When you add a job to the schedule, you select each employee's role for the assignment. This ensures that only employees with the appropriate role appear as options when scheduling. You can create as many roles as needed and assign multiple roles to each employee.
To create employee roles, go to the Employees section and select the "Employee Roles" tab. Click "+ New Employee Role" to add a role. The abbreviated name will appear on the main schedule page. You can set a default hourly rate for each role, which will automatically apply to employees assigned that role. After adding employees, you can adjust individual rates as needed.
Multiple Roles can be assigned to each employee:
Many volume studios pay travel days, multi-school sweeps, and on-location shoots on a day or half-day basis instead of hourly. Because of this pay rates can be configured as Day or Half-Day in addition to Hourly.
Edit Employee Role → Rate Type → choose Day or Half-Day → set the rate amount.
Below is a sample set of roles for a working Volume Photography Operation:
Update every employee in a role to a new pay rate at once with the Sync Hourly Rate button on Edit Employee Role.
Edit Employee Role → Sync Hourly Rate → the employee table opens → check the employees to sync → confirm.
Editing the role rate alone does NOT silently change individual employee rates. An admin has to push the button. The button pattern is intentional: it gives the admin a deliberate moment to pick exactly which employees get the new rate.