What Paddl does and does not do
Paddl produces a file of approved hours. It does not run your payroll. There is no RTI submission, no PAYE or National Insurance, no auto-enrolment, no payslips and no bank file. Your payroll software or bureau does all of that, and this is what you hand them.
Building a file
Go to Rota > Timesheets and press Export to payroll. Only owners can.
Pick the format: a generic CSV, Xero Payroll, Sage Payroll or BrightPay.
Set the dates. Any period that overlaps the range is included, so a fortnight straddling the first of the month is not left out.
Build it, then download the file.
What is in it
One row per person per period: their name and email, the site, approved hours, scheduled hours, actual hours, their hourly rate if you have recorded one, and the tronc hours if you use them.
There is no payroll reference column yet, so the mapping is on name. If someone has no pay rate on file, their hours still come through and the cost column is blank; the export tells you who.
Only approved periods
An open period is a figure nobody has agreed, so it is not in the file. Approve first.
Re-running a period
Periods already exported are excluded by default, because re-running last month is how the same hours reach a bureau twice. If you genuinely need to send a period again, tick Include periods already exported before you build.
The file has pay data in it. It names every employee, their hours and their rate. Only the owner who built it can download it from Paddl, and it is worth treating the downloaded copy the same way you would treat a payroll report.