Pull your RUN payroll reports into your own systems

What you can build on RUN

• Get the payroll summary

  Build this

  Reads Reports > Payroll > Payroll Summary for a pay period or a range of pay periods: each employee's hours, wages, taxes and deductions.

  Takes

  Year, from pay period, to pay period, employee (optional, all by default)

  Returns

  Pay period, check date, employee, hours, gross wages, taxes, deductions, net pay, totals

• Get the payroll liability

  Build this

  Reads Reports > Payroll > Payroll Liability: the total liability, combining what was paid to employees with the company's portion of taxes and deductions.

  Takes

  Year, from pay period, to pay period

  Returns

  Pay period, check date, net pay, employee taxes, employer taxes, deductions, total liability

• List tax records and filings

  Build this

  Reads Reports > Taxes > Tax Records/Filings for one year and quarter: the federal and state forms, such as the 941, filed for your company.

  Takes

  Year, quarter, federal or state (optional)

  Returns

  Form name, federal or state, jurisdiction, quarter, year

• Enter hours in the payroll worksheet

  Build this

  Fills hours or amounts per earning for each employee on the Enter Payroll page, calculates, and returns the Preview Payroll totals without approving.

  Takes

  Pay period, a list of employees with an earning and hours or amount each

  Returns

  Employees entered, total cash required, preview totals

Automate RUN with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Each approved payroll's summary, posted to your books

  Build this

  Starts

  When your system calls the workflow's webhook with a year and pay period

  Step 1

  Get the payroll summary for that pay period, all employees.

  Step 2

  Get the payroll liability for the same pay period.

  Step 3

  Post wages, taxes, deductions, net pay and total liability to your accounting system's webhook.

• Weekly payroll liability for the bookkeeper

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Get the payroll liability for this year, from the first pay period to the latest.

  Step 2

  Keep the pay periods with a check date in the past 7 days, and stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Email you each pay period's check date, net pay, employer taxes and total liability.

• New tax forms in Tax Records/Filings

  Build this

  Starts

  On the 1st of each month at 9:00

  Step 1

  List tax records and filings for the current year and quarter.

  Step 2

  Keep the forms that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the form name, federal or state, jurisdiction and quarter.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get the payroll summary” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "runpayroll.adp.com/get_payroll_summary",
    "input": {
      "year": 2026,
      "from_pay_period": 22,
      "to_pay_period": 22
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "pay_period": 22,
    "check_date": "2026-11-06",
    "employees": [
      {
        "employee": "Employee 1001",
        "hours": 80,
        "gross_wages": 2400,
        "taxes": 512.4,
        "deductions": 96,
        "net_pay": 1791.6
      }
    ],
    "totals": {
      "hours": 152.5,
      "gross_wages": 4212.5,
      "taxes": 883.55,
      "deductions": 96,
      "net_pay": 3232.95
    }
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

RUN’s own options

ADP sells API Central through ADP Marketplace, and its listings name ADP Workforce Now, ADP Vantage HCM, ADP Enterprise HR and ADP Lyric, not RUN. In RUN itself, the General Ledger feature sends each payroll's accounting data to your accounting software, and reports print or export to Excel.

Read on November 12, 2026: ADP API Central overview, Getting Started, RUN Powered by ADP, How to access payroll and tax reports.

Signing in to RUN

RUN signs registered users in with their user name and password through ADP's sign-in page, and sensitive transactions ask for at least one additional step-up challenge per session. With Fous you sign in through RUN's own sign-in with your own account. The login is sealed with AES-256, and code and AI agents never see it.

Worth knowing

Your role decides what a method can read

Client Update users cannot run a payroll or view or print tax documents. CPA View users see the general ledger, reports and taxes, with view-only access to company and employee information.

Approving a payroll is final

Selecting Approve on Preview Payroll impounds the total cash required from your company's bank account, and the payroll can no longer be changed after that.

Prior payroll amounts come first

You must enter prior payroll amounts before you can process a payroll. Once you select Finish in that wizard, changes go through your ADP Service team.

The Owner manages users

The person who registered RUN is the Owner, who adds, changes and removes users and resets their passwords. ADP suggests giving the Owner role to at least two users.

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