Salsa

Salsa Payrolls API

Payroll runs and reports.

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Operations 7

POST /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs Create a payroll run. #

GET /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs Retrieve payroll runs. #

GET /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs/{payrollRunId} Retrieve a payroll run. #

DELETE /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs/{payrollRunId} Delete a payroll run. #

POST /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs/{payrollRunId}/preview Preview a payroll run (calculated gross-to-net before confirmation). #

POST /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs/{payrollRunId}/confirm Confirm a payroll run and initiate funding and disbursement. #

GET /employers/{employerId}/reports/payroll-journal Retrieve the payroll journal report. #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Salsa Payroll Companies Payrolls API
  description: Representative OpenAPI description of the Salsa embedded payroll REST API. Salsa is partner-gated payroll infrastructure - approved platform partners receive separate sandbox and production Bearer API keys and use these endpoints to provision employers and workers, run payroll, disburse worker payments, configure tax, and manage webhooks for US and Canada. This is a faithful, representative subset of the surface documented at https://docs.salsa.dev/reference and is not the vendor's official machine specification.
  termsOfService: https://www.salsa.dev/legal
  contact:
    name: Salsa Support
    url: https://docs.salsa.dev/
  version: rest-v1
servers:
- url: https://api.salsa.dev/api/rest/v1
  description: Production (partner production API key)
- url: https://api.sandbox.salsa.dev/api/rest/v1
  description: Sandbox (partner sandbox API key)
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Payrolls
  description: Payroll runs and reports.
paths:
  /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/EmployerId'
    post:
      operationId: createPayrollRun
      tags:
      - Payrolls
      summary: Create a payroll run.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayrollRunCreate'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Payroll run created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayrollRun'
    get:
      operationId: listPayrollRuns
      tags:
      - Payrolls
      summary: Retrieve payroll runs.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of payroll runs.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayrollRun'
  /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs/{payrollRunId}:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/EmployerId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PayrollRunId'
    get:
      operationId: getPayrollRun
      tags:
      - Payrolls
      summary: Retrieve a payroll run.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The payroll run.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayrollRun'
    delete:
      operationId: deletePayrollRun
      tags:
      - Payrolls
      summary: Delete a payroll run.
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Deleted.
  /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs/{payrollRunId}/preview:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/EmployerId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PayrollRunId'
    post:
      operationId: previewPayrollRun
      tags:
      - Payrolls
      summary: Preview a payroll run (calculated gross-to-net before confirmation).
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Payroll run preview.
  /employers/{employerId}/payroll-runs/{payrollRunId}/confirm:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/EmployerId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PayrollRunId'
    post:
      operationId: confirmPayrollRun
      tags:
      - Payrolls
      summary: Confirm a payroll run and initiate funding and disbursement.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Payroll run confirmed.
  /employers/{employerId}/reports/payroll-journal:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/EmployerId'
    get:
      operationId: getPayrollJournalReport
      tags:
      - Payrolls
      summary: Retrieve the payroll journal report.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The payroll journal report.
components:
  parameters:
    PayrollRunId:
      name: payrollRunId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The payroll run identifier.
      schema:
        type: string
    EmployerId:
      name: employerId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The employer (company) identifier.
      schema:
        type: string
  schemas:
    PayrollRunCreate:
      type: object
      required:
      - workerPayGroupId
      - payPeriodStart
      - payPeriodEnd
      - payDate
      properties:
        workerPayGroupId:
          type: string
        payPeriodStart:
          type: string
          format: date
        payPeriodEnd:
          type: string
          format: date
        payDate:
          type: string
          format: date
    PayrollRun:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        employerId:
          type: string
        workerPayGroupId:
          type: string
        payPeriodStart:
          type: string
          format: date
        payPeriodEnd:
          type: string
          format: date
        payDate:
          type: string
          format: date
        status:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Partner Bearer API key. Approved Salsa platform partners receive separate sandbox and production keys. Send as `Authorization: Bearer ${YOUR_API_TOKEN}`.'