At a glance
What the Portal gives you
Maps. Enter a home and work address, set whether the employer has nexus in the home state, and get the applicable taxes back with the geospatial boundaries drawn on a map. Useful for researching one employee, or for seeing why a location resolves the way it does. See Data returned from maps. Batch. Upload a CSV or enter rows manually, run the whole file, and download the results. Batch supports custom download templates across more than 80 fields, and batch data is retained in the interface for 30 days. See Payroll Point Batch. Address exceptions. Override the geocoordinates for a location when geocoding resolves to the wrong place. Exceptions apply to your whole organization. See Address exceptions.What the API gives you
Clients who license the minimum wage add-on also get
/prp/v1/minimumwage/location, /minimumwage/id, and /minimumwage/rates/effective.
Authentication is a JWT from /authentication/login, sent as a Bearer token. See the PRP API overview for base URLs and token lifetime, and the endpoint reference for full schemas.
Using both
The two aren’t exclusive. A common pattern is to integrate the API for day-to-day determination inside a payroll platform, while payroll staff use the Portal to investigate individual cases, visualize boundaries, and manage address exceptions, which apply to API lookups too.Where to go next
Before your first lookup, your organization’s profile settings need to be configured. If you’re using Portal, it’s also worth reviewing the global settings that change which taxes are returned. See Prerequisites.
Quickstart: Look up taxes in Portal
Log in and run your first Maps or Batch lookup.
Quickstart: Call the Payroll Point API
Authenticate and make your first
/prp/v1/taxes call.