Dapt connects NetSuite and your payroll provider, so the labor cost on every project is the actual amount paid by payroll, fully burdened and correctly coded.
How the integration works
The integration is bidirectional, and it runs every pay cycle.
Before payroll.
Time data flows into your payroll provider, from NetSuite Projects and SuiteProjects, a time-tracking system, kiosks, or custom exports. Dapt maps it to the right earning codes, employees, and pay periods, and carries the job, classification, and segment coding along, so payroll runs with the right context. No CSV exports, no reformatting, no hand-keying.
After payroll.
Dapt pulls the complete detail back from your payroll provider: gross wages, hours, employer taxes, workers' comp by class, benefits, fringes, PTO, and deductions. Burden is allocated per employee. The cost posts to NetSuite against the right project and project task, fully coded by subsidiary, class, department, location, and custom segments.
The result
Every NetSuite project P&L shows what payroll actually paid, not an estimate. Every line traces back to a pay period, a time entry, and an employee.
Benefits
Project P&L you can trust.
Every NetSuite project shows its real, fully burdened labor cost, not an estimate.
No manual re-keying.
Data flows into payroll and burdened cost flows back into NetSuite automatically, every pay period.
Any payroll provider.
Dapt connects NetSuite to whatever payroll provider you run, and stays connected if you switch.
How customers use it
A multi-entity group of 10 related companies.
Two on NetSuite, eight on QuickBooks Online, each with its own payroll. Dapt connects all of them through one integration layer, producing unified reporting. What used to take a team re-keying and reconciling is now a single flow.
A NetSuite integrator running on Dayforce.
Data flows into payroll and burdened cost flows back into NetSuitThey needed labor cost allocated by client engagement to see true project profitability. Dayforce runs payroll, NetSuite runs the business, and Dapt closes the loop so payroll posts into NetSuite allocated by engagement.e automatically, every pay period.
We Support Multiple Payroll Providers
Dapt connects NetSuite to the payroll providers our customers use:
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And others — see the connectors page for the full list
Switch providers, and the connection stays the same. Add one, and we add support.
Built for NetSuite's complexity
NetSuite is configured the way it is because the business needed that structure. Dapt respects every dimension your finance team set up.
OneWorld and multi-subsidiary.
Labor posts to the correct subsidiary by employee and job allocation. Intercompany entries generate automatically when employees work across entities.
Classes, Departments, and Locations
Full support for NetSuite's native segments, with no retrofitting.
Custom segments
Whatever your finance team defined (CLIN, program, fund, cost center, business unit), Dapt maps labor allocations to it, consistent with the rest of your accounting.
Projects and SuiteProjects.
PCosts post directly to Project and Project Task records. Not using the Projects module? Class- and custom-segment allocation works just as well.
Multi-rate, multi-job employees.
One employee can work four jobs at three rates in a single week. Dapt puts the right rate on each entry and the right cost on each job.
Frequently Asked Questions
Out of the box, no. Not in a way that delivers fully burdened, segment-coded labor cost back into your project records and the GL. For organizations on ADP, Paychex, Paycom, Paycor, Paylocity, Dayforce, or another third-party provider, that connection is what Dapt delivers.
The actual payroll. After payroll is processed, Dapt pulls the complete detail from your provider and posts the real paid amount, so the number on the project matches what payroll paid.
Yes. Labor posts to the correct subsidiary by employee and job. Intercompany entries generate automatically. Custom segments (CLIN, program, fund, cost center, business unit) are mapped on every entry.
Wherever your team captures it: NetSuite Projects and SuiteProjects, QuickBooks Time, ClockShark, eBillity, Makeshift, kiosks, and custom exports.
The integration delivers the data foundation that makes certified payroll possible. Certified payroll reporting on NetSuite is covered on its own page, Certified Payroll for NetSuite (forthcoming).
Most NetSuite customers are live in three to six weeks, depending on the number of subsidiaries, the complexity of the segment structure, and the systems being connected.
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