Payroll and Workforce

Employee master records, tax setup, pay schedules, gross-to-net calculation, deductions, direct deposits, tax filings, and pay stubs.

Payroll providers are regulated. They handle tax filings, direct deposit rails, and multi-state compliance in ways your operating platform is not — and should not become — responsible for. The Forge stays adjacent so payroll processing continues where it already runs.

• Employee master records and employment status
• Pay rates and pay schedules where exposed
• Standard cost centers, departments, and locations
• PTO balances where provider APIs allow

• Approved time entries and hour summaries
• Job, location, and department context for each entry
• Approved reimbursements and one-time earnings where supported
• Scheduled shifts for providers that consume them
• Employee status changes originating in The Forge (with approval)

• Time entry approved by a manager
• Pay period boundary reached
• Shift published or edited
• Employee inactivated or transferred
• Wage change approved

• Retyping approved hours into payroll each pay period
• Reconciling schedules against actual hours by hand
• Building department or job breakdowns for wage summaries in spreadsheets
• Chasing missing approvals in email
• Maintaining employee records in two systems

• Workforce, HR, or payroll administrator
• Operations manager
• Finance and accounting
• Owner / executive

• Approved hours by job, location, department, and entity
• Labor cost as a share of completed revenue
• Overtime concentration by department or crew
• Scheduled vs. actual hours

• Payroll integrations are scoped to the minimum objects required (usually employees, time entries, wage summaries).
• The Forge does not run payroll or hold tax-filing credentials.
• Sensitive fields (SSN, bank routing) are not read.

• Not every payroll provider exposes an API. Some require managed file exports.
• Retro-active edits inside the payroll provider may not sync back until the next period.
• Provider plan tier can limit which objects are readable or writable.

The Forge does not replace payroll processing. It replaces the schedule / time / payroll spreadsheet ping-pong that surrounds it.