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 1 API on the APIs.io network: Integration API. 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 24 more developer resources.

39.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
workforce-managementstaff-schedulingshift-schedulingtime-and-attendancehourly-workforcegig-workevent-staffinghospitalitystaffing-agencyvendor-managementpayrollhuman-resources

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 39.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 16.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 1.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.7 / 10
Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

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

Nowsta Integration API

Allow-listed partner API for publishing workforce data into Nowsta. Six bulk "publications" endpoints - events (with nested shifts), venues, clients, uniforms, positions and wor...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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.
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: '0.21'
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
apis:
- name: Nowsta Integration API
  description: Allow-listed partner API for publishing workforce data into Nowsta. Six bulk "publications" endpoints - events
    (with nested shifts), venues, clients, uniforms, positions and workers - each accepting up to 32 objects per request and
    performing create-or-update keyed on the caller's own external id. Authentication is a per-company bearer token that the
    customer retrieves from the Nowsta UI; Nowsta must approve a company before its token is active. Every successful publication
    returns 202 Accepted with a queued-job id, because Nowsta will not apply changes that would unassign already-scheduled
    staff without coordinator confirmation. There are no read, PATCH or DELETE operations in the public surface, and no documented
    webhook or event stream.
  humanURL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  baseURL: https://api.nowsta.com
  tags:
  - workforce-management
  - shift-scheduling
  - event-staffing
  - hourly-workforce
  - bulk-publication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nowsta-integration-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    name: Nowsta Integration API reference (archived - developer.nowsta.com no longer resolves)
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240603053309/https://developer.nowsta.com/
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/nowsta-integration-overlay.yaml
  - 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
    name: Batch limit - 32 items per publication request
    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: 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: MCPServer
  name: Candidate MCP tool surface derived from the Integration API (not published by Nowsta)
  url: mcp/nowsta-mcp.yml
- 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