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Clearbit to Paylocity integration — real-time data sync

Keep Clearbit 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 Clearbit and Paylocity

Flow Clearbit data into Paylocity in real time — no exports, no schedulers, no custom scripts.

Clearbit is a read-only source: Stacksync reads its data in real time and delivers it into Paylocity, so Paylocity always reflects the current state of Clearbit — without exports, scripts, or schedulers.

Clearbit runs on people as much as on accounts: every contact, deal, and account has an owner, and those owners are employees whose roles, teams, and status are held in Paylocity. Paylocity is the system of record for the workforce, from new hires to promotions to departures, and often for the candidates the business is still deciding on. When the two systems are connected only by re-keying or an overnight export, they drift apart, and the CRM ends up assigning accounts to people who have left, holding territories that no longer match the org chart, and waiting days to give a new rep access.

Common use cases

  • 01 Refresh firmographic fields on existing accounts on a schedule so segmentation stays current.
  • 02 Enrich new CRM leads with person and company attributes as they are created, keyed by email and domain.
  • 03 React to the Employee Change webhook to pull the updated Employee record and propagate title, location, or manager changes to downstream apps within minutes.
  • 04 Two-way sync of Employees between Paylocity and an HRIS or identity provider so new hires, terminations, and demographic edits flow both directions.

Common sync patterns

New team members provisioned when they are hired

When Paylocity records a new hire, a matching user or owner is created in Clearbit, so a new rep can start working accounts without waiting on a manual setup ticket.

Ownership and territory follow the org chart

When a person changes team, manager, or region in Paylocity, their accounts and territory assignments in Clearbit update to match, so pipeline stays with the right owner.

Deactivate access when someone leaves

When Paylocity marks a worker as departed, the matching user in Clearbit is flagged or deactivated, so former employees do not keep CRM access after their last day.

What you can sync between Clearbit 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.

Clearbit objects Paylocity objects How this pairing syncs
Name-to-domain lookups Company name resolution used to normalize account records before enrichment. 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. Name-to-domain lookups is specific to Clearbit and Direct Deposit to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Enrichment attributes The firmographic and technographic fields appended to destination records. Pay Statements Read-only detailed payroll statement data — earnings, deductions, taxes, and direct deposit allocations by year, check date, or date range. Pulled for reporting, never written. Enrichment attributes is specific to Clearbit and Pay Statements to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Companies Firmographic profiles looked up by domain and merged into account records. Company Codes Read-only reference codes and descriptions (cost centers, departments, positions) used to validate field mappings on employee writes. Companies is specific to Clearbit and Company Codes to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Persons Individual profiles looked up by email and used to enrich contacts and leads. Custom Fields Read-only company-specific custom fields returned by category, used to enrich the employee record downstream. Persons is specific to Clearbit and Custom Fields to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Reveal matches IP-to-company resolutions used to identify anonymous website traffic. 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. Reveal matches is specific to Clearbit and Employees to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Clearbit 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.

Clearbit Paylocity Sub-second propagation

DetectionClearbit notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. On-demand lookups.

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

Paylocity Clearbit 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.

DeliveryClearbit does not accept inbound record writes, so this direction carries requests rather than records: Clearbit's output flows back as field updates on the originating Paylocity records.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Clearbit: Subject to plan-based API rate limits and lookup volumes.
  • 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 Clearbit ⇄ Paylocity

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

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

Real-time

Real-time sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Clearbit 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 Clearbit or Paylocity record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Clearbit and Paylocity connectors work

Clearbit

Integration surface
REST API (separate endpoints per product: Enrichment, Reveal)
Authentication
API key (bearer secret key)
Change detection
On-demand lookups; asynchronous enrichment results can be delivered via webhook callbacks
Capabilities
read · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to plan-based API rate limits and lookup volumes

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Clearbit 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 · Clearbit ⇄ 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
    Clearbit 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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