The Bonuses page

What this guide covers

How to grant a bonus and get it paid. A manager grants a bonus to one or more employees; a CFO/CEO approves it (privately); payroll then pays it on the next run. The page is one screen with three panels — you see the ones your role unlocks.

Who can do what: grant needs the bonus-manage permission; approve needs the bonus-approve permission (the confidential CFO/CEO queue); managing bonus types needs the payroll-group-admin permission.

The flow

How a bonus flows: 1 a manager grants a bonus to one or more employees (one-off or recurring over N months); 2 it sits PENDING in a confidential CFO/CEO approval queue that the recipient and HR never see; the approver Approves (paid on the next run, recurring pays each applicable run) or Rejects with a reason. Recurring bonuses can skip a month. Three panels by permission: Grant, Awaiting approval, Bonus types.

The three panels

Grant (managers)

Pick one or more employees, a bonus type, an amount and an optional note, then Grant. The same bonus fans out to everyone selected. You can also see your own grants and cancel one while it's still pending.

Recurring bonus: turn on the recurring toggle to schedule it over N months from a start month, instead of a one-off. Each month pays automatically; you can skip a month (it pays nothing and doesn't consume an occurrence).

A grant always goes out pending CFO/CEO approval — granting it does not pay it.

Awaiting approval (CFO/CEO — confidential)

The queue of all pending bonuses awaiting sign-off. This is confidential — a pending bonus is never shown to the recipient or to HR, only to approvers. For each you can Approve (it'll be paid on the employee's next run) or Reject with a reason. Recurring bonuses are approved here too (then they pay on each applicable run).

Bonus types (payroll admin)

The configurable list of bonus types (e.g. Performance, Incentive) — add, edit, and activate/deactivate the types that appear in the Grant dropdown.

Good to know

Granting ≠ paying. Nothing is paid until a CFO/CEO approves it, and then only on the next payroll run.
Confidentiality is by design — keep approvals to the approvers; recipients don't see pending bonuses.
Use recurring for a multi-month arrangement instead of granting the same bonus every month; skip months as needed.
Approved bonuses appear as earnings when the run is calculated and are marked paid at finalise.

Running monthly payroll (myWork → SimplePay) — where approved bonuses get paid.
The Deductions page · Advances & Loans — the other variable-input pages.