When you finish approving timesheets and the pay period is ready to be exported, we recommend that you finalize the pay period for two reasons:
To prevent anyone from modifying the pay period.
To protect the dates included in the pay period if you ever change the frequency of your future pay periods
Important: Only an administrator can modify the status of a pay period (open, closed, or finalized).
To finalize a pay period, click on the link next to the dates of the pay period. See below:
If you want to modify a pay period that's already finalized, see this article.