Nowsta API
Nowsta has no developer portal; developer.nowsta.com no longer resolves. The only API is an allow-listed, write-only bulk publication surface with a static per-company token, sold as paid integration services.
Frequently asked questions
Nowsta scores F on Supergood's API Report Card. Nowsta has no developer portal; developer.nowsta.com no longer resolves. The only API is an allow-listed, write-only bulk publication surface with a static per-company token, sold as paid integration services.
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. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Nowsta is a workforce management platform for hourly, gig and contingent labor, built for caterers, event and venue operators, stadiums, hotels, food service vendors, staffing agencies and warehouses.
Restaurants & Food Service; hourly staffing for catering, events, stadiums and arenas, hotels, restaurants and staffing agencies, with expansion into healthcare, retail and logistics. Staffing coordinators build events and shifts in app.nowsta.com, send shift offers to workers who accept in the mobile app, track availability and ratings, approve geofenced time punches and export timesheets to payroll.
Nowsta says more than 25,000 teams use the platform, and in 2022 it managed over 300,000 workers per month across 600 plus employers, making it a leading niche vendor for event and catering staffing rather than a broad restaurant scheduling standard (https://nowsta.com/, https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/nowsta-takes-in-fresh-capital-to-show-some-tech-love-for-hourly-workforces/).
Worker PII (names, contact details, positions, pay rates, ratings, onboarding and compliance documents), schedules and shift assignments, geolocated time and attendance punches with photos, wage calculations and payroll exports, client and venue records, event budgets and invoice amounts.
Founded 2015 with a web app (app.nowsta.com), a my.nowsta.com worker portal and iOS and Android apps.
A software directory lists no API access availability among Nowsta's cons. The Curate integration is a one-way, one-time sync; changes to an already synced event must be re-entered manually in Nowsta. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include 7shifts, When I Work, Deputy, Instawork, Ubeya. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. There is no official Nowsta MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Nowsta doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.