Integration · Payroll

Send approved hours straight to Sage 50

Approve a week in TempClock, then export a CSV that Sage 50 Payroll imports directly — hours and pay rates per worker, with no re-keying.

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Sage 50 CSV for the Sage 50 Payroll import wizard
Sage Business Cloud CSV for Sage Business Cloud Payroll
Detailed CSV One row per shift, with rates and location
24
workers
912.5h
total hours
£11,406
pay cost
tempclock_sage_sage50_20260601.csv Download CSV
Pick a format, filter the period, preview the totals, then download.
01What connects

Approved hours and resolved rates, formatted for Sage

TempClock turns a week of verified clock-ins into the exact columns Sage expects. You filter the period, preview the totals, and download a file the import wizard reads first time.

Hours per worker

Approved shift minutes are totalled per worker and rounded to two decimal places, so the hours in Sage match the hours your manager signed off.

Resolved pay rates

Each worker’s pay rate is resolved from your rule hierarchy — site, client, role or cost code — and the payment value is calculated before export.

Employee reference, department & cost centre

The Sage 50 file carries the employee reference, surname and forenames, plus the client as department and the cost code as cost centre — so it lands on the right ledger.

Three formats, one screen

Sage 50 Payroll, Sage Business Cloud, or a detailed one-row-per-shift CSV for auditing — chosen on the same export screen.

The export path
In TempClock Approve the week’s timesheets
Export tempclock_sage_sage50.csv
In Sage 50 Import wizard reads the file

A file export — imported via Sage’s own wizard. Not a live API sync.

02The file

Exactly the columns Sage 50 expects

One row per worker, with the period’s hours aggregated and the payment pre-calculated.

# tempclock_sage_sage50_20260601.csv  (Sage 50 Payroll import)
Employee Reference,Surname,Forenames,Hours Worked,Rate,Payment,Department,Cost Centre
EMP1042,Patterson,James,38.50,12.50,481.25,Riverside Logistics,PICK
EMP1043,Mitchell,Sarah,42.00,14.00,588.00,Riverside Logistics,LEAD
EMP1044,Kaczmarek,David,36.00,13.25,477.00,Riverside Logistics,FORK

Header row written verbatim · values rounded to 2 dp · UTF-8

02The benefit

No re-keying, no rounding arguments

The hours that reach payroll are the verified hours your manager approved — carried across without a spreadsheet in the middle.

Payroll in minutes, not an afternoon

Filter the period, download, import. A weekly payroll run that used to mean copying figures by hand becomes a few clicks.

The figures reconcile

Because rates resolve from the same rules that drive your margins, the pay cost in Sage matches the pay cost you already saw in TempClock.

An audit you can defend

Every exported hour traces back to a face-verified clock-in with a match score and location — so a payroll query has an answer.

03Honest scope

What the Sage 50 export does — and does not — do

This is a CSV export you import into Sage. We would rather be plain about that than imply a live sync that is not there.

Included today

A Sage 50 Payroll CSV: employee reference, surname, forenames, hours, rate, payment, department, cost centre
A Sage Business Cloud CSV with the pay-element layout that version expects
A Detailed CSV — one row per shift with clock-in/out, hours, pay and charge rates, and location
Only approved entries are included; pay rates resolve from your rule hierarchy
Filter by date range and by client before you export

Not part of this export

A live, two-way API sync — you import the file through Sage’s own wizard
Writing pay runs back into Sage automatically
Pulling employee records out of Sage into TempClock
Sage 50 Accounts nominal-ledger journals (the export targets Payroll)

Need the field-by-field walk-through? The Sage export guide covers choosing a format and importing into Sage 50 and Sage Business Cloud. For a live feed into another system, see the REST API.

Other integrations

Building something custom? The REST API and HMAC webhooks let you connect any system.

Approve hours here, pay them in Sage

See the export run on your own timesheets, with your rates and your formats. Tell us how your payroll week works and we will show you how it fits.

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