Why payroll is not ready

Start with Payroll Readiness

Open Payroll Readiness, choose the payroll period, and check the summary status before changing records.

• Blocked means at least one blocker remains.
• Needs review means warnings remain.
• Ready means Clockspot did not find readiness blockers or warnings for the selected scope.

Ready does not submit payroll. It only means the selected records are clean enough to review in Payroll Summary.

Fix blockers first

The Payroll Readiness table tells you where to go next. Read the Issue and use the row's Action when one is available.

Common actions include:

• Open time entries — fix missing, open, incorrect, archived, or date-range-sensitive time records.
• Open edit requests — approve or reject employee-requested corrections.
• Open approvals — approve, reject, or cancel timesheet approvals for the period.
• Open employee payroll — fill in employee compensation needed for payroll totals.
• Open jobs — fix job pay settings used by job-based payroll totals.
• Open payroll summary — review rows that need payroll-total attention after readiness cleanup.

Resolve Blocker rows before using Payroll Summary for final payroll numbers. Review Warning rows next; warnings may not block the period, but they still point to records worth checking before export.

If the status still looks wrong

Check these before assuming the report is stale:

• The selected date range matches the payroll period.
• The employee filter is not hiding the person you are trying to fix.
• Severity and category filters are only changing which rows are displayed. They do not change the overall readiness verdict.
• The underlying record was actually saved, approved, restored, or adjusted.

After each correction, run Payroll Readiness again for the same period.