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PayrunePre-payroll exceptions, reviewed

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How to review a draft payroll register before the run, what to do when a timesheet approval is missing, a readiness checklist for cutoff day, and the line between reviewing pay and touching it — for payroll specialists who need every difference listed, never silently resolved.

job

Core job

How to review a draft register before running payroll

Compare approved hours and rates against the draft register per employee, keep both values beside every exception, and hand a complete reviewed list to the specialist before anything is paid.

Last reviewed 2026-08-23

failure

When it goes wrong

When a timesheet approval is missing

Why a missing approval is its own exception class separate from mismatches, how integrity alerts differ again, and the honest ways to resolve each before the run.

Last reviewed 2026-08-23

checklist

Checklist

Payroll run readiness checklist

Cutoff-day order of operations: scope first, duplicates second, missing approvals third, mismatches fourth — and what may honestly carry into next period if the clock wins.

Last reviewed 2026-08-23

boundary

Limits and handoff

What Payrune will never calculate

Reviewing pay and computing pay are different acts with different risks: why gross, tax, and net stay out of reach, and why payment release lives entirely outside the workspace.

Last reviewed 2026-08-23

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