Personio

aid: personio
name: Personio
description: >-
  Personio is a European HR management and recruiting platform serving small
  and mid-sized businesses with a unified HRIS covering employee records,
  absence management, time tracking, payroll preparation, performance, and
  applicant tracking. The platform is headquartered in Munich and is widely
  adopted across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands, and
  Spain. Personio exposes a Public API at api.personio.de that supports
  Bearer token authentication via Client ID/Secret (v1 token endpoint and v2
  OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow), with webhooks now available for Person
  entity events.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Human Resources
  - HRIS
  - Recruiting
  - Applicant Tracking
  - Absence Management
  - Time Tracking
  - Europe HR
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/personio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: personio:public-api-v1
    name: Personio Public API v1
    description: >-
      REST API for managing employees, attendances, absences, projects, and
      recruiting data in Personio. Authentication uses a Client ID/Secret
      exchanged for a short-lived Bearer token via POST /v1/auth.
    humanURL: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
    baseURL: https://api.personio.de/v1
    tags:
      - HRIS
      - Employees
      - Absences
      - Attendances
      - Recruiting
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.personio.de/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
      - type: Getting Started
        url: >-
          https://developer.personio.de/docs/getting-started-with-the-personio-api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/personio/api-docs/master/personio-auth-api.yaml
  - aid: personio:public-api-v2
    name: Personio Public API v2
    description: >-
      Next-generation REST API with OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Grant
      authentication. Token endpoint POST /v2/auth/token returns access
      tokens used as Bearer credentials on subsequent calls.
    humanURL: https://developer.personio.de/reference/post_v2-auth-token
    baseURL: https://api.personio.de/v2
    tags:
      - HRIS
      - OAuth 2.0
      - Employees
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.personio.de/reference/post_v2-auth-token
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/personio/api-docs

common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.personio.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.personio.de/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.personio.com/pricing/
  - type: Sign Up
    url: https://www.personio.com/contact/
  - type: GitHub Organization
    url: https://github.com/personio
features:
  - name: Core HRIS
    description: >-
      Unified employee master data, organizational charts, custom attributes,
      and document management across the employee lifecycle.
  - name: Absence Management
    description: >-
      Configurable absence types, accruals, approval workflows, and team
      calendars with country-specific holiday support.
  - name: Time Tracking
    description: >-
      Manual and project-based time tracking with overtime rules and
      attestation workflows feeding into payroll preparation.
  - name: Recruiting and ATS
    description: >-
      Career pages, multi-posting job boards, structured interviews, and
      collaborative hiring decisions.
  - name: Payroll Preparation
    description: >-
      Pre-payroll consolidation of master data, absences, and time entries
      ready for export to external payroll providers.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: >-
      Subscribe to Person entity webhook events to react to employee
      changes in real time from external systems.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]