Related: Pay Rates and Commission
Overview
Boulevard doesn't have one all-in-one payroll report. Instead, it gives you the pieces you need — commission, tips, and hours worked — through a small set of reports that you combine with your own pay rates and your external payroll system to run payroll each period.
This article walks through how those pieces fit together: how commission is calculated, which report to use for what, and the exact steps to pull everything you need for a pay period.
What Boulevard Tracks (and What It Doesn't)
Boulevard automatically calculates and reports on commission, tips, and hours worked. This table outlines what type of payroll data Boulevard is able to track:
Boulevard tracks | Boulevard does not track |
Commission on services, products, packages, and memberships | Hourly wages or salary amounts |
Tips/gratuity | Overtime calculations |
Hours worked (via Time Clock) | Automatic application of hourly pay rates |
Hours scheduled vs. booked (utilization) | A combined total paycheck amount |
Because of this, running payroll is a two-step process: pull commission, tips, and hours from Boulevard, then combine those figures with wage/salary data in your external payroll system.
Before you can run payroll, commission rates must be set up for each staff member. Without this, Boulevard's reports won't have the data to calculate commission correctly.
To configure commission rates:
Go to the staff member's profile and open the Compensation tab.
Set commission rates for services, products, packages, and memberships as applicable. See Pay Rates and Commission for the full setup process.
A few things to know about how commission works:
Service and product commission can be tiered — different commission percentages based on total revenue in the period. Tiered commission is not tax-bracket style: once a staff member reaches a new tier, that higher rate applies retroactively to all their revenue in the period, not just the amount above the threshold.
Service commission can be overridden on a per-service, per-location basis.
Product, package, and membership commission cannot be overridden item-by-item — they use the flat rate set on the staff profile.
In every commission report, "commission" means money owed to the service provider, and "revenue" means money earned by the business. Example: David earns 60% commission on services. On a $100 haircut, David's commission is $60 and the business's revenue is $40.
Step 1: Pull Commission and Tips
Use the Commission Summary Report to get every staff member's commission and tip totals for the pay period in one place. It covers service, product, package, and membership commission, plus gratuity, broken out by staff member and location.
Open the Commission Summary Report.
Set the date filter to match your exact pay period — this matters, because if commission tiers are in use, the tier is calculated based on revenue within whatever date range you select. A mismatched range can understate or overstate the correct tier.
Export or review totals per staff member.
Keep in mind: This report covers commission and tips only. It does not include hourly wages or salary, so it can't tell you a staff member's full paycheck on its own — you'll still need to combine it with wage data from your payroll system.
If you need to investigate a specific total — for example, a commission figure that looks off for one day — use the Commission Line Items Report for transaction-level detail behind the summary.
Step 2: Pull Hours Worked
If you use Boulevard's Time Clock feature to track clock-ins and clock-outs, use the Time Card Entries Report to get total hours worked per staff member for the pay period.
Open the Time Card Entries Report.
Set the date filter to the pay period.
Group by staff member to get total hours clocked.
Keep in mind:
This report only includes completed timecards (both a clock-in and clock-out recorded). A staff member still clocked in when you run the report won't show up until they clock out.
Voided timecards are excluded by default. If hours look lower than expected, check whether any entries were voided.
Boulevard does not calculate overtime or apply hourly pay rates automatically — you'll apply your own overtime rules and rates once hours are exported.
Reviewing Performance by Individual Staff Member
If a staff member wants to review their own sales in detail — not just the payroll totals — use the Staff Performance Report. It gives a comprehensive view of each staff member's appointments, sales, utilization, and booking behavior, and can be filtered down to one person. Many businesses add sending this report to staff as part of daily or end-of-period closeout procedures, so service providers can see their own numbers without waiting for payroll to run.
Putting It Together: A Typical Payroll Checklist
Confirm commission rates are up to date for new and existing staff profiles.
Pull the Commission Summary Report for the pay period — this is your commission + tips figure per staff member.
Pull the Time Card Entries Report for the same pay period — this is your hours-worked figure per staff member.
In your external payroll system, combine: hourly wages or salary (your own rate data) + hours worked (from Boulevard) + commission and tips (from Boulevard). Apply any overtime rules, when applicable — Boulevard is unable to do this for you.