Employment Hero + Tanda

Real-Time Employment Hero to Tanda Sync - Purpose-Built for Your Business

Australian Retail & E-commerce businesses rely on both Employment Hero and Tanda. Our custom one-way integration keeps them in sync, saving your team 8+ hours/week and eliminating data entry errors.

8+ hours/week

Saved weekly

Tanda fields

50+

Clients served

One-way

Sync direction

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Why Connect Employment Hero to Tanda?

No single source of truth when employees live in two disconnected tools, so staff second-guess which system has the correct information

Employment Hero uses a REST API while Tanda uses REST + Webhook, requiring careful middleware to translate data formats between the two platforms

Employment Hero limitations compound the integration challenge: the platform has grown rapidly through acquisition and feature addition, which sometimes shows in inconsistent UX between modules

New team members take longer to onboard because they must learn manual workarounds to keep Employment Hero and Tanda aligned

Guest booking data in Employment Hero and operations scheduling in Tanda require manual coordination

Online orders in Employment Hero and in-store inventory in Tanda are never in sync, frustrating customers

Employee records must be updated separately in Employment Hero and Tanda, causing payroll discrepancies when changes are missed

How We Help

Every week without this integration costs your Retail & E-commerce and Hospitality & Tourism business 8+ hours/week in manual data handling between Employment Hero and Tanda. Our Harvard-educated consultants build a sync that eliminates that waste permanently. On the technical side, Employment Hero uses a REST API with OAuth authentication, and Tanda authenticates via bearer, which our team handles as part of the build.

Amplify Employment Hero Strengths

Employment Hero excels because combines HR, payroll, and employee benefits in a single Australian-built platform, reducing the need for separate systems. Connecting it to Tanda ensures that advantage flows through your entire workflow rather than staying siloed in one tool.

Unlock Tanda Value

Tanda stands out because australian-built rostering with automatic award interpretation calculates wage costs in real time as you build the roster. Integrating it with Employment Hero means your team gets this benefit with complete, accurate data flowing in automatically.

Eliminate Manual Data Entry

Stop copying employees between Employment Hero and Tanda by hand. Our integration syncs data automatically, saving your team 8+ hours/week.

Real-Time Visibility Across Teams

When a record updates in Employment Hero, every team member working in Tanda sees the change instantly. No lag, no stale dashboards, no conflicting reports.

Employment Hero to Tanda Use Cases

Automate employee data flow between Employment Hero and Tanda

New hires, role changes, and departures in Employment Hero are automatically reflected in Tanda. Eliminates the manual re-entry that causes payroll errors and delayed access provisioning.

Automated error handling and retry for Employment Hero/Tanda sync

When a sync between Employment Hero and Tanda fails due to a rate limit, network issue, or validation error, the integration retries automatically with exponential backoff. Your team is alerted only when intervention is genuinely needed.

Data Mapping

How data flows between Employment Hero and Tanda

Employment Hero	→	Tanda	Notes
Employment Hero Leave -> id	→	Tanda Leave -> id	Leave data synchronised between platforms
Employment Hero Employees	→	Tanda Employees	Employee records including personal details, roles, and department data synchronised for HR and payroll alignment.
Employment Hero Owner/Assignee	→	Tanda Owner/Assignee	Record ownership mapped between platforms using email address as the matching key
Employment Hero Record IDs	→	Tanda External References	Cross-reference identifiers stored on both records for bidirectional lookups and deduplication
Employment Hero Timestamps	→	Tanda Audit Log	Created and modified timestamps preserved for sync conflict resolution and compliance
Employment Hero Policies	→	Tanda Custom Fields	Policies data from Employment Hero stored in Tanda custom fields for reference
Employment Hero Payroll	→	Tanda Custom Fields	Payroll data from Employment Hero stored in Tanda custom fields for reference
Employment Hero Onboarding	→	Tanda Custom Fields	Onboarding data from Employment Hero stored in Tanda custom fields for reference
Employment Hero Leave	→	Tanda Leave	Leave records synchronised when created or updated in either platform

Employment Hero + Tanda Integration FAQ

Most Employment Hero to Tanda integrations are completed within 2 weeks. We start with a discovery session to understand your specific workflow, then build and test the integration. Complex setups with custom business logic may take up to 4-8 weeks.

Our integrations include retry logic and error queuing. If Tanda is temporarily down, changes are queued and replayed once the system recovers. You will receive alerts for any sync failures that need attention. No data is lost during outages.

We use a combination of direct REST API connections and automation platforms like Make, Zapier, or n8n, depending on your requirements and budget. For complex workflows, we build custom middleware. The right approach depends on your volume, sync frequency, and business rules.

Integration pricing depends on complexity, including the number of data objects synced (employees), sync direction, custom business rules, and volume. Most Employment Hero to Tanda integrations fall within our standard integration tier. Book a free assessment to get a specific quote for your requirements.

We follow a structured testing process: unit tests for individual data mappings, end-to-end tests with sample data, and a staging period where we run the integration in parallel with your existing process. You review and approve the results before we switch to live. This approach minimises risk and ensures accuracy.

Yes, we handle one-time historical data migrations alongside ongoing sync. We map your existing employees, validate data quality, and run test migrations before the final cutover. Most migrations complete within 4-8 weeks depending on volume.

The most common data objects synced between Employment Hero and Tanda include employees. We map each data type to its counterpart in the target system, including custom fields, metadata, and relationship data. The exact scope is tailored to your workflow during the discovery session.