Summary
What the pay period has added up to, and what is missing from it. The tab was called Banked until version 1.18.0; it read as money in the bank, and this screen shows hours, never money. Expected pay is on Reports.
The period bar
Where the period is up to and when the claim is due: Day 20 of 31, and the date. Both come from Settings › Overtime rules. Period starts decides which days make a period, and Claim by is the first such day on or after the period closes. With a period starting on the 11th and a deadline of the 15th, the period ending 10 September is due on 15 September.
A claim is due after its period closes, so for the first days of a new period the one you owe is the last period's. Until its deadline has passed, the new period's bar counts down to that one and says so: 2 days to send the last cycle. A deadline within a week is worth a look, and three days or fewer is marked. One that has already gone states the date and nothing more: Muster has no record of what you have submitted, so lighting up every past period in red would be alarming about a guess.
Self-employed, you send nobody a claim, but you do send invoices, so the bar counts down to the day you invoice by instead: To invoice, 18 days to invoice it, and for the first days of a new cycle to invoice the last cycle. Both days are yours, in Settings › Your pay cycle: Period starts and Invoice by. Left as they are, your cycle is the calendar month and you invoice it by the 1st of the next. No employer's or client's agreement sets either.
This cycle / This year
The period strip picks the period: the same strip and the same choice as the Log and Reports. This year widens it to the calendar year and hides the period bar, because a year is not a period.
The figures
| Row | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Covering | The span these figures describe |
| Total hours | Every entry in the span, as the timesheet counts them |
| Entries | How many |
| Overnight UK / Overnight overseas | Nights ticked, each kind |
| Allowances | Those nights at the rates in Settings |
| Miles | Mileage on the entries |
| Pauses recorded | Only shown when there are some |
| Days by country | Distinct days carrying each country tag |
| By job | Hours per job |
A zero stays on screen rather than disappearing, because it says the app looked and found none. It is dimmed, so the figures that exist are the ones you see.
Self-employed, there is no Allowances row, because no employer pays you for a night away, and no Miles row: that row adds up miles typed on entries, which is what a timesheet claims, while your invoices charge the miles on Journeys. Those are on the Journeys tab and in Reports' figure.
A journey through midnight counts its hours on each of its two days, as the timesheet does; its miles and its night count once, on the day it began.
The overtime split is deliberately not here. Those rules live on the server, and reproducing them in the app would let the two drift apart until the screen and the timesheet disagreed. Reports asks the server and shows you what it says.
Self-employed, there is no overtime figure here at all: your own overtime, if you have set some, is charged on your invoices, client by client.
Before you send it
The second card is the same idea as Travel's Needs attention, pointed at the timesheet instead of the border: what would come back at you if you sent this period now. No figures; the figures are above.
It only ever looks at days that have happened. A period still running is not missing the days it has not reached.
| It says | What to do |
|---|---|
| N days before your record starts | Nothing. Those days are taken as a standard week worked at normal rate and counted in nothing. If you were working then and want it claimed, record those days, or set Records start in Settings |
| N working days with nothing on them | Record something on each. Leave, sickness and a day booked with Not worked today all clear it; they simply have to be recorded as something. This is the one case Muster cannot interpret |
| N days with no break recorded | Nothing, unless you want to. Muster cannot tell an unrecorded break from one that was not taken, so it never deducts anything; it says what it can see |
| N days with no country | Add the country if a night away is to be claimed. Allowances and the travel record are both built from country tags, so an untagged day cannot claim one. Self-employed, it is only the travel record's gap, and is not said with Travel off |
| Nothing outstanding | Every working day in this period has something recorded against it |
Fill at standard hours
When the days with nothing on them are in the period still running, the finding carries a Fill at standard hours button. It lists the days and what each would be worth, then creates a normal contracted day on each, at your standard rate, on your default job.
It is offered once, and declining counts as having been asked; otherwise "once" would mean "until you give in". After that, record those days yourself.
Self-employed, you have no contracted days, so an empty weekday is not missing: this finding, the button and the note about days before your record starts do not appear. Nothing outstanding then means no two entries share the same hours.
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