Integration partner
Paylocity, integrated into the ERP environment your business already runs.
RJR is the integration partner organizations bring in when they're adopting Paylocity into established ERP systems — Viewpoint Vista, Spectrum, and the pattern beyond. Client-side support and managed services available beyond integration when ongoing platform coverage is needed.
Overview
RJR is the integration partner organizations bring in when they're adopting Paylocity into an established ERP environment. The active work is bidirectional integration between Paylocity and the systems the client already runs — Viewpoint Vista and Spectrum are common, and the pattern extends. Client-side support and managed services on Paylocity are available beyond integration for clients who need ongoing platform coverage.
Product
Paylocity
Paylocity's unified HCM platform. Payroll, HR, talent, and benefits administration designed for mid-market organizations. Strong workflow automation and modern UX relative to legacy peers.
Modules & capabilities
ERP integration design and build
Bidirectional integration between Paylocity and the client's ERP, designed for the way the receiving system actually accounts for labor. We handle file specification, field mapping, cost allocation logic, error handling, and the build itself — working from the ERP's job, phase, cost code, department, or grant structure rather than a generic template. Common patterns include Viewpoint Vista and Spectrum, with the same approach extending to other ERP environments.
Scheduling and time integration
Integration between external scheduling and time tracking systems and Paylocity, with attention to how pay rules translate across the boundary. We handle the file or API design, hours and allocation mapping, and the translation of overtime thresholds, shift differentials, and location-based pay rules into Paylocity's earning structure. Deputy is a common example; the same approach applies to other scheduling and time platforms clients run alongside Paylocity.
Integration design during Paylocity implementation
Engagement during the Paylocity implementation itself, focused on the configuration decisions that shape what the integration has to handle. We work alongside Paylocity's implementation team and the client's finance lead on earning code structure, deduction setup, cost allocation rules, and pay group design — flagging the integration consequences early so the outbound file to the ERP reconciles cleanly from the first payroll.
Cutover and parallel payroll support
Validation and reconciliation work through the final stretch of a Paylocity implementation, when the integration has to prove it lands cleanly. We support parallel payroll runs by reconciling the outbound file against expected GL and job cost results, catching mapping or allocation errors before they reach production, and standing by through first live payroll to resolve issues in real time.
Post-go-live integration support
Ongoing maintenance and adjustment of Paylocity integrations after they're live. Earning codes change, cost structures evolve, ERP versions upgrade, and payroll processes shift over time — each one with potential to break a working integration if it isn't accounted for. We handle change requests, regression testing, and the periodic redesign work that keeps the integration aligned with how the client actually runs payroll today rather than how they ran it at go-live.
Client-side support and managed services
Day-to-day Paylocity administration and managed services for clients who need ongoing platform coverage beyond integration work. Engagements scope from focused administrative support — payroll cycle assistance, configuration adjustments, user support — through full-cycle managed coverage. Model is shaped to what the client actually needs rather than fitted to a fixed package.
Where we go deep
Integration architecture for established ERP environments
Most clients come to us already operating on a mature ERP — most often Viewpoint Vista or Spectrum, though the pattern holds across other systems — and adopting Paylocity as their new payroll and HCM platform. The integration has to land on day one. Labor cost posts directly into the job cost ledger, so a misfire on first payroll means a wrong GL and a wrong job cost picture.
We design the bridge as bidirectional. Employee, job, and cost code data flow from the ERP into Paylocity. Hours, earnings, taxes, and burden flow back out, allocated to the right job, phase, and cost code. We work the mapping with the controller and the Paylocity implementation team in parallel, so earning codes, deduction codes, and cost allocation logic line up with how the ERP actually expects to receive them.
Working alongside Paylocity implementations
Paylocity runs the implementation. We run the integration. That division of labor is deliberate — Paylocity's team owns their platform's configuration, and we own the layer that connects it to the systems the client already depends on. The two tracks run in parallel, not in sequence, because integration design isn't something to bolt on after go-live.
In practice that means we're at the table for the decisions that look like Paylocity decisions but have integration consequences. Earning code structure, deduction setup, cost allocation rules, pay group design — each one shapes what the outbound file to the ERP looks like and whether it reconciles cleanly. We flag the implications early, work them with Paylocity's implementation consultant and the client's finance lead, and document the handshake before the first parallel payroll.
Scheduling and time integration
Workforce scheduling and time tracking often live outside the HCM — Deputy is a common example, particularly for clients managing shift-based or distributed workforces. The integration into Paylocity has to deliver clean, payroll-ready time data on the cadence the pay calendar demands.
We build the connection so the scheduling system stays the system of record for shifts and worked time, while Paylocity receives structured hours and allocations ready for payroll. The work is less about moving data and more about making sure the rules baked into the scheduling tool — overtime thresholds, differentials, location-based pay — translate correctly into the earning structure on the Paylocity side.
Industry context shapes the integration
A meaningful share of the Paylocity integration work we do lands in construction and contractor environments, where Vista and Spectrum are common — and that work has taught us that integration design isn't generic. Hours have to allocate to jobs, phases, and cost codes. Certified payroll has to produce cleanly for federally funded work. Prevailing wage determinations have to flow through to the right earnings. Union fringe and dues remittance layer on top.
The same principle applies in every industry we work in. A clean file that posts to the wrong account is still a wrong file. Whether the destination is a contractor's job cost ledger, a hospital's department and grant structure, or a manufacturer's cost center hierarchy, the integration has to respect the way that organization actually accounts for labor. We design the mapping with the client's real structure in view, not a generic template.
Client-side support and managed services
Integration is the active engagement model on Paylocity today, but it's not the full surface of what we can do for a Paylocity client. We offer client-side support and managed services on the platform — day-to-day administration, payroll cycle support, configuration adjustments as the business changes, and the steady operational work that keeps an HCM running cleanly between bigger projects.
Clients who need this coverage on Paylocity get the same standard the rest of our managed services portfolio is held to. Engagements scope from focused administrative support through full-cycle managed coverage, and we shape the model to what the client actually needs rather than fitting them into a fixed package.
Questions we hear
Do you implement Paylocity?
No. Paylocity runs their own implementations, and we work alongside their team rather than replacing them. Our role is the integration layer between Paylocity and the systems the client already depends on — most often an ERP like Viewpoint Vista or Spectrum, sometimes a scheduling and time platform like Deputy. We're at the table for the configuration decisions that shape what the integration has to handle, but the Paylocity build itself is theirs.
What ERP systems do you integrate Paylocity with?
Most of our active integration work runs between Paylocity and Viewpoint Vista or Spectrum, which is why we tend to land in construction and contractor environments. The same approach extends to other ERPs — the work is in understanding how the receiving system accounts for labor (jobs, phases, cost codes, departments, grants, cost centers) and designing the integration to land cleanly there. If you're running a different ERP, the pattern transfers; the specifics of the mapping change with the system.
How early in the Paylocity implementation should we engage you?
As early as the configuration decisions start. Earning code structure, cost allocation rules, deduction setup, pay group design — these get made during the Paylocity implementation, and each one shapes what the outbound integration to your ERP has to handle. If we're at the table when those decisions get made, the integration is designed in from the start. If we come in after configuration is locked, we're working around choices that could have been made differently. Both are workable; the first is cleaner.
What happens to the integration after go-live?
Integrations aren't static. Earning codes change, cost structures evolve, ERP versions upgrade, and payroll processes shift over time. We support clients through those changes — handling the modifications, regression testing the integration against new conditions, and stepping in for the periodic redesign work when something larger shifts. Most of our integration clients keep us engaged in some form past go-live, scaled to how often things actually change in their environment.
Can you support our Paylocity environment day-to-day, beyond integrations?
Yes. We offer client-side support and managed services on Paylocity for clients who need ongoing platform coverage. Engagements range from focused administrative support — payroll cycle assistance, configuration adjustments, user support — through full-cycle managed coverage, shaped to what the client actually needs. Most clients find us through the integration work first; the support relationship grows from there as the need emerges.
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