With AccountLinx, you can export your employees' time data from ExakTime Connect into a compatible file for Maestro. As Maestro may be customized to fit your company's needs, the default AccountLinx export for Maestro may not match your Maestro setup exactly. Please read through this article before setting up AccountLinx to understand what is needed.

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Selecting Maestro 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 "Maestro" and click OK.

AccountLinx Settings Unique to Maestro

The Maestro 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 Maestro and can leave it as <None>. 

1. Go to Tools and click Exporter Settings.... 
2. The Exporter Settings window should open. Click Configure....
   • Required Settings
     • Company Code - Enter the company code for Maestro.
     • Regular - Enter the regular rate type as used in Maestro.
     • Overtime - Enter the overtime rate type as used in Maestro.
     • Overtime2 - Enter the overtime 2 (doubletime) rate type as used in Maestro.
   • Use Alternative Pay IDs
     • Map Rate Type to - Specify if an alternate rate type should be associated with specific employees, locations, or cost codes. This allows particular employees, locations, or cost codes to have an alternate set of rate types when exported. The related mapping screen will show fields to enter the rate type that should be associated with exported time records. If an entity does not have an alternate rate type, it will use the default rate type instead.
   • Optional Settings
     • Shift To - Specify which entity the shift should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
     • Trade To - Specify which entity the trade should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
     • Group To - Specify which entity the group should be associated with and the default group for when an entity does not have a group specified. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
     • Annex To - Specify which entity the annex should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
     • Activity W/C - CSST To - Specify which entity the Activity W/C - CSST should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
     • Union Code To - Specify which entity the union code should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
     • Bonus To - Specify which entity the bonus should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
3. Click OK on the Configuration window and click OK on the Exporter Settings window to return to the main page of AccountLinx.
4. 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 Maestro in the previous section, you will need to:

• Map your entities so any time data associated with an ExakTime entity will match with an Maestro 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 Maestro. Refer to the following article if you are unfamiliar with exporting time data from AccountLinx.

Example of AccountLinx Export

An example of an AccountLinx export has been provided below. The data have been preformatted based on Maestro template. The presented values can differ depending on your settings.

While you can manipulate the exported data after it has been exported, it is highly discouraged as it can result in data discrepancies when double-checking any data.

How to Import Time Data into Maestro

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