Connecting Alliance and Alice


This guide explains how to set up Alice up as your pretax benefits service provider.


Below, you'll grant non-employee access to Alice with Authorized Administrator permissions in AllianceHCM for all of your paygroups. There are 3 steps to complete.

Step 1: Alice’s Account Details

In this step you'll create Alice's non-employee access and grant Authorized Administrator permissions which will allow Alice to:

  • Create deductions and reimbursements
  • Make updates to payroll
  • View Reports

Please use this contact information when creating the Authorized Administrator for Alice:

First name: Alice

Last name: Financial

Email: alice@thisisalice.com

Phone: 917-336-9115

The phone number and email address provided above are for setting up Alice's access level in payroll only and not for contacting Alice for support. Please enter them exactly as provided above.


If you need to reach Alice for support, please call 888-431-4355 or email the payroll team at payroll@thisisalice.com

Step 2: Setup API access for Alice’s Account

  • Please ensure that API access has been enabled:

https://api2.hralliance.net/JSONAPIManual.html#general_companyAccess


  • Generate an API token for the Alice Account:

https://api2.hralliance.net/JSONAPIManual.html#general_apiToken


  • Email Alice with the username, password, and API token associated with the account at payroll@thisisalice.com.

Please email our team at payroll@thisisalice.com once complete, so we can verify access.

Step 3: Build Alice’s Deduction and Earning Codes

Please use the detail below to add Alice’s deduction and non-taxable addition codes to our Alliance account(s).


Pretax Deduction Codes (2 codes)

  • Mass Transit
    • Code: ALPT1
    • Description: Alice Pretax transit
    • Short Description: AliceTrans
    • Type: 125

    • W2 Field: 14A (S125)


  • Parking
    • Code: ALPT2
    • Description: Alice Pretax parking
    • Short Description: AlicePark
    • Type: 125
    • W2 Field: 14A (S125)

Post-Tax Addition Codes (2 codes)

  • Mass Transit
    • Code: ALRE1
    • Description: Alice Transit Addition
    • Short Description: TransAdd

    • Type: Add to Net Pay


  • Parking
    • Code: ALRE2
    • Description: Alice Parking Addition
    • Short Description: ParkAdd
    • Type: Add to Net Pay

Please email our team at payroll@thisisalice.com once complete, so we can complete the API connection on our side and verify permissions are correct.

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