Brain Payroll Make integrationAutomate Brain Payroll with Make.
Tired of keying the same HR data into payroll twice? The Brain Payroll Make integration gives you 9 action modules that push employees, salaries, absences and timesheets into your payroll. This page shows payroll and HR teams how to connect the account and run a first scenario.
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What can the Brain Payroll Make integration do for you?
The Brain Payroll Make integration lets another tool feed your payroll without anyone retyping it. Make runs a scenario, the automation you build as a chain of modules, and each Brain Payroll module sends one kind of record: a new employee, a salary, an absence, a timesheet, a statutory payment.
Onboarding that reaches payroll on its own. When a hire is confirmed in your HR tool or a shared sheet, Import Employees creates the record, and Import Salaries adds the pay details right after. Nobody copies a name or a start date by hand.
Hours and leave collected where people already log them. Site managers fill in a timesheet app, staff request leave in a form: Import Timesheets and Import Absences carry those entries into Brain Payroll before the run. Import Statutory does the same for statutory pay such as SMP, SSP or SPP.
Payslip data sent where finance needs it. Get Payslip Details reads the P11 payslip data of an employee, so the next module can write it into a spreadsheet or a reporting tool.
Know the edges before you start. Brain Payroll has no trigger in Make, so a scenario always starts from another app or from a schedule. Every module is an action that sends or reads data. When you need an endpoint the list does not cover, Make an API Call reaches it with the same connection. To weigh the platform itself, read the Make review, and if you also look at n8n, the n8n vs Make comparison sets both tools side by side. For a hands-on start, the Make training walks through scenario building.
How do you connect Brain Payroll to Make?
- 01
Create client credentials in Brain Payroll
In your Brain Payroll dashboard, open Settings then Account Setting, click Client Credentials and Add. Pick the user, give it a Client Name, save, then copy the Client ID and Client Secret Key somewhere safe.
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Add a Brain Payroll module in Make
In your scenario, add any Brain Payroll module and click Create a connection. A connection is your Brain Payroll account linked to Make once, then reused by every module of the app. You can name it in Connection name.
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Paste the keys and the API domain
Fill Client ID and Client Secret with the values you copied. In API URL, type only the domain: for
https://api.yourdomain.com, enterapi.yourdomain.com. Click Save and confirm access if Make asks.
Your first scenario: new hire into payroll
GoalWhen a new hire lands in your HR sheet, Make creates the employee in Brain Payroll and adds the salary.
- 01
Create the scenario
On the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the +. Pick the app where hires are recorded (a sheet, an HR tool) and its module that reads new rows.
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Add Import Employees
Click the + on the right, search Brain Payroll, choose Import Employees and create the connection. Then map each value from the previous module. A bundle is one item passed along, here one hire.
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Chain Import Salaries
Add Import Salaries after it and map the pay values from the same hire. Both modules now work on the same bundle, so the salary lands on the right person.
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Test with Run once
Add one test hire to your source, then click Run once. Open each module's bubble to read the bundle it received and check the new record in Brain Payroll.
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Schedule and switch on
Set the clock on the first module: a new scenario checks every 15 minutes by default. Switch the scenario on, and each module run counts as an operation on your Make plan.
What each Brain Payroll module does
Brain Payroll gives you 9 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Get Payslip Details
ActionIn Make“Retrieve detailed P11 payslip data for employees, including earnings, deductions, and taxes.”
Pulls the P11 payslip data of an employee out of Brain Payroll, with earnings, deductions and taxes, so another module can store or share it.
Import Absences
ActionIn Make“Import absence records such as leave or sick days.”
Records leave or sick days in Brain Payroll from an absence captured elsewhere, so the payroll reflects who was off before you run it.
Import Auto Adjustments
ActionIn Make“Add payroll adjustments for employees.”
Adds a payroll adjustment to an employee, handy for amounts that come from outside the payroll itself, like a bonus agreed in another tool.
Import Employees
ActionIn Make“Add new employee records to the system.”
Creates a new employee record in Brain Payroll from the data of a hire, which removes the retyping step between recruitment and payroll.
Import Salaries
ActionIn Make“Import salary information for employees.”
Sends salary information for employees into Brain Payroll, so pay details follow the person record instead of waiting for manual entry.
Import Statutory
ActionIn Make“Import statutory data such as SMP, SSP, or SPP and others.”
Brings statutory payment data into Brain Payroll, such as SMP, SSP or SPP, so maternity, sick or paternity pay is on file when payroll runs.
Import Timesheets
ActionIn Make“Import timesheet data for employees.”
Feeds hours worked into Brain Payroll from the tool where your team logs time, so hourly pay rests on the real entries.
Make an API Call
ActionIn Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call”
Calls any endpoint of the Brain Payroll API with the connection you already set up, for the jobs the eight other modules leave out.
Update Employees
ActionIn Make“Apply changes for existing employees, including leavers”
Changes the record of an existing employee in Brain Payroll, leavers included, so a change made in HR shows up in payroll too.
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