
Payroll queries answered in Slack or Teams from live ADP data. Onboarding, offboarding, and benefits workflows triggered by ADP events and coordinated across every connected system. HR handles the exceptions.
ADP has the pay stub. Employees still email HR to ask what it means deductions, net pay, W-2 access. Every pay cycle.
Employees log into ADP once a year. For everything else, they message HR. So HR becomes the ADP helpdesk.
New hire in ADP. Okta and ServiceNow still need a human to trigger them. ADP fires the event. HR does the rest.
Employee asks. Workativ reads from ADP and replies in the same thread pay stubs, PTO balances, policy answers, personal updates. No portal login. No HR ticket.
Payroll queries are the most common HR support burden for ADP customers.
Pay dates, net pay, gross pay from live ADP record
Deduction breakdown health, 401k, tax withholding
Direct deposit status and banking detail confirmation

ADP onboarding automation, offboarding, and benefits enrollment triggered by ADP events, coordinated across every connected system. HR handles the exceptions.
Triggered by ADP Workforce Now new hire event
Okta / Azure AD provisioned with correct role and groups
Day-1 setup checklist delivered to new hire in Slack

“ Our AI Bot Orion has become a critical enabler of employee self‑service. The quality of responses is fast, comprehensive, and highly reliable, allowing employees to find accurate answers without needing to escalate to HR or IT. What really sets Workativ apart is the visibility into question trends, resolution rates, and where AI is genuinely reducing operational workload. ”
Vice President, HR Operations


No-code builder, agentic RAG, workflow automation, enterprise security, and analytics in one platform.

Build and deploy an ADP AI agent using Workativ's no-code studio.
ADP actions added without code or API knowledge
Permissions and access controls configured by HR
Live agent handover when employees need HR support
ADP Assist is powerful native AI built on 75 years of workforce data. Workativ connects ADP to Slack and your entire enterprise stack. Here is where they differ.
What matters to you | |||
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Where employees interact | ADP portal + Teams (partial rollout) | ||
ADP integration | Native deepest ADP data access | ADP connector in marketplace | |
Cross-system workflows | ADP ecosystem primarily | ||
No-code configuration | ADP-managed configuration | ||
Custom workflow creation | Limited to Assist agent personas | ||
HR + IT automation | HR and Payroll primarily |
When ADP Assist is enough: Your org runs primarily within the ADP ecosystem and needs AI for ADP-native payroll and HR tasks. Assist's persona-based agents for employees, managers, and payroll practitioners cover this well.
When to add Workativ: The moment employee support needs to span ADP, Okta, ServiceNow, and Slack in one workflow or when you want HR and IT support in one AI agent. Workativ and ADP Assist can run alongside each other. Searching for an ADP payroll chatbot alternative or a broader ADP AI agent that connects your full stack? Workativ is built for that.
Three platforms that connect to ADP. Different audiences, deployment realities, and pricing models.
Capability | |||
|---|---|---|---|
ADP integration | ADP connector in marketplace | Pre-built, enterprise setup | |
Deployment time | Weeks to months | Weeks to months | |
Pricing | $200K–$1M+/yr, quote only | Per-employee, quote only | |
Mid-market and enterprise fit | Enterprise only | Enterprise only | |
No-code configuration | Partial some config required | ||
Payroll Q&A in Slack | Via ADP connector | Via ADP connector |
ADP integration with an AI agent layer covers what ADP Assist cannot cross-system workflows from one Slack conversation.

80% of ADP HR queries handled in Slack. Every lifecycle workflow running from ADP events. HR focuses on what needs judgment.
ADP AI agent frequently asked questions
An ADP AI agent connects to your ADP instance and lets employees resolve HR and payroll requests conversationally in Slack or Microsoft Teams without logging into ADP. It retrieves live payroll data (pay stubs, deductions, PTO balances), submits actions (leave requests, personal detail updates), and answers HR policy questions from your knowledge base. Workativ's ADP AI agent also runs multi-step lifecycle workflows triggered by ADP events new hire onboarding across Okta and ServiceNow, offboarding, benefits enrollment, performance review cycles, and pre-hire checks.
Workativ connects to ADP Workforce Now via pre-built no-code connectors using ADP APIs, secured with OAuth 2.0 and role-based access controls. Once connected, Workativ reads permitted ADP data payroll, PTO balances, benefits, worker profiles and writes back to ADP through approved actions. All from conversations in Slack or Microsoft Teams. No developer required.
Yes. ADP Assist is ADP's own native AI purpose-built for the ADP ecosystem, strong on payroll intelligence and HR data. Workativ is an independent platform that sits in Slack and connects ADP to your entire enterprise stack Okta, ServiceNow, Jira, Azure AD, and 100+ other applications. ADP Assist works primarily within ADP. Workativ handles workflows that cross system boundaries and delivers the employee experience in Slack or Teams natively. They can run alongside each other.
Workativ supports ADP Workforce Now (mid-market), ADP RUN (small business), and ADP Lyric HCM (enterprise). Pre-built connectors cover payroll, time and attendance, PTO, benefits, and worker profile data across all three products.
Payroll queries answered from live ADP data in Slack: pay dates and payroll schedule, gross and net pay breakdown, deductions (health, dental, 401k, tax withholding), direct deposit status and banking details, bonuses and overtime, year-to-date earnings, and W-2 availability. Employees get answers from their actual ADP payroll record not generic payroll information.
Yes. Employee asks in Slack, Workativ reads the live ADP PTO balance, and the leave request is submitted through ADP's approval process. Manager receives an approval card in Slack with one-tap approve or decline. ADP record updated on approval. Employee confirmed in the same Slack thread.
Yes. Employees ask in Slack and Workativ retrieves the requested document from ADP current or historical pay stubs, year-end W-2 forms, benefit statements. Documents are returned directly in the Slack conversation. HR never needs to locate or forward payroll documents manually.
Workativ automates five ADP-triggered lifecycle workflows: new hire onboarding (ADP new hire event → Okta provisioning → ServiceNow device request → day-1 Slack checklist), employee offboarding (ADP termination → access revocation → COBRA notice → equipment return), benefits enrollment (ADP enrollment window → reminders → election submission to Benefitfocus or PlanSource), performance review cycle (HR triggers → self-assessment reminders → manager alerts → escalation report), and pre-hire background checks (ADP offer event → screening initiated → HR alerted → onboarding triggered on clear).
Yes. Workativ deploys natively in both Slack and Microsoft Teams. Employees in Slack and employees in Teams use the same AI agent. ADP Assist is available in Microsoft Teams on a partial rollout; Workativ covers both channels with full functionality from day one.
Yes. Workativ connects to ADP using OAuth 2.0 with role-based access controls. The AI agent can only access data and actions it has been explicitly permitted. ADP payroll data is never used to train models. PII is masked in all logs. Every query, action, and escalation is logged to an immutable audit trail. Workativ is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA compliant.
3 to 5 days for standard ADP HR use cases payroll queries, PTO, policy Q&A, pay stub access. No developer required. Workativ's no-code platform connects ADP, configures the AI agent, and deploys to Slack or Microsoft Teams. Start with one use case, confirm the workflow, then expand to lifecycle automation.
Yes. Workativ connects ADP to 100+ enterprise applications Okta, Azure AD, ServiceNow, Jira, Freshservice, Benefitfocus, PlanSource, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Confluence, and more. ADP events trigger cross-system workflows: a new hire in ADP Workforce Now automatically provisions identity in Okta and raises a device request in ServiceNow. Employees get one conversational experience in Slack for requests that touch multiple systems.