PAYMENTS PAGE
(BackStage Professional and Enterprise only)
Overview
The Payments page allows payments and expenses to be applied to groups of players (either by rank, to all players or by instrument for porterage) for each session. Payments that only apply to individual players can be set on the PERSONNEL page.
Summary of numbered items
- SESSIONS DROPDOWN LIST: Select which session to set payments against.
- PAYMENT TAGS: Select which type of payment to set. (See below)
- BASIC FEE - A basic fee can be applied to any rank that is selected and hence applied to all players of that rank on the selected session. A default amount for each rank can be set by selecting the DEFAULTS | DEFAULT PAY menu item which can quickly remind any member of staff how much each rank gets paid but any payment to any rank must be specifically added to each session. Hence, if you change the default pay amounts, it doesn't change any payments set against any ranks for any PROJECT.
- ADDITIONAL FEES - The amount for any additional fee can be set here and is applied to all players of all ranks. Additional fee names and default amounts can be added by selecting the ADD/EDIT | ADDITIONAL FEES menu item. These default amounts can be overwritten. As with BASIC FEE, the actual amount that is entered will not be overwritten if the default amounts for ADDITIONAL FEES are altered from the menu.
- TAX & BENEFITS (%) - Allows a fixed percentage to be applied to both BASIC FEE and ADDITIONAL FEE payments such as pension or VAT. This percentage will be applied to all players. Hence, if only some of the players charge VAT, this should be set against them individually from the PERSONNEL page.
- BOOKED-FROM CITIES - This option is only used by some orchestras that pay players from the city they live in as opposed to where the orchestra is based. A payment can be set against any city present. Book-from cities can be added from the BOOKED-FROM CITIES menu item. This payment will be applied to any player who has the corresponding city set in their PERSONNEL details (item 5.) General travel payments should be set in the GENERAL EXPENSES tab.
- PORTERAGE - Porterage payments are set against individual instruments and applied to all players that play that instrument. (i.e. if a porterage payment is set against the double bass, it will be applied to all members of the double bass section)
- GENERAL EXPENSES - General expense names and their default amounts can be added from the ADD/EDIT | EXPENSE NAMES. They are applied to all players. Any particular expense can be overridden for any particular player from the PERSONNEL page.
- COMMENTS - Comments appear on the contract beside the expenses.