Justworks taps Finch to support their HR and fintech integration strategy

We’re excited to announce that Finch has partnered with Justworks, a leading payroll, benefits, global HR, and compliance platform for small businesses. Our teams collaborated on a new API that will make it easier for HR and fintech applications to offer secure, pre-built integrations for customers they share with Justworks.

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We’re delighted to announce that Justworks has partnered with Finch, the #1 unified API for Employment. This partnership will make it easier for HR and fintech applications like Trainual to integrate with the Justworks platform and securely access organization data directly from their mutual customers’ source of truth. 

Finch is building the Open Employment Ecosystem to make it easier for systems of record and HR, benefits, and fintech applications to securely share data. Today’s infrastructure is deeply fragmented and non-standardized, making it difficult to keep disparate systems up to date and to securely share sensitive data across platforms. 

A core part of the Finch strategy lies in standardizing the data held across the hundreds of different systems of record across the country. The programmatic nature of APIs makes it possible to automate the transfer of data from these employment systems to other B2B applications in a standard format, allowing for greater efficiency and innovation across HR tech and fintech. This partnership and new API built with Justworks, which serves over 11,000 small businesses, is a big step in the direction of greater interoperability for employers. 

“Finch’s understanding of the market and technical support were instrumental in building an API that will serve developers well,” said Jeremy Beltzer-Williams, Head of Partnerships at Justworks. “We’re excited to support API-based integrations via Finch because it furthers our company mission: to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.”

“Finch’s understanding of the market and technical support were instrumental in building an API that will serve developers well." — Jeremy Beltzer-Williams, Head of Partnerships at Justworks

The growing need for employment APIs

Employers today use more than 16 HR systems on average, and administrators report spending 4+ hours moving data between employment systems every day. 

Payroll systems often act as the source of truth for this employment data—which makes payroll providers’ ability to integrate with other applications a core factor in employers’ purchasing decisions. Through integrations, admins can spend less time manually updating various platforms, because the information is shared between the payroll system and other applications automatically. 

“Employers demand integrated experiences. They don’t have the time or the resources to build integrations themselves or to move data across systems manually,” said Taylor Sell, VP of Product at Trainual. “Finch’s API integration with Justworks is a huge win for our customers, who will now be able to automatically import standardized company and employee data to the Trainual platform.”

“Finch’s API integration with Justworks is a huge win for our customers, who will now be able to automatically import standardized company and employee data to the Trainual platform.” — Taylor Sell, VP of Product at Trainual

APIs offer a way for third-party applications to plug in to payroll systems to securely retrieve company and employee data. However, building, maintaining, and supporting these APIs is a big undertaking. 

Unified APIs like Finch aim to streamline these efforts by eliminating the repetitive work that would otherwise be required of application developers. Finch takes on the responsibility of integrating with HRIS and payroll providers — the systems of record. Developers that use Finch can then build a single integration to unlock connections to all of the systems of record Finch supports. Once an employer has authorized the application to access their data, the information is seamlessly and securely transferred from the HRIS or payroll system to their application.

The result is a better customer experience for employers: they’re able to seamlessly and automatically sync data between their source of truth and the other applications they’ve authorized to access that data, like benefits platforms, financial analysis tools, and employee engagement solutions. 

Integrate through Finch

Finch is laser-focused on HRIS and payroll systems, which allows us to deliver broad coverage across hundreds of providers—4x more than any other unified API. It also allows us to provide deeper, more granular data access for specialized use cases, like retirement and benefits management, and to address unique edge cases in employment. 

To integrate with Justworks through Finch, schedule a call with us—or try it out yourself for free.