Automate onboarding & offboarding from ADP iHCM to Entra
ADP iHCM integration with Entra ID
Let IT automatically adapt to HR processes. New employees receive immediate access to the right systems, job changes are processed automatically, and upon termination, access is immediately revoked. This facilitates faster, more consistent onboarding and offboarding without manual steps.
- ADP iHCM as your central place for HR data
- ISO27001 certified


Why would you integrate ADP iHCM with Entra ID via Joinly
Automate identity management with ADP iHCM
In many organisations, errors, delays, and security risks arise because HR systems and IT environments operate separately. With Joinly's HR ↔ Microsoft Entra ID integration, you can use your HR system as the central source for identity management. This way, accounts, roles, and access are automatically synchronised based on HR data, without manual actions.
Automatic onboarding, offboarding and changes
New employees are automatically created in Entra as soon as they appear in ADP iHCM . No tickets, no waiting times, and immediately productive from day one.
Better security & compliance
Access is automatically adjusted with role changes and immediately revoked upon termination of employment. This helps prevent zombie accounts and makes it easier to comply with security and audit requirements.
Less management, more control
IT no longer needs to manage manual accounts. Everything is handled centrally, predictably, and transparently via Joinly with logging, monitoring, and error handling.
Save on software costs
Nothing is more annoying than paying for something you don't use. Joinly automatically deactivates accounts that are not used.
"We were able to move extremely quickly, and the flexibility of setting up the integration is a huge plus for us"
How does the integration work?
Four moments in an employment, the same pattern every time: ADP iHCM leads and Joinly carries out the consequences.
- Onboard employee
Employee is created in ADP iHCM
As soon as a new employee is created in ADP iHCM , a new account is automatically created in Entra ID.
Employee changes role and/or department
A position change in ADP iHCM may affect the applications and/or rights that the employee has access to. The job change is automatically retrieved by Joinly and synchronized to Entra ID.
- ADP iHCM: From: HR Manager - To: Senior HR Manager
Employee data is being modified
Joinly retrieves the updated data from the HR-system and ensures that the changes are automatically applied to Entra ID.
With Joinly workflows, you can link emails, notifications or ITSM-tooling to the employee cycles.
- ADP iHCM: From: HR Manager - To: Senior HR Manager
- ADP iHCM: From: Maaike Jansen - To: Maaike Jansen - de Weerd
- Offboard employee
Employee leaves service
When an employee leaves the company, they are automatically deactivated in Entra ID by Joinly to remove rights from applications and deactivate accounts.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about this integration
The questions IT managers considering this integration ask us most. If yours is not here, put it to us during the demo.
What does the integration between ADP iHCM and Microsoft Entra ID do?
Joinly uses ADP iHCM as the source and Microsoft Entra ID as the destination. When someone joins in ADP iHCM, Joinly creates the account in Microsoft Entra ID and puts the right groups and permissions on it. When the job changes, the permissions move with it. When someone leaves, the account is deactivated. Nothing for you to do, and nothing for you to remember.
What does this add to the provisioning Microsoft already offers?
Entra provisioning is good at executing, but it does not decide who should get what. Joinly puts that governance on top: roles and a permission matrix, approvals, temporary access with an end date, several HR sources side by side, and an audit trail per change. Entra executes; Joinly decides.
What does Joinly write into Microsoft Entra ID?
The user account with name, UPN, email address, employee number, manager and whichever attributes you put in the mapping, plus group memberships and licences. Joinly can also enable and disable an account, reset a password or MFA, issue a Temporary Access Pass, revoke sessions and, on departure, set an out-of-office or clear the calendar.
How does Joinly decide which permissions someone gets?
From roles, not from a per-person list. You record once which roles belong to which job, department or location, and which access items sit inside those roles — groups, licences, applications, folders. A role change in ADP iHCM makes Joinly recalculate: what belongs is added, what no longer belongs is removed.
Can we keep an on-premises Active Directory alongside this?
Yes. The same source in ADP iHCM can feed both Entra ID and an on-premises Active Directory, so cloud and on-premise follow the same truth. Joinly reaches the on-premises side through the Joinly Agent, which connects outbound — no inbound port, no VPN.
How quickly does a change in ADP iHCM show up in Microsoft Entra ID?
That is yours to set with the import schedule: hourly, daily or weekly, at a time you choose. As soon as the import lands, Joinly works out the consequences and provisioning to Microsoft Entra ID can run straight after it. An overnight import means, in practice, that the account is ready the next morning.
What exactly happens when someone leaves?
On the date from ADP iHCM, Joinly revokes the access: the account in Microsoft Entra ID is switched off, group memberships and permissions lapse, and connected applications are taken along. Whatever else has to happen — releasing a licence, converting the mailbox to shared, informing the manager — is arranged as a workflow, so it is part of the same process instead of a loose task.
Will Joinly touch our existing accounts in Microsoft Entra ID?
Not unasked. Joinly first imports what is in Microsoft Entra ID and matches those accounts to the employees from ADP iHCM. Existing accounts are recognised and adopted rather than created twice; which matching strategy applies — person identifier, employee number or UPN — is yours to choose. Accounts that are not employees, such as service accounts, can be filtered out of the integration.
Can we try it without risk first?
Yes. You run the import as a dry run and get an Excel export of exactly what would happen, without anything being written. A threshold then keeps protecting you: if the source delivers more new, activated or deactivated employees in one run than you allowed, Joinly blocks the run.
What do we need to get started?
Access to your ADP iHCM environment for the employee data, and an app registration in your Microsoft tenant that lets Joinly work over Microsoft Graph. Nothing else: nothing is installed on your own servers. Joinly tracks the client secret's expiry itself and warns you well in advance.
Is the integration secure, and can we prove it afterwards?
Joinly is ISO27001-certified. Every change is recorded, so per employee you can look back at which access was granted when, on the basis of which role, and when it was revoked again. That is precisely what an auditor or a NIS2 assessment asks of you.
What does this integration cost?
The integration is part of the subscription — you pay per account per month, not per connector or per target system. The pricing page shows what the plans cost and what each one includes.
More about ADP iHCM
ADP iHCM integration with Joinly: automation of user management
Many organizations use ADP iHCM as an HR and payroll system. The platform contains all important employee data, but without a connection to your IT environment, user management often remains manual, error-prone, and time-consuming.
The challenges without integration
When ADP iHCM is not integrated with your applications, familiar problems arise:
New employees wait too long for access to systems and applications
Accounts are still manually managed via Excel or separate requests to IT
Departed employees sometimes retain access longer than desirable
HR data and IT accounts are not synchronized, leading to errors and security risks
This leads to frustration, increased workload, and a higher risk of data breaches.
How Joinly solves this
With the ADP iHCM integration from Joinly, user management is fully automated. As soon as HR makes a change in ADP iHCM – such as a hiring, position change, or termination – Joinly ensures that this change is immediately processed in all connected applications.
Benefits of the ADP iHCM integration
New employees gain immediate access to the right applications
Changes in position, department, or contract are immediately implemented
Accounts of former employees are timely and securely deactivated
HR is in charge, IT no longer needs to perform manual management
This creates a streamlined workflow where HR and IT collaborate from one reliable source. The result: higher efficiency, better security, and faster onboarding.
👉 Want to discover how the ADP iHCM integration with Joinly helps your organization simplify user management? With Joinly, you take the step towards safe, error-free, and future-proof Identity & Access Management.
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