AFI
Personio
Personio is a HR management platform. Advanced Form Integration sends form submissions to Personio, so every form entry on your WordPress site can create or update records automatically without manual data entry.
What you’ll need
- An active Personio account.
- An API token from Personio (see below).
- The Advanced Form Integration plugin installed and activated.
Get your Personio API token
Personio authenticates with a bearer token.
- Sign in to your Personio account.
- Open Settings → API or the developer/integrations section.
- Generate or copy your API Token (sometimes called a Personal Access Token).
- Paste it in AFI → Settings → Personio.
Connect Personio to AFI
- In WordPress, go to AFI → Settings and open the Personio tab.
- Click Add New Account and paste the API key or token.
- Give the account a name you will recognise.
- Click Save.
Create the integration
- Go to AFI → Add New.
- Give the integration a name, for example
Form to Personio. - Under Trigger, pick the form plugin and the specific form you want to listen on.
- Under Action → Platform, select Personio.
- In Task, choose Create Applicant.
- Pick the saved account in the Personio Account dropdown.
- Map your form fields onto the Personio fields listed below.
- Optional: open Conditional Logic to limit which submissions are sent.
- Click Save Integration.
Tasks supported
Create Applicant
Creates a new applicant from the form submission.
| Field | Field key | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Name (required | first_name |
Yes | |
| Last Name (required | last_name |
Yes | |
| Email (required | email |
Yes | |
| Job Position ID (required | job_position_id |
No | |
| Recruiting Channel ID (integer | recruiting_channel_id |
No | |
| Phone | phone |
No | |
| Gender (male / female / diverse | gender |
No | |
| Birthday (YYYY-MM-DD | birthday |
No | |
| Location | location |
No | |
| Salary Expectations | salary_expectations |
No | |
| Available From | available_from |
No | |
| Message / Cover Letter | message |
No | |
| Tags (comma-separated | tags |
No |
Conditional logic example
Only send data to Personio 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 Personio
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.
API key rejected
Copy the key directly from Personio with no leading or trailing spaces. If the key was revoked or regenerated, update it in AFI → Settings → Personio.