Deputy API
Deputy documents a public REST API at developer.deputy.com with an OpenAPI spec, Postman collections, and free developer accounts. Tokens are self-serve per install; App Store listing requires a partnership. Each customer has its own subdomain base URL, and rate limits are not clearly published.
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Deputy scores A+ on the API Report Card. Deputy documents a public REST API at developer.deputy.com with an OpenAPI spec, Postman collections, and free developer accounts. Tokens are self-serve per install; App Store listing requires a partnership. Each customer has its own subdomain base URL, and rate limits are not clearly published.
Deputy has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Deputy is a cloud-based, AI-powered workforce management platform for hourly work that consolidates employee scheduling, time and attendance, labor compliance (Fair Workweek, FLSA, meal/rest breaks, Australian Modern Awards), HR (hiring, onboarding, document storage), team communication, task management, and - more recently - payroll and AI-driven schedule optimization into a single mobile-first product.
Vertical: Enterprise HR / ERP - specifically the hourly-workforce-management slice (scheduling + time + labor compliance + HR + payroll). Building rosters/schedules with AI demand forecasting (sales + weather + foot traffic) and labor cost targets.
7/10 within hourly workforce management.
Yes - Deputy is the system of record for labor at 375,000+ workplaces across 100+ countries.
~18 years old, founded 2008 in Sydney by Ashik Ahmed and Steve Shelley.
Rate limits are not clearly published in the public developer docs, forcing partners to discover throttling thresholds empirically and build defensive backoff. Per-install subdomain endpoints (each customer has their own {install}.{region}.deputy.com base URL) complicate multi-tenant integrations and tenant routing for unified-API vendors. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include When I Work, Homebase, 7shifts, HotSchedules (Fourth), Sling (Toast), Workforce.com. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.