# Connect Lattice to ADP

> Automate employee data sync between your performance management and payroll systems to eliminate manual work and keep HR records accurate.

**Canonical page:** https://tray.ai/connectors/lattice-adp-integrations/
**Lattice connector:** https://tray.ai/connectors/lattice-integrations/
**Lattice documentation:** https://tray.ai/documentation/connectors/service/lattice
**ADP connector:** https://tray.ai/connectors/adp-integrations/
**ADP documentation:** https://tray.ai/documentation/connectors/service/adp

## Overview

Lattice and ADP are the two systems most people teams can't live without — one running performance, engagement, and growth, the other handling payroll, benefits, and workforce records. When they don't talk to each other, HR teams end up manually reconciling employee data, chasing down compensation changes, and double-checking that new hires got set up correctly in both places. Connecting Lattice and ADP through tray.ai keeps workforce data flowing between them so both systems stay accurate and up to date.

Integrating Lattice with ADP gives HR and People Operations teams a single source of truth for employee lifecycle management. When a new hire is added in ADP, their profile can be automatically provisioned in Lattice so performance cycles, onboarding surveys, and goal-setting are ready from day one. When compensation changes are approved through Lattice's compensation review workflows, those updates can flow directly into ADP without manual data entry. This bidirectional sync reduces the risk of discrepancies between payroll and performance systems, cuts down on administrative lag, and frees HR Business Partners to focus on actual people work instead of spreadsheet reconciliation. Every employment event — a promotion, a department transfer, a termination — gets reflected consistently across both platforms, which matters a lot when auditors come calling.

## Use cases

### Automated New Hire Provisioning

When a new employee record is created in ADP, tray.ai automatically provisions their Lattice profile, assigns them to the correct manager and department, and enrolls them in the appropriate onboarding review cycle. New hires are ready to engage with Lattice on day one without any manual setup from the HR team.

- Eliminate manual Lattice profile creation for every new hire
- Ensure onboarding surveys and 30/60/90-day check-ins are triggered on time
- Give new employees immediate access to goals and feedback tools

### Compensation Change Sync from Lattice to ADP

After compensation reviews are completed and approved in Lattice, tray.ai automatically pushes the updated salary, bonus, or equity data into ADP's payroll records. No more manually re-entering approved compensation decisions into a separate payroll system, and employees get paid correctly in the next cycle.

- Eliminate dual data entry for compensation changes approved in Lattice
- Reduce payroll errors caused by delayed or missed compensation updates
- Create a reliable audit trail linking Lattice approvals to ADP payroll records

### Employee Profile Updates and Department Transfers

When an employee's job title, department, location, or manager changes in ADP, tray.ai syncs those updates to Lattice automatically so performance reviews, OKRs, and org chart data stay accurate. Keeping both systems in sync prevents review cycles from going to the wrong manager and ensures reporting hierarchies reflect how the org actually looks today.

- Maintain accurate manager relationships and org chart data in Lattice
- Prevent performance reviews from routing to outdated managers
- Reduce HR ticket volume related to stale employee data in Lattice

### Offboarding and Termination Workflows

When an employee termination is recorded in ADP, tray.ai triggers an automated offboarding sequence in Lattice — deactivating the employee profile, archiving their performance data, and notifying their manager to complete any pending reviews. Sensitive performance records get handled properly at the time of departure, not weeks later.

- Instantly deactivate terminated employee profiles in Lattice
- Preserve historical performance and feedback data for compliance purposes
- Automatically notify managers to close out open reviews before deactivation

### Performance Cycle Enrollment Based on ADP Employment Data

tray.ai can use ADP employment data — hire date, employee type, work location — to automatically enroll employees in the correct Lattice performance review cycles. Full-time versus part-time employees, employees in different regions, or those who just crossed their 90-day anniversary can all be routed into the right review cadence without anyone managing a list manually.

- Dynamically enroll employees in the correct review cycle based on ADP employment attributes
- Ensure part-time, contractor, and full-time employees receive appropriate review experiences
- Reduce HR admin effort around managing performance cycle enrollment lists

### Manager Change and Reporting Line Updates

When a manager change is recorded in ADP, tray.ai updates the reporting relationship in Lattice so that 1:1 meetings, ongoing feedback, and future review cycles are immediately routed to the new manager. This prevents the frustrating scenario where an employee's performance data sits under a former manager who can no longer access or act on it.

- Automatically update Lattice reporting hierarchies when ADP manager fields change
- Ensure new managers have immediate visibility into direct reports' goals and performance history
- Prevent orphaned performance records under departed or reassigned managers

### Headcount and Workforce Analytics Consolidation

By syncing ADP headcount, employment status, and demographic data into Lattice, People Analytics teams can build richer engagement and performance reports that incorporate payroll-level workforce attributes. HR leaders can then correlate compensation bands, tenure, and department data with performance ratings and engagement scores.

- Enrich Lattice engagement and performance data with ADP workforce attributes
- Enable People Analytics teams to build cross-platform workforce dashboards
- Support DEI reporting by combining ADP demographic data with Lattice performance outcomes

## Templates

### New Employee in ADP → Create Lattice Profile

Automatically creates a new employee profile in Lattice whenever a new hire record is finalized in ADP, populating all relevant fields including name, email, manager, department, and start date, and triggering onboarding check-in enrollment.

Connectors used: ADP, Lattice

### Lattice Compensation Approval → Update ADP Payroll Record

When a compensation change is approved through Lattice's compensation review workflow, this template automatically updates the corresponding employee's salary or bonus data in ADP, so payroll reflects the latest approved compensation without manual re-entry.

Connectors used: Lattice, ADP

### ADP Employee Update → Sync Changes to Lattice

Monitors ADP for changes to employee job title, department, manager, or location and automatically applies those updates to the corresponding Lattice profile, keeping performance management data aligned with the authoritative HR record in ADP.

Connectors used: ADP, Lattice

### ADP Termination → Deactivate Lattice Profile and Notify Manager

When an employee termination is recorded in ADP, this template deactivates the employee's Lattice account, archives their performance and feedback history, and sends an automated notification to their manager prompting them to complete any outstanding reviews.

Connectors used: ADP, Lattice

### ADP Hire Date Milestone → Enroll in Lattice Review Cycle

Uses ADP hire date and employee type data to automatically enroll employees in the correct Lattice performance review cycle when they hit key employment milestones, such as 30, 60, or 90 days of tenure or their annual review anniversary.

Connectors used: ADP, Lattice

### Bidirectional Employee Data Audit and Reconciliation Report

Runs a scheduled comparison between ADP and Lattice employee records to identify discrepancies in fields like manager, department, job title, and employment status, then generates a reconciliation report sent to the HR Operations team for review and remediation.

Connectors used: ADP, Lattice

## Challenges Tray.ai solves

### Maintaining a Consistent Employee Identifier Across Both Systems

ADP and Lattice each use their own internal employee ID formats, and without a shared unique identifier, matching records between the two systems during automated syncs can produce duplicate profiles, misrouted data, or failed updates — especially when employee names or emails change.

**How Tray.ai helps:** tray.ai lets you build an identity-matching layer that maps ADP employee IDs to Lattice user records using a combination of work email, employee number, and name. Custom data transformations normalize identifier formats across both systems, and you can maintain a lookup table within workflows to keep record matching accurate even when individual fields change over time.

### Handling Compensation Data Sensitivity and Access Controls

Compensation data flowing between Lattice and ADP is among the most sensitive information a company manages. Integrations need to transmit salary, bonus, and equity values securely and only trigger updates when changes are fully approved — not during draft or pending states.

**How Tray.ai helps:** tray.ai lets you build conditional logic that only triggers compensation sync workflows when Lattice marks a change as fully approved and finalized. All data in transit is encrypted, and tray.ai's role-based access controls ensure that only authorized personnel can view or modify compensation-related workflow configurations, supporting your internal data governance requirements.

### Managing Complex Organizational Hierarchies and Matrix Reporting

Many organizations have matrixed reporting structures where an employee may have a primary manager in ADP but a different functional manager in Lattice. Syncing org hierarchy changes without accidentally overwriting intentional Lattice-specific configurations is a real integration headache.

**How Tray.ai helps:** tray.ai's flexible data mapping lets you define which fields are authoritative in ADP versus which are managed independently within Lattice. You can configure sync logic that updates primary reporting relationships from ADP while preserving Lattice-specific manager assignments, so automated syncs don't undo your intentional HR configurations.

### Dealing with ADP API Rate Limits and Batch Processing

ADP's APIs have rate limits that cause problems when large volumes of employee changes — like those during an annual reorganization or open enrollment — need to be synced to Lattice simultaneously, potentially resulting in failed or incomplete updates.

**How Tray.ai helps:** tray.ai handles ADP API rate limits natively through built-in retry logic, request throttling, and queue management. During high-volume sync events, tray.ai batches requests appropriately and automatically retries failed calls with exponential backoff, so all employee records eventually sync accurately without manual intervention or workflow re-triggering.

### Ensuring Data Sync Reliability During ADP Payroll Processing Windows

ADP often locks or restricts certain employee record updates during active payroll processing windows. If tray.ai attempts to push compensation or employee updates during a locked period, integration workflows can fail silently — data appears synced but was never actually written to ADP.

**How Tray.ai helps:** tray.ai lets you build scheduling logic that accounts for your organization's ADP payroll processing calendar, queuing sensitive updates to run after payroll windows have closed. Combined with error handling and alerting, tray.ai holds any update that can't be immediately applied, retries it at the next available window, and notifies your HR Ops team if manual review is needed.

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