Bug: Special Discount charge increases inspector payout instead of reducing it Summary

Summary

When an inspection has a Special Discount service charge with a negative amount (e.g. -$15), payroll sometimes adds commission on that amount to the inspector’s payout instead of subtracting it. The inspector is overpaid by an amount equal to (discount amount × commission rate).

Expected behavior

• Special Discount is a service used to apply a custom negative amount to reduce the client’s price.

• The work order correctly shows the Special Discount as a negative fee (e.g. -$15).

• Payroll should:

• Treat Services with a negative charge the same as services with a positive charge - flat fee listed in that service is what is paid out (even if the flat fee is $0) unless a custom pay rate is assigned to that service on the inspector profile.

Actual behavior

• The inspector’s total payout is higher than it should be.

• The overpayment equals (special discount amount) × (inspector commission rate) (e.g. $15 × 30% = $4.50).

• So the Special Discount is effectively being treated as positive revenue for payout (or a separate positive amount is being paid), instead of reducing payout.

Example (OHI payroll)

• Inspection: 1371 Cavendar Creek Road - 1/28/26

• Main service (e.g. Home/Condo): Inspection fee $524.00, admin fee $75.00, inspector commission 30%.

• Expected payout for that service: ($524.00 − $75.00) × 30% = $134.70.

• Special Discount: -$15.00 (shown on work order as negative; flat rate for Special Discount service is $0.00).

• Actual total shown in Attik payroll for the HOME/CONDO SERVICE: $139.20 (additional amount was not shown for the Special Discount Service).

• Discrepancy: +$4.50, which equals $15.00 × 30%.

So the Special Discount is adding $4.50 to payout instead of reducing it (or being excluded).

Notes

• Work order shows the Special Discount fee as -$15 (negative).

• Special Discount service has flat rate $0.00 (no fixed flat rate).

• Payroll logic in attik-backend (dataFunc.ts) does not clamp inspection charge pay to zero; with a negative charge.amount it should compute negative inspector pay for that charge.

• Possible causes to investigate:

• Special Discount charge stored with positive amount (e.g. +15) despite work order showing -$15.

• Another charge on the inspection with a positive amount contributing the extra $4.50.

• A bug or edge case in how negative charge amounts are loaded or used in the payroll pipeline.