Paychex Companies API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Paychex Payroll Companies API
  description: The Paychex Payroll Companies API exposes the list of payroll-bearing companies that a registered Paychex application has been granted access to, along with each company's configuration. Companies are the root tenant resource for all other Paychex REST APIs — workers and time are nested underneath a company.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Paychex Developer Program
    url: https://developer.paychex.com/
  license:
    name: Paychex API Terms of Use
    url: https://developer.paychex.com/
servers:
- url: https://api.paychex.com
  description: Paychex Production API
security:
- oauth2ClientCredentials: []
tags:
- name: Companies
  description: Companies available to the registered application.
paths:
  /companies:
    get:
      operationId: listCompanies
      summary: List Companies
      description: Return the collection of companies that the registered application has been granted access to. Used as the discovery endpoint for downstream Workers and Time calls.
      tags:
      - Companies
      parameters:
      - name: offset
        in: query
        description: Zero-based offset used for pagination.
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 0
          minimum: 0
      - name: limit
        in: query
        description: Maximum number of records to return per page (default 25, max 100).
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 25
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 100
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Collection of companies.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompaniesResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
  /companies/{companyId}:
    get:
      operationId: getCompany
      summary: Get Company by ID
      description: Retrieve a single Paychex Flex company by its identifier.
      tags:
      - Companies
      parameters:
      - name: companyId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Paychex Flex company identifier.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Company record.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompanyResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  responses:
    Forbidden:
      description: Registered application is not authorized for this company resource.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: Requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid OAuth 2.0 access token.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    TooManyRequests:
      description: Rate limit exceeded; retry after the indicated interval.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    CompaniesResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageMetadata'
        content:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Company'
    CompanyResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        content:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Company'
    PageMetadata:
      type: object
      properties:
        contentItemCount:
          type: integer
          description: Number of items returned in this page.
        totalContentItemCount:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of items across all pages.
        offset:
          type: integer
          description: Zero-based offset of this page.
        limit:
          type: integer
          description: Page size used for this response.
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
        details:
          type: string
    Company:
      type: object
      description: A Paychex Flex company (employer) that the application can act on.
      properties:
        companyId:
          type: string
          description: Paychex Flex company identifier.
        displayId:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable display identifier shown in Paychex Flex.
        legalName:
          type: string
          description: Legal business name of the company.
        dba:
          type: string
          description: Doing-business-as name, when distinct from legal name.
        federalEin:
          type: string
          description: Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN).
        status:
          type: string
          description: Company status (e.g., ACTIVE, INACTIVE).
        clientType:
          type: string
          description: Paychex client product line (e.g., Flex, PEO, SurePayroll).
  securitySchemes:
    oauth2ClientCredentials:
      type: oauth2
      flows:
        clientCredentials:
          tokenUrl: https://api.paychex.com/auth/oauth/v2/token
          scopes: {}