Thai Clinic AppCommission payroll is a pay model in which part or all of a therapist's earnings comes from the treatments they personally delivered, calculated from the recorded work rather than from hours attended, and usually combined with a guaranteed minimum for each day worked.
Why massage shops pay this way
Takings in a massage shop swing with the season, the weather and the passing trade on the street. A flat wage puts that risk entirely on the owner; paying for each treatment delivered shares it with the team and rewards whoever takes the walk-in at eight in the evening. The model also settles awkward questions by itself: who gets paid for a quiet Tuesday, and who gets paid for the fully booked Saturday. In exchange the shop takes on a bookkeeping duty — every treatment has to be recorded against the person who performed it, or the figure cannot be reconstructed later.
How the payout is worked out
The usual shape is an amount attached to each treatment in the price list. A sixty-minute Thai massage priced at 500 baht might carry 200 baht; an oil massage at 800 baht might carry 300. A therapist who delivers four Thai massages and two oil massages in a day earns 800 plus 600, so 1,400 baht. The amount is kept below the treatment's price, otherwise the treatment loses money as soon as it is sold. Attaching it to the treatment rather than to the person keeps the price list the single place the figure is maintained.
Guarantees and quiet days
A pure per-treatment payout can hand a therapist almost nothing for a day she spent in the shop, which is why many owners add a guaranteed minimum for each day worked. The day then pays whichever is higher: what the treatments earned, or the guarantee. Continuing the example, a 1,000 baht daily guarantee leaves the 1,400 baht day untouched but lifts a 600 baht day to 1,000. The cost of the guarantee is the gap, 400 baht, and that gap is worth watching — someone whose earnings never clear the floor is being subsidised rather than paid.
Keeping payday free of arguments
Disputes are almost never about the rate; they are about which treatments were counted. Keep the record at the level of the single treatment, with its date, its customer and the amount it earned, so the total can be taken apart in front of the person being paid. Decide in advance how days without a check-in, cancellations and treatments redeemed from prepaid credit are handled, and write it down. And keep the pay model separate from the business question: whether a rate is affordable is answered by takings per rostered hour, not by one payout slip.
In Thai Clinic App the amount belongs to the treatment in your catalog, as a fixed sum the form keeps below that treatment's price, and each employee carries a yes-or-no for receiving it. Recorded treatments are added up for the employee and date range you pick, and the result opens as a tree: total, months, weeks, days, and under a day every treatment with its customer. On a day the employee was checked in, the daily guarantee stands beside what was earned and the higher of the two counts; a monthly guarantee is shown next to the month for comparison. Included from Pro.
Frequently asked
What is commission payroll?
A pay model where a therapist's earnings follow the treatments actually delivered, usually as a fixed amount attached to each treatment in the price list rather than an hourly wage. Most shops combine it with a guaranteed minimum for each day worked, so a quiet day still pays something.
How do you calculate commission for a massage therapist?
Add up the amounts carried by every treatment that therapist delivered in the period. Four treatments at 200 baht and two at 300 baht come to 1,400 baht. Where a daily guarantee applies, compare it with the day's total and pay the higher of the two, then add the days together.
Is a guaranteed minimum better than commission alone?
It makes income predictable for the therapist and caps the downside of a quiet week, at the cost of a floor the shop pays whatever the takings. Reviewing how often each person's earnings fall below that floor shows whether the guarantee is a safety net or a second wage.