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The platform is designed to support light entrepreneurs, freelancers and microcompanies in their daily business operations.
This includes management and handling of clients, invoices, expenses, salaries, payouts, taxes, and accounting.
The platform also supports flexible and easy messaging between users or contact the support. You can also get help by contacting us using the messaging service or the AI chatbot.
Please contact us via our website or using the platform’s built-in messaging functionality. You can also see our contact details in our website.
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To review an invoice:
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When enabling automatic salary payout approval for an invoice, the salary payout will be approved automatically once it is requested. So, you don’t need to approve the salary payout. Please take into account that the freelancer can not have any debt collection configured.
You can enable automatic salary payout approval for an invoice when reviewing the invoice. In the bottom of the invoice viewer, there is a toggle to enable it.
When enabling automatic approval for a client, all the invoices the user creates for this client will be automatically approved when the amount is not higher than the one set. If the amount is higher they should require the operator’s approval.
You can enable automatic approval for a client when reviewing the invoice, in the bottom of the invoice viewer there is a toggle to enable it and set the maximum amount. Also, in the clients page, when editing a client, you can enable the toggle and set the maximum amount.
Please take into account that normally all invoices are marked as paid automatically by the system. But if you still need to mark an invoice as paid:
To refund an invoice:
You can also refund an invoice by clicking on the invoice and then clicking on “Refund”.
Please take into account that only sent or paid invoices can be refunded.
An operator can create the following deductions:
To create a non direct cost deduction:
You can also create a non direct cost deduction during the salary payout review, by clicking on “Add deduction” on the Deductions step. The modal displayed is the same.
Please take into account that the deduction will be included in the invoice total amount. If there is more than one invoice, the deduction will be included only in the payout.
To create a generic cost deduction:
You can also create a generic cost deduction during the salary payout review, by clicking on “Add deduction” on the Deductions step. The modal displayed is the same.
Please take into account that the deduction will be included in the invoice total amount. If there is more than one invoice, the deduction will be included only in the payout.
To create a paid to freelancer separately deduction:
You can also create a paid to freelancer separately deduction during the salary payout review, by clicking on “Add deduction” on the Deductions step. The modal displayed is the same.
Please take into account that the deduction will be included in the invoice total amount. If there is more than one invoice, the deduction will be included only in the payout.
To review a salary payout:
You can continue reviewing other payouts
Yes, if there are invoices pending for salary request creation when reviewing a salary payout, they will be displayed and can be selected into the payout.
Also operators can create salary payout requests using the user filter and creating a new request with multiple invoices.
To add deductions in salary payout review:
To add reductions from bank transfer:
To add a custom service fee:
To approve a tax card:
To cancel a freelancer active tax card:
Operator-admin is allowed to create a new user for the following roles:
To create a new user:
To edit an existent user:
Please note that if an error message is displayed, your changes are not saved.
You can edit the following information from a user: username, password, email, change the user role, address, citizenship, mobile phone, gender, business information, user settings , user finance configuration and finance settings.
The only information that cannot be edited or changed is the one fetched from the ID verification, such as First name, last name and social security number.
To disable or enable a user:
You can enable or disable a user by clicking on the user and then clicking on “Enable”/ “Disable”.
To invalidate a user ID verification:
You can invalidate a user ID verification by clicking on the user and then clicking on “Invalidate ID verification”.
To set a user ID as verified please note that all the mandatory information must be already provided:
Please take into account that if an error message is displayed, the user ID is not set as verified.
To send a message to a user:
You can also search the users from the chats list.
Income report lists and sums up all the payouts, expenses and deductions that have been successfully done to a user in a selected period of time. This feature works per user, so you need to select a user in the top toolbar user selector to see the report.
Cumulative report describes the user cumulative amounts for the salaries paid in a selected period of time and in the current year. This feature works per user, so you need to select a user in the top toolbar user selector to see the report.
Salary report is a document that certificates the freelancer total invoicing net, taxable income, tax free expenses, taxes paid, service fees and social security fees included in the payouts for a selected period of time. This feature works per user, so you need to select a user in the top toolbar user selector to see the report.
To update the operator details, such as: compant ID, company VAT ID, company name or address:
As operator you can set accident insurance as included in the service fee or not. To update this functionality:
As operator you can set liability and legal insurance as included in the service fee or not. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable the usage of quick salary payment. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable the client review functionality for invoices. When this feature is enabled, invoicing process has an additional review step by the client for all quick salary invoices and for invoices to which operator has enabled it specifically. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable automatic debt collection bank transfers. When this feature is enabled, the system will automatically make bank transfers to the debt collection agency according to your configuration. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable sending automatically the employer’s monthly report for total social security payments made in previous month to the tax office. To update this functionality:
Please take into account that the report is sent for the previous month on the 2nd day of the month.
As operator you can enable or disable to force YEL for all users. To update this functionality:
Please take into account that if enabled, then the YEL pension questions list will be hidden and all users will be treated like they would have active YEL insurance.
As operator you can enable or disable to force social security fees always. To update this functionality:
Please take into account that if enabled, then social security fees are taken always at the time of salary payout, and it is informed to tax office accordingly. Only when user is minor or senior (YEL rules), the social security is not taken.
As operator you can enable or disable to offer YEL insurance from operator. If enabled, please upload the template document to be signed by the freelancer. To update this functionality:
To upload template document to be signed by the freelancer when selecting YEL insurance from operator, first you need to have YEL insurance from operator feature as enabled. Then:
As operator you can enable or disable work time management and related functionality for all users. This allows user to create work assignments, report hours, get hour report acceptance from the client and automated invoicing of the working hours. This is a premium feature. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable simplified expense management. When enable, expenses can be created only when new invoice is created, or draft invoice is being edited. This will simplify the expense management because it separates Expenses -menu item and expenses listing is not available. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable allowing support to send or receive messages from user. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable the usage of talent profile functionality. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable the usage of work notices. This functionality will require freelancer to provide work start notice e.g. for company insurance policy purposes. Work notice needs to be active before any invoicing can be done. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable credit check functionality for the freelancers. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable SMS sending to freelancer. When enabled, the system will send a SMS message to freelancer in some important events, such as: salary paid, invoice sent, invoice paid, tax card approved. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable requiring email address for a new client contact person. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable automatic username generation for new users. If enabled, the system will automatically generate the username for new users and do not require username definition from the user during registration. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable to show the info box in Dashboard. When enabled, a dedicated info box is shown in the top of the dashboard to show important and key information from your service. This information can be edited freely in HTML format. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable to show invite friends option in the Dashboard. When enabled, shows “Invite Friends” in the dashboard for users and allows users to share their invitation link with their own referral code. To update this functionality:
As operator you can enable or disable operator key metrics available via public API. When enabled, operator key metrics are available via public API (status/metrics) e.g. to use the values in external website. To update this functionality:
Please note that if you do not use this API, it is recommended to disable this feature.
As operator you can edit the fee per invoice by email to be charged in each payout. This fee must be set in EUR and percentage per invoice. To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can edit the fee per invoice with OVT to be charged in each payout. This fee must be set in EUR and percentage per invoice. To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can edit the fee per invoice by paper to be charged in each payout. This fee must be set in EUR and percentage per invoice. To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can edit the minimum and maximum service fee per invoice to be charged in each payout. These fees must be set in EUR. To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can edit the YEL pension insurance fee to be charged. This fee must be set in EUR and percentage. Remember, this fee settings will be applicable only if you have enabled the YEL insurance from operator.
To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can edit the accident insurance fee to be charged. This fee must be set in EUR and percentage. Remember, this fee settings will be applicable only if you have disabled the Accidents insurance functionality.
To edit this fee:
As operator you can edit the liability and legal insurance fee to be charged. This fee must be set in EUR and percentage. Remember, this fee settings will be applicable only if you have disabled the Liability and legal insurance functionality.
To edit this fee:
As operator you can edit the credit check fee per transaction. These fees must be set in EUR. Remember, this fee settings will be applicable only if you have enabled the Credit check functionality.
To edit this fee:
As operator you can edit the quick salary payment fee to be charged. These fees must be set in EUR and percentage. Remember, this fee settings will be application only if you have enabled the Quick Salary Payment feature.
To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can edit the new user bonus invoicing threshold amount. It must be set in EUR. To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can edit the new user registration bonus amount. It must be set in EUR. To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can edit the new user bonus for referrer amount. It must be set in EUR. To edit this fee:
Please take into account that you can overwrite these settings per user by editing it on Users page.
As operator you can set the invoicing default VAT class.
As operator you can enable or disable to offer YEL insurance from operator. If enabled, please upload the template document to be signed by the freelancer. To update this functionality:
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