Custom Applications & UKG-Native Extension Apps
Apps that look and feel like part of UKG — because your users shouldn’t have to care where UKG ends.
Every UKG customer eventually hits a workflow the product doesn’t cover: a niche approval flow, a data-capture screen, a manager tool, an operational dashboard. The usual answer is a disconnected side system with its own login that users resent. I build extension applications that ride alongside UKG — using UKG-consistent authentication patterns and matching the product’s look and feel — so that to your employees and managers, it simply feels like more UKG. The seams don’t show. And when the workflow doesn’t belong inside UKG at all — a POS-side tool, an operations app spanning three systems, something with no home in any product you own — I build that too. Same engineering, same handover.
Sound familiar?
- A business-critical workflow lives in spreadsheets and email because UKG doesn’t have a screen for it.
- You bought a point solution for one gap and now users juggle another login, another UI, another support contract.
- Managers need a purpose-built tool that reads and writes UKG data without leaving their flow.
- The process spans UKG, your POS, and two other systems — so no single vendor will ever ship the screen for it.
- You want custom functionality but your users should never have to learn a “second system.”
What you get
- Web apps embedded in or launched from the UKG experience with seamless authentication
- UI built to match UKG look-and-feel conventions where the app lives inside that experience
- Standalone operational apps spanning UKG and the other systems the process touches
- Full read/write integration with UKG data via supported APIs
- Deployed to your cloud, documented, and handed over with your team trained
Built in the field
Every engagement is custom — these show what this capability looks like in production.
- An event-driven variable-pay platform · Global travel-retail operator · thousands of employees, multiple countries
POS transactions and UKG punch data calculate tips continuously; a manager approval gate means only approved dollars ever reach payroll.
- Sorrel — a SaaS platform I built and run · My own product · joinsorrel.com
Membership management for volunteer-run non-profits — members, dues, events, governance, and an AI assistant — built, operated, and owned end to end.
Frequently asked
- Is this supported by UKG, or a hack?
- These are standalone applications built on supported API and authentication patterns — no unsupported modification of UKG itself. The craft is making the experience seamless: users feel like they never left UKG, while architecturally it’s a clean, separately-deployed app.
- What kinds of apps fit this pattern?
- Approval workflows, tip and earnings management tools, membership and roster management, operational dashboards, data-correction utilities, kiosk-style capture screens — anything where the business process touches workforce data but the product has no native screen for it. Plenty of these reach well past UKG: a POS feeding an approval queue, an app reconciling two scheduling systems, a tool your operators use before any of it lands in payroll.
Talk through your scenario
A 30-minute working session is the fastest way to find out whether this is buildable — and what it would take.
Contact Jeff