How to connect your Personio account with Teammeter

Learn in this article is how to connect your Personio account so that you can successfully sync data to Teammeter.

Global Overview

The Personio integration enables automatic synchronization of your HR data with Teammeter, ensuring your organizational structure, roles, and team hierarchies stay up-to-date with minimal manual effort.

Technical Integration Overview

The Personio-Teammeter integration is facilitated through Apideck, a secure middleware platform that standardizes HR system APIs. Apideck acts as an intermediary between Personio and Teammeter, translating API calls and providing a consistent data format regardless of the HR system used. Your Personio API credentials are securely stored within Apideck rather than directly in Teammeter, adding an extra layer of security.

Setup Process

API Key Generation: Your Personio Administrator needs to generate API credentials specifically for Teammeter integration, following our below
Secure Configuration: We’ll provide a secure link for your administrator to enter these credentials in Apideck, where they’ll be safely stored.
Initial Synchronization: Once credentials are configured, we’ll initiate the first synchronization to import your organizational data.

What Gets Synchronized

When you connect your Personio account to Teammeter, the following data is automatically synchronized:

Employees – All employees from Personio, including their basic profile information
Positions – Positions from Personio (these become “Roles” in Teammeter)
Teams – Team structures from Personio
Reporting Lines – Manager-employee relationships as defined in Personio

How Synchronization Works

Initial Synchronization

Upon first connecting Personio with Teammeter:

User Creation: For each active employee in Personio, Teammeter will:
- Create corresponding user accounts
- Send email invitations to each employee
- For employees without email addresses, accounts are created without access
Organizational Structure:
- Teams from Personio are created in Teammeter
- Employees are assigned to their respective teams based on Personio data
Role Assignment:
- Position titles from Personio are converted to roles in Teammeter
- Employees are assigned their corresponding roles
Reporting Structure:
- Manager-employee relationships from Personio are reflected in Teammeter
Data Verification:
- After initial synchronization, you should review the imported data
- You may need to add additional roles or complete certain aspects of the organizational structure
- Once verified, we’ll send email invitations to all employees to register with Teammeter

Ongoing Synchronization

If automatic synchronization is enabled :

A synchronization job runs once daily at a scheduled time
New employees, teams, and positions are created and assigned

Special Considerations

Email Addresses: Employees must have email addresses in Personio to receive invitations. Employees without email addresses will be created but cannot access the system until a coach manually adds their email.