Still Entering Hours Twice? Payroll and Attendance Management Software Syncs It
Introduction Every payroll run we hear about starts the same way. Somebody exports attendance, somebody else opens the payroll file, and a few hours of the week go into moving numbers from one screen to the other. Nobody enjoys it. Most people have stopped noticing it. Here’s the trouble with that routine: it feels too small to fix. A few minutes per employee, a quick check, done by Friday. But those minutes pile up, and so do the typos. In this article we look at where double entry hides in a normal pay cycle, what it ends up costing, and how payroll and attendance management software takes the retyping out of the process. If your hours still travel by spreadsheet, keep reading. Where the Retyping Actually Happens Ask a payroll coordinator to walk you through a pay period and you’ll hear the same handoffs, whatever the size of the company. It starts with collection. Hours arrive as punch records, paper sheets, photos of timesheets sent over chat, or a shared spreadshee...