Hi everyone,
I’m currently working on integrating timesheet data from KeyPay (via the YourPayroll API) into an external business intelligence platform (Power BI in this case), and I wanted to reach out to the community for some advice and best practices.
My goal is to regularly extract timesheet, pay run, and employee data to generate custom reports that aren’t easily achievable within the native KeyPay reporting tools. So far, I’ve been able to authenticate and access basic endpoints (like /business and /employee), but I’m running into a few questions regarding efficiency and stability:
- Is there a preferred method or pattern for syncing large volumes of historical timesheet and pay run data? For example, should I be paginating results daily, weekly, or by some other metric?
- I’ve noticed that some endpoints (like pay run details) can get quite heavy — is it recommended to cache or store partial results locally and update incrementally? If so, what are others using to track changes efficiently?
- Are there any undocumented rate limits or retry patterns I should be aware of when building automated scripts that hit the API nightly?
- Has anyone here successfully implemented webhook notifications for employee updates or pay run completions? If so, how reliable have you found them in production?
I’d love to hear how others are approaching this kind of integration—especially if you’ve explored it in the context of an sap abap course in pune. Any tips, caveats, or even code snippets would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!