Running the businessPayroll

Approved hours become a pay run

Timesheets you have approved turn into gross pay and a payslip per person — and a roster contractor can be paid to their bank.

Your first 14 days are free, and nothing is charged until they are up.

What this takes off your week

Payroll starts with reading five people's handwriting and ends at midnight.

The hours are already in, already tied to jobs, and already approved by you.

The hours on the payslip and the hours on the job costing are two different numbers from two different systems.

They are the same hours. The pay run is built from the timesheets the job costing used.

Paying a roster contractor is a separate transfer you make by hand and forget to record.

Their approved hours go out as a real transfer to their bank, recorded against the run.

Hours have to be approved before they can enter a pay run. Approval is the gate, and it is the only gate.

The run produces a payslip for each person, as a PDF you can download and hand over.

FieldQuo is not a payroll bureau and does not pretend to be one. Exactly where it stops — taxes, filings, currencies — is written below.

Approved hours become a pay run with a PDF payslip per person you can hand over.

Gross pay, and the labels for the rest: There are no tax tables in here. The deduction names follow your country — income tax, CPP and EI, or federal tax, Social Security and Medicare — and every amount is one you or your accountant supplied.
Brackets are something you supply: Progressive tax is worked out by annualising the period's gross, walking your accountant's bands and dividing back down. The bands are yours.
Overtime at time and a half: Over forty hours a week by default, and the threshold scales with the period — eighty regular hours in a fortnight, not forty.
A payslip can never be negative: Net is floored at zero and the line is flagged, and a run with any flagged line on it is refused until somebody has looked.
Paying the same fortnight twice is caught: An overlapping run, and a period that does not match your pay cycle, are both reported before you approve and refused at approval — while a correction run is still deliberately allowed.
Not deducted is not the same as zero: A payslip lists the deductions worked out for that person and nothing else. With none set up it says so and shows gross figures, because we did not deduct this and we deducted nothing are different sentences.

Every plan includes all of it. Plans differ by how many people can work in the account, not by which features they are allowed to use.

Payroll
Approved hours become a pay run with a PDF payslip per person you can hand over.
Where this stops: FieldQuo works out gross pay and produces a payslip per person. It does not pay employees, file your payroll taxes or export the run — deductions are the ones you or your accountant supply.
Pay contractors from the app
Approved hours for someone on your roster marked as a contractor go out as a real transfer to their bank.
Where this stops: This pays a person on your own roster, for hours they clocked, at the rate you set. It cannot pay a fixed bid to another company.
Timesheets you approve
Hours land tied to real jobs; you approve them before they can turn into pay.
Time off and holidays
Requests go to the right manager, balances build up on their own, and the calendar knows.

2 items above are only partly built, and say so. We would rather you read the limit here than find it in month two.

The first 14 days are free. Bring your own rates, your own logo and the client list you already have.

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