Automated FR payroll: payslips, DSN, leaves, hires, accounting integrations.
Before starting, we run a 1-minute tech check — microphone, ambient noise, connection. If your setup isn't good enough, the test is fully refunded.
Prove your PayFit expertise in 15 minutes — from monthly payroll cycles and DSN filings to collective agreements and accounting integrations — with an AI-graded badge recruiters can verify instantly.
The Plume PayFit badge tests your hands-on mastery of France's leading SMB payroll platform, as used in real-world scale-up environments. The AI examiner probes your ability to run a complete monthly payroll cycle in PayFit, configure French collective bargaining agreements (Syntec, HCR, BTP...), produce and correct monthly and event-based DSNs, handle complex cases such as IJSS reconciliations, mutual terminations and back-pay, and connect PayFit to accounting tools like Pennylane or Sage and HRIS platforms like Lucca. This is a 15-minute spoken exam — not a multiple-choice quiz — so you have to explain, justify and defend your choices as you would in front of a CFO or a senior HR director.
What makes this badge credible is the format itself. Any candidate can tick 'PayFit' on a LinkedIn skills section. Far fewer can coherently explain why a sick-leave DSN must be filed within 5 business days, how to reconcile subrogated IJSS entries on a payslip, or where PayFit falls short compared to Silae for a multi-client accounting firm. The transcript of your oral is analysed by Claude Opus, which isolates genuine expertise from surface-level familiarity and produces a 0-100 score with a certified proficiency level.
This badge is built for HR managers, office managers, solo CFOs and independent HR consultants who use PayFit day-to-day and want objective proof of their skill level. It also works as a screening tool for hiring managers who want to compare candidates on a real PayFit competency before bringing them in for an interview.
Here are the concrete dimensions the AI examines during the 15-minute oral.
Collecting payroll variables, entering them in PayFit, reviewing and validating payslips, and triggering the SEPA bank transfer via PayFit's built-in banking module — end to end.
Setting up Syntec, HCR, BTP or Métallurgie agreements in PayFit: conventional bonuses, branch minimum wages, seniority increments and sector-specific sick-pay maintenance rules.
Generating, submitting and correcting monthly DSNs and event-based filings (sick leave, contract end, rehire) on Net-Entreprises, and processing CRM return messages.
Handling back-pay across multiple months, reconciling subrogated IJSS, processing mutual terminations with provident portability, and producing accurate final settlement payslips.
Configuring PayFit's accounting export for Pennylane, Sage or QuickBooks, syncing with HRIS tools like Lucca, and connecting expense platforms such as Spendesk or Expensya.
Creating employment contracts, configuring employee profiles, managing probation periods, processing final settlements and archiving documents in PayFit's digital safe.
Knowing when PayFit is the right fit and when to steer a company toward Silae (accounting firms), ADP (enterprise), or an international solution like Deel for cross-border teams.
Awareness of PayFit's recruitment module, built-in AI assistant, time-tracking features, and how the product is evolving relative to competitors like Lucca Pagga or Factorial.
Final scoring is performed by Claude (Anthropic), which reads back the full transcript and applies this weighted criteria grid.
The candidate demonstrates day-to-day fluency: they describe the right menus, workflows and settings without hesitation. They know where to configure a pay component, how to override an amount when necessary and why it should be the exception rather than the rule.
Sound understanding of French payroll law: social contribution bases, gross-to-taxable calculations, DSN rules, statutory deadlines (event DSN within 5 business days), paid leave accrual and sick-pay maintenance. Significant factual errors on regulatory points are penalised.
Ability to narrate and resolve non-standard situations: subrogated IJSS reconciliation, multi-month back-pay, mutual termination with provident portability, or correcting a DSN after a negative Net-Entreprises return. Depth and accuracy of the reasoning are both scored.
Quality of reasoning around PayFit's connections to other tools: chart-of-accounts configuration for accounting exports, deduplication logic with an HRIS, and awareness of PayFit's API capabilities and limitations.
Ability to step back: identifying cases where PayFit is not the right tool, articulating a clear rationale for alternatives, and demonstrating awareness of recent product and regulatory developments.
A Plume session takes about 20 minutes, from tech check to badge delivery.
The AI verifies your microphone and connection. You enter your first name to personalise the session. No need to have PayFit open — this is a spoken situational exam, not a live screen demo.
You briefly introduce yourself: your current or most recent role, the company size, the volume of payslips you handle in PayFit and the main collective agreement you work with.
The AI examiner works through 4 to 6 concrete questions drawn from calibrated themes: monthly payroll cycle, DSN management, complex cases (IJSS, mutual termination), collective agreement configuration and integrations. It follows up when answers stay vague.
One or two big-picture questions: when would you advise against PayFit? What recent product change has shaped how you work? These questions test your maturity beyond daily usage.
Claude Opus analyses the transcript, assigns a score from 0 to 100 with a proficiency level (Novice / Proficient / Advanced / Expert) and generates a detailed feedback report. Your badge is ready within minutes.
Your score out of 100 translates into a level a recruiter can grasp at a glance.
You can navigate the PayFit interface and process straightforward payslips with no bonuses or adjustments, but you rely on PayFit support or a colleague for most operations. You have not yet run a DSN autonomously or managed a complex case like an IJSS reconciliation.
You run the monthly payroll cycle end-to-end for a single-agreement company. You can produce and submit the monthly DSN, manage standard leave and absences, and create new employee contracts in PayFit. You still call support for atypical situations.
You configure complex collective agreements, handle event-based DSNs, process IJSS reconciliations and mutual terminations, and have set up at least one accounting or HRIS integration. You are the go-to PayFit person on your team.
You manage multiple collective agreements simultaneously, train other PayFit users, hold a documented view on where PayFit falls short relative to Silae or Lucca Pagga, and actively track product and regulatory changes to update configurations in real time.
No degree or years of experience required to take the badge. Here are the profiles it makes the most sense for.
You run payroll internally on PayFit and want an objective proof point beyond a LinkedIn skill tick — something a hiring manager or CFO can actually verify before an interview.
You ended up owning PayFit by default and genuinely know the tool — this badge helps you surface a skill that rarely shows up in your job title but is core to how you add value.
You work across multiple clients on PayFit and need a credibility signal you can put on Malt, your website or a proposal deck without asking a client to write you a reference.
You've completed payroll training and practised on PayFit but don't yet have a long track record. The badge gives an objective measure of your level to convince a first employer.
You supervise payroll without producing it yourself and want to validate that you understand PayFit well enough to challenge your team, audit payslips and own the accounting integration.
Where and how your PayFit badge will help you day to day.
A payroll admin applying to a French scale-up drops her Advanced badge (score 78/100) into her cover email. The hiring manager can see at a glance she handles DSNs and collective agreements without running an internal test.
An independent HR consultant adds the Expert PayFit badge to his Malt profile. When a startup needs a 3-month payroll structuring mission, the badge justifies his day rate without a lengthy back-and-forth about references.
An office manager who has owned PayFit for two years wants to move into an HR Manager role. She presents her Proficient badge to her CEO as concrete evidence of her operational depth, alongside her promotion ask.
A CFO hiring a payroll specialist asks all final-round candidates to take the PayFit badge before the last interview. He compares scores and feedback reports to rank three finalists objectively — no bespoke test to build.
A former administrative assistant completed a payroll course and practised on PayFit during a 6-month internship. Her Proficient badge (score 63/100) and detailed feedback report show HR firms she is genuinely past the beginner stage.
An HR Director evaluating a switch from Silae to PayFit for 80 employees asks her team to take the badge to map current skill levels and pinpoint training needs before the go-live date.
A few minutes to check you have everything you need.
At the end of your session you don't just get a score — here's everything that awaits you.
You get a precise score out of 100 and a proficiency level (Novice, Proficient, Advanced or Expert) that reflects your actual PayFit skills — payroll cycles, DSNs, collective agreements and everything in between.
Claude Opus generates a full written report highlighting your strengths (e.g. strong DSN event handling) and clear improvement areas (e.g. complex collective agreement setup) — actionable, not generic.
Your exam audio is stored securely and stays completely private. You choose whether to share it with a recruiter or keep it to yourself — you stay in control of your data at all times.
You get a public URL with your PayFit badge to add to LinkedIn, your Malt profile, your CV or a job application email. Any recruiter can verify the score's authenticity with one click.
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