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Payroll from the order

See and change what the crew and the salesperson earn on a job — and update everyone after you fix the closing.

3 min readChecked November 5, 2026
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Each job has a payroll: what the salesperson, the foreman and the helpers earn on it. You can see and change it straight from the order.

Seeing payroll needs the payroll permission; changing it needs permission to edit payroll. Being able to open an order doesn't give you either.

Where it is

  • On the closing side, under Quote Details: each day's payroll with who earned what and the hours each person is paid for (for example Alex Sandoval · 4.5 h). Press a day to open it. A day with no payroll yet says Not made yet.
  • In the order's dispatch section: the Payroll button (on a long-distance day, Pickup Payroll and Delivery Payroll).

Change a payroll

The Payroll window has a section each for Sales, Foreman and Helper, with a card per person.

  1. Each person has one row per compensation — the type, the Value, the rate or hours, and the total.
  2. Add a commission adds a row; add a person to a section with its add button.
  3. The bin removes a commission or a person (MoveBoard asks first).
  4. Under a percentage commission, Show the math shows the charges its base is made of, what that person's What's included counts, and the percent.
  5. Check Total Payroll at the foot and press Submit Payroll (or Resubmit Payroll if it was submitted before).

Nothing is saved until you submit. With no payroll yet, the window starts from what MoveBoard would make by itself: the salesperson and the day's crew.

The tip

Every foreman and helper has an Hourly Rate and a Tip row, even when the job has no tip ($0). The tip is split evenly between them: two people get 50% each, three get 33.333% each, and the amounts add up to the tip exactly — $63.40 three ways is $21.14 + $21.13 + $21.13.

When you add a foreman or helper, or remove one, the tip is split again by itself. If you typed someone's tip share by hand, their share stays and the others split the rest; Split evenly (next to Tip) puts everyone back on an even share. A saved payroll doesn't change until you press Resubmit Payroll. See Tips in payroll.

After you fix the closing

If you change the closing — labor 4 h to 3 h 30, the travel, materials taken off — press Update payroll from closing next to the payroll's title. MoveBoard shows what will change for each person (old → new). Press Update everyone: hours and commissions follow the closing; rates and lines added by hand stay as they are.

Payroll can always be changed, even on a completed job.

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