The Premiums module allows you to create shift premiums that can be added and calculated on your employees' shifts and time entries.
Here are 6 Things to Know About Premiums
1 - Premiums must be created by an admin
Only admins can create and edit the settings of a Premiums Once this is done, managers can add/remove premiums for shifts and time entries.
Here is an article on how to create a Shift Premium
2- These are the different types of shift premiums supported
Time-based 4pm to 12am, 10pm to 6am etc.
Day-of-the-week-based: Saturday, Sunday premiums (weekends)
Position-based: Assistant-manager, team-lead premiums, etc.
Location-based: For example, the Ottawa location could provide a premium to its employees because it is further away than the Montreal location.
Employee-based: Sandra can have a premium automatically added to all her shifts, according with her individual employment contract.
Start time/end time: If a shift start before/after or ends after X time, the premium is triggered.
These premiums can be automated with preset rules in the settings.
3 - Premiums can be added manually or automatically
During the creation process, the admin will determine if a Premium will be added automatically or manually, based on predetermined rules.
Here is an article on Automatic Premiums and an article on Manual Premiums (spontaneous).
4 - Premium values
Your premium can be set to hours or a specific amount of money. You will then be able to add your earning code associated to the premium in your payroll system.
Important: a premium with a monetary value needs a $ earning code and a premium with an hourly value needs an HRS earning code.
5 - Premiums can stack up
Work shifts are not limited to one premium only. All Premiums triggered will apply on the shift, as well as spontaneously added ones.
6 - Premiums Module is compatible with certain payroll integrations
Currently, our Premiums module is compatible with :
You can otherwise export our Time Entries report which contains all premiums.
* Please note that you must subscribe to the Premiums add-on to benefit from this feature.