Paychex MCP connector
The Paychex connector brings companies, workers, jobs, company checks and custom fields into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients, so your team can look up and update Paychex records within each person's own 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.
112 tools
How to connect
How to connect Paychex to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Paychex once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Paychex.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste your Paychex app credentials. Paychex 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.
Paychex 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.
Paychex 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.
Paychex 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 Paychex 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 Paychex 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
Pull up a worker before a conversation
Ask for a worker's Paychex record by their ID and get their details read back before a check-in or a difficult meeting, without clicking through the Paychex menus.
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HR
Catch a worker record up after a change
When someone changes their name, address or other details, tell the agent and it updates the Paychex worker record while you move on to the next thing.
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Payroll
Cut a company check when one is needed
Create a company check in Paychex for an off-cycle payment and review the list of existing checks before you do, all from the same chat.
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Finance
Review calculation bases before a payroll run
List the calculation bases set up on a Paychex company and ask the agent to summarize them so the run is checked before money moves.
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Operations
Add a new job to the company
When a new role is approved, create the job in Paychex and confirm the full list of jobs and employment types is up to date.
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People Ops
Set up custom fields for tracking
Create custom fields and custom field categories in Paychex to track things like desk location or equipment, then tidy up old ones you no longer use.
Try asking
- “Which workers have custom fields missing for onboarding this week?”
- “Summarize company checks issued across all Paychex companies this month.”
- “List worker updates made in Paychex since Monday.”
Compare
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Paychex
All three can connect Paychex 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 Paychex tools | Allow or restrict single Paychex 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 Paychex 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
Paychex tools for your AI agents
112 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Paychex, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting Paychex gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Paychex account.
The agent
Ask payroll questions, get worker answers instantly.
Type a question in plain language and pull answers straight from live Paychex records.
- workers
- companies
- checks
- custom fields
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which workers have custom fields missing for onboarding this week?
Summarize company checks issued across all Paychex companies this month.
List worker updates made in Paychex since Monday.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
One Paychex endpoint, every client connects.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor all reach Paychex through one governed org endpoint, no shared keys.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
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Tool catalog
112 Paychex tools, zero custom code.
Every Paychex tool, resource and method cataloged and ready to use without writing custom code.
- List all Paychex companies
- Get single Paychex company by ID
- Get single Paychex worker by ID
- Update a Paychex worker by ID
ElaichiToolsToolboxes
Every team gets its own Paychex toolbox.
HR, payroll and finance each work from a toolbox scoped to their own Paychex needs.
- HR
- Payroll
- Finance
- IT
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Delegated Paychex access, no shared passwords.
See who connected each Paychex account and how many teams and members share it.
- Corporate HR
- West Region
- East Region
- Contractors
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every Paychex change, logged and answerable.
See who did what in Paychex, when it happened, and which resource it touched.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching 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 triggers, Paychex work gets done.
Records are fetched, grouped, drafted into a digest, approved by a person, then posted back to Paychex.
Paychex 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
Paychex
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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
Paychex
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Paychex health, refreshed on a schedule.
Four metrics and a 14 day chart of records created, broken down by team, no model involved.
Paychex health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the workers collection
Workers
1,284 ↓ 12%
Companies
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Workers created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Corporate HR 34%
West Region 27%
East Region 21%
Contractors 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Paychex to Claude?
First, connect Paychex in Elaichi: choose it from the catalog and enter the app credentials from your Paychex account, then Elaichi signs you in with them. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Second, open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste in https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in to Elaichi when Claude asks and Paychex is ready to use.
Does Paychex work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Paychex is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Paychex once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Paychex data?
With Paychex connected, an agent can list your companies, look up a worker's record, update that worker's details, create and review company checks, and add or look up jobs. It can also list calculation bases, contact types, employment types and document categories, and create, update or remove custom fields and their categories. Because Paychex offers so many actions, short concrete asks such as "update worker 4821's address" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Paychex give the AI everything in my Paychex account?
No. Every request to Paychex runs as the person who signed in, so the agent sees only the companies and workers that person can already see in Paychex. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example by blocking updates or deletions for a team, but it can never widen access beyond what Paychex already allows that person.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Paychex?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Paychex workers and jobs while blocking updates, deletions or creating company checks. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Paychex connection when someone leaves?
When you offboard someone in Elaichi, their access to Paychex through every client ends at once. A shared Paychex connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want to remove Paychex entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client at the same time.
Does the Paychex MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Paychex 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 Paychex?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Paychex. 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 Paychex call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Paychex?
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 Paychex: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Paychex 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.