period-close examples
Reviewing, payroll-ready, and closed periods show how unresolved attendance affects the handoff.
TIME AND ATTENDANCE SOFTWARE
Turn schedules and punches into reviewed time
Compare planned shifts with actual attendance, resolve missed punches, approve overtime, reconcile time away, and release a clear payroll-ready handoff.
The sample leads with schedule-versus-actual and period close because the final total is useful only when its open exceptions remain visible.
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Explain payable time before it reaches payroll
Time and attendance software connects the schedule to actual attendance and reviewed exceptions. It should make the handoff understandable without pretending to calculate wages, taxes, or payslips.
- 01
Plan
Set employee, shift, scheduled start and end, location, and work pattern.
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Capture
Record check-in and check-out events from the appropriate device or form.
- 03
Compare
Classify lateness, early departure, absence, missed punches, and approved time away.
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Decide
Review corrections and overtime through separate native approval tasks.
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Close
Count reviewed employees and open exceptions, then mark the period payroll ready, exported, or closed.
Follow reviewed time into period close
The example shows how attendance facts, correction decisions, overtime, and close status remain distinguishable.
employees in the sample
Different teams and work patterns make schedule-versus-actual comparisons concrete.
review queues before close
Corrections and overtime stay separate until a manager has made the required decision.
Do not hide unresolved time inside a final total
A reliable close shows the work that remains. It does not turn a blank punch into an invented hour or an employee request into approved overtime.
Open exceptions
Count the records that still need explanation, correction, or a decision.
Reviewed employees
Show how many employee records were included in the review.
Approved overtime
Use approved hours, not requested hours, in the handoff summary.
Leave references
Confirm approved time away so absence is not misclassified.
Close owner
Name the person accountable for reviewing and releasing the period.
Export state
Distinguish payroll ready, exported, and closed so the receiving team knows what happened.
Define where reviewed time ends and payroll begins
A clean handoff needs an explicit boundary between attendance review and authoritative pay calculation.
Jodoo prepares the record
Resolve attendance exceptions, approve overtime, and record the period status.
Payroll calculates pay
The receiving system remains responsible for rates, wages, deductions, tax, and filings.
Reopen changes deliberately
A correction after close should create a controlled adjustment rather than silently rewrite a handed-off period.
Send clean attendance facts to the systems that need them
Jodoo can be the configurable review and exception layer. Payroll, accounting, scheduling, or workforce systems may remain the system of record for specialist calculations.
Payroll
Send reviewed regular and approved overtime hours with employee and period references.
Payroll still calculates pay.Scheduling
Bring the planned shift into the comparison so late and early results have a baseline.
Leave management
Use approved leave dates to explain expected absence without merging the approval workflows.
Project time
Keep job or project entries in time tracking when the question is what work consumed the hours.
Keep original events and approved adjustments distinguishable
The team needs to know what the employee recorded, what the reviewer decided, and what value was eventually used.
Original attendance event
Retain the first check-in or check-out and its source context.
Correction request
Record the proposed time, reason, and employee explanation.
Review outcome
Keep approval, return, or rejection with reviewer comments.
Applied result
Record when the approved correction was applied and which period received it.
Adjust the close without rebuilding the period
Operations can change the rules and views that prepare reviewed attendance for handoff.
- Add a close checkpoint for open exceptions.
- Change the overtime reviewer by team.
- Add an export-status field or receiving owner.
- Create a period view for another pay cycle.
Time and attendance questions
Answers about payroll-ready records, overtime, close controls, and system boundaries.
What is time and attendance software?
It connects planned work time, actual attendance events, exceptions, approved corrections and overtime, and period close so reviewed hours can move to payroll or another system.
What does payroll ready mean?
It means attendance exceptions and approved overtime have been reviewed for the period. It does not mean wages, taxes, deductions, or payslips were calculated.
Can the system track overtime?
Yes. The example keeps requested and approved hours separate and routes overtime through its own manager review.
What can block a period close?
Open missed punches, correction requests, unresolved absence, pending overtime decisions, or incomplete employee records can remain visible until the close owner resolves or explicitly accepts them.
Close a period you can explain
Run a shift, correction, overtime decision, leave reference, and payroll-ready handoff through the example before connecting another system.
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