Paylocity

The Pinpoint and Paylocity integration connects your applicant tracking system to your payroll and HR platform. When a candidate is hired in Pinpoint, their details pass into Paylocity as a new employee record, with the fields you choose mapped and pre-filled. Recruiting runs in Pinpoint. Payroll stays in Paylocity.

What is the Pinpoint and Paylocity integration?

The Pinpoint Paylocity integration sends hired-candidate data from Pinpoint into Paylocity. Your recruiters work in Pinpoint through sourcing, screening, interviews, and offers. At the point of hire, the candidate is sent to Paylocity, and Paylocity creates them as a pre-hire ready for onboarding and payroll. Nobody re-types candidate data into a second system.

What data flows from Pinpoint to Paylocity?

The integration carries the hired-candidate record:

• Candidate details captured in Pinpoint, pre-filled into Paylocity's supported employee fields
• Only the fields you choose to expose, so the handoff stays compliant and under your control
• A new pre-hire record in Paylocity, ready for onboarding and payroll

Candidate data moves in one direction, from Pinpoint into Paylocity. Dropdown field values sync the other way, so if those options change in Paylocity they update in Pinpoint automatically.

How to set up the Pinpoint and Paylocity integration

Setup happens in Pinpoint. Paylocity is connected via API, and the candidate fields are mapped in Pinpoint.

After that, sending a hire across takes a few clicks. Once a candidate reaches the hired stage, the user selects Send to Paylocity from the candidate profile. A form opens showing only the fields you exposed. Submit it, and the candidate is created in Paylocity as a pre-hire.

What does the Paylocity recruiting module do?

Paylocity Recruiting covers job posting and syndication, candidate texting, self-scheduling, assessments, and native one-way video interviews inside the Paylocity suite, with background checks through a Checkr integration.

Keep Paylocity for payroll, run recruiting on Pinpoint

Most teams who connect the two are not trying to replace Paylocity. Payroll, HR, benefits, and time stay exactly where they are. What changes is where recruiting happens.

Pinpoint is a purpose-built recruitment platform: native background checks, one-way video interviews, reference checks, and interview transcription in one system, a careers-site CMS your own team can update in multiple languages, and candidates who apply without creating an account or password. Around 60% of candidates abandon an application that is too long or complex, so that last detail protects more of your pipeline than it sounds like it should.

See how Pinpoint compares to Paylocity for recruiting

About Paylocity

Paylocity is a US-based HR and payroll platform that helps organizations manage their workforce from onboarding through payroll and beyond.

Paylocity integration FAQ

Does Pinpoint integrate with Paylocity?

Yes. Pinpoint has a live Paylocity integration. When a candidate is hired in Pinpoint, their details are sent into Paylocity as a new employee record, with your chosen fields mapped and pre-filled. Recruiting runs in Pinpoint, payroll and HR stay in Paylocity, and nobody enters the same data twice.

What data does Pinpoint send to Paylocity?

The hired candidate's details, mapped to Paylocity's supported employee fields and pre-filled from what Pinpoint already captured during hiring. You control which fields are included. The result in Paylocity is a new pre-hire record, ready to pick up for onboarding and payroll.

Do I need to build anything to connect Pinpoint and Paylocity?

No. The integration is already built. Your Pinpoint administrator connects Paylocity and maps the fields you want to send, which is configuration rather than development work. There is no connector to write and no engineering time needed from your side to get it running.

Can I control which candidate fields go into Paylocity?

Yes. You choose which fields are shared and which appear on the send form your administrator completes at the point of hire. That keeps the handoff aligned with your own data and compliance rules, and keeps the form short enough that it does not slow the hire down.

Is Paylocity an ATS?

Paylocity is primarily an HR and payroll platform. It includes a recruiting module with applicant-tracking features such as job posting, texting, scheduling, and one-way video. It is not a purpose-built, standalone ATS, which is why teams whose hiring has outgrown the module often run a dedicated ATS alongside Paylocity.

Can I keep Paylocity for payroll and use Pinpoint for recruiting?

Yes, and that is what most teams connecting the two are doing. Paylocity stays your system of record for payroll, HR, benefits, and time. Recruiting moves to a platform built for it, and the integration passes each hire across so your payroll records stay current.