How do I setup a Gratuity or Terminal Benefit or Savings accumulation?

Terminal benefit is what normally has to be paid by law at the end of each contract. Gratuity is voluntary. Some customers effectively use Gratuity for Savings accumulation for an employee. See note below on Savings. NB The accumulating Terminal Benefit will appear on the payslips each month and NOT Gratuity. Use Terminal Benefit if you are wanting to pay the "compulsory end of contract service amounts". On the "More Reports page" use the "Gratuity or Terminal Benefit Totals" Report to see current Accumulated Totals which may easily be exported to Excel. On the main edit employee screen for each employee there are two fields under the section called 'Payment Rates' called: Gratuity Percentage and Terminal Percentage. Enter the respective percentages here. It is calculated as a percentage of Basic pay. eg Terminal Benefit at 15 percent of Basic pay which is supposed to be paid by law at the end of an employees contract. Once the percentage is entered, Harvester will automatically accumulate the gratuity or terminal benefit that is due. Then once a contract is ended, you are able to see immediately how much is due for payment to each employee on termination of the contract. This Gratuity or Terminal Benefit percentage may be applied at Department level to all employees within a particular employee with one click of the 'Submit' button under 'Settings' and then 'Department Settings'. These percentages may also be applied at a Company-wide level to all employees within the company with one click of the 'Submit' button under 'Settings' and then 'Company Settings'. NB Remember to click the check box 'Click to Apply to All' before you press the 'submit' button if you want to apply to all in a department or across the company. Note: if you have not set up gratuities or terminal benefits yet for your employees(as described above) and you want to pay any accumulated values due to date, then you need to manually enter one, grand-total, "Gratuity" or "Terminal Benefit", Kwacha amount for the whole period for each employee in the "gratuity paid" field or the "terminal benefit paid" field on the payment capture screen, towards the bottom of the screen under the section "End of Contracts". Be sure to enter the employee gratuity percentage once so that for each month, gratuity will be auto calculated so that for the next gratuity payment time, all you have to do is to pay what is due according to the Accumulated Gratuity amount.(no manual totaling of what is due will then be needed) This "gratuity paid" or "terminal benefit paid" entry will NOT be taxed and will be added to the payslip so there is a record of the payment. The accumulated amount will be automatically reduced by the amount you submit as a payment. Note: Once you have paid gratuities or terminal benefits, you may actually just clear or reset every employee's gratuity amount to 0 with just one click. Please type "clear" in help and look for help on "Reset or Clear all Terminal Benefits or Gratuities". Note: Some people use the Gratuity field to record savings values that can accumulate for the user. This is perfectly legal as long as all Terminal Benefit payments are paid separately in the Terminal Benefit paid entry field.