How do I enter a travel or food allowance per day worked?

You can use the standard Kwacha entry for travel allowance and enter the Kwacha value for this standard addition. However if you want the allowance to be itemised(per day) then proceed as follows: You can add a customised addition called "Travel" as an Itemised Type (no of Days) entry. Go to the settings page. Choose Edit-Company-Extras. Click on add an extra(at the bottom). Give it a name eg "TravelAllow". Specify it as an "Addition" in the "Method" field. Specify "Itemised" in the "Type" field. Click on Edit Value (on the right hand side) to edit the default itemized rate. eg Kwacha Allowance per Day. Click Apply-to-all in the Company if you want the option to give anyone in the Company this allowance example. Customized extras will appear on the direct payments entry screen which is the second input page for each employee payment capture. When using the offline payroll input option, it will be much quicker to capture these entries in excel. On the offline payroll input sheet you will see your column headings for the "Travel" addition and you will only need to enter the Number of Days. (Harvester will multiply by the rate specified above when you upload) Note: If you want to specify INDIVIDUAL Itemised or 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 for more info type "Individual" in help. NB: You may edit the Itemised Rate so specific employees have a different amount. To edit individual amounts, go to "Payroll Individual " screen on the main home page and then choose your employee who needs a different fixed deduction. Then look to the last column and click on "extras". Look for the specific custom extra deduction 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 travel allowance is taken for that employee in future. If you are using Offline-Input in excel: If the days are the same as the normal days worked then in excel just copy the column of the standard days you have captured in excel into the "Travel" column.