How do I set up a fixed extra addition?

You can add a customized addition(or deduction) as a "Fixed" Type extra. Go to the settings page. Choose Edit-Company-Extras. Click on add an extra(at the bottom). Give it a name eg Lunch. Specify it as an Addition in the "Method" field. Specify "Fixed" in the "Type" field. Click on Edit Value (on the right hand side) to edit the default value of the Fixed Deduction. eg 10 for a fixed addition of 10K applied to all that you apply this extra to. Click Apply-to-all in the Company if you want the option to give everyone in the Company this extra addition example. To edit individual amounts (for those not having the usual fixed amount), go to "Payroll Individual " screen on the main home page and then choose your employee who needs a different fixed addition. Then look to the last column and click on "extras". Look for the specific custom extra addition and then click "edit value". You will be able to give this employee a unique value that will be used for all future payroll payments processed. A Zero amount entered in this example will make sure that no extra addition is taken for that employee in future. Customized extras will only appear on the "second page" of the direct payments entry screen which is the second input page for each employee payment capture. However this type of extra does not require user-input as it will automatically be deducted from those employees to whom you have applied this extra. Note you can then set individual amounts for your Lunch Allowance so that Harvester will remember the individual amounts. For example your Lunch allowance varies per employee and you would still like it to be a "recurring input" that you do not need to input each month. Here is how you can easily do this: If you want to specify INDIVIDUAL Itemised or the Fixed-Extra Custom-Extras per employee and would like Harvester to "remember" these values from month to month so that no re-input is required each month then do the following to set this up BEFORE you begin processing the current month's payroll processing. Individual Itemised rates can be set to extras that are of the Type: Itemised or Fixed or Percentage-of-Basic. (The type can be set under Company Extras) To edit individual amounts, go to "Payroll Individual" screen on the main home page and then choose your employee who needs a different rate. Then look to the last column and click on "extras". Then choose any extra of the type that is "Itemised" or "Fixed" or "Percentage". Look for the specific custom extra and then click "edit value". You will be able to give this employee a unique value that will be used for all future payroll payments processed. Using this same page explained above, where you look for the last column and click on "extras", you can also click on the Add-Extras link to assign any NON company-wide extra to the specific employee. Some more notes: Another way to edit Individual Rates is use the Settings page and then click on Assign-Extras-to-Employees. Then choose any extra of the type that is "Itemised" or "Fixed" or "Percentage" and on the right hand side click on Edit-Value to edit the default itemized rate (default rate can be set under Company Extras). NB It is important to choose the Edit Value link for the individual employee on the RIGHT-HAND-SIDE of the edit Extras page. The Edit link on the Left Hand Side is for applying specific non-company-wide extras to individuals. It is helpful to use the Extra name-search box on the top to edit a specific Extras for employees. If the extra is a company-wide extra, then the input amounts can be captured via excel in the offline, excel, payroll input sheet. If the input amount each month needs to be the same value as the normal days worked (eg A Daily bonus or allowance depending on the days worked) do the following: If you are using the Offline-input Template In excel and you have specified your Custom Extra to be of the "Itemised-Type", then just copy the column of the standard days into the appropriate Item-Input Column.