Introducing the General Allowance Feature

We always listen and in recent times go to one request that kept coming up across our customer conversations: the ability to record a custom allowance directly on the docket, something specific to the needs of your business, agreements and clients. For a while, the best we could offer was building it out individually for each company that needed it. Others found their own workarounds like a note in the comments, an offline spreadsheet or a mental reminder to sort it out later. But we promised you fricken awesome software and this just wasn’t cutting it.

We know what makes Traffio unique is our commitment to building for and alongside our customers, everything in our software exists because you needed it or asked for it. So, we have continued to listen and our developers keep building. The result… A customisable allowance system now available to all our users.

How it works

General Allowance is a new Payroll and Billing feature that lets you create your own custom docket allowance and connects it all the way through your workflow.

Enable it in seconds via the Traffio Config tab in your settings navigation. Once it's on, a new checkbox appears directly on your dockets. Tick it, and that allowance is recorded against the shift.

The best part is, you're not stuck with calling it "General Allowance." Rename it to whatever it actually is for your team e.g.: "Site Allowance," "Client Levy," "Meal Payment". That name flows through everywhere the docket lives, including client-facing PDF exports.

Connected to Payroll

On the payroll side, General Allowance connects directly to the General Allowance field in your EBA settings. That means you can link it to any payroll earning rate that applies, keeping your records clean and your team paid correctly without any manual workarounds.

Connected to Billing

For billing, simply create a new Billing Allowance and select the new “Has general allowance” trigger to bring it into your billing workflows. One checkbox on the docket, one streamlined signal to your billing engine.

Billing Allowance is a relatively new feature, so we've put together a guide on how to enable and configure it >here<

Tell us what you think

This feature was built because a real customer needed it, so chances are you do to! We’d love to hear your feedback and feature ideas. Send them over to enquiry@traffio.com.au where every suggestion gets read.

For further docket configurations guidance look >here<.