Allowances
Send tools, meal, site and travel allowances to payroll as units with the hours, automatically or by hand.
Allowances go to payroll with the hours, as units: days, shifts, kilometres or items. We never send an amount. Payroll holds what each allowance is worth.
Add an allowance
- Go to Settings, Payroll, then Allowances.
- Press Add an allowance, or Add the starting set for tools, meal, first aid and travel by the kilometre. The starting set has no dollar figures and starts switched off.
- Give it a name and a unit.
- Choose when it is paid: - Added by hand only. - Every day worked, such as a tool allowance. - A day with overtime, such as a meal allowance after more than 1.5 hours of overtime. - A day on a flagged job, such as a site allowance. Tick the jobs it is paid on.
- Make sure it is On, then press Save.
- On Pay items, match it to the allowance pay item in your payroll. A send is stopped until every allowance in it has one.
Automatic allowances are paid at most once a day. Two jobs in a day is one shift. Kilometres and items are always added by hand.
Add or take one off by hand
The office can do this as well as the owner.
- On Timesheets, pick the person.
- Under their allowances for the week, press Take off on an automatic one, or fill in Allowance, Day and Units and press Add by hand.
Something taken off can be put back with Put back.
When Employment Hero works out overtime
If Employment Hero works out overtime is on, allowances that depend on overtime are left for Employment Hero to work out. The others still go.