The Time & Attendance module exporting feature allows you to compile employee time, attendance, and accrual data into files that can be used by external applications, such as payroll processing programs. Although you can perform an export at any time, exports can only be performed for current pay periods and are usually done as part of end of period/payroll preparation operations. If you export data before the end of a current pay period, the export will not be a complete record of all of the transactions in the pay period.

When you export data, you must use templates. Templates define what data is exported and how it is formatted. Your ADP Time & Attendance Representative has set up export templates for each pay cycle used by your company. As a practitioner, you can also create new export templates, as necessary.

After you have performed an export, you can view an export summary that includes the export type, the number of records exported, the date the export was created, and other information about the export. The exported data is stored in the Time & Attendance module until you delete the export summary.

Note: If your company exports time and attendance data to a payroll system, it is important to run a payroll export just before closing a pay period. To help you remember to do this, the End of Period interface includes steps that allow you to run a payroll export as you are performing your end of period and payroll preparation tasks. As a further precaution, your ADP Time & Attendance Representative can also configure your pay cycles so that a pay period cannot be moved if a payroll export has not been run for that pay period.

As a practitioner, you can perform the following export-related tasks: