People
Pay teachers for what they taught.
Hours come from attendance, the rate comes from the day the lesson happened, and the money goes out through the payment processor.
Payroll follows attendance.
If attendance is marked, payroll already knows the answer.
The two rate lines in the picture are the whole feature. A teacher whose rate rose mid-month is paid the old rate for lessons taught before the change and the new rate for the ones after. They aren’t paid the current rate for all of them, which is what happens when payroll reads a rate off a profile at the moment it runs.
The monthly payout draft is one of the scheduled jobs, so the run is waiting for you and you don’t have to remember it. It stays a draft until someone with the permission approves it, and stays approved until someone with a different permission pays it.
Watch it.
From a period to a payout run, with a real run on screen.
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Payroll. Hours come from attendance, the rate comes from the day the lesson happened, and the money goes out through the payment processor.
Pick a period and the software works out who earned what. Pay is what was recorded when attendance was marked, not today’s rate, so a raise in October doesn’t rewrite September. And it tells you when a total is short. Here, ten lessons haven’t been marked yet.
Preparing a run turns that into a payout run you can read line by line: each teacher, their hours, and what they are owed.
While a run is a draft, a line can be adjusted for a workshop, a covered lesson or a correction. Here Wren has a bonus for recital rehearsals, with the reason that will appear on her paystub.
Preparing, approving and paying are three steps. One permission builds and approves a run, and another releases the money. The same person can hold both, but doesn’t have to, and the audit trail records which was which.
Teachers set up payouts with the payment processor from inside the app and are paid as contractors. The processor handles the tax form, and their bank and tax details never sit in B♭ Studio.
Payroll is part of School, and a Studio can add it. B♭ Studio is coming soon, and there is a waitlist, at bflatstudio.com.
What it handles.
The rate is frozen at the time taught
Give a teacher a raise in October and September’s lessons still pay September’s rate. Pay comes from the lessons that were attended, not from a rate looked up on the day you run payroll.
Approve and pay are separate
One permission builds and approves a payout run, and another releases the money. The same person can hold both, but doesn’t have to, and the audit trail records which was which.
Fix paystubs before they go
While a run is still a draft, lines can be adjusted for a workshop, a covered lesson or a correction from last month. Once it is paid, it is a record.
The tax form is handled for you
Teachers onboard to the payment processor from inside the app and are paid as contractors. The processor handles the tax form. Cost and margin columns are withheld from anyone without permission to see them.
Coming soon.
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