Enable Pay Levels

Steps

The screenshots show a demonstration organisation with made-up names. Your own screens show your organisation's details. Select a screenshot to open it full size.

1. Open the account menu > Account settings

   1 At the top right of any page, choose your name and picture. The account menu opens.

   2 Choose Account settings. The Account settings page opens.

   Note: The Account settings item is also described as Automation and capacity controls in the menu.

   

2. Find Pay Levels and automatic interpretation

   1 Scroll down to Automation & Capacity Controls. Under Automation controls, find Pay Levels and automatic interpretation. Under its title, a description says what the control does, and a small line below the description says how it affects Automation Capacity.

   2 Read the badge on the right of its title. It says Off until Pay Levels has been turned on.

   3 Look at the button next to the badge. It says Enable while the badge says Off.

   Fields in step 2

   Field	What it means
   Off	Pay Levels is not turned on. The button says Enable.
   Preparing	BondiByte is preparing your Pay Levels and rules. The button says View progress.
   Ready to confirm	The setup is ready for your review. The button says Review and confirm.
   On	The setup was confirmed. The button says Disable.
   Failed	Preparing the setup did not finish. The button says Retry.

   Note: While the badge says Preparing or Ready to confirm, a line under the description says that the switch is on but interpretation is not enabled until the setup is reviewed and confirmed on the Pay Levels page.

   

3. Choose Enable and confirm

   Choose Enable on the control. A window titled Enable and prepare Pay Levels opens.

   1 Read the message. It says that BondiByte will prepare your organisation's Pay Levels and rules, and that you confirm the setup before automatic interpretation starts. It also says how Automation Capacity applies. If Pay Levels was set up before, it adds that your existing Pay Levels and rates are preserved and that setup adds only missing configuration.

   2 Choose Enable and prepare to go ahead.

   3 Choose Cancel instead to stop without turning Pay Levels on.

   After you choose Enable and prepare, a message tells you what is happening, for example Preparing your Pay Levels and rules. The Staff Pay Levels page opens.

   Important: Choosing Enable and prepare does not start automatic interpretation. It prepares starter examples for you to review. Interpretation starts only after you confirm the setup on the Pay Levels page.

   

4. Follow the preparation on the Pay Levels page

   1 While the setup is being prepared, the page shows Preparing your Pay Levels. with a list of Pay table, Pay levels, Line items and Draft rules. Each one reads Done or In progress.

   2 You can keep using BondiByte. The page says You can continue using BondiByte. Setup continues in the background.

   When the preparation is finished, the page says Your Pay Levels are ready. Review and adjust the rates and rules below. Review the rates and rules, then choose I've reviewed the setup: enable interpretation at the top of the page. Until you do, the control in Account settings stays on Ready to confirm. For the review, go on to Use the starter setup.

   Note: If the preparation fails, the page shows the reason with a Retry button. The same Retry button is on the control in Account settings.

   

5. Turn Pay Levels off later, if you need to

   1 On the Pay Levels and automatic interpretation control, choose Disable.

   2 Read the message in the window Turn off Pay Levels interpretation? It says that automatic interpretation stops for new timesheets, and that rates, rules, assignments and saved interpretations are preserved.

   3 Choose Turn off to go ahead, or Cancel to leave Pay Levels on.

   

What happens next

BondiByte prepares a pay table, six starter Pay Levels, their rate lines and draft rules. They are examples, labelled as a starter example to review for your organisation.

Automatic interpretation does not start yet. It starts when you review the setup and confirm it. See Use the starter setup.

Turning Pay Levels off later stops automatic interpretation for new timesheets. It does not remove your rates, rules or assignments.

If you turn Pay Levels on again and none of your rates have changed since you confirmed the setup, the control goes straight back to On and a message says Interpretation re-enabled; your confirmed setup was kept. Nothing new is prepared. If a rate has changed, BondiByte prepares the setup again and you review and confirm it again.

Important notes

Good practice

• Choose a time to turn Pay Levels on when the person who knows your pay agreement can review the setup straight away. The control shows Preparing and then Ready to confirm, and nothing is interpreted until someone confirms, so the setup waits for you.
• Turn Pay Levels off only when you mean to pause automatic interpretation. It stops for new timesheets straight away, while your rates, rules, assignments and saved interpretations are kept, so turning it back on later does not lose your setup.

Troubleshooting