Zoho People

Zoho People is Zoho's cloud-based, AI-first HR management system (HRMS) spanning core HR, time and attendance, leave, performance, learning, recruitment, payroll and analytics — bundled inside the Zoho One business suite. The Zoho People REST API exposes employee records, custom forms, leave, attendance, time tracking, automation, and dashboard data in XML or JSON, secured with Zoho OAuth 2.0 via the Zoho Accounts service and the seven `ZOHOPEOPLE` scopes (employee, forms, dashboard, automation, timetracker, attendance, leave).

1 APIs 1 Capabilities 0 Features

HRHRMSHuman ResourcesHRISEmployee ManagementAttendanceLeave ManagementTime TrackingPerformance ManagementOnboardingZohoOAuth 2.0

Zoho People publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: REST API. Tagged areas include HR, HRMS, Human Resources, HRIS, and Employee Management.

The Zoho People catalog on APIs.io includes 1 machine-runnable capability, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Zoho People’s developer surface includes documentation, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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aid: zoho-people
name: Zoho People
description: >-
  Zoho People is Zoho's cloud-based, AI-first HR management system (HRMS)
  spanning core HR, time and attendance, leave, performance, learning,
  recruitment, payroll and analytics — bundled inside the Zoho One business
  suite. The Zoho People REST API exposes employee records, custom forms,
  leave, attendance, time tracking, automation, and dashboard data in XML
  or JSON, secured with Zoho OAuth 2.0 via the Zoho Accounts service and
  the seven `ZOHOPEOPLE` scopes (employee, forms, dashboard, automation,
  timetracker, attendance, leave).
type: Index
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tags:
  - HR
  - HRMS
  - Human Resources
  - HRIS
  - Employee Management
  - Attendance
  - Leave Management
  - Time Tracking
  - Performance Management
  - Onboarding
  - Zoho
  - OAuth 2.0
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
  - aid: zoho-people:rest-api
    name: Zoho People REST API
    description: >-
      OAuth 2.0 protected REST API for Zoho People HRMS, exposing employee
      records, custom forms, leave, attendance, time-tracker, automation,
      and dashboard data. Requests and responses are XML or JSON, secured
      with Zoho Accounts OAuth 2.0 authorization-code tokens scoped under
      the `ZOHOPEOPLE` service namespace.
    humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/people/api/overview.html
    baseURL: https://people.zoho.com/people/api
    tags:
      - HRMS
      - HR
      - Employee
      - Forms
      - Leave
      - Attendance
      - Time Tracker
      - OAuth 2.0
      - REST
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.zoho.com/people/api/overview.html
      - type: API Guide
        url: https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/people/api-guide
      - type: OAuth Overview
        url: https://www.zoho.com/people/api/oauth.html
      - type: Scopes
        url: https://www.zoho.com/people/api/scopes.html
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://www.zoho.com/people/api/authentication.html
      - type: OAuth 2.0 Protocol
        url: https://www.zoho.com/accounts/protocol/oauth.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/openapi/zoho-people-openapi.yml
      - type: SpectralRules
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/rules/zoho-people-rules.yml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/json-schema/zoho-people-employee-schema.json
      - type: JSONLD
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/json-ld/zoho-people-context.jsonld
      - type: NaftikoCapabilities
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/capabilities/shared/zoho-people-capabilities.yaml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/zoho-people-vocabulary.yml
      - type: Plans
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/plans/zoho-people-plans-pricing.yml
      - type: RateLimits
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/zoho-people-rate-limits.yml
      - type: FinOps
        url: >-
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-people/refs/heads/main/finops/zoho-people-finops.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.zoho.com/people/
  - type: ProductOverview
    url: https://www.zoho.com/people/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/people/api/overview.html
  - type: HelpCenter
    url: https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/people
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.zoho.com/people/zohopeople-pricing.html
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://www.zoho.com/people/signup.html
  - type: Login
    url: https://people.zoho.com/
  - type: Integrations
    url: https://www.zoho.com/people/integrations.html
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.zoho.com/blog/people/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://status.zoho.com/
  - type: StatusPageRSS
    url: https://status.zoho.com/rss
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/zoho
  - type: ZohoOneSuite
    url: https://www.zoho.com/one/
  - type: Community
    url: https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/zoho-people
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]

Zoho People

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Zoho People REST API

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Semantic Vocabularies

Zoho People Context

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Zoho People API Rules

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