UKG Ready Integration Overview

Last updated: August 28, 2026

UKG Ready is UKG's HR, payroll, and workforce management platform for small and mid-sized organizations. Connecting it through Onboarded means a new hire's onboarding data reaches UKG Ready as a real employee record, created or updated automatically, without anyone retyping it by hand.

At a glance

Sync direction: Onboarded to UKG Ready
Setup: credentials and configuration, no custom build required
Coverage: 90 fields across 5 categories

Why connect it through Onboarded

Manual re-entry between onboarding and payroll is where errors slip in: a duplicate employee record, a mismatched direct deposit account, a stale lookup value. Connecting UKG Ready removes that handoff entirely.

Eliminate double entry. New-hire data collected once during onboarding flows straight into UKG Ready as a real employee record.
Rehires resolve themselves. Even a duplicate-create rejection from UKG Ready gets automatically converted into a proper rehire.
Direct deposit handling matches how you already work. Append, replace everything on file, or update by sequence, set once, not decided case by case.

Integration features

Onboarded connects directly to UKG Ready's own API and creates or updates an employee record in real time, no file to generate, no manual upload.

Live API connection. Records are created and updated in UKG Ready as onboarding happens, not batched into an overnight file.
Automatic rehire detection. A matching terminated employee is found before a new record is ever created.
Configurable direct deposit reconciliation. Append, replace, or update-by-sequence, whichever matches how your payroll team already reconciles bank details.
Dropdowns pulled from your live tenant. Reference data comes straight from UKG Ready, not a static list that can go stale.

Fields by category

Category	Fields	Required
Employee Info	36	9
Pay Info	21	0
Direct Deposits	13	5
Demographics	10	0
Compensation	10	3

Accruals are configured separately, based on your account's time-off setup in UKG Ready.

This integration gets frequent updates, and we welcome feedback that shapes them, including feedback on fields UKG Ready accepts that aren't mapped yet, or a different default or source you'd like to see.

Employee Info

36 fields, 9 required

Field	Required
Username	Yes
First name	Yes
Last name	Yes
Photo URL
Photo uploaded
Middle name
External ID	Yes
Employee ID
Address	Yes
Use separate mailing address
Status
BSN (Dutch social security number)
EIN	Yes
Force change password
Locked
First screen
Phone numbers
Locale
Mailing address
Managers	Yes
National insurance number
Nickname
Primary email
Secondary email
Salutation
Social insurance number
Social security number
Suffix
Timezone
Cost centers	Yes
Add to new hire export
Employee dates
Account extra fields
Managed cost centers enabled
Managed cost centers settings
National ID numbers	Yes

Pay Info

21 fields, none required by the API

Field	Required
Default job
Job change reason code
Job last changed date
Standard work day
Employee type
Pay type
Shift premium
Medical eligibility
Dental eligibility
Dependent benefits eligibility
Benefit auto-enrollment eligibility
EEO classification
EEO-4 classification
EEO-4 function
Workers' comp code
Union
Payroll classification
Bank account number
Pay grade
GL codes
TTOC (time/task/occupation code)

Direct Deposits

13 fields, 5 required

Field	Required
Account name
Description
Type
Active from
Active to
Employee	Yes
Amount
Percentage
Calculation method	Yes
Account type	Yes
Account number	Yes
Routing number	Yes
Routing type

Demographics

10 fields, none required by the API

Field	Required
Citizenship
Ethnicity
Eye color
Full-time student
Gender
Height
Referral source
Recruiter
Seasonal employee
Visa information

Compensation

10 fields, 3 required

Field	Required
Employee	Yes
Effective from	Yes
Amount	Yes
Currency
Amount period
Time
Time period
Number of pay periods in year
Auto pay
Reason code