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Employment Hero
Employmenthero is a HR management platform. Advanced Form Integration sends form submissions to Employmenthero, so every form entry on your WordPress site can create or update records automatically without manual data entry.
What you’ll need
- An active Employmenthero account.
- A Employmenthero OAuth2 app (see below).
- The Advanced Form Integration plugin installed and activated.
Create a Employmenthero OAuth2 app
Employmenthero uses OAuth2 for API access. You need to register an app to get a Client ID and Client Secret.
- Sign in to the Employmenthero developer portal and create a new OAuth2 application.
- Copy the Redirect URI shown in the AFI Employmenthero settings tab and paste it into the app’s allowed redirect URIs.
- Note the Client ID and Client Secret.
- Paste them in AFI → Settings → Employmenthero and click Save & Authorize. After consent, AFI stores the token and refreshes it automatically.
Create the integration
- Go to AFI → Add New.
- Give the integration a name, for example
Form to Employmenthero. - Under Trigger, pick the form plugin and the specific form you want to listen on.
- Under Action → Platform, select Employmenthero.
- In Task, choose Create Employee.
- Pick the saved account in the Employmenthero Account dropdown.
- Map your form fields onto the Employmenthero fields listed below.
- Optional: open Conditional Logic to limit which submissions are sent.
- Click Save Integration.
Tasks supported
Create Employee
Creates a new employee record from the form submission.
| Field | Field key | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Name | first_name |
Yes | |
| Last Name | last_name |
Yes | |
email |
Yes | ||
| Mobile Phone | mobile_phone |
No | |
| Job Title | job_title |
No | |
| Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD | start_date |
No | |
| Employment Type (e.g. full_time | employment_type |
No | |
| Date of Birth (YYYY-MM-DD | date_of_birth |
No | |
| Gender (male/female/other | gender |
No | |
| Address Line 1 | address_line_1 |
No | |
| City | city |
No | |
| State | state |
No | |
| Post Code | post_code |
No | |
| Country (ISO-2 | country |
No |
Conditional logic example
Only send data to Employmenthero when the form’s email field is not empty, so test submissions or incomplete entries do not create records. Add a condition: Email is not empty.
Troubleshooting
Nothing arrives in Employmenthero
Open AFI → Log and find the most recent entry for this integration. AFI stores the request it sent and the raw response it got back. If there is no log entry at all, the trigger never fired: re-check the form selection and submit a real test entry from the front end.
Connection lost
The OAuth2 token may have expired or been revoked. Return to AFI → Settings → Employmenthero and click Re-authorize to refresh the connection.