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Fishbowl Manufacturing to Paylocity integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing and Paylocity

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that Fishbowl Manufacturing and Paylocity share in real time, so the people Paylocity manages stay current in the system that runs finance and operations.

Paylocity is the system of record for people: who was hired, which department and location they sit in, who they report to, and how they are paid. Fishbowl Manufacturing runs finance and operations, and much of what it does depends on that same information, from booking labor cost to approving an expense report to staffing a project. Where the two are bridged by re-keying or an overnight file, each side spends the day out of step, with new hires missing from the systems they need and leavers still active where they should not be.

Stacksync syncs Locations, Parts, Products, Inventory in Fishbowl Manufacturing with Custom Fields, Employees, Onboarding, Deductions (Pay Setup) in Paylocity field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, so the people side stays authoritative for worker data while Fishbowl Manufacturing keeps its own accounting and operational detail, and every change made in one is reflected in the other within seconds instead of at the next batch run.

Common use cases

  • 01 Push purchase orders from procurement tools into Fishbowl and sync receipts back on arrival.
  • 02 Sync e-commerce orders into Fishbowl as sales orders and return fulfillment status and tracking numbers.
  • 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

Where Paylocity runs payroll: labor cost in the books

Pay and compensation data from Paylocity posts into Fishbowl Manufacturing as labor cost, so finance sees workforce spend without re-entering it by hand.

Where Paylocity is the worker system of record: one employee master

When a worker is hired, moved, or offboarded in Paylocity, the matching employee record in Fishbowl Manufacturing is created, updated, or deactivated, so the business system reflects the workforce as it actually is.

New hires ready to transact in Fishbowl Manufacturing

A new person set up in Paylocity becomes an employee record in Fishbowl Manufacturing in time to submit expenses, enter time, or approve a purchase, without waiting on manual setup.

What you can sync between Fishbowl Manufacturing 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.

Fishbowl Manufacturing objects Paylocity objects How this pairing syncs
Customers Buyer records kept aligned with a CRM. 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. Customers is specific to Fishbowl Manufacturing and Pay Statements to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Vendors Supplier records synced with purchasing systems. Company Codes Read-only reference codes and descriptions (cost centers, departments, positions) used to validate field mappings on employee writes. Vendors is specific to Fishbowl Manufacturing and Company Codes to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Locations Warehouses and location groups that partition inventory quantities. Custom Fields Read-only company-specific custom fields returned by category, used to enrich the employee record downstream. Locations is specific to Fishbowl Manufacturing and Custom Fields to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Parts The inventory-tracked entity; stock levels and costing hang off parts. 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. Parts is specific to Fishbowl Manufacturing and Employees to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Products The sellable entity linked to parts; external SKUs usually map here. 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. Products is specific to Fishbowl Manufacturing and Onboarding to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Inventory Quantity by part and location, mirrored out to sales channels to prevent overselling. 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. Inventory is specific to Fishbowl Manufacturing and Deductions (Pay Setup) to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Fishbowl Manufacturing 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.

Fishbowl Manufacturing Paylocity Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Fishbowl Manufacturing for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on last-modified fields.

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

Paylocity Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Fishbowl Manufacturing: Practical throughput is bounded by the Fishbowl server instance rather than a published quota.
  • 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing ⇄ Paylocity

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing or Paylocity record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Fishbowl Manufacturing and Paylocity connectors work

Fishbowl Manufacturing

Integration surface
REST API on current versions; older installs expose an XML-over-socket API
Authentication
Application credentials plus a named Fishbowl user login that issues a session token
Change detection
Polling on last-modified fields; Fishbowl does not provide webhooks
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Practical throughput is bounded by the Fishbowl server instance rather than a published quota

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 · Fishbowl Manufacturing ⇄ 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
    Fishbowl Manufacturing Paylocity
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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