Paylocity · OAuth Scopes

Paylocity OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 searched

Paylocity publishes 1 OAuth 2.0 scope via the clientCredentials flow. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the Paylocity API on a user’s behalf.

Tokens are issued from https://api.paylocity.com/IdentityServer/connect/token.

This index is generated from the provider’s OpenAPI security definitions (and, where available, its documented scope reference) and refreshes on every APIs.io network build. Browse every provider’s scopes at scopes.apis.io.

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Scopes: 1 Flows: clientCredentials Method: searched

OAuth endpoints

Token URL
https://api.paylocity.com/IdentityServer/connect/token

Flows
clientCredentials

Scopes (1)

Scope	Description	Flows
WebLinkAPI	Required scope for token requests to the Paylocity Weblink API via the client credentials grant; the scope parameter of the token request must be set to WebLinkAPI.

📄 Provider scope reference: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/authentication-weblink

Source

OAuth Scopes

generated: '2026-07-11'
method: searched
source: openapi/paylocity-openapi.yml
docs: https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/authentication-weblink
schemes:
- name: oauth2ClientCredentials
  source: openapi/paylocity-openapi.yml
  flows:
  - flow: clientCredentials
    tokenUrl: https://api.paylocity.com/IdentityServer/connect/token
  description: OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant. Credentials are provisioned by Paylocity.
scopes:
- scope: WebLinkAPI
  description: Required scope for token requests to the Paylocity Weblink API via
    the client credentials grant; the scope parameter of the token request must be
    set to WebLinkAPI.
  sources:
  - https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/authentication-weblink
note: Paylocity's Next Gen Integrations API authentication docs (https://developer.paylocity.com/integrations/reference/authentication)
  use the OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant without documenting granular scopes;
  WebLinkAPI is the only documented scope value, required for the legacy Weblink API
  token request.

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