How to Utilize Pay Codes on your Schedule

For some companies it may be important to create a pay code on a particular shift. Pay codes are typically used to help identify a different rate of pay on a special shift. For example, a company may offer a premium payment to employees for picking up a last minute shift. The pay code will help identify those shifts on the schedule to help ensure employees are paid accordingly. Enabling this feature is only accessible to company administrators in MakeShift.

Now that you have created your new pay code using the steps from the support article How to Create Pay Codes, you will be able to apply your codes to your specialized shifts.

Click on Schedules from the top navigation bar.

Click on the name of the department you wish to apply your pay code in.

Click on the Profile tab on the far-left hand side of the page.

Click on the Shift Templates tab.

Click on the green Add Shift Template button.

Once you have filled in all of the details about your shift template, you can select which pay code you would like to apply to your shift template from the drop-down list.

Once you have filled in the shift template information with your pay code applied, click on the Save button.

You may apply your pay code to a custom shift on the schedule. You can do so by filing in this shift information via the pop-up modal and applying the pay code information from the drop-down list, pictured below.

Once complete, select the Create New Shift button and your pay code will be applied to your shift.

In addition to adding a pay code to a shift template or to a new shift, you may also edit any shift and add or adjust a pay code to the existing scheduled shift.