QuickBooks Employee API

An Employee object represents a person working for the company. If you are looking to create a Contractor via API, refer how to create a Vendor object, with Vendor1099 field set to true.The DisplayName, Title, GivenName, MiddleName, FamilyName, Suffix, and PrintOnCheckName attributes must not contain colon (:), tab (\t), or newline (\n) characters. The DisplayName attribute must be unique across all other customer, employee, and vendor objects. The GivenName and FamilyName attributes are required. The PrimaryEmailAddress attribute must contain an at sign (@) and dot (.). The full complement of read, create, delete via deactivation (active=false), and update operations are available both with and without QuickBooks Payroll enabled. However, when Payroll is enabled, support for some attributes is limited: Title—Not supported when QuickBooks Payroll is enabled. Suffix—Not supported when QuickBooks Payroll is enabled. DisplayName —It’s read only when QuickBooks Payroll is enabled and a concatenation of GivenName MiddleName FamilyName. PrintOnCheckName—Not supported when QuickBooks Payroll is enabled. BillRate—Not supported when QuickBooks Payroll is enabled. SSN—Masked SSNs, as is returned in a response, cannot be passed in a request when QuickBooks Payroll is enabled. Code for this field must be removed before submitting.

Operations 3

GET /v3/company/{realmID}/query Query an entity with a SELECT statement #
POST /v3/company/{realmID}/employee Create an employee / Full update an employee #
GET /v3/company/{realmID}/employee/{employeeId} Read an employee #

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quickbooks-employee-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: QuickBooks Online Accounting Employee API
  version: '2026-11-05'
  description: QuickBooks Online Accounting API (v3). Entities, reports, query, batch and change-data-capture operations for a QuickBooks Online company (realmId). Generated from the JSON Intuit's API Explorer renders; Intuit publishes no OpenAPI document.
  termsOfService: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/legal-agreements/intuit-terms-of-service-for-intuit-developer-services
  contact:
    name: Intuit Developer Support
    url: https://help.developer.intuit.com/s/
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-generator: convert-intuit-api-explorer.py (deterministic conversion of the provider's API Explorer JSON; no model)
  x-source:
  - https://static.developer.intuit.com/JSONObjects/EntityJsonObject_v1.json
  - https://static.developer.intuit.com/JSONObjects/CodesModelsJsonObjects_v2.json
  - https://static.developer.intuit.com/JSONObjects/TocJsonObject_v1.json
  x-generated: '2026-11-05'
servers:
- url: https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com
  description: Production
- url: https://sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com
  description: Sandbox
security:
- oauth2:
  - com.intuit.quickbooks.accounting
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/quickbooks/openapi/quickbooks-employee-api-openapi.yml