Pull GL & payroll reports (Global Payroll)
Get Remote's balanced, account-mapped Global Payroll General Ledger — and your other payroll reports — out of Remote and into your accounting system or data warehouse. Available via the Remote MCP today; Remote API coming soon.
Coming soon — the Remote API for payroll reports, General Ledger first. You can already pull these reports today through the Remote MCP (see below); programmatic API access is on the way.
Who this is for — Finance teams running Remote Global Payroll who want their General Ledger and payroll reports out of Remote and into their accounting system or data warehouse, instead of downloading them by hand each cycle.
What this solves
After each Global Payroll run, Remote already produces a balanced, account-mapped General Ledger — mapped to your chart of accounts, with cost-center and department dimensions. The hard part — the accounting logic, the debits and credits, the grouping — is already done for you.
Today those reports are available to view and download in the Remote dashboard. This is about getting the same finished reports out of Remote programmatically, so you can load them into your own system after every run — no manual downloads, and nothing to re-derive from raw payroll data.
Your options
| Option | What it is | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Remote MCP | Connect an AI client (e.g. Claude) to the Remote MCP and, as a signed-in admin, ask it to generate and download your GL reports. | Today |
| Remote API | Pull the finished reports programmatically after each payroll run and load them into your accounting system or warehouse. | Coming soon — General Ledger first |
Both deliver the same finished, account-mapped report Remote already produces — the difference is only how you fetch it.
What the API will cover
- First: the General Ledger — GL Summary, GL by Department, and GL by Employee detail.
- Then, the same way: your other payroll reports — such as gross-to-net summary, year-to-date payroll, cost of workforce, and payroll cost by department, employee, or cost center.
These are the same reports you can download in the dashboard today, surfaced programmatically.
Available today: the Remote MCP
If you use an AI client that supports the Remote MCP, a signed-in admin can already generate and download your Global Payroll GL reports (Summary, By Department, Employee detail) in natural language — no setup beyond connecting the MCP. It's the same balanced, account-mapped report; you're just driving it through an assistant instead of a scheduled integration.
See the Remote MCP guide to connect.
Good to know
- You get the finished report, mapped to your chart of accounts — not raw payroll data you'd have to turn into journals yourself.
- The Remote MCP path is interactive — an admin drives it through an AI client. An unattended, scheduled pull is what the Remote API will add.
- This guide is for Global Payroll. If you're reconciling EOR costs, PEO costs, or contractor payments, those have their own money flows — see Pull your EOR cost breakdown, Pull your PEO cost breakdown, and Pull contractor invoices for AP.
🤖 For AI agents
Today, through the Remote MCP, a signed-in admin can ask their assistant to:
Generate the Global Payroll GL report (Summary / By Department / Employee detail) for a completed payroll run, then download it — and hand it to the accounting workflow.
When the Remote API path ships, the same flow becomes an unattended, programmatic pull after each run. Check back here for details.
Next steps
- Pull your EOR cost breakdown — the EOR side of the finance pipeline (live today).
- Pull contractor invoices for AP — the contractor side (live today).