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

Keep Google Cloud Spanner 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 Spanner and Paylocity

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: Google Cloud Spanner and Paylocity share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Paylocity is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. Google Cloud Spanner is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Custom Fields, Employees, Onboarding, Deductions (Pay Setup) in Paylocity need to exist as queryable Views, Databases, Tables, Rows in Google Cloud Spanner before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Views, Databases, Tables, Rows in Google Cloud Spanner with Custom Fields, Employees, Onboarding, Deductions (Pay Setup) in Paylocity field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Paylocity typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

Common use cases

  • 01 Consolidate data from a globally distributed Spanner deployment into regional business systems.
  • 02 Push billing or entitlement changes from finance tools into Spanner tables the application reads at runtime.
  • 03 Push hired candidates from an ATS into Paylocity via the Onboarding endpoint, then read Onboarding Status to confirm the record before the first payroll run.
  • 04 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.

Common sync patterns

Mirror people records into the database

Records maintained in Paylocity land as queryable Views, Databases, Tables, Rows in Google Cloud Spanner, so internal apps and dashboards read live data instead of a periodic export.

One directory of record

When a person record is added, changed, or deactivated in either system, the matching row in the other stays current, ending dual maintenance.

Reporting and analytics on current data

Custom Fields, Employees, Onboarding, Deductions (Pay Setup) replicate into Google Cloud Spanner where they join operational tables, so headcount, roles, and status reports run on the live state without manual pulls.

What you can sync between Google Cloud Spanner 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 Spanner objects Paylocity objects How this pairing syncs
Change streams Capture inserts, updates, and deletes for log-style change data capture. 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. Change streams is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Earnings (Pay Setup) to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-only projections useful for shaping data before it leaves Spanner. 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. Views is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Local and State Taxes to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Top-level containers that scope schema and sync configuration. 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. Databases is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Direct Deposit to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables mapped one-to-one to sync targets. 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. Tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Pay Statements to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows The unit of read and write in each sync cycle, keyed by primary key. Company Codes Read-only reference codes and descriptions (cost centers, departments, positions) used to validate field mappings on employee writes. Rows is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Company Codes to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Interleaved tables Child rows physically co-located with parents; synced as related records. Custom Fields Read-only company-specific custom fields returned by category, used to enrich the employee record downstream. Interleaved tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Custom Fields to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Cloud Spanner 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 Spanner Paylocity Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Google Cloud Spanner are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries.

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

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Cloud Spanner: Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API 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 Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Paylocity

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

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Workflow automation

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

Observability

Monitoring

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

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EDI

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

How the Google Cloud Spanner and Paylocity connectors work

Google Cloud Spanner

Integration surface
gRPC/REST client API with SQL query surface (GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL-interface dialects)
Authentication
Google Cloud IAM (service accounts)
Change detection
Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API 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 Google Cloud Spanner 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 Spanner 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 Spanner connected
    Paylocity connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Google Cloud Spanner 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 Spanner ⇄ 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 Spanner 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.

Secure connection options

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