HRIS Overview

What is Finch?

Finch is a technology platform that helps employers securely share company and employee data from HRIS and payroll systems of record to other third-party apps and services. We use Finch in order to make it easier to onboard your users with us, by syncing your HR data with your LightSpeed VT data.

Why are we using Finch?

There are 100's of HRIS platform (Providers), each with their own API, data structure, field types, nomenclature, etc. It would be near impossible for us to conveniently integrate with all those providers and offer maximum flexibility. As a middleware, Finch can bridge that gap by providing us with one API and one set of unified and conformed data types that can connect to the multitude of providers.

What can you do?

• Initially import all your employees into your system
• Add new employees as they get hired
• Assign content roles and/or teams based on your employees title or department
• Activate/deactivate users based on their employment status updates
• Use your HR app's location information to match LightSpeed VT locations

How does it work?

HRIS applications use an API or some other ways to integrate with external 3rd parties. Each one may have a different structure or naming of fields that they send out in requests from 3rd parties. Finch acts as a middleware that "translate" the data sent from the HRIS to be consistent and universal.

For example, one HRIS may use this format for "Last Name": last_name. While others may use: lastName or surname

Finch keeps tracks of all possibilities from the multiple HRIS and provide an output that is always the same "language".

What data is available and can be used?

Basic employment and individual information are all we need at LightSpeed VT to make it work!

Finch categorizes employee's information as Employment or Individual. In most cases, the Employment category would apply, as it relates to the data for employment.

Finch

Employment

• First Name
• Middle Name
• Last Name
• Title
• Start Date
• End Date
• Department Name

Individual

• First Name
• Middle Name
• Last Name
• Email Address
• Phone Number

LightSpeed VT

• Username
• Password
• Access Level
• Locations
• Teams
• Content Roles