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How Quinn integrates with Paycor
Does Quinn integrate with Paycor?
Yes. Quinn supports read-only roster sync from Paycor, so new hires, job changes, and departures keep Quinn members and training groups current without manual updates. Quinn courses can also be exported as SCORM or cmi5 packages for compatible course types. Whether they run inside Paycor's learning module depends on whether your Paycor learning setup accepts those packages.
If your company runs on Paycor, your employee data already lives there: every hire, termination, job title, manager, and location. Two questions usually come up: does Quinn connect to Paycor, and why add another training tool when Paycor has learning features of its own?
Once Quinn is connected, Paycor stays the source of truth for who needs training, and Quinn handles the training itself: building courses from your SOPs, sending them to employees' phones, and showing that they learned it. For seasonal or high-turnover teams, that means the training roster stays aligned with Paycor without manual upkeep. There are three ways to use them together, and you can combine more than one.
At a glance
| What it does | How it works | |
|---|---|---|
| Roster sync | Keeps Quinn members and groups in step with Paycor | Read-only connection that syncs daily |
| Course export | Runs Quinn courses inside an LMS, including Paycor's learning module if it accepts these packages | SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, or cmi5 (xAPI) package, for compatible course types |
| Completion transfer | Gets completions and scores into a system of record | Recorded by your LMS for exported courses, or sent as a webhook your team routes |
Roster sync
- What it does
- Keeps Quinn members and groups in step with Paycor
- How it works
- Read-only connection that syncs daily
Course export
- What it does
- Runs Quinn courses inside an LMS, including Paycor's learning module if it accepts these packages
- How it works
- SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, or cmi5 (xAPI) package, for compatible course types
Completion transfer
- What it does
- Gets completions and scores into a system of record
- How it works
- Recorded by your LMS for exported courses, or sent as a webhook your team routes
Option 1: Sync your Paycor roster into Quinn
This is the core of the integration. Quinn reads your employee data from Paycor and keeps your Quinn members and groups in step with it.
What syncs from Paycor
- Employees: name, work email, and mobile phone number, so training links can go out by text with no app to install.
- Employment details: job title, employment status, and manager.
- Groups: Paycor groups such as departments, which you map to Quinn groups.
- Locations: each employee's work location.
What happens automatically after that
- New hire in Paycor → added to Quinn. Active employees are created as learners and placed in their groups. If those groups have onboarding programs, first-week training starts without anyone touching it. Welcome emails go out too, if you turn them on.
- Role or location change → training follows. Quinn can build groups from job title, manager, and work location. When someone's title or location changes in Paycor, they move to the matching group and its training. Groups you map from Paycor add people as they join the Paycor group.
- Someone leaves → deactivated in Quinn. Employees marked inactive in Paycor are deactivated on the next sync. As a safeguard, Quinn pauses automatic offboarding if one sync would remove an unusually large share of your organization.
Quinn doesn't write back to Paycor. The roster connection only reads data, so it can't change employee records.
Option 2: Export Quinn courses to your LMS
From Share & Export on any course, Quinn exports a SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, or cmi5 (xAPI) package for compatible course types. If your Paycor learning setup accepts SCORM or cmi5 packages, you can upload Quinn courses there, and the LMS records completion, pass or fail, and score. Check with your Paycor admin which formats your setup accepts before you export.
Live packages load the hosted Quinn course, so updates you publish reach learners without a re-upload. A self-contained SCORM 1.2 package (beta) is also available. See running Quinn courses inside your LMS for package types, voice and roleplay behavior, and passing scores.
Option 3: Send completions to your system of record
If you train in Quinn but want HR to have one place to look, Quinn can send a course.completed webhook each time a learner finishes a course. Your HRIS team or integration partner can route that event into a downstream workflow. Webhooks live under Settings → Developer → Webhook Endpoints once your Quinn team turns on developer settings for your account.
This is not the same as native, two-way write-back to Paycor.
How to connect Paycor
Setup takes a few minutes of clicking. The part that takes longer is getting the right person at your company to authorize it.
- In Quinn, go to Settings → Integrations and click Connect HRIS.
- Under HRIS Provider, choose Paycor.
- Your Paycor admin signs in and authorizes the connection, so loop them in early.
- Quinn runs the first sync. For large organizations, the first pull can take a while.
- Open Configure Mappings and map Paycor groups to Quinn groups (for example, Paycor "Plumbing / Dallas" → Quinn "Plumbers / Dallas"). Use Preview to check the result before you save.
- When your members and groups look right, turn on welcome emails and launch.
Your Quinn team can walk through field mapping with your HRIS team on a short call.
Common questions
Paycor already has a learning module. Why add Quinn?
Paycor's learning module may be enough for some teams. The question is whether its course-creation, interactive, and frontline-delivery features cover the job-specific training you need. That's the gap Quinn fills:
- Courses built from your SOPs, so training reflects your equipment and procedures.
- Practice, not just slides: scenario lessons, 3D equipment simulations, and AI roleplays.
- Training by text, with no app to install.
You can keep required HR courses in Paycor and use Quinn for the rest, or run Quinn courses inside Paycor if your Paycor learning setup accepts SCORM or cmi5 packages.
What if an employee's info is wrong in Paycor?
Fix it in Paycor, which stays the source of truth. Job title, manager, and location changes come through on the next daily sync.
What if we're moving HR systems?
Connect the system that's live today and switch the connection later, or invite a pilot group directly in Quinn so training isn't blocked. Quinn matches synced employees to existing members by email, so their training history stays intact.
See Quinn with your Paycor setup
Book a demo and bring your Paycor questions. We'll walk through roster sync, group mapping, and how completions reach your system of record.
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