Paying out Commissions

[cngastineau]

Really asking more about best practices here. I have a paper system now that I'm converting to HA. Every day, the kids tick off what chores they've completed. Each chore has a commission value association with it (I work in sales, so it's funny to me. My kids don't earn allowance, they earn commissions only when they contribute something. You eat what you kill... lol). At the end of the week, I tally up how much commission they've earned and put that amount into their "fund" which started as a bucket in my Quicken software but now they have their own checking accounts and debit cards, so I actually move money into their checking accounts. It's a paycheck! I'm basically trying to teach them that doing work leads to earning money and if you want to earn more money you either need to do more work or do more complicated work (harder chores). I know, it's goofy, but it's our system. Please don't judge me.

Where I want to go with KidsChores in HA is convert that paper system into a digital system, but I need a way to clear the "points" which I've called commissions whenever I do "payroll" at the end of the week. I'll need to reset their commission balance to 0, but I don't want to lose the history. Is there an official way to reset the commission balance? Is it just as simple as setting up a button to pay the commision that sets the state of the the point sensor to 0 for each child? Or is there a formal method already embedded that I should use? It would be nice if the log showed something like "commission paid".