A tip entered at a Tippy checkout kiosk
- A tip processed through a point-of-sale integration
- A payment made by another authorized cardholder
- An incorrect, duplicated, or unauthorized transaction
Review recent service appointments and receipts before assuming the charge is fraudulent.
What Is MeetTippy Charge?
MeetTippy charge is another spacing variation of a transaction processed through the Tippy cashless-tipping service.
Banks may display the name as:
- MEET TIPPY
- MEETTIPPY
- MEETTIPPY.COM
- TIPPY
- TIPPY CHARGE
The name may not match the salon, spa, groomer, restaurant, or other business where the service occurred because Tippy handled the gratuity payment.
What Is SQ MeetTippy Charge on Credit Card?
An SQ MeetTippy charge on a credit card usually means Square processed a Tippy cashless-tip transaction.
Square-generated statement descriptions commonly begin with:
- SQ *
The wording that follows identifies the business name configured for that Square transaction.
Possible formats include:
- SQ *MEETTIPPY
- SQ*MEETTIPPY
- SQ MEETTIPPY
- SQ *MEET TIPPY
- SQ MEET TIPPY
Tippy uses Square readers with some of its tipping kiosks and lists Square among its business partners.
The `SQ` prefix does not mean the customer purchased a Square subscription or paid a second merchant named SQ.
What Is SQ Tippy Charge on Credit Card?
An SQ Tippy charge is generally a Square-processed tip paid through Tippy.
To verify it:
- Check the transaction date.
- Review services received that day or shortly beforehand.
- Look for a Square or Tippy receipt.
- Compare the amount with the tip selected at checkout.
- Allow for the separate Tippy fee included in the final total.
- Ask every authorized cardholder.
- Contact the business where the service occurred.
- Contact Tippy when the transaction remains unclear.
What Is MeetTippy Used For?
MeetTippy is used to collect and distribute cashless tips to participating service professionals.
Customers may submit a tip through:
- A countertop tipping kiosk
- A Square card reader connected with a Tippy kiosk
- A business point-of-sale checkout
- A QR code
- A payment link sent by text or email
- An NFC-enabled Tap N Tip device
- A mobile checkout screen
Service professionals can then receive and manage their tips through Tippy’s connected payout tools.
Tippy may also allow tips to be split among participating service professionals after the customer submits one payment.
Why Does Meet Tippy Say Fort Lauderdale?
Fort Lauderdale may appear because Tippy’s operating company uses a Fort Lauderdale, Florida business address.
Official company information includes:
- Brand: Tippy / Meet Tippy
- Legal operator: DirectTIPS Operations, LLC
- Address: 2755 E Oakland Park Blvd, Suite 300, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306
Possible location variations include:
- FORT LAUDERDALE
- FORT LAUDERDALE FL
- FT LAUDERDALE FL
- FORT LAUDERDA
The location does not mean the customer visited Florida. The tip may have been submitted at a participating business elsewhere.
Why Is the Meet Tippy Charge Higher Than My Tip?
The final charge can be higher because Tippy adds a transaction fee to the tip selected by the customer.
Tippy’s current end-customer terms state that the amount paid includes:
- The tip payable to the service professional
- A separate fee payable to Tippy
The current published fee schedule states:
- Card-present transactions: 2.75% of the transaction plus either $0.50 or $0.60, depending on the applicable schedule
- Card-not-present transactions: 3.5% of the transaction plus $0.60
The service professional does not receive the Tippy fee.
The checkout screen should control the amount charged. Tippy may revise its fees, so review the amount displayed during the transaction and the current end-customer terms.
Is Meet Tippy a Subscription?
Meet Tippy is generally a one-time tipping transaction rather than a monthly subscription.
A repeating charge may instead mean:
- You visited the same service provider more than once
- More than one tip was submitted
- Different household members used the card
- Separate professionals were tipped
- A pending authorization and completed transaction are both visible
- The payment was duplicated
- The card information was used without permission
Ask the bank whether the specific transaction was coded as recurring before treating it as a subscription.
Are the Service Charge and Tippy Tip Separate?
The underlying service and the Tippy gratuity may appear as separate card transactions.
For example:
- The salon may charge for the haircut
- Meet Tippy may separately charge for the tip and Tippy fee
Similar separate entries can occur after:
- A spa visit
- A pet-grooming appointment
- A fitness session
- A valet transaction
- An auto-service visit
- A hotel or hospitality service
Tippy also supports integrated checkout systems, so the exact statement presentation can vary by business, payment equipment, and card issuer.
Common Meet Tippy Statement Variations
Possible, reported, or bank-formatted wording includes:
- MEET TIPPY
- MEETTIPPY
- MEETTIPPY.COM
- MEET TIPPY CHARGE
- MEETTIPPY CHARGE
- SQ *MEETTIPPY
- SQ*MEETTIPPY
- SQ MEETTIPPY
- SQ *MEET TIPPY
- SQ MEET TIPPY
- SQ *TIPPY
- SQ TIPPY
- MEETTIPPY FORT LAUDERDALE
- MEETTIPPY FORT LAUDERDALE FL
- MEET TIPPY FT LAUDERDALE
- POS DEBIT MEETTIPPY
- CHECKCARD MEETTIPPY
- ONLINE MEETTIPPY
- PENDING MEETTIPPY
- MEETTIPPY REFUND
This is not an official exhaustive descriptor list.
Banks may remove spaces, shorten the city, add Square’s `SQ *` prefix, or display different wording while the payment is pending.
How to Identify a Meet Tippy Charge
- Copy the complete statement wording.
- Record the amount, date, location, and transaction status.
- Determine whether the charge begins with `SQ *`.
- Review salon, spa, barber, grooming, fitness, restaurant, hotel, valet, and service appointments.
- Search email for Tippy, Meet Tippy, Square, receipt, gratuity, tip, and the amount.
- Check text messages for a Tippy payment link.
- Review any QR-code or NFC tip submitted recently.
- Compare the final total with the selected tip and Tippy fee.
- Ask every authorized cardholder.
- Contact the business where the service occurred.
- Contact Tippy support.
- Use Square’s receipt tools when the transaction begins with `SQ *`.
- Ask the bank for expanded merchant information if necessary.
How to Contact Tippy About a Charge
- Brand: Tippy / Meet Tippy
- Legal company: DirectTIPS Operations, LLC
- Official website: MeetTippy.com
- Contact page: Tippy Contact and Support
- Help Center: Tippy Help Center
- Email: support@meettippy.com
- Phone: 1-855-831-2323
- Address: 2755 E Oakland Park Blvd, Suite 300, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306
- End-customer terms: Tippy End Customer Terms
Provide:
- The complete transaction description
- The date and amount
- The name and location of the service business
- The approximate time of the visit
- The service professional’s name when known
- The final four card digits when reasonably necessary
- Whether the payment is pending or completed
- Whether `SQ *` appeared
Do not email or publicly post a complete card number, security code, PIN, password, bank login, or one-time verification code.
Can You Get a Meet Tippy Refund?
A refund or correction requires individual review by Tippy and the participating service business.
Contact them promptly when:
- The wrong tip amount was entered
- The transaction posted twice
- The service professional was selected incorrectly
- The tip was submitted accidentally
- The fee differs from the amount displayed
- The service did not occur
- The cardholder did not authorize the payment
- A canceled or failed transaction completed
Tippy does not publish a universal consumer refund schedule in its current end-customer terms.
Ask:
- Whether the transaction is pending or completed
- Whether the tip has already been distributed
- Whether the participating business must approve a reversal
- Whether the Tippy fee can be returned
- Whether a complete or partial refund is available
- How long an approved credit may take
Do not file an immediate card dispute for a recognized accidental tip before giving the business or Tippy a reasonable opportunity to correct it.
Why Are There Two Meet Tippy Charges?
Two entries may represent separate tips, a pending authorization and completed payment, or an actual duplicate.
Other explanations include:
- Two service professionals were tipped
- Two household members used the card
- Two separate appointments occurred
- A QR-code tip and kiosk tip were both submitted
- A failed authorization was retried
- The same tip was processed twice
- The card was used without permission
Do not count a pending authorization and its completed replacement as two settled charges unless both remain completed.
Consumer Reports About Meet Tippy Charges
There are currently no visible published reader reviews on this ChargeOnMyCard.com page.
Therefore, there is not enough page-specific feedback to establish:
- A standard tip amount
- A typical Tippy fee paid by readers
- A universal statement descriptor
- A common business type
- A recurring duplicate-charge pattern
- A standard refund result
- That unfamiliar Meet Tippy charges are generally unauthorized
Each transaction should be matched with the cardholder, service appointment, participating business, tip amount, and payment method.
What to Do If You Never Used Tippy
- Ask every authorized cardholder.
- Review recent salon, spa, grooming, fitness, restaurant, hospitality, valet, and auto-service visits.
- Search email and text messages for Tippy or Square receipts.
- Check whether the transaction is pending or completed.
- Ask the business where a recent service occurred.
- Contact Tippy at 1-855-831-2323.
- Ask whether the transaction can be matched to a participating business.
- Ask the bank for the complete merchant record.
- Lock the card if unauthorized use appears likely.
- Dispute the completed payment when no authorized tip can be identified.
- Request a replacement card when recommended by the issuer.
- Monitor for additional authorization attempts.
What Information Should You Request From the Bank?
Ask for:
- The complete unshortened descriptor
- The legal merchant name
- The participating business name
- The merchant telephone number
- The merchant address
- The merchant category code
- Whether Square processed the transaction
- Whether the card was present
- Whether a digital wallet was used
- Whether the payment was submitted through a link or online
- Whether the transaction was marked recurring
- Whether a card-security code was submitted
- Whether other authorization attempts occurred
- Whether the entry is pending, completed, reversed, or refunded
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is the Meet Tippy Charge on Credit Card?
It usually represents a cashless tip submitted to a service professional through Tippy, plus the applicable Tippy transaction fee.
What Is MeetTippy Charge?
It is a shortened statement variation for a payment made through the Tippy digital-tipping platform.
What Is SQ MeetTippy Charge on Credit Card?
It generally means Square processed a Meet Tippy transaction. `SQ *` is Square’s payment-facilitator prefix.
What Is SQ Tippy Charge on Credit Card?
It is usually a Tippy gratuity processed using Square payment equipment or services.
What Is MeetTippy Used For?
It allows customers to submit electronic tips to stylists, groomers, fitness professionals, hospitality workers, auto-service workers, and other service professionals.
Why Does Meet Tippy Say Fort Lauderdale?
Tippy’s operating company has a Fort Lauderdale, Florida business address.
Why Is the Charge More Than the Tip I Selected?
The final transaction includes the selected gratuity and the separate fee payable to Tippy.
Is Meet Tippy a Subscription?
It is generally a one-time tip transaction, not a monthly subscription.
Why Is There a Separate Charge From the Salon?
The salon or business may charge for the service, while Tippy separately processes the gratuity and fee.
Can I Get a Refund?
Contact the service business and Tippy promptly. Refund eligibility depends on the transaction status, whether the tip was distributed, and why the payment is being challenged.
Is the Meet Tippy Charge Fraudulent?
Tippy is a legitimate cashless-tipping platform, but that does not prove that a specific payment was authorized. Report it when no cardholder, service visit, receipt, or participating business can explain it.
Related Cashless Payment and Statement Guides
- SQU*SQ*, SQ*, and GoSQ.com Square Charge
- How to Investigate an Unrecognized Credit Card or Bank Charge
The Square guide explains how `SQ *` merchant descriptions are structured. The unrecognized-charge guide covers expanded merchant records, pending transactions, refunds, and unauthorized payments.
A related link does not mean the companies or payment providers are affiliated.
Share Your Meet Tippy Charge Experience
If you identified a Meet Tippy, MeetTippy, SQ *MeetTippy, SQ Tippy, or Fort Lauderdale transaction, share only nonprivate details that may help another cardholder.
Helpful information includes:
- The shortened statement wording
- The general tip and fee amounts
- The type of service business
- Whether `SQ *` appeared
- Whether Fort Lauderdale appeared
- Whether the tip was submitted by kiosk, QR code, link, NFC, or integrated checkout
- Whether the payment was pending or completed
- Whether a correction or refund was approved
- How the business, Tippy, Square, or bank resolved it
Do not post:
- Complete card or bank-account numbers
- Security codes
- PINs or passwords
- Personal email addresses or telephone numbers
- Service-professional private information
- Receipt or transaction IDs
- Support or dispute case numbers
- Complete receipts or bank statements
- Verification codes
Why Rely on ChargeOnMyCard.com?
ChargeOnMyCard.com researches confusing credit-card, debit-card, digital-tip, Square, point-of-sale, service-fee, location, and bank-statement descriptors using official provider information and visible cardholder reports.
We distinguish the business providing the underlying service from the payment platform processing the gratuity and explain why the final amount may include both a tip and a platform fee.
ChargeOnMyCard.com cannot access a Tippy, Square, Branch, salon, spa, service-business, credit-card, debit-card, or bank account; identify a private transaction; reverse a tip; issue a refund; or file a dispute.
Last reviewed: July 17, 2026.
Disclaimer
ChargeOnMyCard.com is not affiliated with Tippy, Meet Tippy, DirectTIPS Operations, LLC, Square, Block, Inc., Branch Messenger, Inc., Evolve Bank & Trust, any salon, spa, barbershop, groomer, fitness provider, restaurant, hotel, valet service, auto shop, participating business, service professional, cardholder, bank, credit union, card network, digital wallet, or payment processor. This article is provided for informational purposes only and is not financial, legal, tax, employment, tipping, refund, account-security, dispute, or fraud-prevention advice. Contact Tippy, the participating business, Square when applicable, and the financial institution regarding a specific transaction.