Timesheets and exports

Payroll-Ready Employee Timesheets Built From Real Clock-In Times

Time-Clocking prepares payroll hours from recorded clock-ins and clock-outs. Managers on Business or Pro filter the pay period by employee or job site and export a CSV with recorded hours and daily overtime-hour splits. Review missing clock-outs and corrections first; wages, tax and payroll submission stay in your separate payroll process.

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Where Payroll Preparation Actually Goes Wrong

Hours arrive in five different formats

A photo of a sheet, two text messages, a spreadsheet and a phone call — then someone types it all into one place.

Manual addition introduces errors

Adding start and finish times by hand across a team is exactly the sort of repetitive work where mistakes hide.

Missing entries surface too late

The gap in Tuesday's hours gets noticed on payroll day, when the person who knows is on site and unreachable.

Corrections after the run cost double

Fixing an underpayment after the fact means an extra payment, an explanation, and a loss of trust.

How Time-Clocking Turns Shifts Into Timesheets

Totals from stored timestamps

Every shift's start and finish is recorded when it happens, and all totals derive from those two times.

Gaps visible during the week

An open shift or a missing day shows up while you can still ask about it, not after the run.

Per-employee and per-site views

Look at one person's week or one project's labour hours without rebuilding anything.

CSV export for the pay period

Filter the dates you're paying and download a spreadsheet file your payroll process or bookkeeper works from.

Manager corrections, with control

Managers can adjust their company's entries; employees can't edit their own, so the timesheet keeps its integrity.

From Clock-In to Payroll Export

1
The employee clocks in from their phone
They open Time-Clocking, pick the site they're working at today and tap Clock In.
2
GPS confirms the location
Their distance from that site's approved area is checked at that moment. If it doesn't pass, no shift is created.
3
The hours are recorded
The clock-in time is stored, and the clock-out at the end of the shift closes the same entry.
4
The timesheet is ready for payroll
Totals per employee and per site build up as shifts complete, and export as a CSV when you run payroll.

What Automated Timesheets Change

Payroll prep in minutes

Filter, check, export. The collecting and adding up has already happened.

Fewer corrections

Recorded times remove most of the disputes that cause after-the-fact adjustments.

One source of truth

The same records serve the pay run, a client query and a job review.

Less administrative work

Nobody re-types hours from paper into a spreadsheet each week.

Records that stay available

Past periods remain filterable rather than living in a folder of sheets.

Clarity for employees

Their hours come from the times they clocked, which is easy to explain and easy to trust.

Businesses Preparing Payroll From Hourly Work

Contractors and builders

Weekly crew hours split across live projects.

Field service companies

Engineers whose hours arrive from all over a region.

Cleaning and facilities

Part-time and shift patterns across several buildings.

Landscaping and grounds

Seasonal teams whose weekly hours vary a lot.

Maintenance providers

Contract work where hours per property matter for invoicing too.

Any small business paying by the hour

If you pay for time, the timesheet is the part worth automating first.

Spreadsheet Timesheets Versus Recorded Hours

Paper, spreadsheets and punch clocks

Hours collected from several places each week
Totals added up by hand
Formulas and cells quietly broken
Missing days found on payroll day
Old periods buried in files and folders

A mobile GPS time clock

Hours recorded as shifts happen
Totals calculated from stored timestamps
Nothing to maintain week to week
Gaps visible while the week is still open
Any period filtered and exported on demand

Payroll Timesheet Questions

What makes a timesheet payroll-ready?

It has to cover exactly the period you're paying, list each employee's total hours, and come from recorded start and finish times rather than estimates. Time-Clocking builds that from the shifts your team clocked, and exports it as a CSV.

Does Time-Clocking push hours into payroll software automatically?

No, and it's worth being clear about that. Time-Clocking produces a CSV export you or your bookkeeper import or key into your payroll system. There is no direct automated connection to payroll providers.

How are the hours calculated?

Every shift stores its own clock-in and clock-out timestamps, and totals are calculated from those timestamps — per day, per week, per employee and per site.

Can I filter a timesheet to one pay period?

Yes. Choose the date range you're paying and, if you need to, narrow it to a single employee or a single job site before exporting.

Can a manager fix a mistake?

Yes. Managers in your company can correct time entries for their own team. Crew members cannot edit their own shifts, which is what keeps the record trustworthy.

Is this timesheet software suitable for a small business?

Yes. It's built for small teams: add employees, add the places they work, and let the weekly totals accumulate rather than maintaining a spreadsheet.

Does it calculate pay, tax or overtime rules?

It splits recorded daily hours into regular and overtime hours using your company's configured daily threshold. It does not calculate wages, tax or jurisdiction-specific overtime pay. Your payroll process applies the relevant contract and legal rules.

Spend Minutes on Timesheets, Not an Afternoon

Start your team clocking in this week and export your first payroll-ready timesheet at the end of it.