Margin & Payout Tracker

01 The problem

Paying a small team ran on a spreadsheet. Rates, overtime, and bonuses got worked out by hand. The margin came after the fact, if anyone got to it at all, and the payout was a trust-me number. It was fragile. One dragged formula or a rounding slip moved real money, and nobody caught it until later. There was no clean record of what got paid, and no proof the transfer ever went out.

02 The system

A calculator that turns hours into exact pay and live margin. You type each person’s hours for the period. It computes regular pay, overtime, and role-gated bonuses in whole cents, with no formula to drag and nothing to copy down. It takes the client invoice, subtracts pay and expenses, and shows the real profit for the period the moment you pay, plus a clean split. Every payout gets logged with a screenshot of the transfer as proof against the payment. A branded payslip generates as a PDF and emails out on its own.

03 How it holds up

The money math is proven, not assumed. A brute-force test runs every way to split a full month of hours and confirms each one adds back to the exact monthly salary, to the cent. The money engine carries 33 tests in all, so a change that breaks the math gets caught before it ships. Payouts are stored with their transfer screenshots, served through a private proxy so the files are never public. The payslip PDFs send with retries if the network blips, so one bad moment does not lose a payslip. It installs like an app and runs from one screen.

04 The result

Pay comes out exact with no formula to drag. The real profit for the period shows the moment you pay. Every payout carries its own proof, and the payslip sends itself. You get a clean record of what got paid and proof on every transfer. The spreadsheet and the guesswork are gone.