Turn ADP Into a Job Costing Powerhouse
ADP gives you a powerful foundation for payroll, HCM, and employee experience. Workforce Now provides a proven, stable platform relied upon by thousands of organizations. Next Gen HCM adds a modern architecture, flexible domains, and dynamic workflows designed around how teams actually work.
What’s missing for project-based businesses is granular job costing that ties payroll, time, projects, and accounting together.
That’s where Dapt comes in.
Using our deep partnership with ADP and our Intelligent Synchronization Engine, Dapt:
- Pulls time from many time tracking systems
(See supported systems at: https://www.dapt.tech/connectors) - Routes it to ADP Workforce Now® or ADP Next Gen HCM for payroll
- Allocates true labor costs (wages, taxes, benefits, workers’ comp, fringes) to jobs, cost codes, and phases
- Posts precise accounting entries into systems like QuickBooks, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and more
You keep ADP as your system of record for people and payroll. Dapt becomes the system of productivity for project profitability.
The Job Costing Gap in Payroll
If you’re only looking at total payroll by department or GL account, you’re probably facing:
- Hidden margin erosion
Labor overrun on jobs is buried inside lump-sum payroll totals. - Slow, manual reporting
Spreadsheets and exports delay visibility by days or weeks. - Inconsistent job assignments
Different teams and systems track jobs differently, leading to errors and rework. - Compliance and audit risk
Complex pay rules, rates, and locations are difficult to reconcile back to jobs.
Dapt closes this gap by making job costing an automated outcome of every payroll run.
How Dapt + ADP Workforce Now & Next Gen HCM Work Together
Time from Many Sources
Capture hours using the time tracking systems your teams already use:
- Field time apps
- Project management tools
- Shop floor or kiosk solutions
- Web and mobile timesheets
Dapt normalizes time from many time tracking systems, mapping jobs, cost codes, and cost types into a unified data model.
See our supported connectors: https://www.dapt.tech/connectors
Supported Time Tracking & Project Management Systems
Dapt integrates with many leading time tracking and project management platforms, giving you job-level payroll visibility without requiring your teams to change the systems they already use.
Current supported integrations include:
- QuickBooks Time (formerly TSheets)
- ADP Time & Labor Management (TLM)
- eBillity Time Tracker
- MakeShift
- NetSuite (time & project tracking)
- JobTread
- Procore (timecards & project structures)
Flexible Support for Any Time Export
Dapt can ingest time data from virtually any source, regardless of how the file is structured.
Your team simply exports time from your current system exactly as it provides it—Dapt adapts to your format, not the other way around.
We support:
- CSV
- Excel (XLS / XLSX)
- Custom export layouts
- Proprietary formats from industry-specific or legacy systems
- Mixed-format files with unique column structures
Our ingestion engine allows us to build custom parsers for each client’s data format, making it easy to bring in time from systems that don’t offer an API or standardized export.
For a continually updated list of supported connectors, visit:
https://www.dapt.tech/connectors
Payroll in ADP Workforce Now® or ADP Next Gen HCM
Using ADP as your payroll engine, you:
- Maintain pay groups, pay rules, and benefits in ADP
- Continue using your HR and compliance processes as usual
- Take advantage of ADP’s scalable, modern architecture
Dapt sends the right hours, with the right attributes, into ADP—no more flat files and manual massaging.
Automated Job Cost Calculations
After payroll is processed, Dapt:
- Pulls back gross wages, employer taxes, benefits, and other labor costs by employee
- Applies your job cost rules (cost codes, phases, labor burdens, overhead)
- Allocates those costs down to job / phase / cost code / cost category as needed
This happens every pay run, with no manual journal entry gymnastics.
Precise Accounting Entries
Finally, Dapt posts job-level accounting entries into your ERP or accounting system:
- Detailed debits to WIP, job cost, or project cost accounts
- Matching credits to payroll liability, cash, and related accounts
- Support for multiple entities, classes, locations, or dimensions
Your books stay clean; your projects stay transparent.
Built for ADP Workforce Now® Customers
If you’re on ADP Workforce Now®, Dapt transforms it from “payroll system” into a project profitability engine:
- Seamless integration via ADP Marketplace
See our listing here:
https://apps.adp.com/en-US/apps/481058/dapt-job-costing-certified-payroll-for-adp-workforce-now/features - Pre-built mapping for common project-based industries
Construction, trades, specialty contractors, field services, and more. - Support for multi-rate and multi-job employees
One worker, many jobs, different rates—Dapt keeps the allocations straight. - Fewer adjustments, fewer surprises
When payroll is right and job allocations are automatic, month-end gets a lot calmer.
You keep the ADP Workforce Now experience your HR and payroll teams rely on. Dapt quietly handles the job costing complexity in the background.
Built for ADP Next Gen HCM Customers
ADP Next Gen HCM is designed for organizations that need to move fast: multiple business units, complex structures, and teams that form and reform around work.
Dapt extends that agility into your financials by:
- Aligning job costing with Next Gen’s flexible domains
Different divisions can have different job structures, cost codes, and pay models. - Handling multiple pay models and workflows
Salary, hourly, piecework, union, non-union, premium pay, and more. - Supporting complex team-based work
When people work across multiple teams and projects, Dapt ensures allocations remain accurate. - Feeding real-time financial insight
Combine Next Gen’s real-time workforce visibility with Dapt’s up-to-date job cost reporting.
Together, ADP Next Gen HCM and Dapt help large and complex organizations respond quickly to change—without losing control of project profitability.
Key Capabilities
Job Costing Across Many Time Systems
- Connects to many time tracking solutions—field apps, kiosks, or existing timesheets
- Normalizes time data and enforces consistent job and cost code usage
- Handles split shifts, partial days, and multi-job employees with ease
- See all supported time tracking and ERP connectors:https://www.dapt.tech/connectors
Granular Labor Cost Allocation
- Allocates wages, employer taxes, benefits, workers’ comp, and fringes to jobs
- Supports cost codes, phases, activities, and other segments
- Allows different allocation rules by business unit, union, or pay group
Deep Accounting Integration
- Integrates with QuickBooks, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and other ERPs
- Produces clean, auditable journal entries ready for close
- Supports multi-entity, multi-location, and dimensional reporting
Compliance & Audit Support
- Provides a clear audit trail from time → payroll → job cost → GL
- Reduces manual touchpoints where errors and compliance issues arise
- Supports certified payroll, union reporting, and other labor-heavy compliance workflows
Why Finance, Operations, and HR All Like Dapt
For Finance & Accounting
Clean books, accurate WIP and job P&L, faster close, fewer adjustments.
For Operations & Project Managers
Real-time visibility into labor performance against budget, by job and phase.
For HR & Payroll
ADP remains the system of record, and Dapt keeps the workflows intact—no additional data entry required.
Who This Is For
Dapt’s ADP job costing solution is ideal for:
- Construction and specialty trades
- Restoration and field service companies
- Manufacturing and fabrication shops
- Multi-location or multi-entity organizations with project-based work
- Healthcare
- Bio-tech
- Any ADP Workforce Now or ADP Next Gen HCM client that needs true job-level labor visibility
- Any project based organization , especially those with under 1,000 employees
If labor is a major component of your cost structure and you’re using ADP, Dapt helps you finally see where that money is going—job by job.
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