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

Keep Paylocity and Tinybird 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 Tinybird

Land the people and organization records from Paylocity in Tinybird 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 Tinybird 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 Tinybird continuously, handling API limits and schema drift as they come. The connection is bi-directional, so values computed in Tinybird, 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 Compute aggregates in Tinybird and write the results back to CRM fields for scoring and routing.
  • 02 Stream CRM activity such as deals and tickets into Tinybird Data Sources to power customer-facing dashboards.
  • 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

Write-back of computed values

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

HR data in the warehouse, minus the pipeline

People and organization records from Paylocity arrive in Tinybird 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 Tinybird for reporting the HR system cannot produce on its own.

What you can sync between Paylocity and Tinybird

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 Tinybird objects How this pairing syncs
Company Codes Read-only reference codes and descriptions (cost centers, departments, positions) used to validate field mappings on employee writes. Materialized Views Pipes materialized into new Data Sources for pre-aggregation at ingest time. Company Codes is specific to Paylocity and Materialized Views to Tinybird — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Custom Fields Read-only company-specific custom fields returned by category, used to enrich the employee record downstream. Workspaces Project boundary that scopes Data Sources, Pipes, and tokens for a sync. Custom Fields is specific to Paylocity and Workspaces to Tinybird — 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. Tokens Scoped credentials that control read and append rights per resource. Employees is specific to Paylocity and Tokens to Tinybird — 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. Data Sources ClickHouse-backed tables that receive ingested rows; the write target for syncs into Tinybird. Onboarding is specific to Paylocity and Data Sources to Tinybird — 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. Pipes Chained SQL nodes that transform Data Sources into query-ready results. Deductions (Pay Setup) is specific to Paylocity and Pipes to Tinybird — 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. API Endpoints Published Pipe outputs exposed as parameterized HTTP queries; the main read surface. Earnings (Pay Setup) is specific to Paylocity and API Endpoints to Tinybird — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Paylocity and Tinybird

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

Tinybird Paylocity Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Tinybird for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Append-oriented ingestion.

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).
  • Tinybird: Subject to the platform's ingestion and query rate limits; batch appends where possible.
What ships with Paylocity ⇄ Tinybird

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Paylocity or Tinybird 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 Tinybird record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Paylocity ⇄ Tinybird 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 Tinybird.

How the Paylocity and Tinybird 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).

Tinybird

Integration surface
REST API (Events API for ingestion, published query endpoints) with a ClickHouse SQL dialect
Authentication
Scoped auth tokens
Change detection
Append-oriented ingestion; reads are pulled by querying published endpoints, no outbound CDC
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's ingestion and query rate limits; batch appends where possible.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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