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Setup: Block to Pay a Contractor

In order to set up rates to pay a single contractor for load-based attributes, you need to ensure that the activity (loading, skidding, felling, etc.) for which the employee will be paid is identified on the block as an activity that should be paid.  The link Geographic Work Area from the Main Menu  explains how to use the 'Block Setup Wizard' in order to set up a block and attach activities that should be paid.

The critical step involved in attaching activities in the wizard is:

Step 11:  Enter Pay Activities on the Block

In this step you will need to do the following in order to pay a contractor:

1.    Select 'Do Not Track Activities, Employees, Equipment on Load Slips.'  This selection tells The Logger's Edge that you want to pay one (and only one) contractor for each activity.

2.    Check the 'Pay Activity' column for the activity(ies) you want to pay.  In the screen above, I have checked 'Pay Activity' for delimbing, felling and loading.  The checkboxes tell The Logger's Edge that contractors will be paid for each of those activities.  The Logger's Edge will expect a payment contract for each contractor in order to pay each activity for the block --  if an activity is not paid, an error will result.

You must check the activity on each and every block for which you want to pay contractors by the load.