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Campfire to Paylocity integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Campfire and Paylocity in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Campfire and Paylocity

Keep the people, teams, and status that Campfire and Paylocity share aligned in real time, so a hire, role change, or departure recorded in one reaches the other within seconds.

Each tool in Campfire keeps its own list of who can use it: users, members, or agents, along with the team they sit on and whether they are still active. Paylocity is the authoritative record of the same people as employees, with their department, manager, and employment status. When those two are connected only by manual account admin or a periodic export, the work tools drift: new hires wait days for access, team and manager changes never catch up, and people who have left keep standing accounts.

Stacksync syncs Intercompany Journal Entry, Chart of Accounts, Chart Transaction, Fixed Asset in Campfire with Pay Statements, Company Codes, Custom Fields, Employees in Paylocity bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, moved, or offboarded in Paylocity creates or updates the matching user in Campfire within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of spreadsheets and one-off account changes. Where Campfire captures details of its own, such as a corrected contact or a login identity, those can flow back to Paylocity in whichever direction you configure.

Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps its own extras; only the shared facts, who a person is, which team they belong to, and whether their access should be on, are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Send scheduled digest messages built from synced database queries.
  • 02 Post alerts into a room when records change in a synced system such as a CRM or an operational database.
  • 03 Upsert recurring Deductions and Earnings on employee records when benefits or 401(k) elections change in a benefits admin system, without re-keying payroll setup.
  • 04 Read Pay Statements and Direct Deposit allocations into a Postgres or warehouse database for labor-cost, GL, and headcount reporting in SQL.

Common sync patterns

Where Campfire routes or assigns work by person: assignments follow the org

When someone changes teams or managers in Paylocity, the queues, ownership, or approvals in Campfire update to match, so work reaches whoever holds the role now.

Onboarding: access ready on day one

A new hire recorded in Paylocity creates the matching user in Campfire with the right team and manager already set, so people can start working without waiting on a provisioning ticket.

Offboarding: no standing access after a departure

When someone is marked as leaving in Paylocity, the matching account in Campfire is deactivated or flagged, so departures do not leave open access behind.

What you can sync between Campfire and Paylocity

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Campfire objects Paylocity objects How this pairing syncs
Intercompany Journal Entry Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Employees Core HR record keyed by companyId + employeeId; two-way via Create New Employee (POST) and Update Employee (PATCH), plus Get Employee / Get All Employees for reads. Intercompany Journal Entry is specific to Campfire and Employees to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Chart of Accounts Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Onboarding Create Employee Onboarding pushes new-hire data into Paylocity's onboarding workflow; Get Onboarding Status reads back partner onboarding progress. Write-in for hires from an ATS. Chart of Accounts is specific to Campfire and Onboarding to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Chart Transaction Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Deductions (Pay Setup) Recurring deduction codes at the employee level; two-way via Upsert Deduction and Delete, with Get Deduction / Get All Deductions for reads. Chart Transaction is specific to Campfire and Deductions (Pay Setup) to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Fixed Asset Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Earnings (Pay Setup) Recurring earning codes at the employee level; two-way via Upsert Earning and Delete, with Get All Earnings and Get by earning code for reads. Fixed Asset is specific to Campfire and Earnings (Pay Setup) to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Fixed Asset Class Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Local and State Taxes Two-way via Create/Update/Delete Local Tax and Upsert Primary / Non-Primary State Tax; Get by tax code and Get All for reads. Fixed Asset Class is specific to Campfire and Local and State Taxes to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Bill Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Direct Deposit Read-only: Get All Direct Deposit and Get Employee Bank Accounts return main and additional allocations. Bank details cannot be written through the API. Bill is specific to Campfire and Direct Deposit to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Campfire and Paylocity

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Campfire Paylocity Sub-second propagation

DetectionCampfire pushes changes as they happen — webhook events backed by change data capture. Near real-time updates via change tracking (incremental sync).

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Paylocity through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Paylocity Campfire Sub-second propagation

DetectionPaylocity notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks — Paylocity POSTs Employee New Hire, Employee Change, Termination, Payroll Processed, and Time Off Approval events to a callback URL.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Campfire through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Campfire: Limits depend on the self-hosted deployment; confirm against the instance's documentation.
  • Paylocity: 25 requests per second (1,500 per minute); exceeding it returns HTTP 429. Every path is scoped to a Paylocity-assigned companyId (a company code, not a UUID).
What ships with Campfire ⇄ Paylocity

Connect Campfire and Paylocity for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Campfire–Paylocity connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Campfire or Paylocity instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Campfire or Paylocity data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Campfire or Paylocity record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Campfire ⇄ Paylocity sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Campfire and Paylocity.

How the Campfire and Paylocity connectors work

Campfire

Integration surface
HTTP endpoints for bot integrations on a self-hosted instance
Authentication
API key — create an API user with a Super User Role in Campfire (Settings -> API Keys), generate an API Key secret, and provide it in the Stacksync connection setup
Change detection
Near real-time updates via change tracking (incremental sync); delete detection per object (some objects detected every 24h)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC · webhooks
Rate limits
Limits depend on the self-hosted deployment; confirm against the instance's documentation.
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Paylocity

Integration surface
REST API (v1 and v2), JSON payloads
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 client credentials via the Paylocity Identity Provider (/IdentityServer/connect/token) with the WebLinkAPI scope; access tokens expire after one hour and API access must be enabled by Paylocity for the company
Change detection
Webhooks — Paylocity POSTs Employee New Hire, Employee Change, Termination, Payroll Processed, and Time Off Approval events to a callback URL; payloads carry only companyId and employeeId, so the receiver calls the relevant API to fetch changed values. Scheduled polling is used for objects without webhooks.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
25 requests per second (1,500 per minute); exceeding it returns HTTP 429. Every path is scoped to a Paylocity-assigned companyId (a company code, not a UUID).
How it works

How to connect Campfire to Paylocity — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Campfire and Paylocity with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Campfire connected
    Paylocity connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Campfire and Paylocity objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Campfire ⇄ Paylocity
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Campfire Paylocity
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

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