Automate the flow of payroll and workforce data from ADP into Planful for accurate headcount forecasting and labor cost analysis. Stop exporting payroll reports to spreadsheets, reformatting employee data, and manually updating your workforce budget assumptions every period.
Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.
When payroll runs complete in ADP, automatically extract compensation totals by department and cost center, then post actuals to the corresponding expense accounts in Planful. Eliminates manual journal entries and ensures workforce costs hit your forecast comparison immediately.
Trigger updates to Planful headcount models and salary assumptions whenever new employees are added in ADP with their start date, department, title, and compensation. Finance gets real-time visibility into pipeline hires hitting the budget without chasing HR for spreadsheets.
Automatically pull actual labor costs by department, job code, and pay type from ADP after each pay period, then compare against Planful budget line items. Generates variance commentary drafts highlighting departments over or under forecast with drill-down to employee-level changes.
When employee terminations are processed in ADP, calculate the freed budget capacity based on their comp and time remaining in fiscal year, then notify FP&A in Planful with scenarios for reallocating those dollars. Accelerates headcount reforecasting cycles.
Pull actual benefits costs, employer tax rates, and total burden percentages from ADP payroll data, then apply those rates to Planful headcount scenario models. Replaces static assumptions with live data that reflects current plan enrollment and regulatory changes.
When finance approves new headcount in Planful's annual budget or rolling forecast, automatically create placeholder records or requisition flags in ADP with expected start dates and compensation bands. Keeps talent acquisition aligned with financial capacity.
No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.
Authorize ADP and Planful with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.
Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.
Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.
Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.
Redbird understands both ADP's payroll and HR data structures and Planful's chart of accounts, dimensions, and forecast hierarchies—so your workforce data flows into the right budget line items without manual mapping.
Redbird maps ADP's employee records, earnings codes, deduction categories, and org structures to Planful's account hierarchies, department dimensions, and driver-based models. It recognizes when a new department appears in ADP and suggests where it belongs in your Planful entity structure. The AI handles pay period calendars versus fiscal periods, gross-to-loaded cost conversions, and multi-entity consolidation rules—so your actual labor costs always reconcile to your forecast assumptions.
faster than exporting ADP reports, pivoting in Excel, and uploading actuals to Planful
Redbird can pull from ADP and Planful simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.
Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either ADP or Planful.
SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.
Push data from ADP into Planful, or from Planful back into ADP. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.
Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.
Start automations from payroll events in ADP or planning activities in Planful—Redbird connects both sides of your workforce financial data flow.
Fires when a payroll processing cycle finishes and final costs are available by department and employee.
Triggers when a new employee record is created with start date, compensation, and organizational assignment.
Fires when an employee's termination is finalized with end date and final pay calculations.
Retrieve salary, benefits, and tax totals filtered by department, location, job code, or custom fields.
Pull current employee counts and FTE totals across organizational hierarchies and employment types.
Add a future hire record or requisition flag with forecasted start date and compensation range.
Fires when a budget or forecast version is locked and approved for comparison against actuals.
Triggers when actual-to-plan variance crosses a defined percentage or dollar amount for workforce accounts.
Fires when headcount assumptions or compensation drivers are changed in a planning scenario.
Write actual labor costs to specific accounts, departments, and periods in Planful's data model.
Modify headcount counts, average salary, or burden rate inputs that feed forecast calculations.
Create draft explanations for labor cost variances with supporting detail from employee-level changes.
See how Redbird syncs ADP payroll data with Planful forecasts in minutes, not days. Stop wrestling with spreadsheets between your HR and finance systems.