How to Bulk-Close a Pay Period
Run exception detection, earnings recomputation, and approval across every timecard in a pay period at once, instead of clicking through each one individually.
Before you start
- Manage Timecards right.
Steps
- In the nav bar, click Human Resources → Attendance tab → the Close sub-tab (last one in the tab bar).
- Choose the pay period from the dropdown.
- Optionally click Re-detect exceptions or Recompute everyone's earnings to refresh those first.
- Click Approve everything I can. In the dialog, enter a reason — it's recorded on every timecard this approves, since a bulk approval is still one decision applied to many wage records — then confirm.
What you'll see
Every card is walked through the same approval rules one at a time — bulk approval doesn't bypass anything, so a timecard with a blocking exception refuses here exactly as it would if you approved it individually. The result is reported per person: counts for recomputed / approved / blocking exceptions / refused, plus a table naming exactly who was refused and why. "312 of 400 succeeded" on its own would leave you to find the other 88 by hand — this screen exists specifically so you don't have to.
