User manual
4-50  Time Guardian v4.0 User’s Guide 
QuickBooks Compatibility 
Note:  Time Guardian is compatible with QuickBooks 2007 or higher for automatic integration. 
Time Guardian is compatible with the following versions of QuickBooks for manual export: 
•  QuickBooks 2007 and Enterprise 7.0 
•  QuickBooks 2006 and Enterprise 6.0 
•  QuickBooks 2005 and Enterprise 5.0 (R5 and later) 
•  QuickBooks 2005 and Enterprise 5.0 
•  QuickBooks 2004 and Enterprise 3.0 (R7 and above) 
•  QuickBooks 2003 
•  QuickBooks 2002 (R2 and above) 
•  QuickBooks 2002 
Excel 
1.  Select whether or not to: 
The setup process to create an export file for Excel is as follows: 
Show employees with no hours 
Separate records by day 
Pass wages 
2.  Enter the Payroll Number from the dropdown menu. Your choices are: Employee Number, 
Badge Number, or Social Security Number. 
2.  Enter the Date Format from the dropdown menu. Your choices are: MM/dd/yyyy, 
yyyy/MM/dd, or dd MM yyyy. 
3.  Enter the Hours Format from the dropdown menu. Your choices are: Hundredths, Minutes, 
or Hours:Minutes. 
4.  Choose the location and file name for the CSV export file. This information is entered in the 
select path field. 
Example: C:\ProgramFiles\Time Guardian\ filename 
5.  Select the paycodes from the dropdown menus. 
6.  Select the employees to be included in the payroll file. Your options are: 
•  All: Every employee entered in Time Guardian will be included in the payroll file. 
•  Current: Only the employee currently highlighted in the Employee List box will be 
included in the payroll file.  
•  Selected: Only the employee displayed in the Employee List box will be included in the 
payroll export file. 
7.  The last screen (pg 4 of 4) shows a summary of the information contained in the payroll 
export file. 
8.  Select the Save Payroll Settings 
 icon and then select the Run Payroll   icon to 
generate the export file. 










