Schedule cost and weekly budget

Above the week board, the cost strip shows the estimated gross cost of the week's shifts, drafts and published ones, priced with the same rules as pay.

Steps

1. Open the Week tab. The strip shows the total, the hours planned, the cost per day and per position.
2. Press Details to see overtime: who goes over, how many overtime hours and what they add. A person above the legal maximum is flagged.
3. Press Set a weekly budget and enter a number. The strip then says whether you are within budget or by how much you are over.
4. If some people have no pay rate, the strip asks you to Add pay rates instead of showing a wrong total.

Good to know

• A shift costs what it adds to the person's week, in order. Overtime lands on the shift that causes it.
• Open shifts are not priced yet, and the strip counts them.
• Salaried people with no shift are shown separately.
• The strip is hidden on plans without pay estimates.
• A manager who cannot see the owner's pay gets those shifts left out.
• It is an estimate, not payroll. The budget is only a warning: it never blocks publishing.