Certified payroll Excel template — or something better, free?

Most searches for a certified payroll Excel template end at a paid download: form-filler sites and marketplaces sell WH-347 spreadsheets with autofill formulas for $20–60. Before you buy a spreadsheet, know what it can and cannot do.

Where templates break

A WH-347 template reproduces the form’s layout — but the form is the easy part. The mistakes that get certified payrolls rejected (or worse, investigated) are in the numbers: overtime not split after 40 hours, daily hours that do not sum to the weekly total, fringe amounts below the wage determination, the wrong classification for the work performed. A spreadsheet happily accepts all of those errors, and the Statement of Compliance you sign under penalty of perjury does not care that the formula was off by one cell.

The free alternative

Our WH-347 generator does what the paid templates do — fill the federal form from your week’s hours — free, in your browser, with nothing uploaded or stored. Enter daily hours per worker; the regular/overtime split at 40 hours and gross pay arithmetic happen automatically, and the Statement of Compliance page is generated with it.