Read companies, employees, contracts, salaries and absences in Paychex Europe Payroll. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Turn on the Paychex Europe Payroll connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
For HR and payroll teams that run German payroll in Paychex Europe Payroll.
List the companies your key may read, then search the employees of one company by name. Open a record to read its personal and contact data.
Read the contract of an employee for one month: start and end dates, employment type and occupation.
Read the salary of an employee for one month, with gross salary and hourly rate. List the salary components that make up the pay.
List the leave, sickness and maternity absences of an employee, one page at a time. Open the employee record for the same person.
Read the legal and address data of a company. Then list its employees, with an optional name search.
The login page asks for your Paychex API key.
Paychex support must first enable the API for your account. Then create the key in the Paychex Payroll app under Unternehmen → Einstellungen → Integration → API-Zugangsdaten. Keys last up to one year. Your key is used only to call your own Paychex account and is never shown to anyone.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"paychex-europe-payroll": {
"url": "https://paychex-europe-payroll.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"paychex-europe-payroll": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://paychex-europe-payroll.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Paychex API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | 10,000 tool calls / month |
| Pro+per user | $39/mo · $390/yr | 100,000 tool calls / month |
Each paid plan covers this Paychex Europe Payroll server only. Ask your AI to run paychex_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. The change requires your confirmation, keeps your billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. Cancel any time with paychex_cancel_subscription: your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and asking to resume the same plan with paychex_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
paychex_list_companiespaychex_get_companypaychex_list_employeespaychex_get_employeepaychex_get_employee_contractpaychex_get_employee_salarypaychex_list_employee_salary_componentspaychex_list_employee_absencespaychex_usage_statuspaychex_request_featurepaychex_upgradepaychex_cancel_subscriptionFind an employee and read the personal record. Check the contract of an employee for one month. Review the salary of an employee for one month. List the absences of an employee. Read the company data before a payroll check. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Paychex Europe Payroll. The server calls the Paychex Europe Payroll API with your own Paychex Europe Payroll access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Paychex API key. See Before you connect for where to find it.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Paychex API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Paychex Europe Payroll API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Paychex Europe Payroll.
All 8 Paychex Europe Payroll tools are marked read-only.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with 10,000 tool calls / month. Pro+ costs $39/mo or $390/yr, with 100,000 tool calls / month. Each subscription covers this Paychex Europe Payroll server only. Cancel any time: your paid plan then runs to the end of the paid period. Run paychex_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run paychex_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. After you confirm, your existing subscription changes in place, keeps its billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. To cancel, run paychex_cancel_subscription. Your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with paychex_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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