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Finch

HR
Velocity5.0

Finch is doing the unglamorous payroll-API depth work — provider coverage, schema completeness, sandbox fidelity.

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◆Current state
Finch is shipping plumbing across its provider network and data model: W4 documents now reachable for Paychex, FLSA status on the employment endpoint, rehire date for QuickBooks, Square Payroll reliability fixes, 7shifts added to the Provider Network in beta. Security and trust work is showing up too — PII masking in the API Explorer and CAPTCHA on dashboard signup. Sandbox mock-data quality improvements appear repeatedly in the recent run.
◆Where it's heading
The product is in 'fill-the-grid' mode: matrix of (employment-data fields) × (payroll providers). Each release closes off another cell. The strategic theme is reducing the integration surface customers have to handle themselves — if Finch supports rehire_date on QuickBooks, downstream HR-tech buyers don't write that branch in their own code. The PII masking and CAPTCHA additions hint at SOC 2 / enterprise-readiness pressure from larger customers.
◆Prediction
Expect more Documents-Product expansions to additional providers (the W4-to-Paychex pattern repeats well), and continued Provider Network growth focused on shift- and time-tracking systems where data overlaps with payroll. The next directional move would be more advanced write capabilities (mutating data back to providers, not just reading) — Finch's existing infra makes that a natural next step.

◆Recent moves

  1. 23d ago

    ​Sandbox mock data improvements

    Sandbox mock data for employment endpoints gets logical constraints layered on top of randomization. Better test fidelity for downstream developers building against Finch's API.

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  2. 23d ago

    ​New pre-auth screen for Paycom

    Finch Connect adds a Paycom-specific pre-auth screen for the Sync & Clone payment-scope flow. Provider-specific UX work that smooths a known friction in the Paycom path.

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  3. 1mo ago

    ​W4 data now supported for Paychex

    Paychex joins ADP Run, ADP Workforce Now, and QuickBooks as supported providers for Finch's Documents Product, extending W4 retrieval. A clear provider-coverage entry that fits the recent 'fill the grid' pattern.

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  4. 1mo ago

    ​Square Payroll integration improvements

    Square Payroll integration sees retrieval-speed improvements and a fixed authentication-timeout bug. Reliability work on a high-traffic provider.

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  5. 1mo ago

    ​PII Masking in the API Explorer

    API Explorer now masks PII (names, emails, phone numbers, DOB) in displayed responses. A trust-and-security improvement for customer demos and shared screen sessions.

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  6. 1mo ago

    ​7shifts added to Provider Network

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