With AccountLinx, you can export your employees' time data from ExakTime Connect into a compatible file for Group Management Services (OH). As Group Management may be customized to fit your company's needs, it is possible that the default AccountLinx export for Group Management will not match your Group Management setup exactly. Please read through this article before setting up AccountLinx to understand what is needed ahead of time.

If you have any questions or concerns during setup and/or use, you can contact us with the "Request Support" link at the top of the page and we will try to assist as best as possible. Keep in mind, however, that we are not Group Management support. We will try to help you as much as we can, but there are aspects of Group Management that are out of our area of expertise and your questions may be better answered by Group Management support or your trusted contact to answer/assist.

Selecting Group Management as your Exporter

1. Go to Tools and click Exporter Settings.... 
2. The Exporter Settings window should open. Click Select Exporter.... 
3. A window with a list of available exporters should open. Select "Group Management Services (OH)" and click OK.

AccountLinx Settings Unique to Group Management

The Group Management export for AccountLinx offers a variety of settings when exporting your time data to help tailor the time data to your company's needs. These settings are unique to AccountLinx and will not affect ExakTime Connect or Mobile. If any of the settings offered do not sound familiar, you may not be using the setting in Group Management and can leave it as <None>. 

1. Go to Tools and click Exporter Settings.... 
2. The Exporter Settings window should open. Click Configure....
3. The Configuration window should open. You should see the following options:
   
   • Default Settings
     • Regular Pay Code - Enter the regular pay code as used in Group Management.
     • Overtime Pay Code - Enter the overtime pay code as used in Group Management.
     • Overtime2 Pay Code - Enter the overtime 2 (doubletime) pay code as used in Group Management.
     • City Code - Enter the city code as used in Group Management.
   • Optional Settings
     • Map Pay Code - Specify if an alternate pay code should be associated with specific employees, locations, or cost codes. This allows particular employees, locations, or cost codes to have an alternate set of pay codes when exported. The related mapping screen will show fields to enter the pay code that should be associated with exported time records. If an entity does not have an alternate pay code, it will use the default pay code instead.
     • Department - Specify which entity the department should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
     • Rate/Amount - Specify which entity the rate/amount should be associated with to override the standard pay rate or amount. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
     • Include Shift Code in the Export File - Enable to include the shift code with your export.
4. Click OK on the Configuration window and click OK on the Exporter Settings window to return to the main page of AccountLinx.
5. Click the appropriate "Map Employee/Location/Cost Code/Equipment" option to see the columns from the options enabled in Step 3.

General Use of AccountLinx

After setting up the configuration of AccountLinx to better match Group Management in the previous section, you will need to:

• Map your entities so any time data associated with an ExakTime entity will match with a Group Management entity and fill in any relevant fields enabled in the previous section. Refer to the following article if you are unfamiliar with mapping your data in AccountLinx.
• After mapping your entities, you can export your time data to import into Group Management. Refer to the following article if you are unfamiliar with exporting time data from AccountLinx.

How to Import Time Data into Group Management

It is recommended to consult with Group Management for further assistance with the import feature of Group Management and using the time data as they are more knowledgeable of utilizing their system.