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Team & Payroll

The full payroll picture.
Every pay period.

Track time entries, course completions, commissions, and salary accruals -- then process payroll in three steps. No spreadsheets. No guesswork.

Payroll Dashboard

Jan 1 - Jan 15, 2026 · Draft

Process Payroll

Current Period Gross

$12,480

Pending Approval

14

Course Completions

8

Ready to Process

3

Total Staff

6

YTD Paid

$74,220

StaffEarningsStatus

Marco Reyes

Senior Instructor · Salary

$3,200.00OK

Yuki Tanaka

Dive Instructor · Hourly

$2,856.00OK

Sarah Chen

DM / Boat Captain · Hourly

$2,244.00Pend

Jake Morrison

Equipment Tech · Hourly

$1,620.00Pend

Ana Petrova

Office Manager · Salary

$2,800.00OK
5 staff members · 3 approved, 2 pendingTotal: $12,720.00

End-of-month payroll panic.

Your senior instructor ran three Advanced Open Water courses this month, captained two boat trips, and referred a group of six walk-ins. Meanwhile, your equipment tech logged overtime fixing regulators, and your office manager is owed a salary top-up for covering reception shifts. How do you track all of that?

Most dive centers rely on spreadsheets, WhatsApp messages, and memory. Instructor commissions get forgotten. Time entries are disputed. Cash envelopes replace payslips. By the time month-end arrives, someone on your team is spending an entire day reconstructing who is owed what -- and still getting it wrong.

The result is a payroll process built on trust and guesswork instead of data. Instructors wonder if their commissions were counted. Managers dread the end of each pay period. And the owner is left hoping the bank balance lines up with what went out in cash envelopes.

“We were paying instructors from a cash box and hoping the numbers added up at the end of the month. They never did.”

Staff Dashboard
Team Overview
Active Staff

16

+3 new this month
By Type
Full-time6
Part-time3
Contractor2
Seasonal4
Intern1
Assignments

16

Next 7 days

Courses8
Dive Trips5
Boat Trips3
Staff Profiles
Add Staff
S

Somchai K.

Instructor

Full-time
M

Maria L.

Divemaster

Part-time
J

Jake T.

Boat Captain

Contractor
N

Nina R.

Instructor

Seasonal
01

Track

Your Team, Their Roles, Their Rates

Every staff member gets a complete profile -- employment type, qualifications, pay rates, and assignment history. Whether someone is a full-time instructor, a freelance divemaster, a seasonal boat captain, or a part-time contractor, DiverDash tracks them all in one place with the right pay structure for each.

Configure activity-based rates per instructor -- per-student, per-course, fixed amount, or percentage of the course fee. Four built-in roles with granular RBAC permissions mean your front desk sees what they need and your payroll manager sees what they need.

02

Earn

Every Earning Flows in Automatically

DiverDash supports four earning types that cover how dive centers actually pay people. Time entries are logged by staff with overtime tracking, then approved by managers. Commissions -- both percentage-based and fixed-amount -- are tracked against sales and services, and held as pending until the customer actually pays.

Course completion earnings are automatically generated when a course is marked complete -- per-student rates or flat fees, calculated and queued without anyone lifting a finger. Salary accruals handle fixed pay for salaried staff each period. Every earning lands in the right pay period, ready for review.

Earnings Breakdown

Pay period: Feb 1 - 15, 2026

Ready for Review
Time Entries

$1,440.00

80 hrs

Commissions

$385.00

6 sales

Course Completions

$540.00

3 courses

Salary Accrual

$1,600.00

Half-month

Earnings Flow to Payroll
$3,965.00 Total
Time Entries
$1,440.00
Commissions
$385.00
Course Completions
$540.00
Salary Accrual
$1,600.00
StaffTotal

Marco Reyes

Senior Instructor · Salary + Commissions

$2,140.00

Yuki Tanaka

Dive Instructor · Hourly + Courses

$1,825.00

Sarah Chen

DM / Boat Captain · Hourly + Commissions

$1,440.00

Jake Morrison

Equipment Tech · Hourly

$1,120.00
01

Approve Earnings

Review time entries, course completions, commissions, and salary accruals. Approve or adjust each line before it enters the payroll draft.

14 entries pending
02

Generate Draft

DiverDash calculates gross pay, estimated taxes, and net pay for every staff member. Review the draft payroll before committing.

Auto-calculated
03

Process Payroll

Mark the payroll as processed. Individual payslips are generated for each staff member with a full earnings breakdown.

Payslips generated
03

Process

Three Steps. Zero Spreadsheets.

Payroll follows a three-step workflow: Approve Earnings to confirm what each person is owed, Generate Draft to run calculations across all earning types, and Process Payroll to finalize and generate payslips.

The payroll engine calculates gross pay, taxes by jurisdiction, deductions, and net pay. Validation warnings flag missing rates or unapproved entries before you finalize. Need to fix a past run? Correction runs keep a full audit trail -- no deleting and recreating.

04

Pay

Payslips Your Team Can Trust

When payroll is processed, DiverDash generates a detailed payslip for every staff member. Each payslip shows gross pay, taxes, deductions, and net pay with a full breakdown by earning source -- time entries, course completions, commissions, and salary accruals all itemized.

Staff access their payslips through a self-service My Payroll portal, where they can review their earnings history and download PDF exports without asking a manager. Fewer questions in your inbox, more transparency across the team.

Yuki Tanaka

Dive Instructor · Hourly @ $28/hr

PDF
Period: Jan 1 - Jan 15, 2026Pay Date: Jan 20, 2026ID: PS-2026-0102

Gross Pay

$3,526.00

Taxes (Est.)

-$529.00

Net Pay

$2,997.00

Earnings by Source

SourceDetailAmount
Time Entries102 hrs$2,856.00
Course Completions3 courses$450.00
Commissions2 referrals$120.00
Manual AdjustmentsHoliday bonus$100.00
Total Gross$3,526.00

Tax Deductions (Estimated)

Income Tax (Est.)-$388.00
Social Security (Est.)-$98.00
Medicare (Est.)-$43.00

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