Crelate Deliver and Back Office
Recruit, hire, onboard — then connect to your back office with confidence.
Your business is unique. One-size-fits-all only works for a small portion of talent businesses. Crelate supports the full talent lifecycle up to and through onboarding and ongoing credentialing. Sourcing, placement, and complete federal, state, and client-specific onboarding. When it’s time for timekeeping, payroll, and billing, we hand the placement off cleanly to wherever your firm already runs its middle and back office.
Back office and Middle office how, where, and when it makes sense for you.
Recruit
Source, engage, and manage candidates from ~1B profiles.
Hire
Track applicants and turn a candidate into a placement.
Onboard
Complete federal, state, and client-specific onboarding and compliance — built in.
Deliver
Timekeeping, invoicing, and payroll flow to your middle or back office of choice.
Onboarding is optional — for direct & contract placements you can hand off to Deliver straight after hire.
After the placement
Hand off to the back office that fits your firm.
A smart handoff means the moment a placement is made, the data your back office needs is already mapped and waiting — no double entry, no re-keying. Keep the system you already run, plug into a payroll provider, or connect a purpose-built staffing partner. Recruiters never leave the tool they use every day.
Bring your own
Your back office
Already have a back-office system you trust? Crelate hands off assignments, workers, and clients so your team keeps running the process it knows.
Your payroll
Export approved, calculated time straight to the payroll provider you already use — in the format it expects, ready to run.
Or connect a purpose-built HRIS, HCM or staffing partner
People 2.0
Jobs become Orders, placements become Assignments, contacts become Employees — mapped to the concepts your EOR back office already runs on. Crelate links to existing records instead of creating duplicates.
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Bilflo
Turns placements into automated timecards, smart pay-and-bill with 50-state overtime rules, invoicing, and real-time gross-profit reporting by client, recruiter, and contractor.
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GorillaWorks
Automates everything between placement and payment — contractor onboarding, timesheets and VMS sync, payroll and tax, client invoicing, and recruiter commissions across the US and Canada.
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Lightweight delivery, built right in.
Not every firm needs a full back office on day one. For lighter contractor volume and simpler pay-and-bill, Crelate Deliver runs the essentials inside the same platform your recruiters already live in — no extra logins, no re-keying, no month-end scramble.
When volume, multi-state complexity, or benefits and compliance outgrow it, the same data hands off to a dedicated partner without a migration. Start light, scale when you’re ready.
Assignments
Turn placements into managed assignments with pay and bill rates, start and end dates, and live status tracking.
Timekeeping
Collect and approve hours against assignments, ready for billing and payroll — no spreadsheets in between.
Invoicing
Generate client invoices from approved time, using the rates and terms already set on the assignment.
Payroll Export
Send approved, calculated time to your payroll provider in the exact format it expects.
Export Translator
Map Crelate data to any downstream system’s file format — connect to a new back office with no custom engineering.
Geofencing
Verify on-site hours with location-based clock-in for field and light-industrial assignments.
Outgrowing lightweight delivery?
When you’re ready for full timekeeping, invoicing, and payroll at scale, the same placement data hands off to a purpose-built partner — no migration required.
Crelate Back Office FAQ
Is Crelate Deliver a full back-office system?
It depends. For certain scenarios, typically for longer term placements, Deliver Essentials basic assignments, timekeeping, invoicing, and payroll export. For full back-office operations at scale, we recommend handing off to your own system or a purpose-built partner like People 2.0, Ascen, FoxHire, Bilflo, or GorillaWorks. Custom integrations via our Data Sync Framework are also available to connect to your organizations existing back office provider or capabilities.
What happens the moment a placement is made?
The data your back office needs is ready to flow — jobs become orders, placements become assignments, contacts become employees, and accounts become customers. When an integration is connected, that mapping runs automatically so there’s no double entry between where you place talent and where you pay and bill.
Do I have to use a partner?
No. Bring your own back office or payroll provider and Crelate hands off cleanly to it — or keep the essentials in Crelate Deliver. The Export Translator maps your data to virtually any downstream file format, so you’re never locked in.
Which back-office partners does Crelate integrate with?
Ascen, FoxHire, People 2.0, Bilflo, and GorillaWorks are purpose-built for staffing back office, plus 80+ integrations and custom options to ensure Crelate can work with your back office of choice. Explore them all in the Crelate Marketplace.
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Ready to discuss connecting with your back office?
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