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Personio - How do I link my account?

How to link your Personio account to Merge

Pritak Patel avatar
Written by Pritak Patel
Updated over a week ago

Overview

To authenticate Personio, you will need to provide the following information:

  • Client ID

  • Client Secret

This guide will walk you through finding or creating those credentials within Personio.

Prerequisites

Please ensure you fulfill all the requirements to set up the integration:

  • You have Administrator permissions in your company's Personio instance or someone has shared their access with you

Video Guide

Instructions

Step 1: Generating your API credentials

  1. Log into your Personio account and visit Settings in the bottom left

  2. Find the Integrations tile on your settings page

  3. Go to API credentials
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  4. Click "generate new credential"
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  5. Add in a name and select other for the Integration

  6. For readable employee attributes, choose these attributes:

    • Email

    • First name

    • Last Name

    • Gender

    • Hire date

    • Last name

    • Office

    • Profile Picture

    • Termination date

    • Status

    • Supervisor
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  7. You will then see your API Credentials populate. Copy and save these in a secure place
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Step 2: Paste your Client ID and Secret into the linking flow

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