Payroll Readiness Checks | Odoo 15.0

Payroll Readiness Control Tower showing reviewed employees, exceptions and affected hours in Odoo

Review workforce time, readiness status and priority exceptions before locking the payroll period.

Odoo 15.0 Enterprise

Payroll readiness workflow for Odoo

Payroll Readiness Checks

Find conflicting workforce time records and unresolved exceptions before payroll is approved.

Give HR and payroll teams one review process for schedules, attendance, time off, Planning shifts and work entries. Reconcile employee days, resolve exceptions and lock a reviewed period before native payslip validation when readiness control is enabled.

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Target: Odoo 15.0 Depends on: Payroll, Work Entries, Attendances, Time Off, Planning, Timesheets and Mail Technical addon: corvus_hr_payroll_readiness

The problemFeaturesHow it worksScreenshotsRequirements

Payroll preparation is harder when the time sources disagree.

A planned shift, an attendance record and a payroll work entry can describe the same day differently. A missing check-out, overlapping leave or unreviewed overtime can leave payroll teams comparing several screens and asking managers which hours are correct. A period may look complete while individual employee days still need attention.

Payroll Readiness Checks brings those sources into a daily reconciliation view and a period-level review process. It identifies differences for review, records decisions and separates readiness approval from the final lock. Payroll staff can see what remains unresolved and follow the source records behind the result.

Who this helps

For HR reviewers reconciling employee time, payroll managers coordinating period sign-off, and workforce teams using Odoo Enterprise Payroll and Planning.

A complete review path before payroll validation

Connect the time sources, make exceptions actionable and preserve the reviewed period for payroll processing.

Understand each employee day

Combined time reconciliation. Collect working schedules, published Planning shifts, attendance, approved time off and native work entries for the selected employees and period. Review the comparison by the employee’s local day with links back to its source records.
Configurable workforce policies. Scope policies by company, country, department, employee category, calendar or work-entry source. Set grace periods, rounding, overtime, breaks, rest and night or weekend windows to reflect the review rules your organisation has chosen.
Specific exception categories. Find missing punches, overlapping records, leave deductions, work-entry gaps, overtime issues and payable-time differences. Review the affected employee, hours and reason so a reviewer can investigate the actual discrepancy.
Controlled adjustment requests. When a discrepancy needs a correction decision, record an adjustment request and its reason. Independent approval keeps the requestor or affected employee from approving their own adjustment.

Move a reviewed period into payroll

Scoped work-entry regeneration. Preview work-entry regeneration for the affected scope after correcting the source. Validated entries are preserved, helping managers handle source corrections without treating regeneration as a blanket reset.
Separate readiness and locking. A reviewer marks the period ready and a different manager locks its reviewed records. The lock records a fixed snapshot so the approval relates to a specific set of time information.
Optional payslip validation control. When readiness control is enabled, native payslip validation requires the appropriate locked period with critical exceptions closed. Payroll computation and salary rules continue to run in Odoo Payroll.
Protected periods and review reports. Protect relevant time sources once a period is locked. A manager can reopen it with a reason and linked revision. Daily analysis, period views and readiness or employee-reconciliation PDFs support follow-up and sign-off.

When a missing check-out affects payroll preparation

Example workflow

An employee has a published shift but no completed attendance interval for that day. The reviewer collects the period and investigates the resulting discrepancy through the linked time records. The source is corrected or an adjustment is requested and independently reviewed. If work entries need regeneration, the manager previews the affected scope. The period can then move through readiness review and locking, giving payroll a documented basis for processing.

How HR hands a reviewed period to payroll

Choose the period and policies

Select the company, payroll structure, dates and employee scope. Apply the relevant time policies so reconciliation uses the intended calendars, tolerances and review rules.

Collect and investigate

Bring together the time sources and review employee-day exceptions. Follow links to the underlying records before deciding whether the source needs correction or an adjustment is appropriate.

Resolve and review

Complete independent adjustment decisions and any required work-entry regeneration. Reconcile the period again so readiness reflects the corrected sources and remaining exceptions.

Lock and process

Have a reviewer mark the period ready and a different manager lock it. Continue through native payroll, with the configured readiness requirement checked at payslip validation.

See the workflow in Odoo

Explore the screens in sequence, from configuration to daily work and reporting. Each image includes a caption explaining its place in the workflow.

Locked payroll readiness period with readiness status and snapshot evidence

Keep the lock decision and its evidence together. Daily payable-time reconciliation linked to workforce source records

Compare the daily time result with linked workforce records before approving the period. Accepted compliance exception

Review an exception, its reason and the independent decision that resolved it. Daily reconciliation register

Drill into source links and affected hours across the readiness period. Payroll exception register

Prioritise missing, conflicting or overtime evidence before the lock. Payroll readiness summary report

Give payroll managers a concise readiness summary for review and sign-off.

Requirements and access

Version and editions

Target: Odoo 15.0

Supported: Enterprise

Hosting: Odoo.sh or private/on-premise server; not Odoo Online.

Dependencies

Required: Payroll, Work Entries, Attendances, Time Off, Planning, Timesheets and Mail

External service: Version-specific work-entry and Planning integration; no external service is required.

Technical name: corvus_hr_payroll_readiness

Roles and access

Payroll Readiness User, Reviewer and Manager roles separate evidence review, exception approval, work-entry regeneration and period locking.

The control tower, period and daily views plus payroll-readiness and employee-time PDF reports retain linked source evidence.

Getting started with your team

Install: Install on Odoo 15 Enterprise with Payroll, Work Entries, Planning and the declared workforce-time dependencies available.
Configure: Create policies with scope, precedence, rounding, overtime, break, rest and readiness-gate rules before collecting a period.
Operate: Collect and reconcile daily evidence, resolve or adjust exceptions, preview controlled regeneration, mark ready, then lock and process the period.

Questions before you choose

Does this calculate salaries or replace payroll localization?

No. Native payroll computation, salary rules and your country localization determine payroll amounts. This module adds workforce-time reconciliation, exception review and readiness controls.

Can it run on Odoo Community?

This release requires Odoo 15 Enterprise Payroll and Planning, with the module’s version-specific work-entry and Planning integration. The required apps must be present before installation.

Can a locked period be corrected?

An authorised manager can reopen the period with a reason, creating a linked revision for the changed review. The correction is then subject to the readiness and locking process again.

Release information

15.0.1.0.0 Initial Odoo 15 release with policy-driven time reconciliation, exception handling, controlled work-entry regeneration and payroll readiness locking.

Installation prerequisites

Required Odoo addons: hr_payroll, hr_work_entry, hr_attendance, hr_holidays, hr_timesheet, mail, planning.

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