Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) and payroll software provider serving small and mid-sized US employers with payroll, benefits administration, talent management, time and labor tracking, and workforce analytics. The platform powers HR back-office operations along with employee self-service tools. The Paylocity API uses OAuth 2.0 client credentials over api.paylocity.com to expose employee, payroll, deduction, earning, and onboarding data for partner integrations and customer automations.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Paylocity the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts across 11 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Paylocity scores 36.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Paylocity
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Paylocity. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 11
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Paylocity Integrations REST API
REST API for managing employees, demographics, status, pay rates, direct deposit, deductions, earnings, taxes, custom fields, company codes, and onboarding via the Paylocity Int...
Paylocity Background Check API
The Background Check API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for background check.
Paylocity Company API
The Company API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for company.
Paylocity Deductions API
The Deductions API from Paylocity — 1 operation(s) for deductions.
Paylocity Earnings API
The Earnings API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for earnings.
Paylocity Employees API
The Employees API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for employees.
Paylocity LMS API
The LMS API from Paylocity — 1 operation(s) for lms.
Paylocity Payroll API
The Payroll API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for payroll.
Paylocity Scheduling API
The Scheduling API from Paylocity — 3 operation(s) for scheduling.
Paylocity Taxes API
The Taxes API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for taxes.
Paylocity Time API
The Time API from Paylocity — 2 operation(s) for time.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Paylocity Integrations REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONGraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Paylocity GraphQL API
Paylocity is a cloud HR and payroll platform. The API covers employee records, payroll processing, time and attendance, benefits administration, expense management, performance ...
GRAPHQLSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Paylocity — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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