Mistakes happen—incorrect hours, job info, or fringe credits can all throw off your Certified Payroll reports. TradeSeal gives you a clean, auditable workflow to fix errors without deleting or reprocessing your original payroll.
✅ You Don’t Have to Undo the Original Payroll
If you’ve already processed payroll—even if it included mistakes—don’t worry. You can leave it as-is. Pay your employees and export the payroll journal like normal.
Corrections can be layered on top using a clean, adjustment payroll process.
✏️ Step 1: Create an Adjustment File
Prepare a new hours import file with:
- Negative hours to cancel out the incorrect time entries
- Positive hours to reflect corrected job, position, or rates
This file represents your corrections and is processed as a separate payroll.
🧠 Step 2: Process a Separate Adjustment Payroll
- Upload your adjustment file to TradeSeal.
- Validate compliance and confirm costs.
- Export to your payroll system as a second payroll run.
- Process this adjustment payroll as a one-off check.
This creates a distinct correction entry, keeping your records clean and traceable.
🧩 Step 3: Combine the Payroll Journals
Once both payrolls are complete:
- Combine the original payroll journal and the adjustment payroll journal into one file.
- Upload the combined journal into TradeSeal.
TradeSeal will merge the original and correction data, then recalculate compliance and gross pay based on the combined record.
📤 Step 4: Re-Generate and Re-Submit Reports
- Go to Reports → Certified Payroll
- Select the corrected date range and job
- Re-generate and export your WH-347, electronic or state-specific report
Submit the corrected version to your GC, agency, or other authority as needed.
For further information, please see our Youtube video going over corrections.