This is the git workflow I use that allows multiple people to collaborate on the same Git(Hub) repository.
You should start this when you do not have any local changes (your code on your computer and GitHub is the same).
I like to prefix my branches with an indicaton of what it is, for example feat/ for features, fix/ for bug fixes, doc/ for documentation changes. I also only use lowercase with - for the branch name.
git switch -c feat/metered-payments