Payroll time tracking
with exports ready to upload.
At the end of every pay period, export employee hours directly to your payroll provider — in the exact file format they expect. Regular hours, overtime, PTO, sick, and vacation all calculated automatically.
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All 9 payroll exports
One click exports.
Every provider supported.
When your pay period ends, lock it and export. CKZ generates the file in exactly the format your payroll provider expects — the right column order, the right field names, the right time format. No reformatting. No copy-paste. Just upload and run payroll.
- ADP WorkforceNow — file code and file number formatted correctly
- Paychex Flex — employee number and earnings code mapped to your setup
- QuickBooks Payroll — compatible with Desktop and Online import formats
- Gusto — CSV in Gusto's hours import format
- Square Payroll — ready for Square's import template
- Rippling, OnPay, SurePayroll, Patriot Payroll — all supported
- Generic CSV — works with any other system, includes full punch-level detail for manual reconciliation
Overtime calculated
automatically. Always.
Configure your overtime rule once and the system handles the math every pay period. California daily overtime, standard weekly overtime — both supported out of the box. Overtime alerts warn supervisors before an employee crosses the threshold.
- Weekly OT — overtime after 40 hours in the work week
- Daily OT — overtime after 8 hours in a day (California and other daily-OT states)
- California double time — 2× after 12 hours/day and all hours on the 7th consecutive day
- Overtime threshold alerts — supervisor dashboard shows who is approaching OT in real time
- Regular, OT (1.5×), and double time (2×) reported as separate columns in every export
- Payroll frequency: weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly
Breaks and holidays,
calculated — not guesswork.
Two more calculations payroll teams usually do by hand are handled automatically: paid breaks after a set number of hours, and holiday pay posted for every company holiday. No manual entry, no missed pay period.
- Paid break tracking — configure a paid break to credit automatically after an employee has worked N hours in a shift
- Automatic lunch deduction — unpaid lunch time is subtracted from shifts over a configurable length
- Automatic holiday pay — define your company's holidays once (recurring or one-off); paid holiday hours post to every employee's timecard automatically when the pay period locks
- No manual holiday-pay entry, no employee forgetting to request it — it's just there
- Both break and holiday settings are configurable per company, and off by default until you turn them on
Lock, export, and move on.
No retroactive surprises.
When a pay period closes, lock it. Locking prevents any further edits to punches in that period — so the numbers that go to payroll are the numbers that were approved. Unlock is available for corrections if needed.
- Lock a pay period with one click — prevents retroactive punch edits
- Leave balances post automatically on lock
- Period history retained indefinitely — review any prior period at any time
- Payroll report shows all employees, all hours, all leave for the period before you export
- Click into any employee or period total to see the exact punches behind it — no more taking the number on faith
- Export is idempotent — re-export any locked period at any time without re-running payroll
- Automatic lunch deduction configurable — subtract break time from punches over N hours
Payroll numbers you can
check before you trust them.
Beyond the export itself, three reports let you see labor cost from every angle before payroll runs — build exactly the columns you need, compare cost across multiple periods, or break hours down by location.
- Custom Hours Report — pick exactly the columns, employees, and grouping you need, then export the result — no fixed template to work around
- Payroll Preview — compare labor cost across several pay periods side by side before committing to any single payroll run
- Hours by Location Report — see total hours per location, then drill into who worked there — built for teams running more than one site
- All three pull from the same live punch data as your payroll export — no separate system to keep in sync
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