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Merit Palk in Begin Merit Palk in Begin Connect Merit Palk to send hours and approved absences, update existing people, and exchange supported contract data. Choose the data you want before the first run.

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Connect and choose the data

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Create the setup

Open Settings → Integrations → Merit Palk and turn on the header switch. This creates the setup and opens Setup; the switch stays off until credentials are saved.
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Save the credentials

Enter the API ID and API key for your Merit Palk company, choose Save credentials, then turn the header switch on.
3

Choose what moves

Enable Hours and pay, Absences, or Employee details as needed. For employee details, select the fields Merit Palk should update in Begin.
4

Match payroll codes

In Field mappings, give each value the Export code Merit Palk expects and enable Include in export. Map each absence policy you export to its Merit Palk type code.
Leave Include unconfirmed hours off to send only approved hours. Rejected and cancelled hours are always excluded, even when this setting is on. Merit Palk matches each person by the personal code under Identification number on their profile. Connect Merit Palk and choose which payroll and employee data to exchange. Connect Merit Palk and choose which payroll and employee data to exchange.

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Add people or update them

Employee details updates people already in Begin. It never creates a person. To add missing people, choose Review people beside Add people in Setup. Review the list, tick the people to add, select their Role, and confirm Add … people. The list groups people by contract type: Employees, Board members, Contractors and Other contracts. Nobody is ticked when it opens; a group’s box ticks everyone it shows, and the search finds a person by name or personal code. A person who shares an email address with somebody already in Begin is not added. Each added person takes a seat on your plan. This does not invite them or send an email. With Contracts on, each added person arrives with their Merit Palk contract; with it off, they arrive without one. A person whose contract Merit Palk does not hold for this month gets it on a later sync run.

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Exchange contract terms

Contracts imports selected contract fields onto the person’s job. It preserves job and pay rows created or edited by hand. Employment and pay terms sends supported employment and pay changes to Merit Palk. Set the Base salary type Import ID for hourly and monthly pay in Setup before exporting terms.
Merit Palk cannot undo what it receives through this export. Correct a backdated agreement or a change blocked by an existing agreement in Merit Palk itself. Review the first run before enabling automatic sync.
A run sends only contracts that start in the chosen month and pay changes dated in it. It skips whatever Merit Palk already holds, so running a month again sends nothing and reports nothing new. The run names each change it could not place, such as a contract number that differs from Merit Palk’s, a pay change for a person with no contract there yet, or a personal code two people share. Keep each job’s Contract number the same as the contract’s document number in Merit Palk. If a person has several contracts there, also give the intended contract an Import ID in Merit Palk and enter it as Payroll contract ID on the job. Both must match, or the run reports the person instead of choosing a contract. A person Merit Palk already holds under a different contract is reported too. Add that new contract in Merit Palk by hand.

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Next

Run the integration

Choose a month, run it and check the result.

Choose an integration

Compare providers and connection methods.

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