Is a Flexible, Consolidated Approach to Global Payroll and Vendor Management Possible?

As global teams expand, they must choose how to manage multi-country payroll: using in-country partners (ICPs), a global payroll solution, or a hybrid model that blends both. A hybrid approach allows you to:

• Maintain relationships with trusted local payroll vendors, with central oversight from one secure, global system
• Use a global managed provider where consolidation and payroll time-savings matter most
• Maintain resiliency and business continuity by diversifying payroll vendors across regions

With Deel Payroll Connect, companies can combine and centralize all their payroll data while continuing to use existing ICPs as before.

This unified experience removes the stress of using different payroll vendors. The result is an overall better client experience without disruptions to current payroll operations or vendor management.

This article explores how global teams can leverage Deel Payroll Connect to simplify payroll management and improve efficiencies—no matter the payroll setup.

With centralized global payroll viewing and reporting, your team can easily manage all payroll workflows across multiple vendors from one place.

You also gain better control and visibility into each country’s payroll status to know exactly how it’s progressing toward payday. Deel Payroll Connect streamlines the review and approval of ICP activities directly from the Deel platform.

Your payroll partners under the same roof

By centralizing payroll workflows across multiple ICPs, Deel Payroll Connect provides complete payroll visibility, reduces errors, and leads to timely, accurate payroll processing.

This means a smoother experience for both internal teams and external partners—without sacrificing payroll vendor flexibility for your business. Deel Payroll Connect provides:

• Easy steps to add external ICPs into the Deel Global Payroll platform, with one screen to see all payroll workflows by entity
• Simplified management and tracking of ICP activities—all within the easy-to-use Deel platform
• View the payroll calendar to see monthly dates for each ICP payroll activity per entity (submission, approval, payroll funding)

Simplified ICP payroll management

Deel Payroll Connect isn’t just for internal teams—it also streamlines collaboration and payroll management with your ICPs. With Deel, ICP payroll managers can:

• Use intuitive back-office tools to collect and submit payroll data more efficiently
• Track payroll workflows with real-time status updates for greater transparency
• Post payroll results and payslips directly into the Deel platform, including Deel HR, for consistent, timely communication
• Automatically distribute payslips to employees via Deel HR

Seamless, flexible payroll vendor integration

With Deel Payroll Connect, you can seamlessly bring together your payroll vendors on one platform and give your team a single view of all your global payroll operations right within Deel.

By making your team’s experience easier, they don’t have to log into different solutions trying to find payroll information. Deel delivers a single source of truth for all your payroll data.

It supports full SFTP connectivity, API integration, and ETL migration, enabling secure and quick connections between ICPs and Deel. Getting set up is easy and adaptable to your organization’s specific needs, supporting any number of local payroll vendors.

Centralized performance analytics and reporting

Without unified ICP management, it’s impossible to have detailed insights into ICP payroll analytics from a single screen. Deel Payroll Connect makes this possible.

It provides all your ICP’s performance analytics together, including payroll processing times, average time to completion, total number of late cycles, and number of G2N versions. This level of transparency is a game-changer for payroll operations.

The dashboards and reports deliver insights into ICP performance over time. Your team can see trends and identify if an ICP’s payroll processing times are underperforming compared to other vendors.

Bridging the G2N gap

Working with multiple vendors means dealing with payroll reports in different formats—from PDFs and spreadsheets to data files. Manually consolidating this information into a single gross-to-net (G2N) report is time-consuming and error-prone, forcing finance teams to spend hours reconciling discrepancies and delaying payroll processing.

Deel Payroll Connect solves this by standardizing data from all your vendors into a single, accurate G2N report.

Simply upload payroll reports to Deel, map them to standardized categories, and instantly generate a consolidated report to receive whole-org payroll insights. Deel offers additional reports based on global G2Ns, including a total payroll summary report and a detailed cost center report.

You can use Deel Payroll Connect whether you only use ICPs or a mix of ICPs and Deel Global Payroll.

Streamlined payments with Deel's infrastructure

Deel Payroll Connect also integrates with Deel’s global payment infrastructure, giving you access to:

• Treasury services for simplified fund management
• Foreign exchange (FX) solutions for seamless multi-currency payments
• Premapped bank files, with or without local banking, to ease payment distribution across regions

Enjoy unified global payroll with Deel

Whether you’re using all ICPs, Deel Global Payroll, or a mix of both, Deel enables you to bring your payroll partners together on a single platform, making it easier to manage and view payroll workflows, analytics, and reporting.

Streamline payroll management, eliminate redundant workflows, and build a seamless data flow across platforms—all while maintaining your preferred payroll vendors. That’s the advantage of Deel Payroll Connect.

Book a 30-minute demo with a Deel expert to learn more.