Year end

It's January. The accountant wants annual totals, the tax forms are arriving — W-2s and 1099s in the United States, T4s and T4As in Canada — and two stylists are asking what they actually made last year. The answer exists — it's spread across twenty-six approved pay periods.

Year-end, in the Payroll header, folds them back together.

One press per year

Pick the year and press Generate. RewireBox aggregates every approved period into a per-person summary — a short written recap of their year and a printable PDF — one for each staff member who was paid. The screen holds them from then on; until you generate, it says plainly that no summaries exist yet, which is also exactly what a brand-new January looks like.

The numbers come from the frozen reports, so the annual total is the sum of what was actually approved — not a fresh calculation that might disagree with the paystubs everyone already saw. If a period from the year is still unapproved, finish it first; year-end works from settled numbers only.

What to do with them

The PDF is built to hand out. When the tax forms go round — W-2s or 1099s, T4s or T4As, whichever your country files — each person gets the salon's own account of the same year beside the government's — their services, their commission, their tips, in the language of the work rather than the language of the form. For contractors totting up income, and for the question "was this year better than last?", it's the sheet that answers without a meeting.

The year picker reaches back seven years, so late questions — an accountant reconciling, a former stylist's records request — don't depend on anyone having filed paper.

What it is not

Not a tax form, not a filing, and not a net-pay statement. Gross earnings are RewireBox's side of the line; withholdings and the forms themselves belong to your payroll provider, the same split as every other handoff in Sending it to your payroll provider.