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Payroll reports in Institution

Upload your payroll provider's reports so wages, taxes, and cash movement reach your books.

Updated 2026-10-11

Institution does not replace your payroll provider. The Payroll page gives your books visibility into what the provider ran, so wages and payroll taxes are accounted for and reconciled.

Upload a report

  1. Open Payroll and add your first payroll report, or upload another.
  2. Use a PDF, CSV, XLSX, or XLS payroll summary or register. Reports must be 25 MB or smaller.
  3. Institution Max organizes wages, taxes, deductions, benefits, reimbursements, and cash movement.

What you see afterward

  • Imported payroll data with pay date, gross wages, net employee pay, and employer cost.
  • A payroll history by provider.
  • Import issues, if any. A message such as Payroll imported, a few items need review lists what to look at.

If processing fails, upload the report again to retry.

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