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Altera Payroll MCP connector

Connect Altera Payroll to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client can look up and update employees, departments, jobs, earnings, deductions and direct deposits, with every action recorded against the person who asked.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Altera Payroll to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Altera Payroll once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Altera Payroll.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste an Altera Payroll API key. One person generates a token in Altera Payroll and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

altera payroll
Altera Payroll
360learning
7shifts
BambooHR
Dayforce
Charlie
2

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.

Altera Payroll MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Altera Payroll MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Altera Payroll MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    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 Altera Payroll to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    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 Altera Payroll through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • HR

    Set up a new hire on day one

    Create the employee record in Altera Payroll, place the person in the right department and job, and add their direct deposit details from one conversation.

  • Payroll

    Check earnings and deductions before a run

    Pull the earnings and deductions for a person or a whole department and spot anything missing before payday, without clicking through each record.

  • Finance

    Reconcile headcount by department

    List every employee alongside their department and company to confirm the numbers match the budget and the forecast.

  • People Ops

    Keep dependents and contacts current

    When someone gets married or has a child, add the dependent and the new contact to their Altera Payroll record while you are still on the call.

  • Managers

    See who holds which job

    Ask which employees sit in a given job or department and get the answer from live Altera Payroll records rather than a stale spreadsheet.

  • Operations

    Update a record after an internal move

    When an employee changes department or job, update their Altera Payroll record in plain language and confirm the change landed.

Try asking

  • “Show me every employee in the Engineering department.”
  • “List deductions for Maria Lopez this pay period.”
  • “Add a new hire, Sam Ortiz, to the Sales department.”

See all 50 Altera Payroll tools below

AI tools

Altera Payroll tools for your AI agents

50 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Altera Payroll, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Altera Payroll gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Altera Payroll account.

The agent

Ask about employees and get live answers.

Ask who joined this month and see Altera Payroll employee records in plain language.

  • employees
  • departments
  • earnings
  • deductions

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Show me every employee in the Engineering department.

List deductions for Maria Lopez this pay period.

Add a new hire, Sam Ortiz, to the Sales department.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

Use Altera Payroll from Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.

One governed endpoint, signed in over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emma Laurent

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
S

Sofia Ricci

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
C

Clara Nowak

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

50 Altera Payroll tools, ready without code.

Employees, departments, jobs, earnings, deductions and direct deposits, covered without writing any code.

  • List all Altera Payroll validateauths
  • List all Altera Payroll companies
  • List all Altera Payroll employees
  • Get single Altera Payroll employee by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Altera Payroll validateauths List Validate the JWT in Altera Payroll and return the encoded claims information, including authorized provider and actions for the consumer. Returns: type, value. Takes no caller parameters; the company is taken from the company_id credential.
List all Altera Payroll companies List List company records for a specific company in Altera Payroll by company_id. Returns: co, name, address1, address2, city, state, zip, county, country, dba, phone, fax and 161 more field(s). Takes no caller parameters; the company is taken from the company_id credential.
List all Altera Payroll employees List List employees in an Altera Payroll (ReadyPay Online) company, optionally filtered to active-only or recently terminated. Returns: co, id, clock, ssn, firstName, middleName, lastName, birthDate, gender, maritalStatus, payFrequency, cC1 and 70 more field(s). Required: active_only.
Get single Altera Payroll employee by ID Get Get a single employee from Altera Payroll (ReadyPay Online) by company code and employee id. Returns: co, id, clock, ssn, firstName, middleName, lastName, birthDate, gender, maritalStatus, payFrequency, cC1 and 70 more field(s). Required: the record id in the request path.
Create a Altera Payroll employee Create Add an employee to Altera Payroll (ReadyPay Online) through the PENDING employee flow: the record is staged for onboarding and is not written straight into Employee records. Use employees.create_direct to skip staging. Returns: newEmployeePayrollID. Takes no caller parameters; the company is taken from the company_id credential.

Toolboxes

Give each team its own Altera Payroll toolbox.

HR, payroll and finance each work from a toolbox scoped to their job.

  • HR
  • Payroll
  • Finance
  • People Ops
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

HR toolbox

Altera Payroll · employees and departments

Altera Payroll starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Payroll toolbox

Altera Payroll · earnings and deductions

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Finance toolbox

Altera Payroll · headcount and companies

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

People Ops toolbox

Altera Payroll · contacts and dependents

Altera Payroll starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Benefits toolbox

Altera Payroll · dependents and deductions

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Operations toolbox

Altera Payroll · jobs and direct deposits

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates work through one connection, never the key.

One person connects Altera Payroll, shares it with teams, and nobody else handles the API key.

  • HR
  • Payroll
  • Finance
  • People Ops
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
AL

Altera Payroll (HR)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
AL

Altera Payroll (Payroll)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
AL

Altera Payroll (Finance)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
AL

Altera Payroll (People Ops)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
AL

Altera Payroll (Benefits)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
AL

Altera Payroll (US Entity)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Altera Payroll call is logged and named.

See who created an employee, when, and which record changed, in an append-only log.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emma Laurent

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

James Whitfield

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

S

Sofia Ricci

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

D

Daniel Ortega

[email protected]

Altera Payroll Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

Altera Payroll Employees Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

Altera Payroll Employees List Toolbox

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.

New Altera Payroll employees are fetched, grouped by department, drafted into a digest, approved, then posted.

Altera Payroll digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch employees

    Altera Payroll

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Altera Payroll

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Altera Payroll headcount numbers, computed without a model.

Four metrics, 14 days of employees created and a breakdown by team, refreshed on schedule.

Altera Payroll health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the employees collection

Live

Employees

1,284 ↓ 12%

Departments

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Employees created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

HR 34%

Payroll 27%

Finance 21%

People Ops 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Altera Payroll to Claude?

In Elaichi, choose Altera Payroll and paste in your Altera Payroll API key, then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Once both steps are done, Claude can work with your Altera Payroll employees, departments, jobs and pay records.

Does Altera Payroll work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Altera Payroll is connected once in Elaichi, and the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. Each person signs in as themselves in whichever client they use.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Altera Payroll data?

It can list and look up employees, departments, jobs, companies, earnings, deductions, contacts, dependents and direct deposits in Altera Payroll, and it can create employees, departments, jobs, contacts, dependents and direct deposits or update an existing employee. In practice that means asking who is in a department, checking a person's deductions, or setting up a new hire in one conversation. Short, concrete asks such as "list employees in Finance" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting Altera Payroll give the AI access to everyone's pay details?

No. Every request to Altera Payroll runs inside the access of the person who signed in, so the AI sees exactly what that person could see in Altera Payroll and nothing more. Elaichi can narrow that access further with restrictions, but it can never widen it.

Can my team share one Altera Payroll connection?

Yes. One person connects Altera Payroll in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the actual person behind every employee lookup or change.

Can I stop an agent from changing things in Altera Payroll?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Altera Payroll earnings and deductions while blocking the creation of employees or direct deposits. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt can reach it.

What happens to an Altera Payroll connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Altera Payroll through every client at once. If they connected a shared Altera Payroll account, it keeps working for everyone else on the team. Disconnecting Altera Payroll once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client together.

Does the Altera Payroll MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Altera Payroll 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.

Put Altera Payroll in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor 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.