A client approached us with a interesting request. They have field techs that log their hours as activities linked to orgs and sales orders. We built s custom app for them to log their hours on their phones as straight time, over time, double time, etc. They do their payroll using this data (which they get from an excel report which is done via query using phpmyadmin.
They wanted to have a payroll report to be accessible on demand for admin users versus running the query. We simply added a button on the calendar view that shows only to the admins. When the user clicks the button, an excel sheet will download with all the data that is necessary for the client’s payroll report.