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HRIS and payroll

Paylocity runs payroll. ChangeEngine runs the moments around it.

Use Paylocity departments, locations and hire dates to run onboarding, benefits reminders and milestones on every channel people read.

Paylocity
Integration details
Category
HRIS and payroll
Connection
Read, or read and write for fields you approve
Setup
About 2 weeks with SSO
Security
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR
Built by
ChangeEngine
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What connects

The data your programs run on.

Paylocity is an HR and payroll platform for mid-sized companies, with employee records, payroll, benefits and a built-in community feed in one place.

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Fields you can use

Employee, job title, department, cost center, work location, supervisor, hire date, employee type, mobile number and your custom fields.

You stay in control

You pick the fields that sync and whether the connection is read-only or also writes approved fields back to Paylocity. Sensitive fields report coverage only, never values, when your team asks an AI assistant about them.

Who sees it

Editors only see what their role allows, and every change is logged.

Triggers

Events that start programs on their own.

When something changes in your system of record, the right people hear about it on the right channel. Nobody on the People team presses send.

New hire

A new employee in Paylocity gets a welcome email, first-week details and a reminder to their supervisor.

Job change

Promotions trigger congratulations and move people into the right audiences.

Location change

Moving locations sends the new site's contacts and local updates.

Open enrollment

Benefits reminders go only to eligible employee types, with follow-ups to people who have not opened them.

Anniversary

Work anniversaries trigger a supervisor message and an optional e-gift.

Termination

Offboarding steps go out on schedule, and leavers drop out of every audience after their last day.

What you can do

Six jobs your team stops doing by hand.

Benefits season without the chasing

Send open enrollment updates by Paylocity employee type and location, then follow up automatically with only the people who missed them.

Audiences that keep themselves current

Every department, location and manager in Paylocity becomes a live audience. New hires are in on day one, and leavers drop out on their last.

Onboarding that starts on its own

A start date in Paylocity kicks off preboarding, day one and the first 90 days, with manager nudges built in.

Milestones nobody forgets

Work anniversaries and promotions recorded in Paylocity trigger a message, a manager prompt or an e-gift on the day.

Messages that sound personal

Merge first name, manager, location and role into every email, Slack/Teams post and text, so a company-wide update reads like it was written for one person.

Results by team, site and manager

Every read and click rolls up by the Paylocity fields you already track, ready for leadership without a spreadsheet.

In detail

How it works, in practice.

From Paylocity record to live audience

Every person in Paylocity becomes one ChangeEngine profile. Departments, locations, managers and custom fields turn into audiences you can combine, and they update on every sync.

Built for growing mid-sized companies

Mid-sized teams usually run a handful of programs on repeat: onboarding, benefits season, anniversaries and quarterly updates. Each one targets the right departments and locations and follows up with only the people who missed it.

Read, or read and write

Most teams start read-only. If you want ChangeEngine to send data back to Paylocity, you approve write access for specific fields, every change is logged, and you can switch it off at any time.

Setup

Live in about two weeks.

Your services team runs the setup with IT. When you need something that is not in the box, your forward deployed engineer builds it.

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01

IT approves the connection

Your Paylocity admin approves access for ChangeEngine, read-only or read and write. We send the exact permission checklist ahead of the call, so IT knows what it is signing off on.

02

We map your fields together

On a working call, we map the Paylocity fields you want to use: department, cost center, location, supervisor and hire date. You choose what comes across and what stays in Paylocity.

03

Programs go live

Audiences fill themselves from Paylocity, your first journeys switch on, and you see every person who could not be placed so you can fix the record at the source.

IT and security

Why IT says yes.

Your People team moves fast. Your IT team keeps control of every connection.

Certified

SOC 2 and ISO 27001. GDPR compliant, with data residency in the US, EU or Canada.

Access

Single sign-on over SAML or OAuth, with optional two-factor authentication for editors.

Provisioning

SCIM provisioning, and content shown by HRIS attributes like role, location and employment type.

Encryption

Employee data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and editors only see what their role allows.

Governance

Word-level audit logs, role-based editors, and AI providers contractually barred from training on your data.

Your domain

Run your hub on your own subdomain, like central.yourcompany.com, with a couple of DNS records.

SOC 2 certified
SOC 2
ISO 27001 certified
ISO 27001
GDPR compliant
GDPR
FAQ

Questions teams ask before they connect

Does ChangeEngine replace Paylocity Community?

No. Keep it if your team likes it. ChangeEngine adds targeted delivery across email, Slack/Teams, text and your hub, with proof of who read what.

Can we use our custom Paylocity fields?

Yes. Custom fields map the same way as standard ones, so you can target, personalize or trigger a program on anything your team already keeps up to date in Paylocity.

Can we reach people who only have a mobile number?

Yes. ChangeEngine can text employees using the mobile numbers in Paylocity and checks who has a number before anything goes out.

How long does it take to connect Paylocity?

Most teams are live with HRIS and SSO in about two weeks. IT approves the connection, we map fields with you on a call, and your audiences fill themselves.

Is our Paylocity data secure in ChangeEngine?

Yes. ChangeEngine is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, you choose US, EU or Canadian data residency, and AI providers are contractually barred from training on your data.

Can ChangeEngine write data back to Paylocity?

Yes, if you want it to. Most teams start read-only. You can turn on write access for the specific fields you approve, every change is logged, and Paylocity stays your system of record.

Run it from your existing AI

Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot to do the work.

The ChangeEngine MCP connects the assistant your company already approved. Build audiences from this integration's data, draft a send or pull last week's read rates in plain words. A person on your team publishes every send.

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