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Setup: Pay Activities
Pay activities are setup under Setup | Pay Activities from the main menu. Using this list you can identify the activities or phases of your logging operation from which you want to track revenue or by which you want to pay employees or contractors. An 'activity' is a broadly defined concept and can include normal activities such as logging, loading, and skidding. It can also include other 'activities' such as stumpage, depletion or overhead costs.
You assign each activity a code (unique) and description. The 'Pay Activity Type' can be one of six basic types:
- Reg Prod - Used for regular production activity. Only activities with this type will be allowed as pay activities on your blocks. (See Block Setup, Step 11)
- Eq Maint - Used to code activities that are equipment maintenance activities
- Non Work - Used to code activities that are to be paid, but are not work. For example, Holiday or Vacation time.
- Travel - Used to code travel time
- Non-Prod Charge - Used to code chargeable activities that are not production, like road building or camp
- Other - Used to cover 'other' activities, such as down time.
The specific types of pay activity types are under Setup | Pay Activity Types. The activity type is also used to determine whether time that is coded with a certain type is eligible for overtime or other pay differentials.
The production indicator is
relevant for users who track tree counts. Those activities whose
'production indicator' flag is checked will be used to determine total tree
counts on a given job (block / tract). The flag is necessary to avoid
double-counting of trees if you track tree counts on multiple phases.
The Activity
Group Codes are very useful if you have specific activities (e.g,
Mechanical Falling versus Hand Falling) that actually belong to a higher-level
harvesting phase/activity (e.g., FELL). You can set the specific pay
activities up as separate rows, and use the Activity Group Code to tell the
system to treat them both as belonging to the phase called "FELL" for cost and
production reporting. The Activity Group setup list is found under the
main menu item Setup | Activity Groups.
