Day-rate crews. Compliant overtime. Zero spreadsheets.
If you pay field crews a daily rate, every week ends the same way: a fragile spreadsheet, a goal-seeked bonus, and a prayer that the overtime math holds up. DayTally computes the FLSA day-rate method for you — day credits, back-solved bonuses, half-time overtime — and hands you the exact numbers to key into payroll.
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Ramirez, Marco
Week of Jan 10 – Jan 16 · day rate · promised $185/day
✓ Equals the promised 5 × $185 — to the penny, overtime included.
From punch clock to payroll in three steps
DayTally sits between your time clock and your payroll system — it does the math nobody should be doing by hand.
Bring in the hours
Paste your time-clock report, upload a CSV with column mapping, or type hours straight into the weekly grid — 7:48 or 7.8, your call.
Run payroll
DayTally counts day credits, computes the regular rate, back-solves the bonus, and applies the half-time overtime premium — per employee, per workweek.
Key the numbers
Get a clean entry sheet per employee — days, sub total, bonus, reg/OT hours, rates — plus department summaries, CSV export, and print-ready PDFs.
The day-rate math, done the legal way
Under the FLSA day-rate rule (29 CFR §778.112), a day rate covers all hours at straight time — so overtime is owed as a half-time premium on the regular rate, not time-and-a-half on top.
- Count day credits
A worked day of 5+ hours earns a full day; a shorter day earns a half. Thresholds are yours to configure, with per-day overrides.
- Fix the promise
Total pay = days × the promised day rate. That handshake number never moves — no matter how the hours land.
- Back-solve the bonus
DayTally splits pay into reported day-rate wages plus a bonus, sized so wages + bonus + overtime premium equals the promise exactly.
- Pay the premium
The regular rate is recomputed from actual hours each week, and hours over 40 earn the additional half-time — fully documented on the entry sheet.
Real week. Real crew. To the penny.
= exactly what was promised, to the penny ✓
Built for the person who runs payroll, not for HR
Three ways to enter hours
Paste the time-clock report as-is, upload any CSV with a mapping wizard, or type into the keyboard-first weekly grid.
Day-rate, hourly & piece-rate
All three FLSA pay methods in one run: §778.112 day rates, standard 1.5× hourly, and §778.111 piece work.
Day-credit overrides
Auto-counted day credits with click-to-override — because the foreman's word sometimes beats the punch clock.
Department summaries
Hours, wages, bonus, and overtime rolled up by department — ready for job costing and the GL.
Entry sheets & exports
A per-employee block that mirrors the ledger — printable PDFs and CSV downloads shaped for keying into any payroll system.
Immutable run history
Every payroll run is a permanent snapshot with a built-in reconciliation check — an audit trail you'll be glad exists.
The day-rate overtime calculator
The same engine that powers DayTally. Enter a crew member's rates and daily hours — watch the bonus and overtime premium land the total exactly on the promise.
Hours accept 7:48 or 7.8. Day credit: ≥5 hrs = 1 day, any work = ½. Overtime past 40 hrs/week.
Simple tiers, sized by your crew
Every plan includes everything — all three pay methods, imports, exports, unlimited teammates, unlimited runs. Pick the tier that fits your active roster.
Crew
Up to 50 employees
$79/mo
or $474/yr $948 founders
Company
Up to 100 employees
$149/mo
or $894/yr $1,788 founders
Operation
Up to 250 employees
$249/mo
or $1,494/yr $2,988 founders
Fleet
Up to 500 employees
$399/mo
or $2,394/yr $4,788 founders
No card required to start. Unlimited teammates on every tier. Prices in USD. More than 500 employees? Contact us.
Fair questions
Is the day-rate method actually legal?
Yes — it's spelled out in federal regulation. 29 CFR §778.112 covers employees paid a flat sum per day: the regular rate is total pay divided by total hours, and overtime is owed as an extra half-time on hours over 40. DayTally applies that arithmetic and documents every step on the entry sheet. That said, DayTally is a calculation tool, not legal advice — review your setup with your advisors.
What about state overtime laws?
DayTally computes the federal FLSA method today. Some states (California most famously) impose daily overtime and other rules that differ. State-specific calculation modes are on our roadmap as a premium feature — until then, check applicability with counsel in your state.
Why does the "bonus" change every week?
Because it's back-solved. Your crew was promised days × day rate. As overtime hours grow, the OT premium grows — so the bonus shrinks by exactly that amount, keeping the total on the promise while wages, bonus, and premium each stay properly reported.
Does DayTally replace my payroll provider?
No — and that's the point. DayTally is the pre-payroll calculation layer. It produces the numbers (days, wages, bonus, reg/OT hours, rates) that you key or import into ADP, Gusto, QuickBooks, Paychex, or whatever already cuts your checks.
Where does the time data come from?
Anywhere. Paste the text report from your punch-clock software, upload a CSV export with a quick column mapping, or type hours into the weekly grid from paper cards. Direct time-clock API integrations are on the roadmap.
How do you know the math is right?
DayTally's engine was rebuilt from a real company's production payroll workbook and is verified against 1,296 actual employee-weeks from it — every bonus, rate, premium, and total matches to the penny, and that test suite runs on every change we ship.
Friday's payroll doesn't have to be a spreadsheet.
Set up your company, add the crew, and run your first period in about ten minutes. Seven days free — no card required.
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