Connect Paycor to Active Directory

Join Paycor’s Developer Portal as an existing client. Select your client IDs and request access. Paycor emails an invitation to the portal admin. Sign out and back in after it arrives.

Under Applications, add a Standard Application named ezOnboard. Save the Application OAuth Client ID and Client Secret securely. The secret is shown only once. On Data Access, select the View scopes below and save. The new scope version appears on the General tab.

Copy the API Subscription Key and OAuth Client ID from Security Connections, and the scope name from General. On App Activation, enter the client ID and scope name, then choose Initiate. Review the access and choose Next. Select a legal entity, accept the terms and choose Integrate. Repeat for each legal entity you want to connect.

Find the legal entity ID, also called the company ID, in the top left of Company → Departments. Save it with the client ID, client secret and subscription key. You’ll need all four in step 5.

The agent runs as a Windows service on a domain-joined server with Windows Server 2019 or later. It connects to Paycor and ezOnboard over outbound HTTPS. No inbound firewall rules are needed.

Download the signed MSI and enrollment bundle from the portal. Save the install code. The portal shows it only once. Run the MSI, enter the code and choose a service account, preferably a group managed service account. The installer checks the domain connection, LDAP access, outbound access and clock before making changes.

Run the installer’s delegation script once as a domain administrator. It lets the agent’s service account create, update and disable accounts only in the OUs you choose. The agent doesn’t need Domain Admin rights.

Include the OUs for staff accounts, disabled accounts and managed groups. The agent blocks changes outside these OUs, even if a rule requests them.

In the portal, add Paycor as an HR source using the app’s client ID, client secret and subscription key, with your legal entity ID. Your credentials are encrypted with your organization’s key and sent to your agent. The agent reads Paycor from your network. Nobody at ezOnboard can read the credentials.

Choose a field to match people across both systems, usually work email or employee ID. The agent checks Paycor every five minutes and catches up on any missed changes.

Choose which Paycor fields update each directory attribute. Start with the defaults below, add custom fields or combine values. For example, build a display name from first and last names, format a job title or look up an office address by site.

Blank Paycor fields leave directory values unchanged unless you configure the mapping to clear them.

Rules define who gets an account, which OU it belongs in, how it’s named and which groups it joins. They also control offboarding. Use Paycor fields, such as department and site, to make those choices.

Our implementation team helps you write the rules. With approvals enabled, your team must approve each rule change before the agent uses it.

Run a dry run for your whole workforce. The agent matches Paycor records to existing accounts by employee ID, then work email, and previews changes without applying them. If two accounts match one person, that action stops for review.

Review the planned changes and the rules behind them in the portal. Adjust your rules and repeat the dry run until the results match your expectations.

Turn off dry run to apply changes. If a run would disable or move more accounts than your safety limits allow, it stops and alerts your team before making changes. We review the first runs with you.

HR continues working in Paycor. Your rules handle new accounts, updates and offboarding on schedule. Get alerts by email, in the portal or by webhook when a run stops, the HR feed stops updating or the agent stops reporting. An inactive feed never triggers offboarding.