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Paylocity to Starburst Enterprise integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Paylocity and Starburst Enterprise 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 Paylocity and Starburst Enterprise

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

Stacksync syncs Pay Statements, Company Codes, Custom Fields, Employees from Paylocity into tables in Starburst Enterprise continuously, handling API limits and schema drift as they come. The connection is bi-directional, so values computed in Starburst Enterprise, 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 Read federated views that join warehouse, lake, and database tables, then sync the result into operational tools like a CRM
  • 02 Expose Iceberg or Hive lake tables to sync jobs through one SQL endpoint without moving the data first
  • 03 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.
  • 04 Read Pay Statements and Direct Deposit allocations into a Postgres or warehouse database for labor-cost, GL, and headcount reporting in SQL.

Common sync patterns

HR data in the warehouse, minus the pipeline

People and organization records from Paylocity arrive in Starburst Enterprise 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 Starburst Enterprise 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 Paylocity and Starburst Enterprise

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.

Paylocity objects Starburst Enterprise objects How this pairing syncs
Custom Fields Read-only company-specific custom fields returned by category, used to enrich the employee record downstream. Columns Typed per the Trino type system, mapped from each source's native types. Custom Fields is specific to Paylocity and Columns to Starburst Enterprise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Catalogs Each catalog maps to a connector (Iceberg, Hive, PostgreSQL, and others) exposing an external source. Employees is specific to Paylocity and Catalogs to Starburst Enterprise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Schemas Namespaces within a catalog, mirroring the underlying source's databases or schemas. Onboarding is specific to Paylocity and Schemas to Starburst Enterprise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Tables Queryable relations; writes pass through to sources whose connectors support them. Deductions (Pay Setup) is specific to Paylocity and Tables to Starburst Enterprise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Views Engine-level SQL views used to shape federated data before syncing it out. Earnings (Pay Setup) is specific to Paylocity and Views to Starburst Enterprise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Materialized views Precomputed results that make repeated sync reads cheaper. Local and State Taxes is specific to Paylocity and Materialized views to Starburst Enterprise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Paylocity and Starburst Enterprise

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.

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

Starburst Enterprise Paylocity Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Starburst Enterprise for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Query-based polling.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • 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).
  • Starburst Enterprise: Throughput is governed by cluster sizing and resource groups rather than API quotas.
What ships with Paylocity ⇄ Starburst Enterprise

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Paylocity or Starburst Enterprise 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 Paylocity or Starburst Enterprise record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Paylocity and Starburst Enterprise connectors work

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).

Starburst Enterprise

Integration surface
ANSI SQL over JDBC/ODBC drivers and the Trino client REST protocol
Authentication
Deployment-dependent: username/password, LDAP, OAuth 2.0, or Kerberos
Change detection
Query-based polling; Starburst is a query engine and exposes no change log of its own
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Throughput is governed by cluster sizing and resource groups rather than API quotas
How it works

How to connect Paylocity to Starburst Enterprise — 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 Paylocity and Starburst Enterprise 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
    Paylocity connected
    Starburst Enterprise connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

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