Staff cost

A cost rate is what a person costs your business. It is what turns visits into labour cost in the profitability figures.

Step by step

1. Open Personnel. The rate sits on the card and is editable there.
2. Choose the basis — hourly, daily or monthly.
3. Enter the amount and the employer's on-cost as a percentage.
4. Set valid from.
5. Save.

Good to know

The note next to each basis matters more than the label. It says how the amount becomes a cost per pool later. Without it somebody types a day rate into the hourly field and then wonders about the figures.

A new rate supersedes the old one, exactly like the service price. The old row keeps an end date and stays, so last winter's margin does not change when you give somebody a rise.

The employer's on-cost belongs in here. Social contributions, holiday pay, the whole overhead. A gross wage alone understates every visit.

Wages are blurred on the page and revealed on tap. An office screen is looked at by whoever walks past. One tap is no protection against a determined reader — it is protection against an accidental one.

The rate sits on the card, not behind two clicks. It is the number you scan for; nobody compares their people through a dialog.

What it does not do

It is not payroll. GardyProp calculates cost, it does not pay anybody and files nothing with any authority.

A monthly salary cannot be spread onto a visit yet. That needs the hours actually worked, and those are not recorded — see how the margin is calculated.