This guide is for the Master Terminal. Payroll pulls a crew member's monthly salary, approved expenses and tips into one figure, then lets you run and send the month's wage accounts.
Set it once, either from Admin → Crew Manager when you add or edit a crew member, or from their Pay Profile inside Payroll itself — both write to the same record, so it stays in sync wherever you look. Changing a figure that's already on file asks you to confirm the change before it overwrites anything.
Each crew member's card shows Salary, Expenses and Tips for the selected month, rolled into a Net Payable total. Crew's own submitted expenses (photo receipt, category, amount) feed the Expenses figure automatically once you've approved them.
Approve a crew member's wage account for the month, then export a Bureau CSV for your accountant or run the wage-send to push the wage account itself to their device as an MLC A2.2-style advice. Each account's status is always visible: Pending, Approved, or Sent.
A cash advance logged in the Vessel Safe Ledger can optionally flow straight into that crew member's payroll expense summary — so an advance taken from the safe doesn't need to be re-entered by hand to show up as a deduction.
Next: see the Vessel Admin overview.