Payroll with FRIDAY — run payroll from Seayora, FRIDAY pays your crew

How to connect FRIDAY, Seayora's payroll processing partner; put your crew on FRIDAY; send approved hours; build, check and approve a payroll; and how every paid payroll is recorded on each person's pay and in your books.

FRIDAY (fridayapp.com) is Seayora's payroll processing partner. FRIDAY pays your crew by direct deposit or check, withholds and deposits the taxes, files the returns and sends the year-end forms. Seayora is where your crew already clocks in, so Seayora sends FRIDAY the approved hours, builds the payroll and shows you every figure before you approve it.

FRIDAY moves the money. Seayora never does: it never holds your money, never sees a bank account number or a Social Security number, and nothing is paid until a person on your team approves the payroll.

Connecting FRIDAY

On the website: Settings → Connections → Integrations, then FRIDAY. On your phone: Tools → Integrations, then FRIDAY (it opens Payroll connection). FRIDAY is named there and nowhere else in Seayora — once it is connected, you run payroll from My team → Run payroll, where it is simply your payroll account.
Sign in to FRIDAY: an owner or admin of your FRIDAY company approves Seayora once. FRIDAY then tells Seayora the moment a payroll changes.
Or connect with an API key: in FRIDAY, go to Settings → Integrations → API / Developer Access and turn API access on, then open the Developer Portal, choose API Keys → Generate Key, and paste the key (it starts with fri_). Seayora checks the key with FRIDAY before anything is saved, and stores it sealed.
With an API key, FRIDAY does not let Seayora sign up for its updates, so Seayora checks FRIDAY every few minutes. To get updates straight away, register the webhook address shown on the screen in FRIDAY's Developer Portal and paste the signing secret it shows you.

Your FRIDAY plan decides what works. On FRIDAY's Timetracking plan, hours go to FRIDAY but payroll cannot be run; FRIDAY's Payroll plan is needed for that. You pay FRIDAY for your plan directly — Seayora charges nothing for the connection.

Putting your crew on FRIDAY

Everyone FRIDAY pays must be on FRIDAY and linked to their Seayora team member. Seayora links people by email automatically. For anyone else, the People list offers two choices:

Add to payroll: Seayora sends FRIDAY their name, email, how they work (employee or contractor), their workplace and their pay rate. FRIDAY emails them to finish onboarding — tax forms and bank account — before they can be paid. Seayora never sends a Social Security number or a date of birth.
Already on payroll: link them to the person FRIDAY already has.

Sending hours

Approved shifts go to FRIDAY as finished time records, tagged with the job's site and the job, so FRIDAY's job-costing report matches yours. Pending hours are never sent. An unpaid break is taken off the end of the shift, so FRIDAY sees the same paid hours you approved, and the record says so.

If a shift overlaps time that is already in FRIDAY — somebody clocked in on FRIDAY's app as well — Seayora does not send it and never overwrites FRIDAY's time. The screen lists the shift and why; remove the duplicate in FRIDAY or fix the shift here, then send hours again. A shift you edit after it was sent is updated in FRIDAY in place.

Running a payroll

Choose a pay period FRIDAY offers for your pay schedule and press Start payroll. Seayora sends that period's approved hours first, then FRIDAY builds the draft.
Check the draft: the cash FRIDAY will withdraw, gross pay, taxes withheld, employer taxes and net pay, and each person's net pay. Anything FRIDAY flags — a missed clock-out, somebody who has not finished onboarding — is listed above the approval.
Changed some hours? Rebuild from Seayora hours replaces the draft with the hours in Seayora now.
Approve: tick the confirmation and type the cash FRIDAY withdraws, exactly as shown. If FRIDAY's figure has changed since you looked, Seayora refuses and tells you the new one, so nobody approves a number they did not see.

Once approved, FRIDAY runs the payroll and pays everyone on payday. If FRIDAY did not answer in time, Seayora says it cannot tell yet whether the payroll was approved and does not send it again — refresh it in a moment. Off-cycle payrolls, such as a bonus or a final check, are made in FRIDAY and appear here once made.

When FRIDAY has paid

Every payroll FRIDAY pays is recorded in Seayora automatically: each linked person gets a pay record for their net pay, the hours worked in that pay period stop showing as outstanding, and your books get one entry for the whole payroll — wages and employer taxes as expenses, and the cash FRIDAY withdrew from your bank. Nothing is recorded twice, however many times FRIDAY tells Seayora.

Pay stubs open from the payroll once it is approved. If FRIDAY could not process a payroll, you are told; nobody on it has been paid through FRIDAY, and FRIDAY can help fix the cause.

Disconnecting

Disconnect from the same place you connected: Settings → Connections → Integrations → FRIDAY. Disconnecting stops Seayora reaching FRIDAY and, if you signed in, removes Seayora's access at FRIDAY. Your payrolls, pay stubs and people stay in FRIDAY, and everything already recorded in Seayora is kept.

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