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Google Cloud Platform to Paylocity integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform and Paylocity

Land the people and organization records from Paylocity in Google Cloud Platform as live tables for workforce reporting, without extract jobs, and write computed results back where Paylocity can use them.

Workforce data is some of the most requested data in the warehouse and some of the most awkward to move: the record types are many, the fields carry sensitive personal information, the APIs are strict, and hand-built extract jobs go stale or break quietly. Whether Paylocity is the system of record for employees and payroll, for candidates and applications, or for learners and course completions, the reporting belongs in Google Cloud Platform next to everything else the company measures.

Stacksync syncs Pay Statements, Company Codes, Custom Fields, Employees from Paylocity into tables in Google Cloud Platform continuously, handling API limits and schema drift as they come. The connection is bi-directional, so values computed in Google Cloud Platform, such as headcount rollups, cost allocations, or attrition risk flags, can be written back to fields in Paylocity where the HR team acts on them. You configure which records and fields cross over, and in which direction, instead of maintaining pipeline code.

Common use cases

  • 01 Publish change events to Pub/Sub so downstream services react to record updates as they happen.
  • 02 Read Pay Statements and Direct Deposit allocations into a Postgres or warehouse database for labor-cost, GL, and headcount reporting in SQL.
  • 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.

Common sync patterns

Fresh data instead of last night's load

Because changes stream continuously, reports query current workforce data rather than waiting for an overnight load window to finish.

Queryable history for planning and audit

A continuously synced copy in Google Cloud Platform gives you a durable, queryable record of how Paylocity's records change over time, for headcount planning and audit questions.

Write-back of computed values

Segments, rollups, or risk flags computed in Google Cloud Platform sync back onto the matching records in Paylocity, where the HR team sees them in the system they already use.

What you can sync between Google Cloud Platform 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.

Google Cloud Platform objects Paylocity objects How this pairing syncs
Spanner tables Strongly consistent relational tables accessed via SQL for transactional workloads. Company Codes Read-only reference codes and descriptions (cost centers, departments, positions) used to validate field mappings on employee writes. Spanner tables is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Company Codes to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
BigQuery datasets Namespaces that group tables; syncs target tables within a dataset. Custom Fields Read-only company-specific custom fields returned by category, used to enrich the employee record downstream. BigQuery datasets is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Custom Fields to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
BigQuery tables The primary analytics destination, written through load jobs or the Storage Write API and queried with SQL. 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. BigQuery tables is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Employees to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Cloud SQL databases Managed Postgres, MySQL, and SQL Server instances synced like ordinary relational databases. 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. Cloud SQL databases is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Onboarding to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Cloud Storage objects Staging area for file-based bulk loads into BigQuery and other services. 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. Cloud Storage objects is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Deductions (Pay Setup) to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Pub/Sub topics Event streams used to move change events between systems in near real time. 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. Pub/Sub topics is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Earnings (Pay Setup) to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Cloud Platform 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.

Google Cloud Platform Paylocity Sub-second propagation

DetectionGoogle Cloud Platform pushes changes as they happen — webhook events backed by change data capture. Varies by service: log-based CDC on Cloud SQL (logical replication or binlog, also via Datastream), Pub/Sub for event delivery, polling for BigQuery.

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

Paylocity Google Cloud Platform 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 applied to Google Cloud Platform as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Cloud Platform: Quotas are set per service and per project; BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL each enforce their own limits.
  • 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 Google Cloud Platform ⇄ Paylocity

Connect Google Cloud Platform and Paylocity for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform or Paylocity record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Google Cloud Platform and Paylocity.

How the Google Cloud Platform and Paylocity connectors work

Google Cloud Platform

Integration surface
Per-service REST and gRPC APIs; BigQuery speaks SQL and Cloud SQL exposes standard database wire protocols
Authentication
IAM service accounts with OAuth 2.0 tokens
Change detection
Varies by service: log-based CDC on Cloud SQL (logical replication or binlog, also via Datastream), Pub/Sub for event delivery, polling for BigQuery tables
Capabilities
read · write · CDC · webhooks
Rate limits
Quotas are set per service and per project; BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL each enforce their own limits

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 Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform 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
    Google Cloud Platform connected
    Paylocity connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Google Cloud Platform 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 · Google Cloud Platform ⇄ 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
    Google Cloud Platform Paylocity
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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