Integration Success: Connecting Hours24 Australia with Your Payroll System

Time-tracking data is only as useful as the systems it feeds into. For most organisations, the most important downstream destination is payroll. When hours flow seamlessly from the clock to the pay run, you wipe out double-handling, slash errors, and close payroll faster. Here is how to make that connection work with hours24 Australia.

Supported Integrations

hours24 Australia connects to widely used payroll and HR platforms:

Step 1: Map Your Pay Rules

Before any integration goes live, configure your pay rules inside hours24 Australia. This covers ordinary-hour thresholds, overtime multipliers (time-and-a-half, double time), public-holiday rates, shift premiums, and break-deduction policies. hours24 Australia applies these rules to raw clock data before sending it downstream, so payroll receives ready-to-process totals.

Step 2: Connect Your Payroll Platform

Head to Settings → Integrations in the hours24 Australia dashboard. Pick your provider and authenticate via OAuth. Most connections are live in under two minutes. hours24 Australia automatically detects your employee list and matches records by email or employee ID.

Step 3: Configure Sync Settings

Select your preferred sync frequency: real-time, daily, or on-demand. Daily sync is the most popular choice: approved time pushes to payroll at a fixed time each day. For the first pay period, running in parallel — comparing outputs from both your legacy system and hours24 Australia — is recommended to confirm numbers align.

Step 4: Set Up Approval Workflows

Time entries should be reviewed and signed off before they hit payroll. Approval workflows in hours24 Australia let managers review their team's hours, flag exceptions, and batch-approve. Only signed-off entries sync to payroll, establishing a clean audit trail and blocking unapproved overtime from sneaking through.

Step 5: Validate and Go Live

After your parallel run, compare the two outputs. Check total hours, overtime calculations, and employee counts. Resolve any mapping mismatches — the most frequent issues are employees who exist in one platform but not the other, or small pay-rule differences between old and new systems.

Using the REST API

For payroll systems outside our pre-built library, hours24 Australia exposes a comprehensive REST API. Export time data in standard formats (CSV, JSON) with full detail: employee ID, date, clock-in/out stamps, total hours, overtime hours, job codes, and approval status. Sample code is provided in Python, JavaScript, and PHP.

Common Questions

Need a hand linking your payroll system? Reach out to our integration team for tailored setup support.