Payroll

Payroll works out what everyone earns each pay period, from hours, time off and commissions, and exports it for your payroll provider. It comes with the Company plan, and it never pays anyone or moves money.

How you pay

Start in People and rates, in the box called How you pay. Pick how often you pay, the first day of a pay period, how many days after a period ends is pay day, and the overtime rule: over forty hours in a workweek at time and a half, or none. Add your payroll provider's name, what a paid day off pays, and the usual lunch.

Your people

Then add your people. Add the team brings in everyone who signs in, Add me adds you, and Add someone also covers a crew member without a sign-in. For each person, set an hourly rate or a yearly salary, whether they keep a time sheet, and their paid days off a year.

Commissions and access

Under Commissions, tick what a person earns: a percent of what they sold, with fixtures taken off if you like; a percent of signed extra charges on jobs they manage; a profit share; or a bonus per Google review. Payroll access lets a team member keep the time sheets, time off and commissions of people you pick.

Time sheets

Time sheets shows one pay period, a row per day. Type the in and out times and the lunch, or just the hours; typed hours win. Pick the job most of the day went to, so Labor can count hours per job. People can also clock in and out from My hours, on their Overview.

Time off

To ask for days off, click Request time off. Pick the first and last day, tap a day to switch it between paid and unpaid, add a reason, and click Send the request. Approvers get an email and a direct message. Paid days can't go past what's left for the year.

Answering requests

On the Time off tab, requests Waiting on you have Approve and Decline, and the person hears back by email. Owners and admins can also Import past time sheets from a CSV file.

Sales commissions

Sales commissions has a line for each won deal a salesperson owns. A line stays pending until the job is done, then it's ready to pay. Click Check for new ones to catch up, or Add a sale for one the rules missed. Use the status menu to mark a line paid, send it back to pending, or choose Don't pay.

PM commissions

PM commissions does the same for project managers, in three parts: signed extra charges on their jobs, profit shares once a job is done and has its costs, and Google review bonuses. Click Add a line for anything else.

Calculate payroll

Calculate payroll opens the next period as a preview: hours at each rate with overtime, approved paid time off, salaries, commissions ready to pay, and expenses to pay back. Nothing is saved until you click Start this pay run.

The draft

In the draft, click a person to add a bonus or an adjustment with a reason, or untick a commission or an expense to leave it for a later run. Changed a time sheet? Click Recalculate. When it's right, click Finalize. The run locks, and its commission lines are marked paid.

Export

Then click the Export button to get a CSV file for your payroll provider, which pays everyone and files the taxes. ECHOPS never keeps tax IDs or bank account numbers. An owner can Reopen a final run if something must change.

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