Companies with a Personio subscription can connect their Personio account to their Circula account.
Why connect Personio to your Circula app?
Manually inserting employee data is annoying. Thanks to automated data transfer the integration to Personio takes the work off your hands. Once connected, your user data from Personio will be synced and pushed to Circula:
First and last name, e-mail, status, type of employment, if required additionally IBAN and creditor number.
New users created in Personio will create new users in Circula users, when they become active in Personio.
Deactivated users in Personio will be deactivated in Circula.
Data transmission is synchronized every night in the background.
❗️Please note that we only import the status "Active" and employment type "Internal"❗️
How to connect Personio to your Circula app
If you already have generated valid API key enabled
To enable the Personio integration, go to Integrations > Personio in the menu.
Enter the API credentials already generated in Personio in the Client ID and Client Secret fields.
Click Connect afterwards. The Personio integration will be activated.
❗️Once the integration is activated, all employees in Personio will automatically receive an invitation email to Circula.
The integration always synchronizes overnight.
If you need to generate a new API key text file
To connect Personio to your Circula app, sign in to Personio and navigate to the Settings > INTEGRATIONS > API page:
In Access, make sure the following fields are selected: First name, Last name, Email, Status, Employment type
Verify that the API key contains the required fields in the Access window
📝 Note: the following fields can also be pushed: Employee creditor number, Employee IBAN. If you wish to push them to Circula, make sure to add them to this list.
In Credentials, click on Generate new credentials to generate a new API key:
Click on "Generate new credentials" to generate a new API key
Integrate the API key in the menu Integrations > Personio to the provided fields.
For more information on setting up new API credentials, see
❗️Important ❗️
Once the API key is generated and the integration is enabled, do not click again on "Generate new credentials". Doing so will turn off the integration and require you to go through the integration process again.
Adding additional fields to attributes
After setting up the Circula-Personio API you can connect the three map attributes and match the Employee IBAN, Employee ID and the Employee creditor number, too.
Setting up map attributes after connecting Circula and Personio
Note: If you are missing individual required attributes in the drop-down menu in your active Personio integration in Circula, you can simply activate them in Personio. Please go to the settings there, navigate to the active Circula API, click on it and add the required fields by marking in the list of readable employee attributes. Save the changes, and the required fields will be transferred to Circula.
🔧 Special case
If you have multiple entities or companies stored in your Personio account that should NOT be connected to Circula, you will not be able to split them on your own and create single API key files.
In this case, you will need help from our support team, who will be happy to assist you. Please contact our team via support@circula.com or 030 588 491 01.
❗️ Please note: All data transferred between Personio and Circula is encrypted ❗️
Do you still have questions?
💬 Chat Support
📞 +49 30 588 491 01️️
✉️ support@circula.com