Installing the BambooHR app

this section covers setting up the bamboohr integration app, which allows you to sync your employee roster to charthop review your payroll system data your charthop payroll app syncs your employee data from your payroll system and builds your org chart in charthop once your org chart is created, you can start using charthop charthop recommends reviewing the data in your payroll system to ensure it is what you expect before you sync it to charthop for example, if an employee has multiple system ids in your payroll system, that employee’s data won’t sync properly you should also be sure that your payroll system reflects an accurate view of your organization, including reporting structures, employee locations, and compensation obtain api credentials for bamboohr for charthop to access your organization's bamboohr payroll data, you need to create an api key in bamboohr that you can use in charthop this information allows charthop to connect to bamboohr to receive your employee data log into bamboohr as an administrator who has permission to create api keys click your name in upper right hand corner of any page to get to the user context menu and select the api keys option select add new api key name the new key "charthop" copy the api key to a safe place when accessing bamboohr, take note of the bamboohr subdomain name in this url example, acme bamboohr com, acme is the subdomain install the bamboohr app after you have your bamboohr api key, you can install the bamboohr integration app in charthop from the left sidebar, select apps & bundles from the sub menu, select apps, if not already pre selected select the availible apps tab scroll to your payroll app and select install on the far right of the respective app's row connect the bamboohr app you'll be prompted to configure your payroll app when you select install enter your bamboohr subdomain in the field provided in this url example, acme bamboohr com, acme is the subdomain in the create your api key step, copy the api key you created to the provided field select next step configure data sync settings for bamboohr data sync settings control how and what data is synced to charthop from your payroll system for example, you can choose whether or not to create a backfill position in charthop when you have a departure in your payroll system other advanced settings allow you to exclude certain employees select one of the two options automatically create backfills this option creates a backfill position in charthop (open job) when an employee is marked as departed in your payroll system sync departures only this option removes the departed employee from charthop the employee's job history remains in charthop configure advanced settings advanced settings allow you to better control how your payroll data syncs to charthop charthop recommends accepting the default values for these settings please get in touch with charthop support or your customer success manager for assistance if needed expand the advanced settings section use the following table to guide you through advanced settings decisions false true false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type run an initial one time sync of your payroll data when you first configure your payroll app, you should run a one time sync to verify that the sync is operating as you expect it to and that your data is what you expect to run a one time sync in the setup wizard, select the run one time sync option select finish setup verify your data in charthop after running your first sync, you can use the data sheet and org chart pages to spot check your data you can use the sync history page to verify when the sync was run and if it encountered any issues you should spot check your charthop org for the following correct management reporting lines compensation data employee information on profiles (names, addresses, and so on) job titles departments locations remember that most issues with your synced data originate in your payroll system charthop allows you to visualize your employee data to make finding these discrepancies easier still, you’ll need to fix any data discrepancies in your payroll system and rerun the sync to view the fixes in charthop configure your payroll app sync to run daily after you’ve synced your data for the first time and verified your org chart, you should configure a daily sync the value of syncing your payroll data to charthop is that it ensures that your employee data is always up to date from the left sidebar, select apps & bundles from the sub menu, select apps, if not already pre selected select the installed apps tab scroll to your payroll app and select the gear (settings) icon on the far right of the row to view app settings within the app status & sync settings section, select the edit (pencil) icon toggle the auto sync option to on select save