Payroll Validation Gate
Overview
Checks a month's payroll before it is posted. Signs in, opens the draft run, reads the register and refuses to finalize when a row is missing its cost centre, then confirms the register's net total matches the salary debit in the operating account. Writes a check report. The story is judgment: the robot stops on bad data rather than posting it, and proves one number agrees across the HR system and the bank.
Payroll Validation Gate
Payroll is the one process where a robot that blindly does what it's told is dangerous. Post a run with a bad row and you've either paid someone wrong or filed the cost against the wrong budget — and either way, someone spends a week unwinding it. The valuable robot here is the one that stops.
This flow is that robot. It reads the draft payroll register, refuses to finalize when a row is missing its cost centre, and confirms the total actually matches what left the bank — before anyone posts anything.
It runs against Workmonth, a fictional HR system used for training. The data is entirely synthetic.
What it produces
payroll-check.csv in your home folder: the register row count, any rows the gate stopped for,
whether the run is safe to finalize, and the net-total-versus-bank reconciliation. On the seeded
draft run that is 85 rows, one row missing a cost centre, finalize blocked, and a net total of
€247,225.23 that matches the bank debit exactly.
How it works
1. Open the draft run
Sign in and open the payroll runs. The month still being worked is a Draft; completed months are locked. The robot opens the draft to inspect its register.
2. Validate the register — the gate
It reads every row and finds the ones missing a cost centre. Payroll cannot be posted to the ledger with an unclassified row, so the finalize button is blocked. The robot honours that gate and reports the offending row rather than forcing the run through — this is the whole point.
3. Confirm the bank agrees
Then it reads the reconciliation panel: the register's net total against the salary debit in the operating account. When one number matches across the HR system and the bank, the payroll is real, not a spreadsheet error. The robot records that agreement.
4. Report
The report is what a payroll manager needs: the blocked row to fix, and the confirmation that the money is right. Fix the cost centre, and the run is safe to post.
Running it
Ready to run as-is. It signs in with the published training credentials
(priya.sharma@globex.example), which are not secret. Real system credentials belong in the
Robomotion Vault, never in a flow.
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