Altera Payroll MCP connector
Connect Altera Payroll to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot 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.
- Connects with an API key
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
Show me every employee in the Engineering department.
Working in Altera Payroll with Elaichi
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List all Altera Payroll validateauths
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List all Altera Payroll companies
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List all Altera Payroll employees
How to connect Altera Payroll to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Altera Payroll 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.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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 Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
Altera Payroll 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. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Altera Payroll 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.
Altera Payroll MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
Connect Altera Payroll to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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.
What teams do with Altera Payroll through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Altera Payroll is logged.
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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.
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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.
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Finance
Reconcile headcount by department
List every employee alongside their department and company to confirm the numbers match the budget and the forecast.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
What connecting Altera Payroll gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Altera Payroll account.
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, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about employees and get live answers.
Ask who joined this month and see Altera Payroll employee records in plain language.
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
Use Altera Payroll from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot.
One governed endpoint, signed in over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.
Tool catalog
50 Altera Payroll tools, ready without code.
Employees, departments, jobs, earnings, deductions and direct deposits, covered without writing any code.
Toolboxes
Give each team its own Altera Payroll toolbox.
HR, payroll and finance each work from a toolbox scoped to their job.
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.
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.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Workflows, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
Altera Payroll 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 employees
Altera Payroll
1.4s -
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Group by owner
Transform
0.1s -
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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 Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Altera Payroll
Queued
Workflows
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 health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the employees collection
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%
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.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Altera Payroll
All three can connect Altera Payroll 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Altera Payroll tools | Allow or restrict single Altera Payroll 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 Altera Payroll 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 | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 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.
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.
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Questions, answered
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, Microsoft Copilot, 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 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 restricting the creation of employees or direct deposits. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
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, Microsoft Copilot 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, Microsoft Copilot, 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 Altera Payroll?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Altera Payroll. 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 Altera Payroll call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Altera Payroll?
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 Altera Payroll: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Altera Payroll in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot