pecan
payroll
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log your first pay run
you ran payroll in gusto, patriot, rippling, or your provider — log the totals here so labor cost lands on your books.
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post a pay run to your books
every logged pay run posts to sycamore as a journal entry — gross wages, employer tax, and net pay split across the right accounts.
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see year-to-date payroll at a glance
the dashboard ytd row sums total runs, gross wages, employer tax, and total cash out across the calendar year. useful for tax prep and gut checks.
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why pecan doesn't run payroll itself
wymzy is integration-only on payroll. running an actual payroll engine means filing federal/state/local taxes, w-2s, w-4s, garnishments — we won't ship that ourselves.
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labor cost per job — what's coming
previewonce bobwhite (time tracking) wires in, you'll see clocked hours by crawdad job, multiplied against the pay run rate. real labor cost per job, not a guess.
3 steps·~2 min - 06
fix a wrong pay run total
if you logged the wrong gross or net (typo, copy-paste from the wrong field), open the pay run and edit. if it's already synced to sycamore, the journal entry updates with it.
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void a pay run (e.g. duplicate or cancelled)
if a run gets logged twice, or you cancelled the run at the provider before it actually paid, void instead of delete. void reverses the sycamore entry cleanly.
3 steps·~2 min - 08
see every pay run on one timeline
the pecan dashboard shows every logged run sorted by pay date, newest first. amount, employee count, status (synced or awaiting), and a quick re-sync button on each.
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what pecan records vs what your provider runs
previewpecan is a journal — it records what happened. your provider (gusto, patriot, rippling) does the actual run. understand the split or you'll think pecan is broken when really you just need to use your provider's tool.
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