PlanSource connector
Automate HR Benefits Administration by Integrating PlanSource with Your Entire Tech Stack
Connect PlanSource to your HRIS, payroll, and communication tools to eliminate manual benefits data entry and keep employee records in sync.
What can you do with the PlanSource connector?
PlanSource is a cloud-based benefits administration platform that handles employee enrollment, eligibility, and carrier data for HR teams. Integrating PlanSource with tray.ai lets organizations automate the flow of benefits data between their HRIS, payroll systems, and carrier connections — no more manual reconciliation eating up HR operations time. Whether you're syncing new hire enrollments, handling life event changes, or running open enrollment communications, tray.ai makes PlanSource a connected part of your HR tech stack.
Automate & integrate PlanSource
Automating PlanSource business process or integrating PlanSource data is made easy with tray.ai
Use case
New Hire Benefits Enrollment Automation
When a new employee is added to your HRIS (such as Workday, BambooHR, or ADP), tray.ai can automatically create or update the employee record in PlanSource, trigger enrollment eligibility windows, and notify the employee via email or Slack with benefits enrollment instructions. This cuts the lag between an employee's start date and their access to benefits enrollment.
Use case
Employee Termination and Benefits Offboarding
When an employee is terminated in your HRIS or payroll system, tray.ai can automatically update their eligibility status in PlanSource, trigger COBRA notifications, and alert relevant HR stakeholders. Compliance timelines get met and coverage is terminated accurately, without anyone doing it by hand.
Use case
Open Enrollment Campaign Orchestration
Coordinate your open enrollment season by using tray.ai to pull employee lists from PlanSource, segment employees by enrollment status, and push targeted reminder communications through email platforms like Marketo or Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Track enrollment completion rates and escalate reminders to managers for employees who haven't enrolled yet.
Use case
Life Event and Qualifying Change Synchronization
When employees submit life events such as marriage, birth, or address changes in your HRIS or employee self-service portal, tray.ai pushes those updates to PlanSource to open qualifying life event enrollment windows and update dependent information. PlanSource records stay accurate without HR manually processing each change.
Use case
Payroll Deduction Sync and Reconciliation
After employees make benefits elections in PlanSource, tray.ai can extract deduction data and push it directly into your payroll platform (such as ADP, Paychex, or Gusto) to ensure accurate paycheck withholdings. Automated reconciliation workflows flag discrepancies between PlanSource elections and payroll deductions before they become problems.
Use case
Carrier Data File Automation
PlanSource generates carrier EDI files that need to be transmitted to insurance carriers on a regular schedule. With tray.ai, you can automate the generation, validation, and delivery of those files, trigger alerts when transmissions fail, and log delivery confirmations for compliance records.
Use case
HR Analytics and Benefits Reporting
Pull enrollment, election, and cost data from PlanSource and pipe it into your analytics tools or data warehouse (such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Looker) to build benefits cost and utilization reports. Automate delivery of benefits dashboards to finance and HR leadership on a scheduled basis.
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Data Source
Retrieve Employee Benefits Enrollment Data
An agent can pull current and historical benefits enrollment records for employees, so it can answer questions about coverage selections, dependents, and plan details without manual lookup.
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Look Up Available Benefits Plans
An agent can fetch the catalog of available benefits plans, including health, dental, vision, and voluntary options, to help employees compare choices or assist HR teams in reviewing offerings.
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Fetch Employee Eligibility Status
An agent can check whether an employee is eligible for specific benefits based on employment type, tenure, or other criteria, so it gives accurate guidance during onboarding or life events.
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Retrieve Open Enrollment Windows
An agent can query open enrollment periods and deadlines to remind employees of upcoming windows or flag when a deadline is a few days out.
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Pull Dependent Information
An agent can retrieve dependent records tied to an employee's benefits plan, useful for verifying coverage during life events like marriage, divorce, or the birth of a child.
Data Source
Access Benefits Cost and Contribution Data
An agent can look up employee and employer contribution amounts for various plans, so it can provide cost comparisons or validate payroll deduction configurations.
Agent Tool
Enroll Employee in Benefits Plan
An agent can submit or update an employee's benefits enrollment selections in PlanSource. That speeds up onboarding and makes bulk enrollment changes a lot more manageable for HR teams.
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Update Dependent Records
An agent can add, modify, or remove dependents on an employee's benefits account in response to qualifying life events, keeping coverage accurate without manual HR intervention.
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Trigger Life Event Updates
An agent can initiate a qualifying life event in PlanSource, such as a marriage or new child, which unlocks a special enrollment window and routes the employee through the appropriate benefits update flow.
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Update Employee Eligibility Records
An agent can modify eligibility data when an employee's status changes, like moving from part-time to full-time, so benefits access stays in sync with HR system records.
Agent Tool
Sync Employee Data from External Systems
An agent can push employee demographic or employment data into PlanSource from a connected HRIS or payroll system, keeping records consistent across the benefits administration stack.
Data Source
Generate Benefits Enrollment Reports
An agent can pull aggregate enrollment and participation data across plans to help HR teams track adoption, identify under-enrolled groups, or get ready for benefits renewals.
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PlanSource Challenges
What challenges are there when working with PlanSource and how will using Tray.ai help?
Challenge
Manual Data Entry Between HRIS and PlanSource Creates Errors and Lag
HR teams often manage employee data in multiple systems — an HRIS for core records and PlanSource for benefits — leading to time-consuming dual entry and data discrepancies. When new hires or terminations aren't updated in PlanSource promptly, employees miss enrollment windows or keep receiving coverage after they've left.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai connects your HRIS directly to PlanSource, automatically syncing employee records, eligibility changes, and life events in real time or on a schedule. Manual re-entry disappears, and PlanSource stays current with your workforce without HR having to touch it.
Challenge
Open Enrollment Communication is Time-Intensive and Error-Prone
Running open enrollment outreach manually means HR teams spend weeks exporting enrollment status reports, segmenting employees, and sending reminders — and employees still fall through the cracks and end up without coverage.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai automates the full open enrollment communication cycle by pulling real-time enrollment status from PlanSource and triggering personalized, multi-channel reminders via email and Slack. When employees are getting close to the deadline without finishing enrollment, escalation logic pulls their manager in automatically.
Challenge
Payroll Deduction Discrepancies Require Costly Manual Reconciliation
Getting benefits elections from PlanSource into payroll as accurate deductions requires careful manual data transfer between platforms. Errors mean incorrect paychecks, expensive corrections, and frustrated employees — especially right after open enrollment, when hundreds of elections change at once.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai automates the extraction of finalized deduction data from PlanSource and pushes it directly into payroll systems like ADP, Gusto, or Paychex. Automated reconciliation checks compare PlanSource elections against payroll records and flag discrepancies before payroll runs, cutting correction cycles.
Challenge
Carrier File Management is Fragile and High-Stakes
Benefits carriers require regular EDI file transmissions to stay updated on employee enrollments and terminations. Managing these files manually — or relying on brittle point-to-point connections — creates real risk of missed or failed transmissions, which can leave employees without coverage and no warning.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai handles carrier file workflows end to end: scheduling generation, validating file structure, delivering files to carriers via SFTP or API, and triggering immediate alerts to the HR team if a transmission fails. Delivery logs are captured automatically for audit and compliance purposes.
Challenge
Limited Visibility Into Benefits Enrollment and Cost Data
PlanSource data often sits in isolation from the rest of the HR and finance analytics stack. HR and finance leaders end up doing manual exports and building spreadsheets to analyze benefits costs, enrollment trends, and plan utilization — a slow, inconsistent process that doesn't scale.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai automates nightly or real-time data pipelines from PlanSource into data warehouses like Snowflake or BigQuery, making benefits data available in BI tools like Tableau or Looker alongside headcount and compensation data. Scheduled report delivery means stakeholders always have current benefits insights without any manual effort.
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Integrate PlanSource With Your Stack
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Start using our pre-built PlanSource templates today
Start from scratch or use one of our pre-built PlanSource templates to quickly solve your most common use cases.
Template
New Hire HRIS to PlanSource Enrollment Sync
Automatically creates or updates an employee record in PlanSource when a new hire is added in Workday or BambooHR, and sends the employee a benefits enrollment welcome email.
Steps:
- Trigger: New employee record created or activated in Workday or BambooHR
- Action: Create or upsert employee eligibility record in PlanSource with job class, benefit class, and start date
- Action: Send personalized enrollment welcome email via SendGrid with PlanSource enrollment portal link and deadline
Connectors Used: PlanSource, Workday REST, BambooHR, SendGrid
Template
Open Enrollment Reminder Automation
Pulls incomplete enrollment records from PlanSource during open enrollment and sends escalating reminder emails and Slack messages to employees and their managers until enrollment is complete.
Steps:
- Trigger: Scheduled daily run during open enrollment period
- Action: Query PlanSource for employees with incomplete or not-started enrollment status
- Action: Send reminder email via Gmail to employees and post Slack message to their manager if deadline is within 48 hours
- Action: Log enrollment status and outreach history to Google Sheets for HR tracking
Connectors Used: PlanSource, Slack, Gmail, Google Sheets
Template
Termination Offboarding and COBRA Notification Workflow
When an employee is terminated in ADP, this template updates their PlanSource eligibility status, triggers COBRA notification steps, and creates a task in ServiceNow for HR to confirm offboarding completion.
Steps:
- Trigger: Employee termination event detected in ADP Workforce Now
- Action: Update employee eligibility status to terminated in PlanSource with effective termination date
- Action: Send COBRA election notice via SendGrid to the employee's personal email address
- Action: Create offboarding task in ServiceNow assigned to HR operations team for final benefits confirmation
Connectors Used: PlanSource, ADP, ServiceNow, SendGrid
Template
PlanSource Deductions to Payroll Sync
After benefits elections are finalized in PlanSource, extracts deduction data and pushes updated deduction records into Gusto or Paychex to ensure payroll withholdings reflect current elections.
Steps:
- Trigger: Scheduled run after benefits election close date or on-demand trigger from HR
- Action: Extract finalized employee deduction records from PlanSource via API
- Action: Upsert deduction amounts into Gusto or Paychex payroll records by employee ID
- Action: Post summary report to HR Slack channel listing updated employees and any records that failed to sync
Connectors Used: PlanSource, Gusto, Paychex, Slack
Template
Benefits Enrollment Data Pipeline to Data Warehouse
Syncs PlanSource enrollment and election data to Snowflake on a nightly schedule so HR and finance teams can run benefits cost and utilization reports in their BI tools.
Steps:
- Trigger: Nightly scheduled workflow
- Action: Extract enrollment, election, and cost data from PlanSource API
- Action: Transform and load records into Snowflake benefits data tables, handling upserts for changed elections
- Action: Refresh Tableau data source and send updated benefits dashboard link to HR and finance distribution list
Connectors Used: PlanSource, Snowflake, Tableau
Template
Life Event Change Sync from HRIS to PlanSource
Detects qualifying life event updates (marriage, new dependent, address change) in BambooHR and automatically opens the appropriate enrollment window in PlanSource and notifies the employee of next steps.
Steps:
- Trigger: Life event field updated on employee record in BambooHR
- Action: Map life event type to qualifying event code and open enrollment window in PlanSource via API
- Action: Update dependent and personal information in PlanSource to match HRIS record
- Action: Send employee a personalized email via SendGrid with qualifying event enrollment instructions and deadline
Connectors Used: PlanSource, BambooHR, SendGrid