# Export the payroll accounting entry

> In Weplanify, download a month's payroll accounting entry in Excel or CSV, balanced, with an account per employee and the analytical section per site.

- Product: Weplanify (https://weplanify.io)
- Section: Payroll
- Web page: https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.ecriture-comptable?lang=en
- Other language: https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.ecriture-comptable.md
- Last updated: 2026-09-29

In Weplanify, the payroll accounting entry takes all the month's payslips, ready to import into your accounting software.

![October's payroll accounting entry: balanced totals and preview (labels blurred)](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/weplanify/o/docs%2Fpaie%2Fmaj-2026-09-28%2Fpa-journal-17cc0aa9.webp?alt=media&token=ecb4242f-4e6d-48bf-8e7c-dbf5759129a5)

## Steps

1. In **Payroll and costs → Monthly payroll**, pick the month, open the **…** menu then **Accounting entry** (or the button of the [Closing and payment](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.cloture?lang=en) step).
2. Check the totals: the entry must be balanced (total debit = total credit).
3. Read the lines posted to their family's default account: add a more precise account if needed ([accounting accounts](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.comptes-comptables?lang=en)).
4. Download the file in **Excel** or **CSV**.

## What the file contains

- One line per account, with the payroll journal, the month's end date, the reference, the label, the debit and the credit.
- Net pay and loan repayments on one line per employee, with their staff number as third-party account.
- Charges split by analytical section: each employee's site ([sites](https://weplanify.io/docs/configuration.sites?lang=en)).

## Good to know

- Preferably export a closed month: its payslips will not change any more.
- The CSV uses semicolons and fixed headers: your import template stays valid from one month to the next.
- Expenses paid by the company have their own entry, in [costs](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts?lang=en).

## Related guides

- [Close the month, pay salaries and declare](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.cloture?lang=en) — In Weplanify, closing locks the payroll month, publishes payslips to employees and prepares the next month; the step then helps you pay and declare.
- [Set up payroll accounting accounts](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.comptes-comptables?lang=en) — In Weplanify, choose the accounting account of each payroll line to produce a balanced payroll entry, ready to import into your accounting software.
- [Create and set up a site](https://weplanify.io/docs/configuration.sites?lang=en) — In Weplanify, declare your workplaces, their geolocation clock-in area, their time zone and their own overtime rules, one site at a time here.
- [Follow the company's expenses](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the Expenses screen gathers purchases paid by the company and costs advanced by employees: to approve, to reimburse and to pay.
- [Payroll in Weplanify](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the monthly payroll is prepared in five steps, from time, absences and variable elements up to the payslips, the payment and the closing.
- [Set up the company's payroll](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.configuration?lang=en) — In Weplanify, payroll settings are in Settings → Payroll: installation, leave, contributions, control bounds and the accounts used by the accounting export.