| > you can call in and add any third-party person you want as an admin to your payroll system So they will create an admin account for a person - a single, human individual. > In addition, Zenefits’ method of extracting data from ADP’s RUN system via “screen-scraping” put excessive demands on ADP’s servers, potentially impacting service delivery to the entire client base.[1] If you weren't using the API, and instead were having a machine log in to access the data, that is pretty much the definition of scraping. There is a difference between a person using an admin account setup for them to log in and perform a certain set of actions and hundreds of accounts setup for the purposes of continual automated logins. How many requests did you make? Do you rate-limit your queries to the rate of a human-being (maybe 1 click every couple of seconds)? Do you only login to one or two accounts at a time? I still don't see a valid reason why any company (big or small) should have to invest resources in supporting a third-party that wants to use its data in an unsupported manner. Of course you can argue that they allowed it in the past, but an entire business shouldn't rely on unsupported access to something without the assumption that it could disappear at any minute. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/10/adp-sues-zenefits-for-defam... |