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Job Costing and Certified Payroll Automation for Paychex

Dapt brings true job-level visibility to Paychex by unifying payroll, time tracking, projects, and accounting into one seamless flow. It’s designed for contractors, field service businesses, construction and trade companies, and ambitious mid-market teams across the country.

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How Dapt’s Intelligent Synchronization Engine Works with Paychex

Synchronizing Time to Payroll

Employee data from Paychex syncs with supported time-tracking platforms, ensuring team members and job codes stay aligned. When it’s time for payroll, approved time flows into Paychex with full job detail intact.

Synchronizing Payroll to Accounting

After payroll processes, labor costs flow back into your accounting platform (QuickBooks, Sage, Dynamics, and others) with complete job allocation. Every hour worked, every dollar paid, and every job cost stays connected.

Synchronizing End to End Approach

A job is created → employees record their time to the job → Paychex calculates earnings by job → payroll data returns to accounting, automatically allocating labor costs and keeping job costing and profit and loss up to date.

Dapt manages the complete data flow across payroll, time, and accounting. This means your job costing stays accurate across every system, with no manual intervention required to keep everything in sync.

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The Benefits of the Paychex + Dapt Solution

Accurate Prevailing Wage Preparation

Before payroll runs, Dapt reads your time data and applies the correct classifications, base rates, fringes, and effective-date rules for each job. Payroll reaches Paychex already set up correctly — no spreadsheets, no last-minute rate lookups, no mid-process corrections.

Clear Division of Roles

Dapt prepares the data. Paychex calculates the earnings.
Time enters Paychex already classified and rate-ready. Payroll runs cleanly, and the job and compliance details stay intact.

Automated Labor Allocation

After Paychex runs payroll, the results flow directly into accounting with job-level labor costs preserved. There is no second workflow, no re-keying, and no reconstructing job costs days later.

Certified Reports Without the Scramble

WH-347 and related reports are produced from actual processed payroll results combined with Dapt’s classifications and rate rules. The numbers come from real payroll — not estimates or after-the-fact adjustments.

Audit-Ready Transparency

Every wage decision, classification, and labor allocation has a traceable record. An auditor can follow the full path from time entry to final Paychex payroll results without chasing files or emails.

Compliance Built Into the Workflow

Wage updates, project rules, and reporting requirements run through the same system that prepares payroll and syncs results to accounting. Compliance becomes part of normal operations instead of a separate manual task.

Key Outcome

Dapt calculates prevailing wage rates and prepares time data before payroll runs. Paychex calculates employee earnings. Payroll results automatically update job costs in accounting and generate certified payroll reports — creating one consistent source of truth across payroll, job costing, and compliance.