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

Keep Greenplum 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 Greenplum and Paylocity

Land the people and organization records from Paylocity in Greenplum 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 Greenplum next to everything else the company measures.

Stacksync syncs Earnings (Pay Setup), Local and State Taxes, Direct Deposit, Pay Statements from Paylocity into tables in Greenplum continuously, handling API limits and schema drift as they come. The connection is bi-directional, so values computed in Greenplum, 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 Keep Greenplum and a cloud warehouse in sync during a migration so both platforms serve consistent data.
  • 02 Feed BI reporting by syncing curated Greenplum views to downstream tools on a schedule.
  • 03 Read Pay Statements and Direct Deposit allocations into a Postgres or warehouse database for labor-cost, GL, and headcount reporting in SQL.
  • 04 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

HR data in the warehouse, minus the pipeline

People and organization records from Paylocity arrive in Greenplum as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a day behind, replacing hand-built extract jobs.

Headcount and cost joined with everything else

Analysts combine Paylocity's workforce records with finance, product, or operational data already in Greenplum for reporting the HR system cannot produce on its own.

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.

What you can sync between Greenplum 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.

Greenplum objects Paylocity objects How this pairing syncs
Tables Heap or append-optimized tables mapped directly to sync targets. 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. Tables is specific to Greenplum and Employees to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Partitions Large tables are commonly partitioned by date, which shapes incremental reads. 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. Partitions is specific to Greenplum and Onboarding to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-only projections used to shape data before syncing it out. 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. Views is specific to Greenplum and Deductions (Pay Setup) to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
External tables Reference external files for bulk load paths alongside row-level syncs. 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. External tables is specific to Greenplum and Earnings (Pay Setup) to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows Read and written by key; distribution keys determine where rows live. 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. Rows is specific to Greenplum 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 a sync connection. 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 Greenplum and Direct Deposit to Paylocity — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Greenplum 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.

Greenplum Paylocity Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Greenplum for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling with timestamp or key-based cursors.

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

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Greenplum: Bounded by cluster resources and concurrency settings rather than an 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 Greenplum ⇄ Paylocity

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Greenplum 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 Greenplum or Paylocity record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Greenplum and Paylocity connectors work

Greenplum

Integration surface
PostgreSQL wire protocol (libpq), plus JDBC/ODBC drivers
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Polling with timestamp or key-based cursors; Greenplum does not expose logical-decoding CDC
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Bounded by cluster resources and concurrency settings rather than an 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 Greenplum 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 Greenplum 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
    Greenplum connected
    Paylocity connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

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