Most payroll errors don't start in payroll. They start in time data: a worker who edited a submitted timesheet, a holiday quietly buried inside regular hours, an accrual clock that started on the wrong date. By the time finance sees the variance, the run is already out the door.
Niural's latest time tools update tightens control at that upstream layer. Four changes, all built around the same idea: the fewer assumptions the system makes for you, the fewer surprises land on your desk.
Granular settings for timesheets and the time tracker
Employers can now define exactly how workers interact with their own time data, what they can edit, what they can delete, what they can discard, and whether clock-in and clock-out is available to them at all. Those controls are set by worker classification, so a salaried exempt employee, an hourly non-exempt employee, and a contractor don't have to live under one blunt policy.
Waiting period anchors for time off accruals
Accrual math is only as good as the date it counts from. Employers can now configure the anchor for accrual waiting periods, either the original hire date or the hire date for PEO employees. For companies that have transitioned workers into a PEO, or rehired someone who was already on the books, that distinction determines whether a worker's PTO balance is right or quietly wrong for the rest of the year.
Holiday hours, separated from regular hours
Holiday hours are now segregated from regular hours and carry through as their own line item in both the payroll run screen and the earnings section of paystubs. Payroll reviewers can see holiday cost as its own number instead of reverse-engineering it. Employees can see why their check looks the way it does, which is usually the difference between a paystub that generates a question and one that doesn't. And finance gets cleaner data for workforce cost reporting without a spreadsheet in between.
Configurable rules for holidays that fall on weekends
When a holiday lands on a Saturday or Sunday, employers can now choose how it's observed: the previous business day, the following business day, or a custom date within the same calendar year. Your holiday calendar follows your policy rather than a default someone else picked.
Where this fits
Time data feeds accruals, accruals feed payroll, payroll feeds close. Because Niural runs payroll, tax, and payments on owned infrastructure, cleaner inputs at the timesheet layer show up as cleaner outputs at the paystub, the payroll register, and the report your CFO opens on Monday, with EMMA validating along the way.
