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Where Actual Hours Come From in the End-of-Day Report

Reading the source marks on Actual hours in the Daily Digest, with payroll as the default and Cortex and Override figures labeled on screen and in the PDF.

The end-of-day report's Billed vs actual hours by driver table tells you where each driver's Actual hours figure came from. Hours are payroll-sourced unless marked.

The default: payroll

Most figures come straight from your payroll system's punches. Those rows carry no mark at all: an unmarked number is a payroll number.

Marked figures

When a final figure comes from somewhere else, the report says so:

  • Cortex: no payroll hours were recorded for that driver, so the hours come from their Cortex route sessions.

  • Cortex, punch open: the payroll punch was still open at the report cutoff, so the figure comes from Cortex and doesn't include post-trip time at the station.

  • Override: the figure was set by a manager.

Where you see the marks

  • On screen, a marked figure gets a dotted underline. Hover it and the report explains the source in a sentence.

  • In the PDF, the label is appended to the figure itself, for example "8.4h (Cortex)". When at least one driver's hours came from payroll, the legend under the table reads "Hours are payroll-sourced unless marked." If none of the day's figures came from payroll, for example at a company that runs on Cortex hours alone, every figure carries its own label and the legend is left out.

Unfinished days still show muted, non-final figures as before; the source marks only appear on final hours.

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