Step-By-Step Process On Paying For Your Staff's Outsourcing Work

By Reed Slidell


To log your employee's outsourcing work, set up Google Docs. In addition to that are the time sheets. In the Google Docs we have the time logs and the staff documents. You can see them at the right hand side. Here in the SEO Promo Sheet from the top, all our worksheets are logged. These are the worksheets we use for particular clients' sites and our SEO Company sites that we promote.

Beneath that, we'll have our time logs. Everybody gets their own directory and they submit time logs as to when they checked in and when they checked out. They'll get staff docs. Everybody gets their own directory, so if there is something specific to that assistant, then they can drag and drop it into there. Then there are working files which are more for me. There are some templates, with the raw template that might be a time sheet template or it might be a worksheet template, just so it's easy for me to copy and paste, or the project manager too. Confidential things that we log like 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.

There are outsourcers in the Philippines who are often affected by brown out. Because of this they wake up as early as four in the morning to start working for us and avoid any brown out troubles. This type of work dedication is one of the best outsourcing benefits employers could get. When the number of work hours are totaled, we just multiply that by their per hour rate to know how much to pay them.

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.




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