What payroll is going to cost

The calendar says the next two weeks are packed. Good news — but every one of those appointments is also a commission bill on its way, and the time to know what payday will look like is before you spend the fortnight's takings.

Forecast, in the header of the Payroll page, prices what's already booked.

A range, honestly

The headline is projected service commission as a range — $2,327.50 to $3,369.00 on the demo salon. The low end counts confirmed bookings only; the high end adds the unconfirmed ones. That's not hedging, it's the truth of a booking book: some of it is promised, some of it is probable, and pretending otherwise would just be a wrong number with more confidence.

The page calls the range a planning floor, and means it — tips, product commission, adjustments and hourly pay all come on top. For the fuller yardstick it puts recent average payroll beside the forecast: what your last few periods actually cost.

What's driving it

Four cards show the inputs, so the headline is checkable rather than oracular: booked services (107 appointments worth $7,935.00, split confirmed and unconfirmed), booked hours in the window, projected tips from your own recent tips-to-sales ratio, and that recent average.

Below, a per-staff table breaks the range down — who's heavily booked, whose fortnight is quiet. It's the earliest place a lopsided schedule shows up as money rather than as a feeling.

The coverage note

Between the cards and the table, a plain sentence compares projected payroll against expected revenue for the same window and says how the two sit — "coverage looks comfortable", or a warning when payroll is crowding the takings. It's built from your sales data and labels itself an estimate, not your bank balance; treat it as the early nudge, not the accounting.