Sage HR API
Sage HR exposes a public REST API documented at developer.sage.com/hr. Auth is a simple API key in the X-Auth-Token header that an admin enables from account settings. Endpoints cover employees, leave, compensation, documents, recruitment, performance, and teams.
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Sage HR scores A on the API Report Card. Sage HR exposes a public REST API documented at developer.sage.com/hr. Auth is a simple API key in the X-Auth-Token header that an admin enables from account settings. Endpoints cover employees, leave, compensation, documents, recruitment, performance, and teams.
Sage HR has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Sage HR is a cloud-based human resources management platform aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. Originally founded as CakeHR in 2012 in Latvia by Kaspars Upmanis and Norberts Erts, it was acquired by The Sage Group plc in November 2019 and rebranded to Sage HR in December 2020.
Vertical: Enterprise / HR / ERP (HRIS sub-segment). Target market: small and mid-market employers, typically 10–500 employees, with the strongest traction in startups and SMBs that want a lightweight alternative to BambooHR or HiBob. Employee records and org chart. Leave/PTO requests, approvals, and balances. Shift scheduling and timesheets. Performance reviews, 1:1s, 360 feedback, goal tracking. Applicant tracking and recruitment pipelines.
Moderate. Sage HR has 500+ public reviews across G2 and Capterra and is one of Sage Group's headline cloud SaaS bets, but it sits well behind BambooHR, Gusto, Rippling, and Workday in mindshare.
HR system of record for SMB employers: PII (name, DOB, address, SSN/national ID, bank details), employment history, comp, leave balances, performance reviews, recruitment pipelines, expense receipts.
Founded 2012 as CakeHR; ~14 years old. Cloud-native from inception (not a re-platformed legacy product), which is rare among Sage Group properties. UI is modern-ish but reviewers describe it as starting to look dated relative to HiBob/Rippling.
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.