Infor CloudSuite and Deel integration

What moves between them

The main flow is from Deel into Infor CloudSuite. Payroll costs and contractor invoices pulled from Deel are posted into CloudSuite's GL and supplier master. Employee costs are mapped to GL accounts by cost center; contractor invoices are mapped to supplier records and AP invoices. Master data such as cost centers and departments can be synced in both directions to keep Deel and CloudSuite aligned. Payroll events from Deel (employee hired, updated, terminated) are consumed via webhook or API polling to keep CloudSuite headcount and cost allocations current. Deel does not accept GL postings or financial writes, so the sync is unidirectional for financial records.

How ml-connector handles it

ml-connector stores both credential sets encrypted and refreshes the OAuth token proactively before expiry. For Deel, it validates webhook signatures using HMAC-SHA256 on the raw request body before parsing JSON, and for unsigned API calls it uses an Idempotency-Key header (UUID v4) to dedup across retries. Infor CloudSuite credentials must be extracted from each tenant's .ionapi file to find the tenant ID, base URL, and token endpoint; ml-connector caches these and handles per-region variations. When writing invoices or GL postings to CloudSuite, ml-connector queries first to check for existing records by external reference ID, then either creates a new entry or updates in place, avoiding duplicate entries. Deel rate limits return 429 with Retry-After headers, so ml-connector respects those signals and backs off. CloudSuite's token lifetime is configurable by the tenant admin (1-24 hours), so ml-connector proactively refreshes before expiry to avoid disruption. Every record carries a full audit trail, and failed payroll posts can be replayed once the downstream GL account is created.

A real-world example

A mid-market services firm with 200 employees spread across five countries uses Infor CloudSuite for finance and CloudSuite Financials for general ledger close, and uses Deel as their global payroll and EOR platform. Before the integration, payroll reports from Deel were exported each month and manually reclassified into CloudSuite GL accounts by cost center, a process that took two days and introduced errors. With Deel and CloudSuite connected, each payroll run's labor costs flow automatically into CloudSuite, mapped to the correct cost center, department, and GL account. Month-end close starts with the labor accounts reconciled, and the finance team spends those two days on analysis instead of re-keying.

What you can do

• •Post Deel payroll costs and contractor invoices into Infor CloudSuite's general ledger and AP module, allocated by cost center and vendor.
• •Sync employee and contractor master data between Deel and CloudSuite to keep headcount and supplier lists aligned.
• •Authenticate both systems using OAuth 2.0 and extract tenant-specific CloudSuite credentials from the .ionapi file.
• •Consume Deel webhook events for real-time employee and contract changes, with HMAC-SHA256 signature validation.
• •Deduplicate payroll and invoice records in CloudSuite using external reference IDs and Deel Idempotency-Key headers to ensure clean audits.

Questions

Which direction does data move between Deel and Infor CloudSuite?

The main flow is Deel into Infor CloudSuite. Payroll costs, contractor invoices, and employee records move from Deel into CloudSuite's GL, AP, and customer/supplier master. Cost centers and departments can be aligned in both directions to ensure payroll lands on valid accounts. CloudSuite does not write financial entries back to Deel, so the financial sync is unidirectional.

How does the integration handle Deel's webhook events and Infor CloudSuite's lack of webhooks?

ml-connector can receive Deel webhook events (employee created, updated, terminated) in real-time with HMAC-SHA256 signature verification, or it can poll both Deel and CloudSuite on a schedule if webhooks are not enabled. For CloudSuite, which does not offer self-service webhooks, ml-connector polls the Deel API and then posts the results into CloudSuite's GL and AP modules on a cadence you define.

What happens if a Deel payroll post fails to write into CloudSuite?

Every record carries a full audit trail that shows the exact payload, the error from CloudSuite, and the status. Failed posts can be replayed once the downstream GL account, cost center, or supplier is created in CloudSuite, and ml-connector uses external reference IDs to avoid creating duplicate entries when the replay succeeds.