Your employees outsourcing work should always be logged. You can set up Google Docs for that. In this you can include time sheets too. In our Google Docs, at the right side you will see time logs and staff docs. On top is the SEO Promo Sheet where all work sheets are kept. These are work sheets for particular clients we are working for and our SEO company sites as well.
We also have the time logs. The staff’s individual time logs are submitted to their own directories. They hold the time they checked in for work and checked out during the day. For the tasks, they get staff docs. When there is something for a specific assistant, they can just drag and drop it there. Working files are also included here but they are more for my use. They are raw templates like time sheet template or worksheet template. They make it easy for me of for my project manager to copy and paste the details that you need. There are also confidential things here namely the SEO products sales.
This timesheet is meant for the outsourcers to fill out with their respective outsourcing work hours every day. This is done weekly and everything here is just copied down. I just log to pay for their work. They are the ones who fill out the position and the hourly rate. They log the time they start for that day and the time they ended their work and the number of hours they spent working.
Sometimes outsourcers in the Philippines have to avoid brown out troubles. Some get up as early as four in the morning just to deliver their daily tasks for us. It is dedication to work that we appreciate as it is also one of the best outsourcing benefits available. For the totals column we just add up everything that in here. We multiply the total hours by their hourly rate to get how much they get paid.
Setting up a PayPal account is as easy as creating work email accounts for your new assistants. Your project managers can log into your PayPal account with out seeing everything that is in there. You can provide restrictions to their access. You can instruct them to send payment to the assistants. However, they cannot see the total or transfer funds to their personal accounts.
So I set up my project manager with one of those email accounts and then they can manage the payment. What they’ll do is, they’ll come in here, add all the hours of their outsourcing work up. I make sure that I include a little bit of extra cash to cover PayPal because PayPal is a bit greedy and take about 4% or something like that. We cover the PayPal fees, how much is paid, when it’s paid by. This is something that they and we can look at. That way they know when they got paid for the SEO services they rendered or when we think they get paid. That’s one of the docs they get access to.