Altera Payroll

This connects Claude to Altera Payroll, a payroll processing system that handles employee payments, tax compliance, and payroll runs. It uses Membrane's CLI to handle authentication and API calls, so you're not wrestling with OAuth flows or credential refresh. You can search for actions using natural language queries, run pre-built operations for common tasks, or proxy raw requests when you need something specific. The setup flow is straightforward: authenticate once, connect to your Altera instance, then start querying employee data or triggering payroll operations. Most useful if you're building automation around payroll data or need Claude to pull payment records and tax information without manual API work.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add membranedev/application-skills --skill altera-payroll --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Altera Payroll

Altera Payroll is a payroll processing and management software. It's used by businesses of all sizes to automate payroll tasks, manage employee payments, and handle tax compliance.

Official docs: https://help.alterahr.com/hc/en-us

Altera Payroll Overview

Employee
- Paycheck
Payroll Run
Tax
Company
Report

Working with Altera Payroll

This skill uses the Membrane CLI to interact with Altera Payroll. Membrane handles authentication and credentials refresh automatically — so you can focus on the integration logic rather than auth plumbing.

Install the CLI

Install the Membrane CLI so you can run membrane from the terminal:

npm install -g @membranehq/cli@latest

Authentication

membrane login --tenant --clientName=<agentType>

This will either open a browser for authentication or print an authorization URL to the console, depending on whether interactive mode is available.

Headless environments: The command will print an authorization URL. Ask the user to open it in a browser. When they see a code after completing login, finish with: