RUN Powered by ADP

Corma connects to RUN Powered by ADP to keep Owner and Payroll Admin rights in the right hands and to turn payroll events into access changes.

The Corma and RUN Powered by ADP integration connects ADP's small business payroll platform to Corma, so you control who holds payroll rights in RUN and use payroll events to drive access in your other apps. ADP positions RUN for businesses with 1 to 49 employees, with US federal, state and local payroll tax filing built in, and says more than 900,000 small businesses use it.

Key takeaways

RUN Powered by ADP has four user roles, Owner, Payroll Admin, CPA View and Client Update, and only an Owner can add or remove users.
In small teams, RUN payroll rights often sit with a founder, an office manager and an outside accountant, and are rarely reviewed.
Corma keeps these few but powerful RUN accounts under review and uses RUN as an HR signal for onboarding and offboarding.

Who has access to your RUN payroll?

RUN is built for small companies, and its permission model is simple. According to ADP's RUN getting started guide, each user holds one of four roles: Owner, Payroll Admin, CPA View or Client Update. An Owner can add, change and remove other users, and only an Owner can reset passwords. CPA View lets an accountant view payroll information and reports. Through Accountant Connect, ADP also gives accounting firms free access to authorized client data, one more door to keep track of.

Simple does not mean low risk. Each of these accounts sees salaries and employee personal data, and a single Owner who both runs payroll and manages users concentrates the kind of control that separation of duties is meant to split. When an office manager leaves or the company changes accounting firm, old RUN users are easy to forget.

How Corma secures RUN Powered by ADP

Know every RUN user: Corma lists who holds access to RUN, external accountants included, next to the rest of your stack.
Review payroll rights on a schedule: Owner and Payroll Admin accounts go into recurring access reviews, with every decision recorded.
Remove access when a role ends: departures and changes of accounting firm trigger revocation instead of relying on someone's memory.
Use payroll events for IT: hires and terminations recorded in RUN feed user provisioning in the other apps your employees use.

This matters for European groups whose US subsidiary runs payroll on RUN: the US entity gets the same access controls as headquarters, in the same platform.

Frequently asked questions

How fast is the setup?

Connecting RUN Powered by ADP to Corma takes about a minute. Corma starts syncing access data immediately, and automation is usually fully running within a few days.

Can our accountant keep access to RUN?

Yes, as long as someone confirms it. Your accounting firm's access is reviewed like any other account in Corma, and removed if you change firms.

How is payroll data protected?

Corma asks only for the permissions needed to manage access, encrypts data in transit and at rest, hosts it in France on AWS and is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified. You can revoke the connection at any time.

See who can access your payroll today: book a Corma demo.