# Personio integrations

*6 integrations*

**In short:** Integrating Personio means moving HR data out of it on time and in the right shape: hires, leavers, absences, time entries and pay components to DATEV payroll, to a global Workday, or to Slack and Teams as joiner-mover-leaver actions. What breaks is rarely the API call. It is employee matching across ID namespaces, absence types that need the right payroll key, and changes that land after the cutoff.

## What connects to Personio

Personio is the HR system of record for many mid-sized DACH companies: employee master data, contracts, absences, time tracking and recruiting live there. It is rarely where payroll is calculated, and rarely the only system that needs to know who works at the company. Almost every Personio integration therefore moves data outward, from the HR record to a system that acts on it.

The most common target is payroll. Hires, leavers, salary changes, one-time payments and absences feed preparatory payroll in [DATEV LODAS or Lohn und Gehalt](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-datev/), where the payroll office runs the monthly close. In groups with a global HCM, a DACH entity runs Personio next to [Workday as the global system of record](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-workday/), and hires, absences and time entries flow up as Workday business processes. On the collaboration side, a hire or a leaver drives accounts and channel access in [Slack](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-slack/) or Microsoft Teams.

## Where Personio integrations break

- **Employee matching.** Personio employee IDs mean nothing to DATEV, Workday or Slack. Match on name and you eventually pay the wrong person; match on email and name changes and pre-hires without a mailbox break it. Every pipeline needs a stable key such as the Personalnummer.
- **Rotating auth tokens.** The Personio API does not issue a static bearer token. Each response returns a fresh token for the next request, so a client that caches the first one fails on its second call.
- **Absence types are configured per account.** Sick leave with continued pay, unpaid leave and holiday look alike in an export but need a different DATEV absence key or Workday time-off plan. Only one system may own the balance.
- **No clean change feed.** Personio offers no dependable change-data-capture, so deltas come from updated-since filters and diffing. Re-sending everything re-announces absences and fires spurious downstream events.
- **Cutoffs.** A change entered after the payroll cutoff belongs to the next period.

## All Personio integrations

### HR ↔ Payroll

- [Personio ↔ DATEV](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-datev/): Personio DATEV integration
- [Personio ↔ Workday](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-workday/): Personio Workday integration
- [Personio ↔ Slack](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-slack/): Personio Slack integration
- [Personio ↔ Microsoft Teams](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-microsoft-teams/): Personio Microsoft Teams integration
- [Personio ↔ DATEV Lohn und Gehalt](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-lohn-gehalt/): Personio DATEV Lohn und Gehalt integration

### Recruiting ↔ HRIS

- [Personio ↔ LinkedIn](https://seamless.engineering/integrations/personio-linkedin/): Personio LinkedIn integration

## Personio API changelog

- [Personio API changelog](https://seamless.engineering/api-changelog/personio/): 0 breaking changes and 3 deprecations in the last 90 days

## Common errors

- [Personio: 429 rate limit exceeded](https://seamless.engineering/errors/personio-api-rate-limit-429/)

## Request a scoping call

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