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Nowsta

Nowsta is a Brooklyn, New York workforce management platform for hourly, gig and contingent labor, used by more than 25,000 teams across hospitality and food service, events and venues, healthcare, logistics and distribution, education and retail. The platform covers the full shift lifecycle - talent sourcing and onboarding with a built-in ATS, AI-assisted shift scheduling with demand forecasting and templates, GPS/geofenced time and attendance with automated alerts and timesheet approval, labor-cost and compliance reporting, and payroll/accounting handoff - alongside a vendor management module for coordinating staffing agencies. Workers use a dedicated iOS/Android app and the my.nowsta.com portal to claim shifts, set availability and clock in; coordinators work in app.nowsta.com. For partners, Nowsta publishes an allow-listed Integration API that lets an upstream system (event management, CRM, catering or venue software) publish events, shifts, positions, venues, clients, uniforms and workers into Nowsta in bulk.

Nowsta publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Clients API, Events API, Positions API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Workforce Management, staff-scheduling, shift-scheduling, Time and Attendance, and Hourly Workforce.

Nowsta’s developer surface includes API reference, support, engineering blog, and 25 more developer resources.

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33.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
1 APIs
Workforce Managementstaff-schedulingshift-schedulingTime and AttendanceHourly Workforcegig-workevent-staffingHospitalitystaffing-agencyVendor ManagementPayrollHuman Resources

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
Composite quality — 33.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.6 / 23
Developer Ergonomics 5.9 / 18
Access Clarity 2.4 / 18
Operational Transparency 2.2 / 12
Contract Governance 0.5 / 11
Discoverability 6.2 / 9
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Nowsta Clients API

Bulk publication of clients referenced by events.

Nowsta Events API

Bulk publication of events and their nested shifts.

Nowsta Positions API

Bulk publication of positions referenced by shifts.

Nowsta Uniforms API

Bulk publication of uniforms referenced by events.

Nowsta Venues API

Bulk publication of venues referenced by events.

Nowsta Workers API

Bulk publication of company users (workers).

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Nowsta Integration API

OPEN COLLECTION

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Nowsta Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Nowsta Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Nowsta Agentic Access

6 operations · 6 acting

6 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login
Login
 Demo
Demo

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 HelpCenter
HelpCenter
 StatusPage
StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Facebook
Facebook
 Instagram
Instagram

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay
 CookiePolicy
CookiePolicy
 iOSApp
iOSApp
 AndroidApp
AndroidApp
 X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: nowsta
name: Nowsta
description: Nowsta is a Brooklyn, New York workforce management platform for hourly, gig and contingent labor, used by more
  than 25,000 teams across hospitality and food service, events and venues, healthcare, logistics and distribution, education
  and retail. The platform covers the full shift lifecycle - talent sourcing and onboarding with a built-in ATS, AI-assisted
  shift scheduling with demand forecasting and templates, GPS/geofenced time and attendance with automated alerts and timesheet
  approval, labor-cost and compliance reporting, and payroll/accounting handoff - alongside a vendor management module for
  coordinating staffing agencies. Workers use a dedicated iOS/Android app and the my.nowsta.com portal to claim shifts, set
  availability and clock in; coordinators work in app.nowsta.com. For partners, Nowsta publishes an allow-listed Integration
  API that lets an upstream system (event management, CRM, catering or venue software) publish events, shifts, positions,
  venues, clients, uniforms and workers into Nowsta in bulk.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.nowsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-nowsta-favicon-v2-270x270.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nowsta/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-01'
modified: '2026-08-01'
tags:
- Workforce Management
- staff-scheduling
- shift-scheduling
- Time and Attendance
- Hourly Workforce
- gig-work
- event-staffing
- Hospitality
- staffing-agency
- Vendor Management
- Payroll
- Human Resources
tags_raw:
- workforce-management
- staff-scheduling
- shift-scheduling
- time-and-attendance
- hourly-workforce
- gig-work
- event-staffing
- hospitality
- staffing-agency
- vendor-management
- payroll
- human-resources
apis:
- aid: nowsta:nowsta-clients-api
  name: Nowsta Clients API
  description: Bulk publication of clients referenced by events.
  humanURL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  baseURL: https://api.nowsta.com
  tags:
  - Clients
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nowsta-clients-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/nowsta-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/nowsta-data-model.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nowsta-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/nowsta-sandbox.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: IntegrationAddendum
    url: https://www.nowsta.com/integration-addendum/
- aid: nowsta:nowsta-events-api
  name: Nowsta Events API
  description: Bulk publication of events and their nested shifts.
  humanURL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  baseURL: https://api.nowsta.com
  tags:
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nowsta-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/nowsta-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/nowsta-data-model.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nowsta-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/nowsta-sandbox.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: IntegrationAddendum
    url: https://www.nowsta.com/integration-addendum/
- aid: nowsta:nowsta-positions-api
  name: Nowsta Positions API
  description: Bulk publication of positions referenced by shifts.
  humanURL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  baseURL: https://api.nowsta.com
  tags:
  - Positions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nowsta-positions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/nowsta-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/nowsta-data-model.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nowsta-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/nowsta-sandbox.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: IntegrationAddendum
    url: https://www.nowsta.com/integration-addendum/
- aid: nowsta:nowsta-uniforms-api
  name: Nowsta Uniforms API
  description: Bulk publication of uniforms referenced by events.
  humanURL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  baseURL: https://api.nowsta.com
  tags:
  - Uniforms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nowsta-uniforms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/nowsta-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/nowsta-data-model.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nowsta-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/nowsta-sandbox.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: IntegrationAddendum
    url: https://www.nowsta.com/integration-addendum/
- aid: nowsta:nowsta-venues-api
  name: Nowsta Venues API
  description: Bulk publication of venues referenced by events.
  humanURL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  baseURL: https://api.nowsta.com
  tags:
  - Venues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nowsta-venues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/nowsta-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/nowsta-data-model.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nowsta-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/nowsta-sandbox.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: IntegrationAddendum
    url: https://www.nowsta.com/integration-addendum/
- aid: nowsta:nowsta-workers-api
  name: Nowsta Workers API
  description: Bulk publication of company users (workers).
  humanURL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  baseURL: https://api.nowsta.com
  tags:
  - Workers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nowsta-workers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/nowsta-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/nowsta-data-model.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nowsta-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/nowsta-sandbox.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: conventions/nowsta-conventions.yml
  - type: IntegrationAddendum
    url: https://www.nowsta.com/integration-addendum/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/nowsta-integration-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/nowsta-agentic-access.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nowsta.com/
- type: APIReference
  name: Nowsta Integration API reference (archived)
  url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://community.nowsta.com/support/tickets/new
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://intercom.help/nowstasupport/en/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.nowsta.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.nowsta.com/feed/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Nowsta
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.nowsta.com/
- type: Login
  name: Customer sign in
  url: https://app.nowsta.com/
- type: Demo
  url: https://www.nowsta.com/demo/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.nowsta.com/terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.nowsta.com/privacy-policy/
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://www.nowsta.com/cookie-policy/
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/nowsta-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nowsta-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nowsta-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nowsta-domain-security.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  name: Candidate MCP tool surface derived from the Integration API (not published by Nowsta)
  url: mcp/nowsta-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nowsta-llms.txt
- type: iOSApp
  url: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nowsta-workers/id1172538924
- type: AndroidApp
  url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nowsta.workers
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowsta
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/nowsta
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/nowsta
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/nowsta/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-01'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v1

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