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Payroll Integrations · 1 min read · 19 April 2026

Attendance to Payroll Sync

Move clocked hours into payroll without manual capture. Realattend connects to the major SA payroll providers and pushes verified hours, leave and overtime on your schedule.

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Gareth de Bruyn
Co-founder
Attendance to payroll sync diagram showing clock data flowing to SA payroll providers

Attendance to payroll sync is the process of moving clocked-in hours from your time and attendance system into payroll without manual capture. For South African businesses running shift work, retail, or field teams, getting attendance to payroll sync right cuts payroll prep from days to minutes and removes the source of most pay errors: human re-typing.

Realattend handles attendance to payroll sync for SimplePay, Sage Pastel Payroll, PaySpace, and SAGE 300 People — pulling verified clock data straight into your payroll cycle.

Why attendance to payroll sync matters

Manual capture between time tracking and payroll is where errors hide. A missed half-hour shift, a wrongly recorded overtime period, a misread timesheet — each of these turns into wage disputes, CCMA complaints, or BCEA non-compliance.

When attendance and payroll are connected directly, the data your payroll runs on is the same data your supervisors saw on the floor. No re-keying. No spreadsheets in the middle. No "I'm sure I worked Tuesday" arguments.

How Realattend's attendance to payroll sync works

  1. Staff clock in and out via the Realattend app, biometric, or kiosk
  2. Hours, breaks, and overtime calculate against your shift rules in real time
  3. Approved hours export directly to your payroll provider on a schedule you set
  4. Payroll runs on verified, signed-off data

Supported payroll providers

Provider Method
SimplePay API + CSV
Sage Pastel Payroll Flat file
PaySpace API
SAGE 300 People API

Get started

Book a demo to see attendance to payroll integration running on your payroll system.

Why attendance to payroll sync matters

Manual capture between time tracking and payroll is where errors hide.

How Realattend's attendance to payroll sync works

Clock to export in 4 steps.

Supported payroll providers

SimplePay, Sage Pastel Payroll, PaySpace, SAGE 300 People.

Frequently asked

How often does attendance data sync to payroll?
On the schedule you set — usually weekly for wage staff and monthly for salary staff, with overtime and leave adjustments syncing as approvals are signed off.
Which South African payroll providers does Realattend support?
SimplePay, Sage Pastel Payroll, PaySpace, and SAGE 300 People are supported out of the box.