The SSCI payroll export sends the hours, breaks and overtime validated in Shyfter to SSCI, the social secretariat of the Centre des indépendants, in one monthly file. For a self-employed owner with a small team, it removes the most tedious part of payroll: collecting and retyping hours.

When you run your own business, you are the manager, the scheduler and often the person who prepares payroll. Every hour spent rebuilding timesheets is an hour away from your customers. This page explains how Shyfter and SSCI work together and how to set up the export in a few steps.

What SSCI / CDI is and who it serves

SSCI is the social secretariat of the Centre des indépendants (CDI). In Belgium, a social secretariat is the payroll office that calculates pay and handles the employer's social obligations. SSCI is the payroll partner of self-employed people and small employers in Belgium.

Shyfter is the workforce management software for shift-based teams. It brings together scheduling, time tracking and payroll preparation in a tool built for small teams as much as for large networks.

Why connect your small team to SSCI

A small employer rarely has an HR department. Hours are often noted on paper, in a notebook behind the counter or in a group chat. At the end of the month, those notes have to be turned into something the payroll office can use, and that is where errors creep in: a forgotten Sunday, a break that was not taken, overtime that was agreed verbally.

With Shyfter connected to SSCI:

• your employees record their hours with the time clock;
• you validate breaks and overtime as the month goes by;
• the export is generated in the format SSCI expects;
• a copy stays in Shyfter, so you can always show what was sent.

You spend less time on administration and your employees receive pay slips that match the hours they worked.

How the SSCI payroll export works

Data flows from Shyfter to SSCI, once a month.

1. Validation. You validate hours, breaks and overtime in Shyfter.
2. Export. At the end of the month, you generate the export from the closing screen, in the SSCI format.
3. Transfer. You send it to the SSCI payroll team or upload it to the SSCI portal.
4. Archive. Shyfter keeps a copy for audits and reconciliation.

Because the format is the one SSCI expects, the payroll team works directly from your file instead of asking you to clarify each line.

What you gain as a small employer

For a small employer, the benefit of the SSCI export is mostly time and peace of mind. You no longer copy hours from a notebook into an email, and you no longer wonder whether you forgot someone's Sunday shift. The hours your employees recorded are the hours you validate, and the hours you validate are the hours SSCI receives.

It also makes conversations with your team easier. When an employee has a question about their pay slip, you can open Shyfter and show the shifts, the breaks and the overtime behind it. The copy of the export shows exactly what was sent to SSCI for that month.

Set up the SSCI export, step by step

1. Open the account settings in Shyfter.
2. Choose SSCI as your payroll provider.
3. Map the employee numbers used by SSCI to your employees in Shyfter.
4. During the month, validate hours, breaks and overtime with time tracking.
5. At closing, generate the export and send or upload it to SSCI.

That is all. The next month follows the same routine.

Use cases by industry

Restaurants and bars

The owner of a small restaurant or bar often prepares payroll after the last service. With hours already validated in Shyfter, the monthly export to SSCI takes minutes instead of an evening.

Retail

An independent shop in retail may only have a handful of employees, but their hours still change with opening times and holidays. Shyfter keeps those hours accurate and sends them to SSCI in one file.

Part of a complete payroll preparation

The SSCI export is the last step of payroll preparation in Shyfter. SSCI is one of many Belgian payroll partners Shyfter works with.

To see how simple a monthly closing can be for a small team, request a demo.