Staff and pay
Your staff are paid for approved work. Nothing more, nothing less.
Give each worker their tasks, approve what’s done well, and OrdaBook works out what you owe. Here’s a week of it.
An example week
Pay day for three tailors
The shop’s pay rules: cutting pays ₦2,000 an order, sewing pays 20% of the item’s price, and finishing pays ₦1,500 an order. Pay day is Saturday.
This is an example: the shop, the names and the amounts are made up. The sums are the ones OrdaBook does.
Ade, who cuts: ₦8,000
Ade cut 4 orders this week, and the owner approved each one: 4 × ₦2,000.
Bisi, who sews: ₦22,000
Bisi sewed a gown (₦9,000) and a skirt and blouse (₦7,000), and shared an agbada with Tunde, half each (₦6,000). The skirt was sent back for a crooked hem. She fixed it, it was approved on Friday, and it’s paid once.
Tunde, who sews and finishes: ₦6,000
His half of the agbada and finishing two orders came to ₦9,000. The ₦3,000 advance he took on Wednesday comes off.
The ₦28,000 kaftan isn’t sewn and approved yet, so its sewing isn’t on this week’s pay. It goes on the next statement once it is.
On Saturday you lock the three statements and pay ₦36,000 in all. Nobody adds anything up by hand, and nobody argues about who sewed what.
Staff and pay
How pay works in OrdaBook
Pay the way you already do
A share of the item’s price, a fixed amount per order split between the people who did it, an amount you set for each job, or a salary.
Tasks in turn
Cutting, then sewing, then finishing: each task goes to its person when the one before it is approved. They submit it, with a photo if you ask for one; you approve it or send it back.
Rework, counted fairly
Work sent back goes round again, and each round is on the record, so pay follows the work that was actually approved.
Pay statements
Each person’s approved work, priced by your rules, with advances and deductions, on a statement for each pay period.
Any phone setup
Staff on their own phones, on one shared shop phone with their own PIN, or with no phone at all: you record their work for them.
Trusted hands
Some staff’s work needs no approval: it’s approved as they submit it, and you still see every piece.