# VISUAL Time & Attendance and Infor VISUAL: labor, job costing and payroll

> Source: https://netray.co/stack/visual-time-and-attendance-labor-infor-visual
> Publisher: Netray (netray.co), AI and integration engineering for ERP and manufacturing systems.
> Section: ERP Stack

## Short answer

VISUAL Time & Attendance is a native Infor VISUAL module, distributed through partners such as WM-Synergy. It captures clock-ins, timesheets and job labor at collection stations, feeds VISUAL job costing, and exports earnings to VISUAL Payroll or a third-party payroll system.

## Erp

Infor VISUAL ERP

## Erp Key

infor-visual

## On Prem

true

## Product

VISUAL Time & Attendance

## Vendor

Infor

## Category

Time and attendance

## Integration

**Method:** Native VISUAL module

**Detail:** It is part of the VISUAL product family rather than a separate vendor add-on, so labor records land in the same VISUAL database that job costing already uses. Availability and packaging can differ by contract, and partners such as WM-Synergy distribute it, so confirm licensing with your reseller.

**Method:** Payroll export

**Detail:** Earnings are exported to VISUAL Payroll or to a third-party payroll system. For third-party payroll, expect a file-based export whose format you map to the payroll provider's import, and confirm the field list with that provider.

## Data Flows

**From:** Collection station

**To:** VISUAL

**Data:** Clock-in and clock-out punches

**Trigger:** Employee badges or enters ID at the station

**From:** Collection station

**To:** VISUAL job costing

**Data:** Job labor hours by work order, operation and employee

**Trigger:** Employee starts or stops work on a job

**From:** VISUAL

**To:** Payroll

**Data:** Regular, overtime and other earnings by employee

**Trigger:** Pay period close and supervisor approval

**From:** VISUAL

**To:** Supervisor

**Data:** Exceptions such as missed punches and unmatched job time

**Trigger:** Timesheet review before the pay period closes

## Setup

### Define pay rules

**Detail:** Document rounding, overtime thresholds, shift differentials, breaks and holiday handling before configuring anything.

### Load employees and shifts

**Detail:** Set up employees, departments, shift schedules and badge or ID numbers, and link each employee to the right labor rate.

### Place collection stations

**Detail:** Choose station locations and hardware, and decide whether attendance and job labor are captured at the same station or separately.

### Map job labor to job costing

**Detail:** Confirm that labor posted against work order operations lands in the cost buckets your accountants expect.

### Configure the payroll export

**Detail:** Map earning codes to VISUAL Payroll or to your payroll provider's import layout, and test with a parallel pay run.

### Train supervisors on approvals

**Detail:** Teach exception review and the cutoff discipline that stops late edits after payroll is exported.

## Pitfalls

- Attendance hours and job labor hours that do not reconcile leave unexplained idle or unassigned time in job costing.
- Rounding rules set differently in the time system and in payroll create small pay differences that become disputes.
- Earning code mismatches in the payroll export cause overtime or shift premium to land under the wrong code.
- Edits after the pay period closes are not reflected in an already exported file unless there is a clear reopen procedure.
- Operators who forget to start and stop job time push labor onto the wrong operation, which distorts standard cost comparisons.

## Ai Layer

### Missed punch and exception triage

**Description:** A private assistant reads the day's punches, job time and schedules, lists the likely missed punches and unmatched job time, and drafts the correction for a supervisor to approve.

### Attendance to job-cost reconciliation

**Description:** It compares clocked hours with hours charged to work orders and explains the gap by employee, shift and department in plain language.

### Pre-export payroll check

**Description:** Before the export, it flags outliers such as unusually high overtime or hours on closed jobs, so payroll is reviewed instead of fixed afterward.

## Alternatives

- If you only need pay-period timesheets, a dedicated workforce management product may suit you better than a manufacturing-centric module.
- If your payroll provider has its own time clocks, you may not need the VISUAL module for attendance, only for job labor.
- For small shops, job labor entry directly in VISUAL shop-floor screens can be enough.

## Faq

### Is this a separate product from Infor VISUAL?

**Answer:** It is a native VISUAL module, not a third-party add-on. Partners such as WM-Synergy distribute it, so licensing and implementation may come through your VISUAL reseller. Ask for the current module list for your version.

### Does it work with payroll providers other than Infor?

**Answer:** The module exports earnings to VISUAL Payroll or to third-party payroll. For third-party systems, plan to map earning codes to the provider's import format and test it in a parallel run before relying on it.

### Where does AI help here?

**Answer:** Mostly in exception handling and reconciliation: finding missed punches, explaining gaps between clocked time and job labor, and checking a payroll export before it is sent. It reads data read-only, and corrections need a supervisor's approval.

## Source

https://www.sdcexec.com/sourcing-procurement/news/10357232/infor-integrates-labor-data-collection-with-payroll-and-policies

## Search terms

infor visual time and attendance, visual erp labor tracking, infor visual payroll export, visual job costing labor, wm-synergy infor visual, infor visual timesheet

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