Zenefits
Zenefits Usage Monitoring
About Zenefits
Zenefits is an all-in-one HR platform that helps businesses with payroll, benefits, and HR administration. It simplifies complex HR processes and ensures compliance. Monitoring Zenefits usage is important for ensuring that licenses are used effectively and for optimizing costs. This is similar to monitoring other HR platforms like BambooHR or Sage HR.
Prerequisites
To begin monitoring Zenefits, ensure you have the following components and permissions in place:
- OpenLM Components: OpenLM Cloud Broker and OpenLM SLM are required.
- Platform-specific Requirements: You'll need administrative access to your Zenefits account to generate an API key and client secret with the necessary read permissions.
Configuring data collection
Follow these step-by-step instructions to set up data collection for Zenefits in OpenLM Cloud Broker:
- Enable API Access: In your Zenefits admin panel, create a new API key and client secret with read access to user and employee data.
Step 1: Open Company Profile, under Admin Apps
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Step 2: Click on Custom Integrations
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Step 3: Under Rest API Access, press Add Token
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When you configure the Permissions that you'd like to give access to the company you are connecting to, press Save!
Step 4: Copy and Paste API Token into Link
You have to click on the "eye" icon to reveal the API Token. From there, you can Copy and Paste this Token into your correspondence with your HelloTeam representative.
- Add Credentials: In the OpenLM Cloud Broker dashboard, find the Zenefits integration and enter the API key and client secret.

- Verify Connection: Test the connection to ensure that OpenLM can successfully retrieve data.
- Approve in OpenLM: Approve the new data source within the License Servers section.
- See Data: Usage data for Zenefits will now be visible in the OpenLM Allocation service.
Viewing reports
Access your reports to analyze usage patterns.
- User Activity Trends: See which HR professionals are most active in the platform, helping you manage resource allocation.
- Expired/Unused License Reports: Identify and reclaim licenses from inactive users.