Click on the Add Party button for creating a new Party, while creating please make sure to select type as STAFF and fill required information like Employee ID, Salary, OverTime charges etc.

Enable Employee/Staff Feature

On the Home Screen, From BuKu Services box, click on + icon

Add Staff

Tap on My Staff icon on Home Screen. From here, you can add staff.

For Staff, you can select his salary type
   - Monthly
   - Daily
   - Hourly
   - Per Piece

You can also set the Overtime rate and other information as desired.

Please note that if Staff service is enabled then Staff will only be visible on My staff page and not on My Party page. If Staff service is not enabled, even then you can set the type as Staff but they will be treated like any other party.

Mark Attendance

You can mark Attendance from My Staff page for today or you can goto Staff page and goto Attendance page and mark it for today or any previous day.

You can also record any fine/penalty for that day, number of overtime hours and any other remarks.

Give Advance/Loan

If you want to give advance or loan to any staff then goto Staff page and tap on I Gave button at the bottom. This will create a Credit Given entry.

If the staff returns back the money then you create I Receive entry and if the staff wants it to be deducted from Salary then you can adjust it while creating the salary entry.

Give Salary

Monthly Salary type

It shows the current month and its attendance by default. You can tap on Month icon to change the month. The Salary has 4 parts :-

Gross Monthly Salary - For the selected month, you can select if you want to give the Full Salary or calculate basis attendance. In case of calculate, it adds number of Presents + half days ( as 0.5) + Paid leaves. You can change the number of payable days as you wish.

Overtime Amount if applicable – If you have punched number of Overtime hours while marking the attendance then it totals all overtime hours and shows the Overtime Amount. If you want to manually change the overtime hours then you can do that.

Any Earlier Advance/Loan adjustment – You can deduct any advance which you have given to the staff. If the staff does not want then it can be deducted in later salaries as you decide. In that case, the advance given keeps showing as the receivable from staff.

Any other fine/penalty/other deduction – If you want to deduct any other amount from the payable salary then you can do so.

So the final payable salary is 1 + 2 -3 -4

This salary record is created as expense entry and is visible in Staff ledger.

Daily / Hourly / Work done based (e.g. Per Piece) Salary

You can Select Start Date and End date ( gives you flexibility to pay for multiple days together). Or you can Click on Pay button on View attendance which is shown on each day for which attendance is marked Present. Like it’s explained for Monthly Salary type above, the salary consists of 4 parts.

Calculated Salary –
- Daily Type - For the selected Date range, it adds number of Presents + half days ( as 0.5) + Paid leaves. You can change the number of payable days as you wish.
- Hourly Type – For the selected Date range, it adds number of hours as punched in as shows as number of payable hours. You can change the number of payable hours as you wish
- Work Based ( Per piece) – For the selected Date range, it adds all the output and shows Total Output. You can manually also change the output.

Overtime Amount if applicable – If you have punched number of Overtime hours while marking the attendance then it totals all overtime hours and shows the Overtime Amount. If you want to manually change the overtime hours then you can do that.

Any Earlier Advance/Loan adjustment – You can deduct any advance which you have given to the staff. If the staff does not want then it can be deducted in later salaries as you decide. In that case, the advance given keeps showing as the receivable from staff.

Any other fine/penalty/other deduction – If you want to deduct any other amount from the payable salary then you can do so.