Record the day, then review the full shift before saving.

• Hourly pay: enter your normal hourly rate and contracted paid hours per week.
• Salary plus overtime: enter your annual or monthly salary and contracted paid hours per week. If you enter both salary amounts, the monthly amount sets basic pay; the annual amount is used when deriving the overtime hourly rate. Keep them consistent.
• Day rate: enter the payment for a day. Choose whether it covers the full day or a set number of hours, with extra hours paid separately.

Use the company or agency that pays you. Add separate company records where different employers have different pay rules.

For salary overtime, choose Calculate from salary only if payroll uses salary ÷ 52 ÷ contracted weekly hours. Choose full precision, nearest penny or round up to match payroll. Otherwise choose Use a separate hourly rate. This is the hourly rate before the overtime multiplier.

Set your usual start, finish and standard shift length. These are starting values; change the times on each shift when needed.

Check the break deduction used for pay. For example, a 10-hour shift with one unpaid hour gives 9 paid hours. A recorded rest break and a payroll deduction are not always the same thing.

Choose a fixed break deduction or rules that change with shift length. If all time is paid, use a zero deduction. Only enter a minimum paid shift if your employer guarantees one.

For early starts, choose Pay every recorded minute, or I enter the company-approved start time. With the second choice, enter the approved start directly on the shift; you do not need a second start time. Record the actual finish so later minutes can count under your overtime rules.

First choose when hours become overtime:

• Weekly: paid hours above your contracted weekly hours. The app uses Monday–Sunday for each company and allocates overtime as shifts pass that total.
• Daily: time above a chosen shift-length threshold. This uses shift duration before the pay-break deduction, with overtime limited to the paid hours. Enter the threshold explicitly.

Then choose the rate rule: different multipliers for weekdays, Saturday and Sunday; one flat overtime multiplier; or no overtime. A multiplier of 1.5 means one and a half times the hourly rate.

Worked day sequence is available with weekly overtime. It counts days actually worked within the Monday–Sunday week. You can set later days to have all paid hours at a different rate. It does not count a rolling run of consecutive days.

Day-rate workers can instead set included hours and an extra hourly rate. A flat full-day rate has no extra hourly payment.

The app uses the shift start date for weekday rates and its week, without splitting at midnight. With overtime enabled, a worked shift marked as a bank holiday normally has all paid hours priced at the bank-holiday rate. Paid leave and sick hours count towards the weekly base-hours requirement.

Ask payroll how these cases are treated. The app does not combine daily and weekly rules to choose the higher payment, or spread weekly overtime back across earlier long shifts.

Choose weekly, fortnightly, every four weeks, monthly or twice monthly. Four-weekly means every 28 days; it is different from monthly. For a repeating two- or four-week schedule, enter one known payday.

Payday is when money arrives. A cutoff is the last work date included. Basic pay, overtime, allowances and expenses may cover different dates even on the same payslip.

For each part of pay, choose the matching pay period, current month, previous month or monthly cutoff, as offered. Allowances and expenses can follow basic pay or overtime. If payment is delayed by complete pay periods, set the delay: 0 means the first available payday, 1 means one period later.

Overtime cutoffs can use a fixed date or the last chosen weekday on or before a date. “Strictly before” excludes that date if it falls on the chosen weekday. Each period starts the day after the previous cutoff.

Check the date preview before saving. Ask payroll for both the first and last included work dates, not just the deadline for submitting timesheets. Use Adjust this payday only for an unusual month instead of changing the ongoing rule.

Add only payments you receive. Check whether an allowance is paid per hour, shift or week, and whether only certain night hours qualify. Set when those payments reach your payslip.

Night-out pay and expense repayments are separate from overtime. Confirm their payroll treatment rather than assuming they are tax-free.

Check paid leave and sickness defaults. If holiday pay includes an average of overtime or allowances, confirm which earnings are included. An automatic average needs enough complete work history to be useful.

A simple starting point is Use the amount from my latest payslip for pension. Copy the amount taken from your pay, not the employer contribution. This stays a fixed estimate until you update it.

If pension changes with earnings, use My pension changes with my earnings and check the percentage and earnings used with payroll. Avoid entering the same pension again under other deductions.

Confirm whether your pension is salary sacrifice or another deduction. If unsure, choose Not sure; the app uses an ordinary deduction estimate. Ask payroll to confirm the treatment, because it affects the estimate.

Add other deductions only once. Check your tax code and student loan plan in Settings. The optional Improve your tax estimate in the payslip form uses taxable pay and tax already paid before that payday, from the same tax year. Use it only if the form says your situation is supported. Do not include the current payday twice.

Record all shifts needed for the pay period, including the full weeks used to calculate weekly overtime. Then select the correct company and payday in Pay.

Open Check or update your pay → Compare with my payslip. Work through these checks in order:

1. Basic pay: compare salary or normal hours and rate.
2. Overtime: compare included dates, hours and rate separately. If several rates appear on the payslip, check each line.
3. Allowances and expenses: check amounts and which dates were paid.
4. Pension and other deductions: compare each amount.
5. Tax and take-home: check these after the earnings and deductions are close.

The comparison can suggest possible work dates, but a similar total does not prove a cutoff. If no dates match, check missing shifts, rates, delayed payments and one-off corrections before changing settings.

Repeat when the next payslip arrives. A small remaining difference may be payroll rounding; a large difference is a reason to check the relevant line, not change every setting. The employer payslip remains the final record of what was paid.

• New pay arrangement: use new settings from the date the change starts.
• An old setting was wrong: choose a correction and check its start date and earlier pay settings before saving. A correction can affect past estimates.
• Only one payslip is different: use Adjust this payday only for that payday.

Make a backup before correcting earlier settings. Keep recorded work times accurate; use pay settings and payroll corrections to explain differences in payment.

• How many paid hours does my contract cover each week and each normal shift?
• Which breaks are unpaid? Is there a minimum paid shift?
• Are starts and finishes paid to the minute, or rounded or approved?
• Does overtime start after daily hours, weekly hours, or both? Which day starts the payroll week?
• Once weekly overtime is earned, which shifts receive those hours and rates? What happens if another shift is shorter?
• For night shifts, does the rate follow the start date, finish date or each hour after midnight?
• What are the weekday, weekend, bank-holiday and extra-day rates? Do leave and sickness count towards the overtime threshold?
• If I am salaried, how is my overtime hourly rate calculated and rounded?

• What exact start and end dates does this payslip cover for basic pay, overtime, allowances and expenses?
• Is the cutoff a fixed date, a weekday rule or a repeating cycle? Are there exceptions?
• How are overnight shifts assigned when they cross a cutoff?
• Which night hours earn an allowance? Is it paid per hour, shift or week?
• Does holiday pay include an average payment? Which earnings and weeks are used?
• How is my pension taken, and which earnings does the percentage apply to?
• Does this payslip contain arrears, a correction, unpaid leave or a deduction that will not repeat?

Look for the pay date, basic pay, overtime hours and rates, allowances, pension taken from your pay, tax, National Insurance, other deductions and take-home pay. Check the tax code and year-to-date taxable pay and tax if shown.

A payslip may not show the overtime work dates, rate formula or pension earnings used. Ask payroll for those details; do not guess them from the final total. If a confirmed rule is not supported by the app, keep the estimate limitation in mind and use a one-off adjustment where suitable.