Personio and Sage.
Connected both ways.
A change in Personio lands in Sage automatically, and whatever payroll produces finds its way back into the employee file. Employee records, contracts, pay components, absences and even documents. Set up in a few minutes.
Three steps.
Then it runs by itself.
You do not need an integration written for you and you no longer export a file. The connection runs directly between the two programmes.
Sign in
You connect Personio and Sage with the credentials you already have. No new account, no installation, no file.
Choose
You decide which data runs in which direction, and from when. All by clicking, with no technical knowledge.
Running
From then on the two programmes reconcile automatically. Every transfer is logged so you can trace it.
Your effort after that: none.
No ticket. No queue.
No project.
Most plans in an HR team fail not on the idea but on where IT ranks them. “We will do it next quarter” means, in practice, next year. This integration you set up yourself.
What your IT team contributes: ideally nothing.
Not just there.
Back again too.
Most solutions push data in one direction, and in the end somebody still types the response from payroll back in. With us both directions run.
- A new employee is hiredThe payroll record appears in Sage before anyone asks for it.
- Address or bank details changedPayroll uses the right data from the next run onwards.
- Salary adjustedThe new amount is in payroll with its effective date.
- Leaving date enteredThe final pay run is prepared and the leaving date is right everywhere.
- Payroll has runThe result sits as a document in the employee file, with nothing forwarded by email.
- A correction in payrollThe correction flows back so both systems hold the same data.
- Pay types and cost centres updatedThe mapping in Personio stays current without HR having to update it.
- A certificate is createdIt lands automatically in the digital employee file, available to the employee.
Six workflows
that run by themselves from now on.
These are not examples from a brochure, this is how they run at customers who have connected Personio and Sage through HR-Autopilot.
Prepare onboarding in full
Create the employee file in Personio, generate the payroll record in Sage, produce the contract from the template and file it in both systems.
Keep employee records aligned
Address, bank details, marital status, tax details, changed once and correct in payroll straight away. The most common query disappears.
File the payslip in the record
The finished payslip moves back to Personio as a document and is available to employees there, with nothing sent by email.
Apply the new pay
The new amount, the allowances and the effective date land in payroll. No collection list for someone to work through at month end.
Hand over the absences
Leave, sickness and unpaid leave with the period and the status, including the right pay type when continued pay ends.
Handle offboarding cleanly
Prepare the final pay run, set the leaving date in both systems, produce the certificates and archive them in the record.
Every data object
, in the direction you need.
You decide for each object whether it runs one way, the other, or both.
| Data object | What it contains | Personio → Sage | Sage → Personio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee records | Name, address, date of birth, bank details, tax details, social insurance | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contract data | Start and leaving dates, working hours, fixed terms, contract type, probation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pay components | Basic salary, allowances, benefits in kind, one-off and recurring components | ✓ | ✓ |
| Organisation | Cost centre, department, site, line manager, legal entity | ✓ | ✓ |
| Absences | Leave, sickness, parental leave and unpaid leave with the period and the status | ✓ | ✓ |
| Documents | Contracts, payslips, certificates, including filing in the relevant record | ✓ | ✓ |
Last checked: 08/2026
First you win time.
Then you win weight.
As long as preparing payroll blocks half the calendar every month, strategic people work stays an intention. Not for lack of ability, but because the operational work occupies your head.
- Retyping in two programmesWhat is in Personio is in Sage. Without anyone transferring it.
- Retrospective calculations the following monthThe most common cause, a record change that reached only one system, no longer exists.
- Queries from financeNo more calls because bank details are out of date or a cost centre is wrongly assigned.
- The folder of helper filesNo export, no intermediate spreadsheet, no file only one person understands.
- Workforce planning with numbers you can rely onWhen both systems hold the same data, you can analyse properly for the first time instead of estimating.
- You sit differently in the meetingAnyone who can produce turnover, cost per hire and staff cost trends at the touch of a button is heard differently.
- Time for people instead of fieldsConversations, development, retention, the work you joined an HR team to do.
- You deliver digitalisation instead of announcing itThe first working integration is the proof that it can be done. After that nobody asks whether HR can manage it.
In many companies HR is the department least trusted to innovate. Whoever is first to connect two core systems automatically turns that perception around, not through a concept but through a process that runs from Monday.
“We have transparency across every process and far fewer questions in the team.”
Head of HR · Gebr. Willach“Personio and Sage are connected at last. We have transparency across every process and far fewer questions in the team.”
with no HR IT of their own
Minutes instead of months.
And often without us.
How fast it goes depends mainly on your Sage version. In many cases you do not need us at all.
Sage in a current version
You sign in with the credentials you already have, choose which data should run, and the connection is live, entirely on your own, with no appointment with us.
An older or on-premise installation
If Sage runs on your own server or in an older version, we set the connection up together, usually in under an hour.
We keep it running
If either vendor changes something in its interface, we follow up. As an official partner we usually hear about it beforehand.
It rarely stops
at two programmes.
Whoever connects Personio and Sage usually brings in time and attendance and the user accounts shortly afterwards.
Personio & ATOSS
Time accounts, shift models and balances in step with the employee file.
To the overview →Personio & Microsoft 365
User accounts, groups and licences begin and end with the employment.
To the overview →Personio and Sage are trademarks of their respective owners. We are an official partner of both vendors; the names are used to describe technical compatibility.
See the integration
on your own data.
30 minutes, your real Personio and Sage environments, no slides. After that you will know what runs automatically and what does not.
