Manual premiums (formerly known as spontaneous premiums) are best used for shift premiums given out in particular circumstances such as when an employee obtains a fixed lunch allowance, a fixed traveling premium or even a fixed training bonus. You can add them manually, once created.

For premiums that should be added automatically based on time/position/location/individual triggers, follow this procedure instead.

The first step to create one, is to have Administrator access and go to the "Settings" menu ➡️ "Premiums" tab and click on "Add a premium"

You will also need to have the Premiums module activated in your Plan.
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Once created, manual premiums can be added/deleted from shift and time entries by any manager in your organization.

Here is how to assign manual premiums.

In most cases, manual premiums should be given a specific value of "1" (as below). That way, you can know how many times an employee was entitled to this specific premium in a given range when exporting the Time Entries report.

This way, the premium reports will make it easy to see how many times this premium has been assigned to this employee, rather than the number of hours associated with this premium.

Applying this premium to the entire shift will result in an amount equal to the number of hours in the shift. (e.g., a shift from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. will result in 8 hours of manual premiums added to that shift)

Manual premiums are best exported using the Time Entries report, a column for each of them will appear for each time entry, allowing quick calculation of the amount owed to each employee for each occurence.

Here is the detailed procedure.

* Please note that you must subscribe to the Premiums add-on to benefit from this feature.