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Team pay that works itself out, no spreadsheet needed

Bookly works out each person’s earnings under their pay terms, from paid bookings or a salary. You add bonuses and penalties separately, and every payout, an advance included, is recorded in the history and in “Operations”. You can see who earned what and what you still owe.

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Working out pay

The end of the month with no calculator

Everything usually tallied in a notebook or a spreadsheet, Bookly keeps for you: from the terms you agreed to the payout you handed over.

Three ways to count pay

Each person has their own terms: “Percent of the service”, “Fixed amount per booking” or “Monthly salary”. A salary is accrued by itself on the 1st, however many bookings there are.

Paid bookings only

A booking counts once a payment is marked on it: “Cash”, “Card” or “Terminal”. A completed one without payment shows as “Overdue”, a paid one cancelled later as “Refunded”, and neither goes into pay.

New terms from the right date

Agreed a new percentage? Enter it with a date in “Effective from”: the previous terms run until the day before. If the date is in the past, Bookly recounts the bookings and tells you how many and by how much.

Bonuses and penalties kept apart

“Add adjustment”: “Increase” or “Decrease”, the amount, a date, a reason such as “Bonus” or “Penalty”, and a comment. “Earned” stays automatic, while a change marked “manual” moves “Accrued”.

Paying in parts

“Pay out” fills in everything you owe, and you can lower it. The rest stays owed, and anything paid ahead counts towards the next earnings, so an advance does not get lost.

Payouts go into your finances

A saved payout appears in “Operations” and counts as an expense: on the “Overview” page and in the analytics, where “Staff payouts” is a category of its own.

Specialist card

See where every penny comes from

The “Payroll for September” panel takes the amount step by step: “Earned”, “Adjustments”, “Accrued”, “Paid out” and finally “Owed for September”. Below it, “Bookings behind the payroll” lists the date, the client, the service, the “Booking amount”, how much of it was “Counted” and the status. When a specialist asks where a figure came from, the answer is already on screen.

  • Automatic “Earned” kept apart from manual adjustments
  • Unpaid and refunded bookings marked “not counted”
  • The “Adjustment history” and “Payout history” alongside
Pay terms

The terms you agreed on

Press “Pay terms” on a specialist’s card and choose how pay is calculated: “Percent of the service”, “Fixed amount per booking” or “Monthly salary”. Enter the percentage or the amount and the date in “Effective from”. The percentage is taken from the whole booking amount, add-ons included, retail products among them.

  • Terms show under the name: “Master, 40% of service”
  • A salary is accrued on the 1st of every month
  • The previous terms run until the day before “Effective from”
Transparent pay

Automatic pay and manual changes, kept apart

That is how the payroll panel itself is captioned: “automatic calculation and manual adjustments kept apart”. Bookly works out “Earned” from paid bookings, and whatever you add by hand sits on a line of its own with a reason. A month later, nobody has to remember where an amount came from.

A booking with its status

The table shows every booking of the period: “Paid” ones are counted, while “Overdue” and “Refunded” ones are marked “not counted”.

A change with a reason

An adjustment keeps its type, amount, date, reason and comment, and stays in the “Adjustment history”.

Recounts in the open

Bookings before the “Effective from” date keep the previous terms. If the date is in the past, the form warns about the recount, and after saving says how many bookings changed.

On the phone

Paid a specialist? Record the payout from wherever you are

In the mobile CRM a specialist’s card has everything the computer shows: the tiles, the payroll panel, the bookings, the history and the chart. The “Pay out” button with the amount owed runs full width right under the tiles, and the windows open from the bottom of the screen.

Pay from your phone

The “Pay out ₴13,460” button already knows what you owe. Paying part of it? Change the amount, pick the method and save. A double tap will not record it twice.

Payment method

“Card”, “Cash”, “Online” or “Other”. Under each payout the history shows which month it was for and how, for example “for August, Card”.

History to hand

The “Adjustment history” and “Payout history” with dates and amounts. Got an amount wrong? Open the row, then correct it or delete it.

12 months of earnings

The “Earnings over time” chart shows what the specialist earned each month over the last year.

Payroll in figures

Everything it takes to pay the team

Three ways to count pay, six reasons for a manual change, four payout methods and a year of earnings on one chart.

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Ways to count pay

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Adjustment reasons, “Bonus” and “Penalty” among them

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Payout methods: card, cash, online, other

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Months on the “Earnings over time” chart

Finance overview

Payroll in the full picture of your finances

The “Overview” page of “Finance” shows income, expenses and profit for the period, and below them the “Owed to staff” tile: what you owe the team as of today. Payouts count as expenses, with a category of their own in the analytics, “Staff payouts”, so profit already reflects the pay you have handed out.

Who is owed what

The “Owed to staff” panel lists up to five people you owe the most, and “All staff” opens the full list.

Who brings in the profit

In the analytics, the “Most profitable: staff” panel shows up to five of the most profitable people: the income of each, what they earned and the profit left for the studio.

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How to set up payroll in Bookly?

Set the terms once, and from then on pay counts itself: from every paid booking, or as a salary on the 1st.

1

Set the pay terms

In “Finance”, open “Staff”, pick a specialist and press “Pay terms”: a percentage, an amount per booking or a salary, and the “Effective from” date.

2

Mark payment on the booking

When the client has paid, choose “Cash”, “Card” or “Terminal” on the booking. It goes straight into “Earned” under the specialist’s terms.

3

Record the payouts

Press “Pay out”, pick the method and save. The payout shows up in the history and in “Operations”, and the debt goes down.

Frequently asked questions

In short, how payroll works in the Bookly CRM. If you have not found your answer, write to our team.

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Yes. “Percent of the service” is taken from the whole booking amount: the price of the service plus every add-on attached to the booking, retail products included. For example, a ₴800 women’s haircut and a ₴450 product in one booking come to ₴1,250, and at 40% the specialist gets ₴500.

Open “Pay terms” and enter the new percentage and the date in “Effective from”. From that date pay is counted under the new terms, and the previous ones run until the day before. If the date is in the past, the form warns that pay from then on will be recounted, and after saving shows how many bookings changed and by how much.

Press “Add adjustment” on the specialist’s card: “Increase” or “Decrease”, the amount, a date, a reason and a comment. The reasons are “Extra work”, “Calculation error”, “Bonus”, “Penalty”, “Advance” and “Other”. An adjustment falls in the month of its date and changes “Accrued”, while “Earned” stays automatic. Made a mistake? An adjustment opens from the history, and you can correct or delete it.

A booking cancelled after payment becomes “Refunded” and stays out of pay, and a refund operation appears in “Operations” by itself. If a paid booking moves to another month or to another specialist, its pay moves with it and is not counted twice. A completed booking without payment shows as “Overdue” and does not count until you mark the payment.

Yes. “Pay out” fills in everything you owe the specialist, but you can change the amount. That is the way to pay an advance mid-month: it goes into the payout history and into “Operations”, and the rest stays owed. Paid more than has accrued so far? The difference counts towards what they earn next. Got the amount wrong? Open the payout from the history, then correct or delete it.

On the Team plan: the calendar holds several specialists there, each with their own pay terms, adjustments and payouts. Basic and Pro are for one specialist, so they have no staff pay or rates: the free Basic plan gives you the CRM with up to 30 bookings a month, Pro with unlimited bookings. If you move from the Team plan to a lower one, your payroll data is kept and comes back with the Team plan.

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