Defining Payroll Options

You can control your payroll options in the Payroll Options dialog box. Configurable options include the Payroll Setup Wizard, travel time costing, and employee commission splitting.

To define payroll options:

Select Tools > Options or press CTRL+O. The Options dialog box appears.
Select Payroll from the Categories bar. The Payroll Options dialog box appears.

Click Payroll Setup Wizard to run the Payroll Setup Wizard. See the Using the Payroll Setup Wizard section for details.
To include travel time in your job costing calculations, select the Cost travel time to: check box and select a value from the drop-down list:
- Previous Job/Task. Travel time is included in the cost of the job/task immediately preceding the travel.
- Next Job/Task. Travel time is included in the cost of the job/task occurring immediately after the travel.
- Both (split). The cost of the travel time is split between the two jobs/tasks occurring before and after the travel.

Select frequency by which you want to enter time cards in the Enter Time Cards every X days field. You can also define this setting in the Payroll Setup Wizard.
Select the option button corresponding to how you want to pay out commissions to commissionable employees. The three options are:

Do not split commissionable charge. The commission will not be split, meaning that all commissioned employees will be paid their full commission. For example, two employees receiving a 10% commission on a $100 service would both be paid $10.
Split commissionable charge among only commissioned individuals on the job. The commission for the job is split among all commissioned employees. For example, two employees receiving a 10% commission on a $100 service would be paid $5 a piece (10% of $50). Non-commissioned employees do not factor into this calculation.
Split commissionable charge among all individuals on the job. The commission will be divided amongst all employees but only commissioned employees will receive payment. For example, two employees receiving a 10% commission working with three non-commissioned employees on a job with a $100 service will split the commission five ways; all commissioned employees will be paid $2 and all non-commissioned employees will receive no commissions.

To demonstrate, for a commissionable charge of $100.00 on a job with three employees assigned to it:

	Pay Commissions? (defined via Employee Role or via a Service/Product Item)	Tools > Options > Payroll Options setting
		Do not split commissionable charge	Split commissionable charge among only commissioned individuals on the job	Split commissionable charge among all individuals on the job
Employee 1	Yes (10%)	$10.00	$5.00	$3.33
Employee 2	Yes (20%)	$20.00	$10.00	$6.66
Employee 3	No	N/A	N/A	N/A

Tip!

Tip:
Another way of looking at commissionable charge splitting is that ServiceCEO will apply the employee’s commission percentage to the total sale of the service, then divide it by the number of employees on the job. In other words:
(Sale * Commission rate) / # of Employees.

If one of the last two option buttons in the Commission section are selected, the Include Sales Reps in Commission Split check box will be selected by default, meaning that your sales representatives will be included in any payroll commission splitting.
To remove sales reps from this commission split, deselect the check box.
Select the Pay commission on amounts covered by Service Contracts check box to pay a commission on all moneys mentioned in a service contract. For more on service contracts, see the Enabling Service Contracts topic.
Click OK.

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