thread Re: Is there a way to automatically do commission for payroll? in Archived Discussions (Read Only)

How can I pay commission based employees?

Vibebeautyloung — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:14:10 GMT

My employees will not be hourly- they are commission based. How do I do that in the payroll part of the scheduling app?

Re: Commission base employees

Vibebeautyloung — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:34:18 GMT

Thank you Sean... That's awesome. I am a new salon owner and new to the square so this information helped me tremendously... Thank you thank you thank you😊

Re: Commission base employees

Sean — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:06:27 GMT

@Vibebeautyloung - Happy to help, and please keep the posts coming. 😀 If you have a question, most likely someone else will have the same one at some point!

Re: Can you use square payroll for independent contractors?

doggystyles — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:47:38 GMT

Hello I pay some of my employees 50% commission and want the taxes taken out and all that good stuff. Not as a contractor but as an employee. Does the Square take care of this.

Re: Can you use square payroll for independent contractors?

Sean — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 23:09:28 GMT

@doggystyles - I moved your question over to this thread. Check it out to find your answer. 👍

Re: Can you use square payroll for independent contractors?

velocitytint77 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:49:35 GMT

I too have the same ? as doggystyles....

Re: Can you use square payroll for independent contractors?

velocitytint77 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:54:15 GMT

when setting up an employee it only ask if they are hourly or salary. I want to do commission how do i set this up so it know to take taxs and so forth???

Re: Can you use square payroll for independent contractors?

Sean — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 19:28:22 GMT

@velocitytint77 - Please check out the Best Answer in this thread - it covers this question. 🙂

Re: Commission base employees

malbake — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:51:03 GMT

Payroll isn't available in Oklahoma yet, is there a way I can do this with out using payroll? I need to be able to accept my trainee's payments, but get them to her. Also, I use the capital program, how does that work for accepting employee payments?

Re: Commission base employees

Spenser — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:05:09 GMT

I'm afraid your commissions will need to be managed outside of Square, @malbake.

In regards to your Capital repayments, they come from a fixed percentage of your daily credit card sales, so regardless of the employee, the payment will be based on the gross amount processed through your account. Hope that helps clarify!

Re: Commission base employees

HairLounge93108 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:36:11 GMT

Thank you!

Re: Commission base employees

HairLounge93108 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:39:51 GMT

I'm a salon owner and have an employee that works the desk and takes clients. She's paid hourly and commission for the the walk-in clients during her work hours. I've "categorized' the "salon services" and take payment at the desk. How do I (or can I) add the "services" she does in her payroll on a comission (50%) basis?

Re: Commission base employees

Spenser — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 22:50:18 GMT

Hmm, might need a little more info, @HairLounge93108. Are you not able to calculate the desired amount and add it to the “Additional” column?

Tracking commissions

TriedAndTrue — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 05:46:55 GMT

In my barbershop I use the time card feature for the hourly receptionists. My barbers are paid commissions. A % on services and another % on products sold.

I need a way for reception to ring in a haircut, a can of pomade and assign it to a barber. In each barber's employee profile I should be able to assign a % commision for each category of items. So, at the end of payroll I can run a sales report for each employee to see which services they sold and how many as well as products and the amount of credit card tips they recieved.

Right now my receptionists have to enter each barber's log in number (we have to keep a list of their numbers). This lets me run an "Employee Sales" report so I know who gets what in tips. Then they select what service the customer got (haircut, etc), then we have a modifer page of each barber's name so reception has to select the barber modifier so I can see who did what service and figure out how much commission I owe them.

I have to run multiple reports and the checkout process has extra steps that are easy to overlook in order to pull data from Square and enter it in to a spreadsheet I made, just so I can enter the number back in to Square payroll which I have to pay extra for.

I know I'm not the only commission based business out there using Square. How can we get this started?

Re: Tracking commissions

Tom — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:45:39 GMT

Hey @TriedAndTrue welcome to the seller community and thanks for bringing this up!

While we don't have a fully automated item for percent commissions that could be calculated at the time of the sale, a handful of sellers brought up a similar issue in another thread: How can I pay commission based employees? Have a look at Sean's reply and let us know if that helps.

I will be sharing this post with our Product Liaison team and point out how automating these reports would help streamline your workflow and improve efficiency.

Keep in touch for updates and let us know if you have any other questions. Also, if any other sellers have strategies that work well for commission, please feel free to chime in.💈

Re: Tracking commissions

TriedAndTrue — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 01:18:30 GMT

I understad how to pay commissions in payroll. It's just typing the dollar amount in to a colum. The reporting feature would be very helpful but the main thing is the data input of the transaction.

Being able to assign a transaction to an employee so they get counted for the sale, the item, and their tips are assigned to them.

Hopefully this is a priority because we are considering other programs as we expand to more locations.

Re: Commission base employees

Scogginsunl — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 17:06:22 GMT

It would be nice to assign a service to a specific employee and then have that calculated and automatically pay their 50% commission without needing to figure that seperately. Something to consider in future developments. Salons and spa employees are generally independent contractors and get paid a commisssion/percentage of the service they do. If you plan on doing payroll please consider these in your options. Also, when reatail is in the spa environment the "employee" generally recieves a 5-10% commission on retail sales as well.

Re: Tracking commissions

TriedAndTrue — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:31:50 GMT

Here's the answer:

https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/General-Discussion/Product-Update-Employee-Management-Use-Open-Tickets-to-Track/m-p/30460#M4888

Re: How to track commissions?

TriedAndTrue — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 18:45:25 GMT

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: “Tracking commissions figured out!”. The original author has been notified via email.

I posted a couple of weeks ago asking how to track sales for commissioned emplyees.

If this sound like the same situation anyone else has, I FOUND THE ANSWER!

However, it doesn't appear that the POS side requires you to assign the sale to an employee so sales can accidentally be reported to whomever is logged in to the tablet.

Question to Square support:

Is there a way to require that a ticket gets assigned to an employee? Right now my recepionist can close out an open ticket wirthout assigning to a barber. This make the service show up in the receptionist's sales report and I don't know who to pay the commission too. I know there will be some tickets missed when we're busy.

Re: Tracking commissions figured out!

Russell — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:42:18 GMT

Hey @TriedAndTrue - thanks for sharing this method for handling commissions!

There is not a way to require the app to assign the ticket. This will be something your staff will need to manage. I will definitely share this with our Product Team. In the meantime, this is something that can definitely handled by your staff through training.

Thanks again for sharing!