This article covers what data moves and how. For help connecting your HRIS and importing people, see Connecting your HR system to 7taps.
How the sync works
Once your HRIS is connected, 7taps reads data from four objects: Employee, Employment, Group, and Location. For most HRIS systems, this sync runs automatically every 24 hours.
7taps only reads data. Nothing is written back to your HRIS.
Employee
Field | What it is |
first_name | The employee's first name. |
last_name | The employee's last name. |
preferred_name | The employee's preferred first name. |
personal_email | The employee's personal email. |
work_email | The employee's work email. |
mobile_phone_number | The employee's mobile phone number. |
username | The employee's username as it appears in your HRIS. |
employee_number | The employee's number as it appears in your HRIS. |
employment_status | The employee's current employment status. |
start_date | The date the employee started working. If the employee was rehired, this reflects the most recent start date. |
termination_date | The employee's termination date. |
manager | The employee ID of the employee's manager. |
work_location | The employee's work address. Links to the Location object below. |
groups | The employee's group memberships. Links to the Group object below. |
employments | The employee's position record. Links to the Employment object below. |
remote_created_at | When the employee record was created in your HRIS. |
hire_date | Marked deprecated in Merge's model. Still synced today, but start_date is the more reliable field going forward. |
Employment
Employment holds position-level details, separate from the employee record itself.
Field | What it is |
employee | The employee holding this position. Links back to the Employee object above. |
job_title | The position's title. |
effective_date | The position's effective date. |
Group
Field | What it is |
name | The group's name. |
type | The group type, as returned directly by your HRIS. |
parent_group | The parent group, for organizations with nested groups. |
Location
Field | What it is |
name | The location's name. |
location_type | The type of address. 7taps reads work locations only. |
street_1 | Street address, line 1. |
street_2 | Street address, line 2. |
city | City. |
state | State, or region if outside the US. |
zip_code | Zip or postal code. |
country | Country. |
What 7taps does not sync
7taps does not sync payroll or compensation data. Pay rate, pay currency, pay frequency, and pay group are all excluded, and objects like Bank Info, Payroll Run, Employee Payroll Run, and Pay Group are not connected at all.
7taps does not sync protected-class or sensitive personal data. Social security number, ethnicity, gender, and marital status are all present in Merge's model but are not pulled into 7taps. 7taps also does not sync date of birth or home address.
Objects not connected: Bank Info, Benefit, Company, Dependent, Employee Payroll Run, Employer Benefit, Pay Group, Payroll Run, Time Off, Time Off Balance, Timesheet Entry.