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Work the pay-run checklist

Clear the checklist steps, review unapproved timesheets in place, and see what each step is telling you.

Last updated · 10 November 2026


Above the weekly grid, a row of pills tracks the state of the displayed week: Approve time, Classify workers, Resolve exceptions and Finalise, plus a fifth Push to Xero pill when your organisation is connected to Xero. A clean step shows a green check; a step with something outstanding shows an amber warning triangle and a count beside its label; the Finalise step shows a quiet grey circle until it is done. Hovering any pill shows its full detail, and the two that can be acted on respond to a click.

Check Approve time

This step counts clocked shifts in the displayed week that have not yet been reviewed and approved in Scheduling. Unapproved hours are excluded from every total on the page until they are approved, so a shift can be clocked and still not show up anywhere in payroll.

  • Clean: “All clocked shifts reviewed” (or “No clocked shifts this week yet” if nothing has been clocked at all).
  • Attention: “N clocked shift(s) (Xh) awaiting review in Scheduling”, with the shift count as the pill’s badge.

Select the pill while it is in the attention state to open a popup headed “Awaiting review, not included in pay”, listing each unreviewed shift by worker name and time (for example “Ella Rossi · Tue, 28 Jul, 4:39 pm - 4:50 pm”, with the month abbreviated), capped at six with “and N more in Scheduling” below if there are more. Select any listed shift to open the same worker-assignment review drawer used on the Assignments register, right there, without leaving Payroll. Approve it there; see Review and approve assignments for the full approve flow. Closing the review drawer refreshes the checklist and the grid immediately.

Check Classify workers

This step counts workers in the displayed week who have no SCHADS classification set. An unclassified worker’s shifts still show up in the grid, but their grid gross pay is shown as a dash until they are classified, rather than presenting an unclassified amount as a valid zero-pay result.

  • Clean: “All workers classified”.
  • Attention: “N worker(s) without a SCHADS classification (paid $0)”, with the worker count as the badge.

Select Classify workers while it needs attention. Needs SCHADS classification lists the affected workers. Select a name to open the classification drawer directly. You need Workers edit access to save; otherwise ask an authorised administrator. Complete the worker’s Payroll settings, save, then return to check the recalculated week. The separate View filter can still help you find unclassified rows.

Check Resolve exceptions

This step is informational only (the pill is not clickable); hover it to read the detail. It combines two kinds of pricing exception in the displayed week:

  • Backdated-rate pricing: a worker has at least one segment dated earlier than every synced SCHADS rate version, so it was priced using the oldest rate the platform has rather than the true rate for that date. Open the worker’s drawer and check the segment’s Penalty band text for the “WARNING: shift predates all synced rate versions” note.
  • Unseeded public holidays: a public holiday falls in the displayed week but is not in the platform’s public holidays table, so the day is being priced as an ordinary day and any penalty rate is missed. The page also raises an amber alert above the checklist naming the date and referring to the public holidays register. Provider office users cannot maintain that register. Keep the affected date, state and warning, then contact OneForce Care support to check the published holiday data before finalising. Do not change genuine worker clocks to work around the warning.

Missing or outdated published SCHADS rate data also needs OneForce Care support. Keep the worker, segment date and warning so support can check the applicable rate version. A worker classification change does not supply missing historical rates.

  • Clean: “No pricing exceptions”.
  • Attention: the two reasons joined with a semicolon, for example “2 workers priced on a backdated rate; 1 unseeded public holiday”, with the combined count as the badge.

Note

Unseeded-holiday warnings only show for a week that is not yet finalised - a finalised week is read from its frozen snapshot and is no longer re-priced, so the warning would be moot. Backdated-rate warnings still show for a finalised week, since they are preserved in the snapshot.

Check Finalise

This step mirrors the week’s state and is not itself a button:

  • Pending (grey): “Freeze the week into the pay record”.
  • Finalised: the pill’s own label becomes Finalised on DD/MM/YYYY, with the detail “Week finalised (immutable)”.
  • Finalised and fully paid: the label becomes Paid on DD/MM/YYYY, with the detail “Week finalised and every worker recorded as paid”. This only happens once every worker in the week has a payment recorded against them.

The actual Finalise week control sits in the week navigation row on the right; see Finalise a week and record payment.

Check Push to Xero

This fifth pill only exists when Xero is enabled and connected. It reports the export state. Some detail text still calls the exported records timesheets:

  • Before the week is finalised: “Finalise the week first”.
  • Finalised but not yet pushed: “Send this week’s timesheets to Xero payroll”.
  • Pushed cleanly: Pushed to Xero, “Draft timesheets are in Xero payroll”.
  • Pushed with some workers left out: Pushed to Xero in the attention state, “Some workers are not in Xero”, with the skipped count as its badge.
  • Rejected: “The last push was rejected. Hover each worker’s cloud icon in Sync & pay for details.”

Finalising attempts to transfer frozen hours, rates and allowances to prepared draft Xero payslips. Prepare Xero first and use the manual retry when needed. See Export payroll and push to Xero.

Tip

These checklist warnings describe what the run includes or leaves out. Separate checks can block finalisation: resolve pending vehicle allowances, changed broken-shift assessments, invalid worker pay settings and incomplete or changed sources first. Open each worker’s breakdown to review allowances before freezing the week.

Note

Approve time keeps counting live unreviewed shifts even after the week is finalised, since new clock data can still arrive against a finalised week’s dates. It will not change what was already paid unless you reopen and re-finalise the week.

Complete the review before freezing

The checklist describes this selected week, so verify its date range first. Payroll read access lets you inspect it. Assignment approval requires Scheduling edit access, classification changes require Workers edit access, and payroll assessments or finalisation require Payroll Add permission.

After clearing a count, reopen the affected worker and compare the actual breakdown. A green pricing checklist alone does not assess every allowance or prove all work has arrived. Pending vehicle evidence, stale broken-shift decisions, invalid dated rates or changed source records can separately stop finalisation. If a week is already finalised, new late evidence does not alter its frozen figures; choose deliberately whether to reopen and reconcile any existing Xero export.

Use a checklist count to find the missing input

Start with the selected Monday-to-Sunday week. If Approve time reports one excluded assignment, open that entry and compare its worker, actual clocks and note before approving it. After closing the review, check that the count and the relevant worker’s breakdown refresh. Do not infer success from a disappeared popup alone.

If Classify workers clears after you save a classification, compare the new rate and gross pay with the worker’s actual arrangements. If Resolve exceptions remains amber, read its own reason; changing a classification does not fix missing dated award or holiday information. Finally open Finalise week and compare its exclusions and totals with the review you just completed. Cancel the pre-flight if the wrong week or missing work is shown.