Cadana
Cadana is a white-label global payment and payroll infrastructure provider for talent platforms, staffing companies, and HR providers. Its APIs let partners onboard and pay employees and contractors in 100+ countries, run multi-currency payroll, provision embedded wallets and virtual accounts, calculate gross-to-net tax across 150+ jurisdictions, and automate statutory filing and government remittance. The platform is delivered as five REST APIs (Workforce Management, Embedded Payments, Embedded Consumer Wallets, Global Tax Engine, and Statutory Compliance) with bearer-token auth, Svix-signed webhooks, a sandbox, and an embeddable white-label UI and salary-calculator widget. Backed by 500 Global.
Cadana publishes 30 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Balances API, Beneficiaries API, Businesses API, and 27 more. Tagged areas include Company, Payroll, Payments, Global Payroll, and Contractor Payments.
The Cadana catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Cadana’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 27 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 2
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-invoicing and Tax Compliance (certified operators) | undeclared | - | - | 1 |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 30
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Cadana Balances API
APIs for managing user account balances
Cadana Beneficiaries API
APIs for managing user beneficiaries
Cadana Businesses API
APIs for interacting with Business
Cadana Contracts API
APIs for interacting with contracts
Cadana Custom Auth API
APIs for interacting with Custom Authentication
Cadana Entities API
APIs for managing legal sub-entities (subsidiaries, branches) under a parent business
Cadana Events API
Immutable audit trail
Cadana Files API
APIs for interacting with file uploads
Cadana Filings API
Create, submit, and track statutory returns — from upcoming obligations through acceptance
Cadana FX API
APIs for managing foreign exchange rates
Cadana Instant Pay API
APIs for interacting with Instant Pay functionality
Cadana Invoices API
APIs for interacting with invoices
Cadana Jurisdictions API
Discover supported countries, required fields, and filing types
Cadana KYB API
APIs for business verification
Cadana Milestones API
APIs for milestone-based contractor pay
Cadana Payouts API
APIs for managing payouts
Cadana Payrolls API
APIs for interacting with Payroll
Cadana Persons API
APIs for interacting with the HR module
Cadana Platform API
Platform APIs for interacting with businesses
Cadana Reimbursements API
APIs for interacting with reimbursements
Cadana Remittances API
Government payments linked to filings
Cadana Requirements API
Prerequisites that must be satisfied before filing
Cadana Resources API
Resource APIs to access and manage foundational data
Cadana Sandbox API
APIs for relevant sandbox simulations
Cadana Statutory Fields API
Submit and read entity-level statutory filing data
Cadana Tax Calculator API
APIs for tax calculations
Cadana Transactions API
APIs for managing user transactions
Cadana Treasury API
APIs for business balances, funding, and withdrawals
Cadana Users API
APIs for interacting with employee/contractor Cadana accounts
Cadana Virtual Accounts API
APIs for managing virtual accounts
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Open Collections 30
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Embedded Consumer Wallets Balances API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Beneficiaries API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Businesses API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Contracts API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Custom Auth API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Entities API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Events API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Files API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Filings API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances FX API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Instant Pay API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Invoices API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Jurisdictions API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances KYB API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Milestones API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Payouts API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Payrolls API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Persons API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Platform API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Reimbursements API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Remittances API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Requirements API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Resources API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Sandbox API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Statutory Fields API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Tax Calculator API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Transactions API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Treasury API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Users API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Consumer Wallets Balances Virtual Accounts API
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Arazzo Workflows 2
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Cadana — discover and calculate payroll tax
Discover supported locations and required fields, then estimate and calculate tax.
ARAZZOCadana — pay a contractor end-to-end
Onboard a contractor, create a contract, run payroll, and retrieve payslips.
ARAZZOAgent Skills 4
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Estimate and calculate global payroll tax
AGENT SKILLPay a contractor end-to-end
AGENT SKILLCreate, approve, and reconcile a payroll
AGENT SKILLEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Cadana Webhooks
ASYNCAPISpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Cadana API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 5
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Cadana Embedded Payments Overlay
DERIVEDCadana Global Tax Overlay
DERIVEDSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Cadana API — frequently asked questions
Does Cadana have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 30 APIs from Cadana, including Cadana Balances API, Cadana Beneficiaries API and Cadana Businesses API, and 27 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cadana API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 30 OpenAPI specifications for Cadana, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Cadana API?
Cadana uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cadana Authentication.
Is the Cadana API ready for AI agents?
Cadana has a Kin Score of 51.1 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 38.9 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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