Staffing firms running contract placements in Crelate can now hand a placed worker to Employdrive’s staffing-specific payroll, tax and HR back office from the same record — no re-entry, no second system of record.
Key takeaways
- Crelate and Employdrive now work from a single record, so a worker moves from placement to paycheck without anyone re-entering the recruiter’s work.
- Jobs in Crelate map to orders, placements map to assignments, and contacts map to employees in Employdrive.
- Employdrive treats the ATS as the system of record, so Crelate stays the one place a recruiting team works.
- Employdrive supports more than 200 staffing organizations, processing more than 120,000 W-2 and 1099 workers a year, with every support representative based onshore in Richmond, Virginia.
- The partnership is available now to Crelate customers placing contract and contingent workers.
Crelate, the AI Recruiting Platform used by more than 25,000 recruiting professionals since 2012, has partnered with Employdrive, a back-office platform built exclusively for staffing firms. The partnership lets a staffing firm move a placed worker onto payroll, tax and compliance without anyone re-entering the recruiter’s work.
The problem: the handoff between recruiting and payroll
In most staffing firms, a placement is entered twice. A recruiter closes the deal in the ATS, and someone else re-keys the same worker, the same rate and the same start date into a payroll system that knows nothing about how the placement came together. Every re-entry is a chance to introduce an error into someone’s paycheck, and every error costs a conversation with a worker who is already on assignment.
How the integration works
Crelate and Employdrive work from one record, so recruiting and payroll stay in step as a worker moves from placement to paycheck. The object mapping is direct:
| In Crelate | Becomes in Employdrive |
|---|---|
| Job | Order |
| Placement | Assignment |
| Contact | Employee |
Employdrive treats the recruiting platform or ATS as the system of record. That keeps Crelate the single place a recruiting team works, rather than the front half of a process that restarts somewhere else.
What Employdrive brings
Employdrive serves more than 200 staffing organizations, which together run over $3.5 billion in payroll annually through the platform and process more than 120,000 W-2 and 1099 workers each year. Every Employdrive support representative is based in Richmond, Virginia and trained specifically on staffing payroll, tax, HR and integration questions — so the person who answers a rate-change or multi-state tax question already knows how staffing works.
“Recruiters should never have to re-key a placement to get someone paid.” — Aaron Elder, CEO and co-founder of Crelate
Why Crelate partners rather than builds
Crelate runs the front and middle office for staffing firms and connects pay-and-bill to the back office each firm chooses. Employdrive joins Crelate’s back-office partner network, so firms keep sourcing, placement, redeployment and compliance on one Crelate record while choosing the payroll and billing provider that fits the work they place.
Firms running lighter contract volume can start with Crelate Deliver for assignments, timekeeping, invoicing and payroll export, then move to a purpose-built partner as volume grows. The point of the partner network is that the recruiting system and the payroll vendor are separate decisions, and changing one should not mean rebuilding the other.
“We’re excited about the opportunity to more closely partner with Crelate and drive real day-to-day value for our shared customers!” — Jeff Jefferson, co-founder and chief revenue officer of Employdrive
Availability
The partnership is available now to Crelate customers placing contract and contingent workers. Current customers can ask their Crelate account team to connect Employdrive and start paying placements from the same record they recruit in.
Staffing firms evaluating recruiting and back-office software can request a Crelate demo.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Crelate and Employdrive partnership do?
The partnership connects Crelate’s recruiting platform to Employdrive’s staffing-specific back office. A staffing firm places a worker in Crelate, and that placement flows to Employdrive for payroll, tax, HR and compliance without anyone re-entering the data.
Who is the Crelate and Employdrive integration for?
Staffing firms that place contract and contingent workers and need payroll, tax and HR handled for those workers. It is not relevant to direct-hire or retained search firms, which do not run a back office for placed workers.
Does Crelate remain the system of record?
Yes. Employdrive treats the recruiting platform or ATS as the system of record, so recruiters keep working in Crelate and payroll data flows outward from it rather than being maintained separately.
What data moves between Crelate and Employdrive?
Jobs created in Crelate map to orders in Employdrive, placements map to assignments, and contacts map to employees. The mapping is automatic, so a recruiter’s work is not re-keyed into the payroll system.
Does this replace Crelate Deliver?
No. Crelate Deliver covers assignments, timekeeping, invoicing and payroll export for firms running lighter contract volume. Employdrive is one of several back-office partners a firm can connect instead as volume grows.
Is a Crelate customer locked into Employdrive?
No. Crelate runs the front and middle office and connects pay-and-bill to the back office each firm chooses. Employdrive is one option in Crelate’s partner network.
How does a Crelate customer turn on the Employdrive integration?
The partnership is available now. Current Crelate customers can ask their account team to connect Employdrive and begin paying placements from the same record they recruit in.
Where is Employdrive support based?
Every Employdrive support representative is based onshore in Richmond, Virginia, and is trained specifically on staffing payroll, tax, HR and integration questions.
About Crelate
Crelate is the AI Recruiting Platform for teams that hunt talent. It puts applicant tracking, a recruiting CRM, and AI sourcing on one open platform built for how recruiters actually work, across executive search, direct hire, premium staffing, and corporate in-house teams. Serving more than 25,000 recruiting professionals since 2012, Crelate helps recruiters find the right people at the right time for the right opportunity. Learn more at crelate.com.
About Employdrive
Employdrive is a staffing-specific payroll, tax and HCM platform that manages both internal and external resources. More than 200 staffing organizations run over $3.5 billion in payroll annually through Employdrive and process more than 120,000 W-2 and 1099 workers each year, supported by an onshore team based in Richmond, Virginia. Learn more at employdrive.com.
