Understanding allowances paid to suppliers

How to set up allowances paid to your suppliers:

Allowances paid to suppliers can be set up in Masters - Suppliers

Let’s understand how to setup allowances paid to suppliers:

Go to Masters - Suppliers - click on a supplier listing - Edit - Working Hours and Driver Allowance Settings section

1- Working Hours:

Use this to set working hours before/ after which your supplier charges you overtime or early allowance

City Name:

If you have different allowances for each city select a city and enter the amount here or simply select All

2- Early Time:

If your supplier charges you an allowance for performing a duty before a specific time enter the time here

3- Late Time:

If your supplier charges you an allowance for performing a duty after a specific time enter the time here

4- Outstation overnight allowance time:

if your supplier charges you an allowance for performing an outstation duty after a specific time enter the time here

Next, go to Masters - Suppliers - click on a supplier listing and scroll down to the allowances section.

Let’s understand the different types of allowances and what they mean:

1- Outstation allowance per day:

Enter the amount to be paid for an outstation duty

2- Outstation overnight allowance:

Enter the amount paid per night for an outstation duty. If you have set up a time in Driver allowance settings the time will be visible here and the amount will be charged based on the timings.

3- Sunday allowance:

Amount paid for performing a duty on Sunday.

4- Early start allowance:

Enter an amount that will be paid if a duty is performed before the time entered in Driver allowance settings. The early start cutoff time will be visible in the column.

5- Night allowance:

Enter an amount that will be paid if a duty is performed after the time entered in Driver allowance settings. The night allowance start time will be visible in the column.

6- Extra Duty Allowance:

If your driver is paid an additional amount for completing more than one duty in a day, enter the amount here.

7- Daily Allowance:

If an allowance is paid for the first duty of the day, enter the amount here.