POST
/
hris
/
employees
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "id": "26vafvWSRmbhNcxJYqjCzuJg",
    "remote_id": "32",
    "employee_number": "3243422",
    "first_name": "John",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "nationality": "French",
    "display_full_name": "John Doe",
    "job_title": "Integrations Team Lead",
    "work_email": "john.doe@acme.com",
    "personal_email": "john@doe.me",
    "mobile_phone_number": "801-555-4687",
    "ssn": "555-32-6395",
    "tax_id": "12 345 678 901",
    "gender": "MALE",
    "ethnicity": "BLACK_AFRICAN_AMERICAN",
    "marital_status": "MARRIED",
    "employment_status": "INACTIVE",
    "employment_type": "FULL_TIME",
    "weekly_hours": 40,
    "avatar": "https://resources.bamboohr.com/images/photo_person_150x150.png",
    "work_location_id": "7E2gyuv6TmvtByzBxW9Sxt53",
    "legal_entity_id": "xB32bied320csBSsl3XWdlw33",
    "manager_id": "9pf2pxBB8VX8EQMC9aipW2Bo",
    "home_address": {
      "city": "Berlin",
      "country": "DE",
      "raw": "Sonnenallee 63\n12045 Berlin\nGermany",
      "state": "Berlin",
      "street_1": "Sonnenallee 63",
      "street_2": null,
      "zip_code": "12045"
    },
    "bank_accounts": [
      {
        "account_number": "1234567890",
        "bank_name": "Commerzbank",
        "bic": "COBADEFFXXX",
        "domestic_bank_routing": {
          "number": "34567890",
          "type": "DE_BANKLEITZAHL"
        },
        "holder_name": "John Doe",
        "iban": "DE12345678901234567890"
      }
    ],
    "date_of_birth": "1986-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "start_date": "2020-04-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "termination_date": "2022-05-20T00:00:00.000Z",
    "remote_created_at": "2020-04-07T12:32:01.000Z",
    "changed_at": "2022-08-07T14:01:29.196Z",
    "remote_deleted_at": null,
    "custom_fields": {},
    "integration_fields": [],
    "remote_data": null
  }
}

This endpoint requires the permission Create and manage employees to be enabled in your scope config.

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Example Request Body

{
  "first_name": "John",
  "last_name": "Doe",
  "work_email": "john.doe@acme.com",
  "gender": "MALE",
  "date_of_birth": "1986-01-01",
  "start_date": "2020-04-07",
  "job_title": "Integrations Team Lead",
  "home_address": {
    "city": "Berlin",
    "country": "DE",
    "state": "Berlin",
    "street_1": "Sonnenallee 63",
    "zip_code": "12045"
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
headerrequired

Create an API key on the Secrets page in the Kombo dashboard.

Headers

X-Integration-Id
string
required

ID of the integration you want to interact with.

Body

application/json
first_name
string
required

The first name of the employee.

last_name
string
required

The last name of the employee.

work_email
string
required

The email address of the employee to be created. For tools where the personal email address is required, we map this input to the personal email. This is documented on a per-tool basis.

gender
enum<string>

The gender of the employee.

Available options:
MALE,
FEMALE,
NON_BINARY,
NOT_SPECIFIED
job_title
string

The title of the position this person is working in.

home_address
object

The employee's home address.

date_of_birth
string

The employee's date of birth. This is a plain date (i.e., yyyy-MM-dd), all time information is discarded.

mobile_phone_number
string
nationality
string

The uppercase two-letter ISO country (e.g., DE). For systems that use codes in formats other than ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, Kombo transforms the ISO Codes to the appropriate value.

start_date
string

Start date of the employee. Also considered to be the hire date. This is a plain date (i.e., yyyy-MM-dd), all time information is discarded.

legal_entity_id
string

The Kombo ID of the legal entity the employee should be in. This field is required for certain integrations.

location_id
string

The Kombo ID of the location the employee should be in. This field is required for certain integrations.

remote_fields
object

Additional fields that we will pass through to specific HRIS systems.

Response

200 - application/json
status
enum<string>
required
Available options:
success
data
object
required
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