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Integrations, exports and API

Integrations, exports and API: what goes in, what comes out.

Last reviewed September 3, 2026


Inputs

Sources with a purpose-built reader

These formats have their own reader in Planlined. Everything else goes through the general reader backed by Google Cloud Document AI, then the same verification screen where every value sits beside the page it came from.

  • Medical carrierAetnaFunding Advantage and level-funded quotes
  • Medical carrierUnitedHealthcareQuotes and monthly invoices
  • Medical carrierFlorida BlueRate sheets and quotes
  • Ancillary carriersDental, vision, life, STD and LTDProposals from Principal, Guardian, The Standard, Pacific Life, MetLife, Lincoln Financial, Unum, Cigna, Mutual of Omaha, Aflac, VSP, EyeMed and Delta Dental
  • PEOADP TotalSourceProposals and renewal packets
  • Payroll and HRISPaychex and AuraAura quote comparisons and HRIS output rate sheets carrying BlueCross Texas, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Humana and Paychex MEC plans
  • Quoting platformBenefitterMulti-carrier proposal exports
  • Enrollment materialEmployee benefit guidesPDF and Word open enrollment guides with plan comparison grids
  • Rate workbooksExcel and CSV rate gridsRead cell by cell, deterministically, with no model in the loop
  • Carrier recognitionIncumbent plan namesCigna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Anthem, BlueCross BlueShield, Oscar Health, Molina Healthcare, Centene, Health Net, Ambetter and AvMed are identified from the plan names on incumbent and renewal documents
  • Everything elseGeneral readerSBCs, quotes, rate sheets, invoices, census files and benefit summaries from any other carrier. Uncertain values are flagged, never guessed.

Carriers Planlined recognizes by name

The readers above are built for specific document formats. These carriers are recognized by name wherever they appear, which is what puts the right carrier card, phone number and provider-lookup link into the proposal book and the employee guide. Documents from a carrier without its own reader go through the general reader and land on the same verification screen.

Medical
  • Aetna
  • UnitedHealthcare
  • Cigna
  • Humana
  • Anthem
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Florida Blue
  • BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
  • BlueCross Texas
  • Highmark
  • Wellpoint
  • Oscar Health
  • Ambetter (Centene)
  • Molina Healthcare
  • Health Net
  • AvMed
Dental and vision
  • Delta Dental
  • Guardian
  • MetLife Dental
  • VSP
  • EyeMed
Life and disability
  • MetLife
  • Principal
  • Lincoln Financial
  • Unum
  • The Hartford
  • The Standard
  • Reliance Standard
  • Sun Life
  • Mutual of Omaha
  • Pacific Life
  • Aflac
  • Cigna
PEO, payroll and platforms
  • ADP TotalSource
  • Paychex
  • Aura
  • Benefitter
Accepted files, up to 50 MB each
PDFXLSXXLSMXLSCSVDOCXPPTXPNGJPG

Files under 1 MB parse while you wait. Larger files run as a job you can poll or receive a webhook for.

Outputs

What comes out, and who it is for

Every deliverable is generated from the same case, so the number on the committee's page is the number on the employee's phone.

Proposal book
Employer and committee
PDF · XLSX workbook

Cover, program financials, benefit comparison, multi-year projection, strategy, paycheck math, signature page.

Plan comparison
Employer and committee
PDF (in the book) · XLSX sheets · JSON

Current, proposed and alternate plans side by side, one sheet per benefit type.

Contribution scenarios and projection
Employer and committee
PDF (in the book) · XLSX Contributions and Projection sheets

Employer and employee split by tier, trended forward.

Invoice reconciliation
Employer and committee
In app, versioned

Invoice lines matched to the census and plan rates. Every saved state can be restored.

Live presentation
Employer and committee
In app

Run the renewal meeting from the case. No slide file to rebuild.

Benefit guide
Employees
PDF · Hosted link

Designed enrollment guide employees open on a phone at app.planlined.com/guide/…

Paycheck deductions
Employees
PDF (guide and book) · XLSX Deductions sheet

Per-paycheck cost by plan and tier on the actual pay schedule.

Employee communications
Employees
Email with PDF attached

Send the guide or a notice to the employer contact list from the case.

Case data
Your systems
JSON · CSV · REST API

Plans, rates and case metadata for your own reporting or another system.

Planlined does not produce PowerPoint or Word files. Meetings run from Presentation Mode on the live case, and the leave-behind is the proposal book PDF. PowerPoint files are accepted as input. How uploaded files are stored and encrypted is covered on security and data handling, and the one-page summary of the product is Planlined product facts.

API

How it connects across your stack

A REST API at app.planlined.com with API keys, signed outbound webhooks, and connectors for the systems brokers already run. Available on Enterprise plans. The OpenAPI document is available on request.

  • AuthenticationBearer tokens or API keys with scopesSign in tokens and Planlined OAuth access tokens as bearer, or an X-API-Key header generated in workspace settings. Keys carry scopes such as cases:read, cases:import, exports:write and pdf:extract. Partner apps can also obtain tokens through Planlined's own OAuth token endpoint, with secret rotation.
  • WorkflowsOne capabilities endpoint, five workflowsGET /api/v1/integrations/capabilities returns the endpoints, scopes and retry policy for parse, case import, benefit guide publishing, proposal book PDF and proposal book workbook. Long jobs expose status, result and cancel. Requests accept an X-Idempotency-Key so a retried call cannot create a duplicate.
  • ParsingSend a document, get structured plansPOST /api/v1/parse/unified runs the same reader registry the app uses. Files under 1 MB return synchronously; larger files return a job id to poll. Type-specific routes exist for census, quote, SBC, invoice, spreadsheet, image and XML.
  • Case importPush a packet in, get a case or a proposed mergePOST /api/v1/case-imports retains every source file, parses all plans and benefit types, and either creates a case or proposes a version-guarded merge into an existing one. Automatic mode commits only when every benefit maps unambiguously; review mode waits for a person. Retained sources can be reprocessed later.
  • ExportsArtifacts your system can fetchProposal book PDF and XLSX, hosted benefit guide links, JSON, and versioned artifact downloads. Render endpoints take the artifact content the app produces; they do not yet render from a bare case id.
  • LimitsDocumented, not surprisingIntegration routes allow 60 requests a minute per key; webhook management routes allow 30. Files are capped at 50 MB. Synchronous parses have a 60 second budget before they become jobs.
Outbound webhooks

Signed, retried, and paused when your endpoint stays down

Each delivery carries an HMAC-SHA256 signature over a timestamped payload in X-Webhook-Signature, plus event, timestamp and delivery id headers. Failed deliveries retry at 30 seconds, 1, 5 and 30 minutes, and 2 hours. Ten consecutive failures pause the subscription. Secrets are shown once and can be rotated. Targets on private networks are refused.

Inbound, Planlined verifies signed webhooks from Stripe, Slack, HubSpot and Salesforce.

case.createdcase.updatedcase.deletedcase.bulk_importedcase.sharedplan.createdplan.updatedplan.deletedplan.linkedparse.completedparse.failedreport.generatedreport.viewedexport.completedsubscription.updated
Connectors

The systems brokers already run

OAuth connectors, enabled per workspace on Enterprise plans. Ask for the ones you use and we switch them on for your workspace.

Employee Navigator
Benefits administration
Ease
Benefits administration
Salesforce
CRM
HubSpot
CRM
Google Drive
Documents

FAQ

Questions brokers ask.

Does Planlined export to PowerPoint or Word?
No. Planlined produces PDF and Excel files, hosted benefit guide links, JSON and CSV data, and runs client meetings from Presentation Mode inside the app. PowerPoint files are accepted as input for parsing.
Is there an API?
Yes. The REST API at app.planlined.com uses bearer tokens or an X-API-Key header with scopes. It covers document parsing, case import, case and plan CRUD, plan library, proposal book PDF and workbook export, hosted benefit guide publishing, and webhook subscriptions. The OpenAPI document is available on request.
Which benefits administration and CRM systems connect?
Connectors exist for Employee Navigator and Ease (benefits administration), Salesforce and HubSpot (CRM), and Google Drive (documents). They are enabled per workspace on Enterprise plans.
Which carriers does Planlined read?
Purpose-built readers exist for Aetna, UnitedHealthcare and Florida Blue medical documents, ADP TotalSource proposals, Paychex and Aura rate sheets and quote comparisons, Benefitter exports, and ancillary proposals from Principal, Guardian, The Standard, Pacific Life, MetLife, Lincoln Financial, Unum, Cigna, Mutual of Omaha, Aflac, VSP, EyeMed and Delta Dental. Anthem, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Highmark, Wellpoint, Oscar Health, Ambetter, Molina Healthcare, Health Net and AvMed are recognized by name. Documents from any other carrier go through the general reader and land on the same verification screen, where every value sits beside the page it came from.
What file types can I upload?
PDF, Excel (xlsx, xlsm, xls), CSV, Word (docx), PowerPoint (pptx), and PNG or JPG images, up to 50 MB per file.

Start with the packet on your desk.

Upload what the carrier sent. Planlined reads it, you verify it, and the proposal, the guide and the exports come out of the same case.

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