What connects today, and how.
Payroll hand-over is a file: 55 export formats that you download and import. The API, webhooks and the MCP endpoint are live for your own code and your own AI agent. Direct connections to accounting and payroll systems are in development and are marked that way below.
File exports (download and import)
These are files, not live connections. On payday you open Export to payroll, pick the pay period and download approved hours, overtime, Sunday and public holiday hours and time off in the layout the other system imports. Then you import that file there yourself. Nothing is sent to these systems by ClockinBee.
55 export formats today, plus plain CSV for any system that is not listed.
Payroll · 26 formats
- ADP Workforce Now / RUNFile format · US, global
- Paychex FlexFile format · US
- GustoFile format · US
- RipplingFile format · US, global
- PaylocityFile format · US
- PaycorFile format · US
- QuickBooks Payroll / QuickBooks TimeFile format · US, UK, CA, AU
- Xero PayrollFile format · UK, AU, NZ
- Sage 50 PayrollFile format · UK, IE
- Sage PayrollFile format · UK, IE
- BrightPayFile format · UK, IE
- Moneysoft Payroll ManagerFile format · UK
- IRIS PayrollFile format · UK
- Staffology PayrollFile format · UK
- PayFitFile format · UK, FR, ES
- Sage Business Cloud PayrollFile format · ZA
- Sage 300 People / VIPFile format · ZA
- SimplePayFile format · ZA, sub-Saharan Africa
- PaySpaceFile format · ZA, Africa
- Sage Pastel PayrollFile format · ZA
- Employment Hero Payroll (KeyPay)File format · AU, NZ, UK, SG, MY
- MYOBFile format · AU, NZ
- DeelFile format · Global
- RemoteFile format · Global
- Papaya GlobalFile format · Global
- UKG Ready / ProFile format · US, global
Accounting · 14 formats
- XeroFile format · Global
- QuickBooks OnlineFile format · Global
- Sage AccountingFile format · UK, ZA, global
- Sage IntacctFile format · US, UK, ZA
- Zoho BooksFile format · Global
- FreshBooksFile format · US, CA, UK
- WaveFile format · US, CA
- Oracle NetSuiteFile format · Global
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralFile format · Global
- OdooFile format · Global
- FreeAgentFile format · UK
- KashFlowFile format · UK
- MYOB AccountRightFile format · AU, NZ
- Sage Pastel AccountingFile format · ZA
HR systems · 14 formats
- BambooHRFile format · US, global
- HiBobFile format · UK, global
- PersonioFile format · EU, UK
- WorkdayFile format · Global
- Zoho PeopleFile format · Global
- Sage HRFile format · UK, ZA, global
- Breathe HRFile format · UK
- Access PeopleHRFile format · UK
- CharlieHRFile format · UK
- FactorialFile format · EU, UK
- Employment Hero HRFile format · AU, NZ, UK
- SAP SuccessFactorsFile format · Global
- Oracle HCM CloudFile format · Global
- NamelyFile format · US
Spreadsheets and plain CSV · 1 format
- Excel / Google SheetsFile format · Global
Each layout is a starting layout built from the columns that system's import normally asks for, and you can change any column to match your own template. Run one sample import before your first real pay run.
Product names are used only to say which file layout is meant. ClockinBee is not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with these companies.
Don't see your system? Tell us which one, or read how payroll exports work.
API and webhooks
Live, and yours to build on. A key acts as the person who made it, can do only what that person's role allows, and is narrowed further to the scopes you choose. Every change a key makes is written to the audit log.
HTTP API
21 tools: 11 that only read (who is working, timesheets, shifts, time off, approvals) and 10 that make changes (clock in, add hours, create and publish shifts, approve).
Keys with scopes
6 scopes: Read, Record time, Request time off, Build the schedule, Approve, People and announcements. A key with only Read cannot change anything.
Signed webhooks
ClockinBee calls your HTTPS address when something happens: clocking, timesheet submitted, timesheet approved, time off requested, time off decided, schedule published. Each delivery is signed so you can check it came from us.
Send an export to an address
Any payroll export can also be sent as JSON to an HTTPS address when you press Send. That address can be your own system or a webhook address from Zapier, Make, n8n or Microsoft Power Automate: you create the address in that tool and paste it into ClockinBee. There is no ClockinBee app inside those tools, and nothing is sent on a timer.
- Zapier
- Make
- n8n
- Microsoft Power Automate
Connect an AI agent (MCP)
ClockinBee has a Model Context Protocol endpoint, so an AI agent you already use can look things up and, if you allow it, act. You make an API key, choose its scopes and paste the endpoint address and key into your agent's settings.
The same tools
The agent gets the same 21 tools as the API, limited to the scopes on its key and to what the person who made the key may do.
Start read-only
A key with only the Read scope lets an agent answer questions and change nothing. Add other scopes when you are ready.
Know what you are allowing
An agent with write scopes can change real schedules, timesheets and time off without a confirmation step from ClockinBee. Keep your agent's own ask-before-acting setting on.
Direct connections
A direct connection would send approved hours to Xero, QuickBooks Online or Gusto without a file. Sage Accounting would take customers and projects only: Sage has no public API for hours, so Sage hours always go as a file. None of these works yet. They are being built, we have no date to give, and until one is released the file export is the way to hand over to that system.
- In development
Xero
Not available yet. Today: download the Xero Payroll file format and import it.
- In development
QuickBooks Online
Not available yet. Today: download the QuickBooks Payroll / QuickBooks Time file format and import it.
- In development
Sage Accounting
Not available yet. Today: download the Sage Payroll file format and import it.
- In development
Gusto
Not available yet. Today: download the Gusto file format and import it.
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