ADP Workforce Now MCP connector
Connect ADP Workforce Now to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client can look up workers, time cards and time off balances, and file time off requests, inside each person's own ADP access.
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How it connects. App credentials. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect ADP Workforce Now to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect ADP Workforce Now once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick ADP Workforce Now.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste your ADP Workforce Now app credentials. ADP Workforce Now authenticates the app rather than a person. One person supplies the credentials once, and everyone else works through Share with.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
ADP Workforce Now MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
ADP Workforce Now MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
ADP Workforce Now MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect ADP Workforce Now to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with ADP Workforce Now through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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HR
Find a worker's record without opening ADP
Ask for a worker's job, location or hire date and get it from the live ADP Workforce Now record, in the same chat where you are drafting the offer letter or the announcement.
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HR
Bring a former employee back on the books
Rehire a returning worker in ADP Workforce Now from a plain request, with the fields the rehire needs checked before anything is submitted, and add or update their government ID at the same time.
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Payroll
Fix a time card before the payroll run
Ask which team time cards are missing hours, then correct a time entry in ADP Workforce Now before the pay period closes.
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Managers
Approve time off with the balance in view
See how many vacation or sick days a worker has left in ADP Workforce Now, then file or cancel a time off request on their behalf.
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Operations
Load next week's schedule in one go
Hand over a shift plan and have it uploaded to ADP Workforce Now as schedule entries, then check whether the upload went through.
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Finance
Keep labor charge codes current
Upload new project or cost center codes to ADP Workforce Now so hours land against the right budget, and confirm the upload status without logging in.
Try asking
- “Show me the remaining time off balances for my team.”
- “Which team time cards are missing hours this pay period?”
- “File a time off request for Maria next Friday.”
Compare
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for ADP Workforce Now
All three can connect ADP Workforce Now to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
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| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over ADP Workforce Now tools | Allow or restrict single ADP Workforce Now tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per ADP Workforce Now call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | $15 per user per month. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
AI tools
ADP Workforce Now tools for your AI agents
310 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect ADP Workforce Now, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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See it in Elaichi
What connecting ADP Workforce Now gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your ADP Workforce Now account.
The agent
Ask about time off in plain language.
Three starter prompts answer from live ADP Workforce Now workers, time cards and balances.
- workers
- time cards
- time off requests
- labor charge codes
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Show me the remaining time off balances for my team.
Which team time cards are missing hours this pay period?
File a time off request for Maria next Friday.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Every MCP client reaches ADP Workforce Now.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor share one governed endpoint, with no SDK and no shared API key.
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Tool catalog
310 tools cover ADP Workforce Now without code.
Workers, time cards, time off and schedules, every resource and method listed, nothing to build.
- List all ADP Workforce Now worker demographics
- ADP Workforce Now worker demographics get meta
- ADP Workforce Now workers add government ID
- ADP Workforce Now workers change government ID
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Payroll, HR and managers each work from a toolbox scoped to their ADP Workforce Now job.
- HR
- Payroll
- Managers
- Operations
Shared connections
Teammates work through one connection, never a credential.
See who connected ADP Workforce Now and which teams and members it is shared with.
- HR
- Payroll
- Finance
- Operations
Audit log
Every change to a time card is named.
When, who, what happened and which ADP Workforce Now resource, in an append-only log.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule starts the work, a person approves.
Time off requests get fetched, grouped, drafted, approved, then posted to ADP Workforce Now.
ADP Workforce Now digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch workers
ADP Workforce Now
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
ADP Workforce Now
Queued
Collections and dashboards
ADP Workforce Now numbers arrive without anyone asking.
Four metrics, a 14 day chart and a team breakdown, computed with no model involved.
ADP Workforce Now health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the workers collection
Workers
1,284 ↓ 12%
Time cards
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Workers created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
HR 34%
Payroll 27%
Finance 21%
Operations 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect ADP Workforce Now to Claude?
Connect ADP Workforce Now in Elaichi first. It uses app credentials, so you enter the credentials ADP issues for your organization, and there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude asks you to sign in to Elaichi as yourself, and from then on it works with ADP Workforce Now inside your own access.
Does ADP Workforce Now work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. ADP Workforce Now is connected once in Elaichi, and the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, goes into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent uses it too. There is nothing to set up again for each client.
What can an AI agent actually do with my ADP Workforce Now data?
It can look up workers and their demographics, pull a team's time cards, correct a time entry, check time off balances, and file or cancel a time off request in ADP Workforce Now. It can also rehire a returning worker, add or change a government ID, and upload schedule entries and labor charge codes, then check whether those uploads succeeded. Short, concrete asks such as "show Priya's remaining vacation days" work better than long sentences.
Does connecting ADP Workforce Now give the AI every worker record?
No. Every call to ADP Workforce Now runs as the person who signed in, so a manager sees the workers, time cards and balances their ADP role already allows and nothing more. Elaichi can narrow that further for a team or a toolbox, but it can never widen access beyond what ADP Workforce Now grants that person.
Can I stop an agent from changing time cards or worker records in ADP Workforce Now?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading workers and time off balances while blocking time entry changes, rehires or government ID updates in ADP Workforce Now. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude or any other client, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to an ADP Workforce Now connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to ADP Workforce Now through every client at once. A shared ADP Workforce Now connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want the connection gone entirely, disconnect it once in Elaichi and it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client.
Does the ADP Workforce Now MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. ADP Workforce Now is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for ADP Workforce Now?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use ADP Workforce Now. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every ADP Workforce Now call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for ADP Workforce Now?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to ADP Workforce Now: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put ADP Workforce Now in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
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and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
- When the trial ends
- Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.