20 Payroll Integrations for Complex HR and Finance Environments

Managing payroll for a globally distributed team presents significant challenges. With countless currencies, local compliance requirements, and manual data processes, many businesses struggle to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and timeliness in payroll operations.

This challenge isn’t isolated—research shows that over 30% of companies take more than four days to complete payroll processing.

At Deel, we understand the complexities of cross-border payroll management because we’ve built solutions to handle them—seamlessly, globally, and efficiently. In this blog, we’ll spotlight 20 payroll integrations that can improve your payroll workflows by automating processes, optimizing employee payments, and ensuring compliance on a global scale.

With Deel’s 68+ integrations, from HRIS and accounting to expense management and FP&A tools, you can achieve accelerated payroll cycles, accurate reconciliations, and frictionless compliance.

Let’s explore how these tools can unify your payroll systems—no matter where you operate.

What is payroll integration?

Payroll integration is the process of connecting payroll software with other systems, such as HRIS, time-tracking tools, or accounting platforms, to enable seamless data sharing. This integration automates tasks like transferring employee data, hours worked, tax deductions, and benefits information, creating accurate and efficient payroll processing while minimizing manual input and errors.

HRIS integrations

Human Resources Information System or Human Resources Information Software (HRIS) functions as a people database, housing company and employee information such as contact details, employment history, compensation data, performance records, and organizational hierarchies.

Any prospective software worth considering must offer both basic and advanced functionalities such as:

• Payroll administration
• Employee database
• Hiring and onboarding
• Succession planning
• Performance management
• Employee self-service
• Localized compliance
• Analytics and reporting
• Time and attendance management

Workday

Workday provides standardized, real-time insights into all of your people, operational, and financial data so you can minimize risks, make strategic decisions faster, and drive agility across your operations.

Integrating Workday into your existing operations will allow you to expedite payments, automatically sync employee data from different sources, and configure bonuses, allowances, PTO, and other payroll elements with precision.

Workday integrations require specialized expertise to implement correctly. Through the Safeguard Pay acquisition, Deel brings dedicated implementation specialists with global payroll experience across 130+ countries. As a GPC-certified Workday partner with more than 15 years of experience, Safeguard Pay strengthens Deel’s ability to integrate Workday with complex, multi-country payroll environments.

By integrating Workday and Deel, you gain access to features designed to automate workflows while preserving data accuracy:

• Data Changes on Demand (DCoD): Enables daily automatic and on-demand updates of core HR data from Workday to Deel via API, dramatically reducing implementation time and increasing efficiency

• Global Payroll Hub: Provides a centralized platform for overseeing diverse payroll operations, enabling real-time access to Deel’s payroll workflows and accelerating payroll reconciliation

• External Payroll Documents (ExPD): Delivers payslips and tax documents to Workday, allowing employees to view important payroll information in one dedicated place

• External Payroll Results (ExPR): Seamlessly syncs payroll results from Deel into Workday, giving teams real-time access to data for reconciliation, reporting, and compliance—reducing manual effort and enhancing visibility

• Additional Payroll Data (APD): Automatically collects country-specific payroll fields (entered directly in Workday and sent to Deel) reducing manual data entry, supporting local compliance, and simplifying scaling into new markets

UKG

UKG streamlines employee onboarding, engagement, compensation, and management for large and multinational teams to boost convenience and productivity.

With the UKG integration, you can:

• Eliminate manual data tracking/entries, duplicated tasks, account reconciliation challenges, and payroll errors
• Instantly update changes to employee data like promotions, terminations, marital status, and new addresses
• Enable employees to submit and review banking details, tax forms, selected benefits, and other relevant information about their paychecks on their own
• Get an in-depth audit and on-demand reporting on payroll data as needed

SAP

SAP SuccessFactors is an enterprise platform that empowers you to create standout employee experiences and optimize your talent management processes by linking HR to all facets of your business, from payroll to sales performance.

SAP provides a variety of HR capabilities localized for over 100 countries which you can unlock by integrating the software with your current workflow.

• Decrease disputes and payment mistakes while increasing productivity with SAP's intuitive time-tracking solution
• Lower costs and harmonize employee data with centralized document management and standardized HR, benefits, and payroll processes
• Support continuous employee development with timely performance evaluations, personalized learning opportunities, and compensation review

Accounting integrations

Maintaining accurate bookkeeping can be overwhelming when you're dealing with hundreds of employees, different countries, multiple currencies, and financial systems.

Enterprise accounting software is built to address these challenges. While accounting solutions come in different packages, the basic features to look out for include:

• Invoicing and billing
• Payment tracking
• Account reconciliation
• Transaction records
• Management of general ledger
• Generation of financial statements

More advanced accounting integrations will also offer budgeting, forecasting, payroll, inventory management, project accounting, tax compliance, asset tracking, detailed analytics, trend analysis, mobile support, user-specific permissions, and role-based analytics and dashboards.

NetSuite

NetSuite gives you visibility into your transactions and financial performance. It ensures that all payments and expenses are tracked and that you're compliant with local regulations, accounting best practices, and internal company policies.

With Deel's NetSuite integration, you can:

• Sync, store, and access all your financial records in one place
• Categorize employer of record (EOR) and contractor invoices and bill payments to the correct general ledger account
• Synchronize tax codes for each line item in an invoice for easier auditing and to comply with regulatory requirements
• Automate tedious and repetitive accounting tasks like data collection, journal entries, invoice generation, account reconciliation, and updating payment information

Carta

Carta is the leading platform for end-to-end equity management. It delivers the tools and guidance you need to go from building your first cap table to scaling your company to IPO.

Carta's integration with Deel brings unparalleled convenience to the process of issuing, managing, and exercising equity options. You can automatically sync any type of equity event from your Carta account to Deel.

Deel then handles recording the transaction, calculating currency exchange rates, and withholding local taxes. This means that international workers won’t have to navigate complicated workflows or face delayed USD transfers to exercise their options. They can now pay for their shares in their local currencies efficiently and compliantly.

Xero

Expedite bill payment and invoicing, predict future cash flow, monitor financial metrics, offset expense claims, manage your fixed assets, and accurately track project costs with Xero's accounting app.

Integrating Xero into your payroll process equips you to automatically conduct pay runs, reconcile account statements, and digitally capture, share, and store document data.

With support for over 160 currencies, instant currency conversions, and up-to-date foreign exchange rates, you’ll significantly reduce global payment complexity. You can even create custom account categories to sort expenses for comprehensive record-keeping.

See also: 7 Best Enterprise Payroll Software in 2026

ATS integrations

Applicant tracking systems (ATS) shorten the length of time it takes you to fill open positions and onboard new hires. Using an ATS platform, you can standardize your hiring process and source quality talent while making sure each candidate gets the same level of ease, care, and attention.

When evaluating an ATS to add to your workflow, prioritize tools that offer these key features:

• Data import and export
• Advanced resume analysis
• Centralized data hub
• Employer branding
• Mobile-friendly interface
• Robust search function
• Interview scheduling and management
• Task and messaging automation
• Recruiting reports and analytics
• Candidate relationship management

Greenhouse

Future-proof your company by assembling purpose-driven teams. Build scalable workflows, streamline collaboration, and make every step of your hiring process as engaging and effective as possible.

Greenhouse's ATS integration enables you to automatically sync and push candidate data (role description, offer letter, personal info, etc.) into your HRIS and payroll system. You won't have to waste time on unnecessary data entry, and you can customize which information gets transferred and where it's recorded.

Ashby

Ashby aims to help you achieve your ambitious hiring goals and automate processes while retaining ultimate control over the candidate experience.

Integrating Ashby directly with Deel or your existing human resource management platform will allow you to extend the ATS’ capabilities to suit your organization's unique requirements, automatically sync recruitment data daily, and instantly kick off new hire onboarding once an offer is accepted.

Note: Deel also offers direct integrations with other popular ATS platforms such as Lever, JobAdder, Workable, JazzHR, and Teamtailor to support your organization's workflow.

Expense integrations

Expense software and integrations help teams manage spend with greater transparency while ensuring expenses and reimbursements are paid on time and accurately reflected in payroll.

Some core features to look for when comparing expense management tools include:

• Digital audit trails
• Mileage tracking
• Receipt management
• Real-time spend visibility
• Data capturing and extraction
• Corporate card reconciliation
• Budget planning and forecasting
• Automatic approval processes
• Enterprise-grade security and compliance
• Intuitive and comprehensive dashboard

Expensify

Expensify is a full-service solution for managing and tracking expenses across your organization. With this integration, you can set up expense categories to align with your payroll types and sync them to your payroll software so they can be settled during the next pay run, once approved.

Employees and contractors can tender expense requests and get reimbursed without chasing payments, while your team retains a clear record of your spending.

Brex

Stay on top of your finance operations while enhancing organizational efficiency with this AI-powered expense platform. Brex gives you hands-off control over all your spending, from per diem and travel bookings to bill payments and subscription charges.

Encourage judicious spending by allocating budgets and transaction limits and issuing corporate cards with auto-enforced controls and 24/7 fraud monitoring. Brex integration also speeds up accounting processes thanks to automated user management, receipts, compliance, and employer information updates.

Ramp

Ramp provides everything you need to manage spending for your global team: unlimited corporate cards, expense limits, custom controls, smart reconciliation, multi-currency support, and configurable approvals.

It streamlines administrative efforts by automatically verifying transactions, generating bills, and assigning them to the right expense categories for reimbursement. You won't need to enter data manually, worry about calculation mistakes, or work overtime to close your books at the end of the month.

All you have to do is integrate Ramp with your accounting and payroll system, then set up your policies, permissions, and preferred workflows, and the rest will be automated.

Financial planning and analysis integrations

Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) tools connect your financial data across payroll, accounting, CRM, and more. In return, you gain clearer insights into headcount costs, budgeting, forecasting, and workforce planning decisions.

While FP&A solutions vary in terms of what they bring to the table, there are some defining components that any reliable option must have. They include:

• Scenario analysis
• Task automation
• Collaborative ability
• Financial modeling and forecasting
• Integrated financial planning
• Centralized data source
• Robust data visualization options
• Data encryption and role-based access
• Real-time analytics with custom dashboards and reports

Anaplan

Anaplan empowers you to make confident decisions, increase profitability, and understand the financial impact that strategic initiatives will have on your business. It helps you control payroll costs and optimize payroll operations to achieve set financial goals with less time and effort.

It's equipped with many features such as flexible models, detailed budgeting, real-time collaboration, corporate performance monitoring, and multi-dimensional scenario planning.

DataRails

Leverage AI to automate recurrent processes and transform the way you budget, forecast, analyze, and consolidate your financial data by adding DataRails to your payroll integrations stack.

This FP&A tool lets you work directly in Excel, reducing workflow disruptions and the need for data transfers. You can drill down into critical business metrics and insights, uncover trends in historical data, and relay them to stakeholders via easy-to-grasp visualizations.

Productivity integrations

Productivity tools enhance mobility and help your employees to stay aligned by improving communication and simplifying task assignments, progress tracking, and document sharing.

Look for the following core features when selecting productivity software to integrate into your operations:

• Intuitive visual interface
• Collaboration tools
• In-app messaging
• Cloud-based access
• Mobile support and offline functionality
• Task management and organization
• Compatibility with third-party apps
• Strong privacy and security measures
• Ample personalization and customization options

Slack

Slack is designed for centralized communication. Integrating Slack into HRIS and payroll software like Deel will enable you to get notified about contracts, payments, expenses, and other important updates instantaneously.

As a result, you can swiftly issue approvals, take needed action, and share crucial information with your team. Best of all, you won't need to switch from app to app to do it, so workflow interruptions will be reduced to enhance operational efficiency.

Microsoft Teams

Connecting your HRIS or payroll software to Microsoft Teams allows you to manage your workforce and refine payroll and HR processes for maximum efficiency. You can automatically create or delete employee profiles for new and departing employees, and receive real-time notifications for contract updates, signings, approvals, and payments.

This integration also grants you the ability to set up channels for various teams, projects, or inquiries, ensuring that information is sent to the right people, without overwhelming general communication channels.

SSO integrations

Ramping up productivity and maintaining a competitive edge in today's business landscape requires expert technological assistance. In addition to company-wide collaboration tools, each team has various software solutions that enable them to get work done.

Normally, this would mean provisioning dozens of profiles and passwords that employees will need to remember and keep track of to gain access to their tools and data.

SSO tools eliminate this complication by allowing employees to use a single set of login credentials for all their applications. Operations become more efficient for your IT team to resolve tickets, control access to applications, monitor app usage trends, and safeguard sensitive data.

With that in mind, these are some essential criteria to look for in SSO software to end up with the best solution for your enterprise:

• User-friendly experience with mobile support
• Advanced security and authentication protocol
• Scalable infrastructure
• Global regulatory compliance
• Conditions access policies
• Comprehensive audit trail, report, and analytics
• Extensive ready-made and custom app integrations

Okta

Okta's easy-to-integrate SSO platform is compatible with over 7,000 applications and identity providers, allowing you to scale effortlessly and securely manage and authenticate access regardless of the tools you use.

With cloud and mobile support, your employees, contingent workers, and partners can stay on top of their game and drive innovation from anywhere, on any device.

OpenID Connect

OpenID Connect is an identity authentication protocol that simplifies the user verification process and removes the need to set, store, and manage multiple passwords. It helps you create a uniform system for authenticating and authorizing your employees’ access to company-related digital services.

OneLogin

OneLogin's identity and access management platform enables users to securely sign in to their corporate apps in the cloud and beyond. It provides capabilities for protecting data while enhancing workforce productivity such as multi-factor authentication, password policies, social login, application launch links, delegated administration, and multiple login functionality.

Note: In addition to the above, Deel offers other alternative SSO integrations, including SAML, JumpCloud, and Azure AD.

Custom integrations

Implementing custom integrations can dramatically increase organizational efficiency, by reducing duplicate work or manual data entry. You'll be able to connect various tools, websites, or platforms, and share data across your entire infrastructure in ways that align with your unique requirements and workflows.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) make custom integrations possible, of which there are plenty to choose from. Some essential capabilities include:

• Security against common system vulnerabilities
• Comprehensive documentation
• Scalable infrastructure
• Responsive, quality support
• Strong authentication and authorization mechanisms

Deel API

Deel's powerful API is designed to integrate into complex finance, HRIS, and ERP environments, enabling organizations to connect global workforce operations with existing systems and workflows.

Built to support high-volume, multi-entity data flows, it provides a flexible integration layer that scales with organizational growth and evolving system architectures.

Deel API provides a rich spectrum of features and functions to drive efficiency across your organization and give your teams unhindered access to the technology they need. They include:

• Dedicated support throughout the implementation process and beyond
• Development tools for custom app and integration builds
• Detailed documentation
• Capabilities for provisioning, managing, and de-provisioning users
• Advanced automations for global payroll and workforce management
• Fully customizable solutions for creating cohesive experiences for your teams
• Compatibility with a wide range of platforms from in-house systems to third-party software

Leverage integrations to enable centralized global payroll processes

Strategic payroll integrations strengthen global payroll operations by improving process efficiency, reducing manual intervention, and supporting accuracy and control at scale. For large, distributed organizations, this translates into lower operational risk and more predictable payroll outcomes.

By integrating payroll with core HRIS, accounting, SSO, expense management, ATS, productivity, and financial planning systems, organizations can automate cross-functional workflows, improve data consistency, and reduce reliance on manual reconciliation across teams.

Deel Payroll helps you navigate the complex domain of running remote, hybrid, and globally distributed teams by handling local compliance, tax reporting, and payment delivery for your enterprise.

With powerful API and a growing library of pre-built app integrations, Deel delivers unmatched flexibility for cross-border, cross-entity hiring and payroll management.

Ready to streamline your payroll infrastructure? Schedule a demo with our expert team to learn more.