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Payroll

Carry finance-week labor totals from Heyshift into payroll runs with fewer exports, reconciliations, and late surprises.

  • Totals you can defend
  • Finance-week alignment
  • Fewer swivel-chair passes
  • 30-day free trial
  • No credit card
  • All features unlocked
  • Cancel anytime

Product preview of this Heyshift capability.

Schedule published

Push to Hannah, Owen, Marcus +7, new shifts live on mobile.

Week: 6–725h 25m8 open shifts

Mon

4

Tue

5

Wed

6

Thu

7

Fri

8

Sat

9

Sun

10

Serving · River North, Chicago, IL
OS

Open shifts

8 slots

12–2p

Open

4–9p

Approve

9–5p

10–6p

12–2p

Open

9–5p

4–9p

Approve

HC

Hannah Cole

22h · 5

9–5p

10–6p

9–5p

4–9p

Approve

9–5p

OB

Owen Blake

16h · 4

9–5p

9–5p

10–6p

9–5p

MS

Maria Santos

20h · 5

9–5p

4–9p

Approve

9–5p

10–6p

JR

Jordan Rivera

14h · 3

9–5p

4–9p

Approve

9–5p

10–6p

Kitchen · River North, Chicago, IL
EN

Emily Nash

30h · 6

9–5p

9–5p

10–6p

9–5p

4–9p

Approve

9–5p

MR

Marcus Reid

12h · 3

9–5p

4–9p

Approve

10–6p

9–5p

9–5p

LC

Leo Carter

14h · 3

9–5p

4–9p

Approve

9–5p

10–6p

9–5p

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5 unpublished16 published8 open2 leave
Why it matters

See if this matches how you run the week

Who it is for, what changes on the floor, and how it sits next to the rest of Heyshift.

Who it's for

Finance and ops leads who still rebuild hours in spreadsheets between Heyshift and payroll.

What you get

Fewer payroll corrections, clearer audit trails from publish to pay.

How it fits

Payroll lives in Heyshift next to Cost Insights. You keep one published week instead of exporting into a side spreadsheet.
At a glance

Evaluation highlights

The outcomes and guardrails buyers validate first, reuse the same bullets when stakeholders ask for a tight recap.

Totals you can defend

Hours roll up from published shifts and reconciled attendance before payroll snapshots lock.

Finance-week alignment

Buckets match how operations already talks about labor, not arbitrary export cutoffs.

Fewer swivel-chair passes

Reduce manual merges between scheduling truth and payroll vendor imports once integrated.

Governance-ready rollout

Security and finance review data flows before GA, same posture as other Heyshift launches.

Quick view

Payroll

Pain, fix, detail, one visual per row.

What it is: Payroll-ready labor exports carry approved hours from published schedules and attendance into payroll runs.

Learn more: Read what is payroll integration for the full workflow, and see how operators kept finance-week clarity before payroll.

Carry finance-week labor totals from Heyshift into payroll runs with fewer exports, reconciliations, and late surprises.

3 connected challenges mapped to operational decisions
01Challenge 1

Payroll teams rebuild hours every cycle because scheduling exports do not match attendance truth or finance-week boundaries.

Heyshift response

Structured totals that trace back to publish moments and reconciled punches your ops team already acknowledged.

Roadmap positioning: exports respect roles so payroll analysts only see locations and cohorts they should.

  • Finance-week rollups stay aligned with how supervisors planned labor, not mystery pivot tables.
  • Pilot programs publish boundary docs alongside connector timelines procurement expects.
Abstract visualization of labor totals flowing toward payroll readiness.
02Challenge 2

Every payroll close becomes a scavenger hunt across vendors, CSVs, and “temporary” correction tabs.

Heyshift response

One narrative from planned shifts through attendance into totals payroll can import or validate faster.

Heyshift keeps the spine consistent so finance spends less time begging ops for reconciliations mid-close.

  • Audit references remain tied to immutable publish history instead of forwarded email chains.
Abstract workspace suggesting schedules paired with payroll preparation.
03Challenge 3

Leadership promises payroll modernization but integrations slip because scheduling data never arrives in a trusted shape.

Heyshift response

Partner-certified pathways from Heyshift labor totals into common payroll platforms, staged behind explicit readiness gates.

Until GA, rely on labor insights, attendance reconciliation, and exports your teams already trust today.

  • Vendor-specific timelines publish with security questionnaires filled alongside engineering milestones.
Abstract illustration of finance and operations alignment.
Mobile

Payroll visibility on mobile

Managers review attendance reports and summaries on the phone before payroll closes.

Manager Attendance Flow

Attendance report for payroll on the Heyshift mobile app
Report
Download attendance table for payroll on the Heyshift mobile app
Download report
Staff summary report on the Heyshift mobile app
Summary report
Detailed summary report on the Heyshift mobile app
Report detail

Walkthrough

Match Payroll to how you publish today

Bring your locations and publish rules, we walk the grid against them, not a canned deck.

Common questions

Answers before you start a trial for Payroll

Trial, a first location, and how Payroll fits the week you already run.