Industry features
Some industries have payroll rules of their own: prevailing wages on government construction jobs, tip pooling in restaurants, licence tracking for nurses, driving-hours limits for truck drivers, spreading a teacher’s pay over twelve months, or union pay scales and dues.
Bokapsys payroll does not include industry-specific tools today. Your workspace has the standard US payroll described in the rest of this section: employees, pay schedules, time and leave, salary and hourly pay with overtime and double time, federal and state withholding, employer taxes, benefits, garnishments, workers’ compensation reporting, payslips, checks and the direct-deposit bank file. The Payroll Settings page has Pay Schedules, Workers’ comp rates and Import from previous provider, and no industry tabs.
This page tells you, industry by industry, what is and isn’t covered, so you can plan what to handle outside Bokapsys.
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| Industry | Typical need | In Bokapsys today |
|---|---|---|
| Construction | Prevailing (Davis-Bacon) wage rates and weekly certified payroll (Form WH-347). | Not available. The Certified Payroll (WH-347) report in Payroll Reports has no way to receive data and stays empty. |
| Hospitality | Tip pools, declared and charged tips, Form 8027. | Not available. |
| Healthcare | Tracking clinical licences and their expiry dates. | Not available. |
| Transportation | Driver hours-of-service limits. | Not available. |
| Education | Spreading a 9- or 10-month contract over 12 months of pay. | Not available. |
| Unions | Collective bargaining pay scales, dues, seniority. | Not available. |
What you can do instead
Section titled “What you can do instead”Construction
Section titled “Construction”- Pay workers with an hourly rate, so their timesheet hours drive their pay. See Compensation and Time and leave.
- If a job requires a higher prevailing rate, set the employee’s hourly rate to at least that rate for the period.
- Prepare Form WH-347 outside Bokapsys. The hours come from your timesheets, and the pay and deductions from each pay run’s Paylines (see Run payroll).
Hospitality
Section titled “Hospitality”- Overtime for hourly staff is calculated at one and a half times the regular rate, and double time at twice the rate, from timesheet hours.
- Work out tip pools and tip reporting outside Bokapsys, with your accountant.
Healthcare
Section titled “Healthcare”- Keep licence and certification records outside Bokapsys. Hourly and overtime pay work as normal.
Transportation
Section titled “Transportation”- Track hours of service in your electronic logging system. Hours you enter on timesheets in Bokapsys drive pay, not driving-hours compliance.
Education
Section titled “Education”- Bokapsys pays the salary you set divided by the pay periods in the employee’s schedule. To spread a 9-month contract over 12 months, set the annual salary to the contract amount and keep paying the employee on every regular pay run through the year. Check the result on the first pay run.
Unions
Section titled “Unions”- Pay rates are set per employee. To take union dues from pay, add an After tax deduction under Payroll → Compensation and tick it on each member’s record; you pay the dues over to the union yourself. See Compensation.