Puzzle + Deel: Global Payroll, Reconciled in Real Time

Integrate Deel with Puzzle to automate international payroll accounting, stay compliant, and close with confidence—no spreadsheets required.

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About

Deel

Deel is the global HR and payroll platform that enables companies to hire, pay, and manage international teams. With built-in compliance, localized contracts, and automated payments in over 150 countries, Deel makes it easy for startups to grow globally from day one.

How It Works

Streamline Your Books with Seamless Payroll Sync

Integrate your payroll provider with Puzzle to automatically sync salary, bonus, and tax data—eliminating manual entry and reducing the risk of errors. Get real-time visibility into payroll expenses the moment they hit your accounts, with clean categorization and audit-ready records.

Built for Growth-Stage Teams

Whether you're paying a lean founding team or scaling quick, Puzzle grows with you. Support for multiple entities, and complex comp structures means you're always ready for what’s next—without changing tools.

Instant, Accurate Burn Tracking

Get real-time visibility into payroll expenses the moment they hit your accounts, with clean categorization and audit-ready records.

Simplify Compliance and Close Faster

Puzzle maps payroll entries directly into your accounting, aligning with GAAP and tax requirements from day one. Automate reconciliations and accelerate monthly close with accurate, categorized payroll data flowing in automatically.

How to Connect

1

In Puzzle, open Integrations → Payroll → Deel and click Connect. Approve the one-click connection so payroll data can sync into Puzzle in real time.

2

In Deel, confirm the connection in Apps & Integrations. Choose the account, legal entity, and any tracking dimensions you plan to use. This follows the same path Deel uses for other accounting connectors.

3

In Puzzle, map categories for wages, employer taxes, and benefits, and select the entities or ledgers that should receive payroll. Then run the first import.

4

Validate the first pay run by spot-checking against Deel reports, such as Total Payroll Summary, PEO Payroll Reporting, or Invoice reports, then turn on continuous sync.

5

Historical backfill is supported. Download prior payroll or invoice data from Deel, then import to Puzzle so year-to-date numbers are complete.

FAQs

What accounting tools does Deel integrate with?

Deel offers native accounting integrations and an Accounting API that syncs invoices, payments, and related documents into your finance stack. Puzzle is AI accounting for startups that turns Deel payroll and invoice data into clean, categorized journal entries with real time visibility. This pairing reduces manual exports and keeps attachments with the entries they support.

Does Deel do accounting?

Deel is not a general ledger, but it automates global payroll and provides accounting integrations and APIs so your books can be updated in the right system. Puzzle is the accounting hub that ingests Deel data and posts accurate payroll entries with the dimensions you need for analysis. Together they deliver reliable books without spreadsheet work.

What kind of information do you need from a payroll provider for accounting and taxes?

You need gross wages, employer taxes, benefits and deductions, employee and department tags, the pay period, the pay date, and the chart-of-accounts mapping. With those fields, Puzzle posts accurate entries and supports tax reporting and analysis.

What is the most automated finance stack for a company that uses Deel?

Use Deel for payroll and compliance, connect your bank, spend, and payments tools, and make Puzzle the AI accounting layer that categorizes, reconciles, and closes in real time. The Deel × Puzzle flow supports one click style setup so payroll lands in your ledger without manual journal entries. The Accounting API gives you flexibility if you need custom workflows later.

What kind of companies use Deel and Puzzle?

Founder led startups that hire globally and want accurate books with minimal manual work use this combination. Deel focuses on global payroll and reporting so teams can analyze costs and stay compliant. Puzzle turns that data into real time accounting with audit ready entries and attached documents.

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