How do I use the Lunch Allowance and (or) the Transport Allowance?

Lunch and Transport Allowances are standard, optional extra additions. They are Kwacha extras you can input on the standard payment-capture screen for each employee payment. Only add a company wide extra if you have made a unique extra that behaves differently to the standard options. Under company settings there is no need to enter any specifics for Lunch or Transport allowances as these are simply straight Kwacha extras. You can use the standard Kwacha entry for Transport allowance and enter the Kwacha value for this standard addition. However if you want the allowance for Transport and or Lunch 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. Note: Under company settings there is no need to enter any specifics for Lunch or Transport allowances as these are normally just straight Kwacha extras. 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 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.