Integrate Recruit with Paycor to use information from your Paycor account when completing a hire and create a new employee record automatically.

Prerequisites

Only a Paycor Perform HR, Payroll, or Company admin can create the Paycor Developer Portal account required to configure the integration.

Configure the integration

1. Activate Paycor in Recruit

1. From the left-side menu in Recruit, go to Apps.
2. Search for Paycor (Beta), select the tile, and click Continue to setup.

3. Under Internal mobility, choose whether teammates can skip creating a new Paycor employee profile when hiring someone who already works at your company.

   

4. Click Activate.

5. During the connection process, you’ll be asked to grant Recruit permission to:

   • Read legal entities
   • Read work locations
   • Read employees
   • Read employment information
   • Read groups
   • Create and manage employees

   Review these permissions, then click Continue.

2. Connect your Paycor account

1. Open the Paycor Developer Portal homepage, and click Sign Up for existing Paycor clients.
2. Click Get Started.
3. Enter your Paycor username and password, then click Sign In.
4. Select the teammate who should be the admin of the Developer Portal account.
5. Click Request Access. Paycor creates the account and emails the selected admin.

6. On the Starting Paycor Connection page, click Continue.

   

3. Create the Paycor application

1. In the Paycor Developer Portal, select Applications.
2. Click + Application.
3. Enter a name for the application.
4. For Application Type, select Standard Application.
5. Click Create Application.
6. Copy and securely save the application’s OAuth Client ID and OAuth Client Secret.

7. Return to the Paycor connection setup in Recruit and enter the OAuth Client ID and Client Secret in the corresponding fields.

   

8. Click Next, then follow the on-screen instructions to finish connecting your account.

   📚 For additional connection instructions, see Paycor HRIS: How do I link my account?

Working with Paycor

When a candidate is hired in Recruit, the integration pulls the available employee fields from your connected Paycor account.

Recruit sends the following information to Paycor when creating the employee record:

• First name
• Last name
• Email
• Department
• Job title
• Start date