Pay run drafts from pay change emails
Reads pay change emails before each pay run, works out gross pay, deductions and net pay with tested tax code, and flags anything unusual. Each pay line and the whole run wait for a person before anything is paid or filed.
What it does
- Reads pay change requests such as bonuses, raises and new hires from email
- Computes each pay line with tested tax and deduction rules
- Flags duplicate requests, big jumps and missing new hire paperwork
- Drafts payslips, the remittance summary and the journal entry
Your approval boundaries
Approval requiredThese actions always wait for your yes:
- Each pay line
- Approving the pay run
- Paying anyone or filing anything with the tax agency
- Posting the journal entry
You decide what happens next.
More about this workflow
This setup is for operators and managers who keep the busywork moving. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.
First, it reads pay change requests such as bonuses, raises and new hires from email. Next, it computes each pay line with tested tax and deduction rules. Then it flags duplicate requests, big jumps and missing new hire paperwork. Finally, it drafts payslips, the remittance summary and the journal entry. It works with your email, accounting app and spreadsheets, each on its own login with limited access.
You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before each pay line, approving the pay run, paying anyone or filing anything with the tax agency and posting the journal entry, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.
“nothing is posted, paid or filed without a person's approval”
Explore required tools and model recommendations
Tools and access
Gmail
Handles the email part of this job. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.
API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud project with an OAuth app and the Gmail API turned on. The agent signs in through OAuth with only the scopes you pick.
QuickBooks
Handles the accounting app part of this job. Grant accounting data, no payments.
API required: Yes. Needs an Intuit developer app with OAuth.
Google Sheets
Handles the spreadsheets part of this job. Grant access to the single sheet it needs.
API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud OAuth app or a service account with the Sheets API turned on.
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Model recommendations
Best pick
GPT-6.1 Sol
Cheap cached input suits jobs that rerun the same instructions each week.
$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, for prompts up to 272K tokens. Longer prompts cost $4 in and $15 out.
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Cheaper backup
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Low cost for simple data pulls and matching.
$0.30 per million input tokens, $2.50 per million output tokens.
Google docs as of October 11, 2026
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Run your workflow
Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.
Steps
Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.
- 1Connect Gmail with its own login, not yours. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.
- 2Connect QuickBooks with its own login, not yours. Grant accounting data, no payments.
- 3Connect Google Sheets with its own login, not yours. Grant access to the single sheet it needs.
- 4Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
- 5Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
- 6Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.
Safeguards and trust score
The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.
Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.
Waits for a yes on: each pay line, approving the pay run, paying anyone or filing anything with the tax agency, posting the journal entry.
Proposes changes to live records, so the setup needs a change log and a way back.
Runs on its own login across 3 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.
How to raise it
- Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
- Undo and logs: Stop it from editing live records. Have it write the change as a proposal you apply, and keep a log of every change with a way to roll it back +3
- Scope: Cut it down from 3 connected tools to the 2 it needs most, each with its own limited login instead of your full account +2
Do all of these to reach 89, up from 78.
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