Payroll in Bar Cop is a handoff, not a paycheck. It rolls everything you logged in Labor into a payroll-ready summary you close, lock, and export for whoever actually runs your payroll. There is nothing to re-enter.

1. Review the pay period

Open Labor → Pay Periods. Each week, Monday through Sunday, rolls into a summary of total hours, overtime, and gross pay for everyone who worked, last 12 weeks newest first. Hours over the weekly threshold are treated as overtime and paid at time and a half in the gross figure. Salaried staff carry a fixed weekly salary and never show overtime.

2. Run the tip-credit check

For tipped positions, the View screen compares each person's effective hourly, their wages plus tip-pool share divided by hours, against your state minimum wage, and flags anyone who came up short so you can make up the difference before payroll runs. Set your state minimum in App Settings, under Business Profile.

This is a planning aid, not legal or payroll advice. Verify the wage and tip-credit rules for your jurisdiction.

3. Close and lock the period

When a week is final, Close and Lock it. That locks every logged-hours entry in the week so Log Hours stops accepting edits, and saves a permanent record of what was paid. Reopen it any time you need to fix something, then close it again.

4. Export for your payroll provider

Open Labor → Payroll Export and pick the period; it carries the same numbers you closed. Download the Workbook for a clean, readable Excel file with your establishment header and disclaimer, made for a person to review, or the CSV for a payroll system that imports a file, just the columns with no extra rows.

A worksheet, not the record. Bar Cop is a software tool, not a payroll provider, tax preparer, or legal advisor. Overtime eligibility, exempt and non-exempt classification, tip credit, and tax withholding are determined by you and your payroll provider. Verify every figure before running payroll.