Lano API
Lano documents a REST API with a full OpenAPI spec, JWT auth scoped per legal entity, and webhooks, covering hiring, payroll runs, and employee data. It is officially in closed beta: access means contacting Lano, passing partner qualification, and receiving manually provisioned credentials.
Frequently asked questions
Lano scores D+ on the API Report Card. Lano documents a REST API with a full OpenAPI spec, JWT auth scoped per legal entity, and webhooks, covering hiring, payroll runs, and employee data. It is officially in closed beta: access means contacting Lano, passing partner qualification, and receiving manually provisioned credentials.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Lano is a Berlin-based global employment and payroll consolidation platform that lets companies hire, onboard, and pay full-time employees and independent contractors in 170+ countries through a single SaaS interface.
Vertical: Enterprise HR / Global Payroll / Workforce Compliance (Supergood vertical: misc). Consolidating payroll data from multiple in-country payroll providers (e.g., a customer running ADP in the US, DATEV in Germany, and local providers in 10+ other countries) into a single Lano dashboard for reporting, GL sync, and cross-country cost visibility.
5/10 within the global EOR / payroll consolidation space.
Yes. Lano is the operating system of record for global payroll and EOR data at ~2,000 mid-market and enterprise customers.
~8 years old (founded 2018), modern SaaS stack with a documented REST API, OpenAPI spec, JWT auth, webhooks, and a partner sandbox.
API is in 'closed beta' and access requires contacting sales/support - no self-serve developer signup, sandbox keys, or public reference site. Sandbox environments are provisioned manually for partners and enterprise customers only - not generally available for prototyping. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Deel, Remote, Rippling, Papaya Global, Oyster HR, Multiplier. 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.