What payroll export is
Payroll export is the step that moves approved hours and pay data from the system where work is recorded into the process that actually pays staff. After a pay period closes, the timesheets are approved and the totals, by employee, by rate and by any applicable loadings, are passed to payroll so each person is paid correctly. Export is the join between workforce management and getting money to staff.
The reason payroll export matters is the alternative. Without it, the hours captured in one system are re-typed into payroll by hand, which is slow and a common source of pay errors. A clean export carries the figures across as they were approved, so what is paid matches what was worked. Getting this right also underpins the operator's reporting obligations, because the pay data that flows out is the same data that supports Single Touch Payroll reporting to the ATO.
Payroll export in the Cohiva platform
Cohiva Culture is an HRIS built for shift-based operators. It covers onboarding, rostering, leave, timesheets and payroll export. Because rostering and timesheets live in the same system, the hours that flow to payroll are the approved hours from the same record, not a re-entered copy.
For multi-location and franchise operators with shift-based workforces, that reduces the re-keying between systems and supports the operator's Single Touch Payroll obligations. To see how it works, explore Culture.