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HCM integrations

Connect the data behind the work.

Phi HCM is designed around the connections between people, time, attendance, payroll-ready data, finance, scheduling, reporting, and the systems your organization relies on.

01
Data flow

Preserve meaning from source to decision.

For a time-to-payroll handoff, define the employee identifier, pay period, pay codes, approved hours, and labor allocation. Agree how a missing employee or unmapped code is rejected, corrected, and reconciled before the cutoff.

  • Workforce and organization data
  • Time, attendance, and schedule activity
  • Payroll-ready exports and review
  • Finance, reporting, and reconciliation
02
Ownership

Make every handoff accountable.

Record the source of truth, direction, frequency, and owner for each interface. A workforce import and a payroll export need different permissions and reconciliation rules. Confirm who can change mappings, rerun a failed transfer, and approve corrections.

  • Source and destination ownership
  • Data quality and reconciliation
  • Error handling and correction paths
  • Access and change responsibilities
03
Readiness

Validate the actual operating model.

The right integration scope depends on your workforce, payroll groups, identity model, finance structure, reporting needs, and rollout plan.

  • Current-state system inventory
  • Future-state data and workflow map
  • Cutoff, approval, and export requirements
  • A phased path for expansion and adoption
A practical evaluation scenario

Define a payroll integration before promising a connection.

Keeping your existing payroll processor starts with a clear data contract. These planning steps do not imply a prebuilt connector to any particular vendor.

  1. Step 1

    Map the records

    List employee IDs, period dates, earning codes, approved hours, and cost centers needed by the receiving payroll system.

    What to verify: Confirm source ownership, supported fields, file format, transfer method, and secure handling with both system owners.

  2. Step 2

    Test the exceptions

    Use a synthetic file containing an unknown employee or unmapped earning code.

    What to verify: Agree rejection rules, correction ownership, duplicate prevention, and how a corrected transfer is identified.

  3. Step 3

    Reconcile and release

    Compare employee counts, hours, earnings, and accounting totals before accepting the interface.

    What to verify: Record the cutoff, approval owner, acceptance criteria, and separate responsibilities for tax filing and employee payment delivery.

Illustrative evaluation scenario—not a customer case study, product image, or guarantee of a particular result. Confirm availability and configuration for your deployment.

Use the HCM evaluation worksheet
Evaluate with clarity

What to ask about HCM integrations

Exact connectors, supported fields, transfer methods, and production activation are confirmed during scoping. This page describes integration requirements; it is not a claim that every third-party vendor has a ready-made connector.

  • Which system owns each workforce, policy, time, payroll, finance, and identity field?
  • How are missing data, exceptions, and corrections handled before payroll or reporting cutoffs?
  • Who can approve, change, reconcile, and audit each integration flow?
  • Can the integration model scale across business units, locations, and global operating requirements?
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