Overview
Until now, pay rates and charge out rates lived on the individual user. When you set up a staff member you gave them one pay rate and one charge out rate, and you edited those from Settings → Users → Employee pay. One person, one rate.
Charge out rates are now a company-level list instead. You build a set of named rates once, then assign them to the people they apply to. These rates can be built from Settings → Time entries.
The practical differences
You no longer type a dollar figure against a user. The field on the user is a dropdown, and you pick from the rates you've set up.
A person can hold more than one rate. Someone might have a standard rate and an after-hours rate, and choose between them when they log time.
Every person still has one default rate, which is what gets used unless they pick something else.
You can add as many rates as you need, at any time.
In Fergus Go, field staff can now split a single time entry across multiple rates in one flow, instead of manually re-keying overtime or secondary work at invoicing time.
If you only ever want one rate, nothing really changes day to day. You'll have a single rate in the list and it applies to everyone.
What happens to your existing rates
You don't have to build your rate list from scratch. Fergus reads the charge out rates you already have across your active staff and creates one company rate for each distinct value, then assigns everyone to the rate matching what they were already on. Nothing is re-priced - every time entry, quote and invoice you've already got keeps the figures it was saved with.
Migrated rates come through with placeholder names like "Rate type A" - worth renaming to something your team and customers will recognise once you're in.
