If your payroll close depends on one person staying late with a stack of paper tickets, you don't have a process - you have a hostage situation.
Three moves, two weeks
- 01Capture time in the field, at the source, on the day it happens.
- 02Route approval to one named owner with a standing deadline.
- 03Export once into payroll. No side spreadsheets.
| Step | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Time capture | Paper tickets, 2 days lag | Same day, in the field |
| Approval | Ad hoc by phone | One owner, Monday noon |
| Prep + export | 9 hours | 1 hour 40 min |
| Correction runs | 2–3 per month | Under 1 per month |
Frequently asked
- How long does it take to fix construction payroll?
- Roughly two weeks for most contractors. It's a process and capture change, not a platform migration, and it can be done inside your existing payroll system.
- What causes repeated payroll corrections?
- Almost always poor capture quality at the source - missing cost codes, late entry or ambiguous fields. Adding more approval layers hides the problem instead of fixing it.
