HR & RECRUITING

Referral Bounty Payout Trigger on Confirmed Hire

When a referred candidate is marked hired, calculates the bounty by role tier, logs the payout in Airtable, and notifies payroll plus the referrer in Slack.

CategoryHR & Recruiting
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerevent
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerReferral marked Hired in AirtableAirtableAirtable
  • LogicCompute bounty from role tier
  • ActionWrite payout entry and Pending status to AirtableAirtableAirtable
  • ActionNotify payroll channel in SlackSlack
  • OutputCongratulate referrer with payout DMSlack

What it does

Automates the reward side of the referral program. The moment a referral is confirmed as a hire, the workflow computes the correct bounty amount for that role tier, records an auditable payout entry in Airtable, alerts payroll to process it, and congratulates the referring employee in Slack.

When to use it

Use this when you pay referral bounties and want payouts to fire reliably and consistently at hire — no forgotten rewards, no manual math on tier amounts, and a clean ledger payroll can act on.

How it works

  1. 1A status change to "Hired" on the Airtable referral record triggers the flow.
  2. 2A logic step reads the role tier and maps it to the correct bounty amount.
  3. 3The workflow updates the referral record with payout amount and a "Payout Pending" status.
  4. 4A Slack message notifies the payroll channel with the referrer, hire, and amount to process.
  5. 5A congratulations DM goes to the referring employee confirming their bounty is on the way.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect AirtableBases, tables, views, automations.
  2. 2
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  3. 3
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  4. 4
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  5. 5
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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