# Planday

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/planday/  
**Website:** https://openapi.planday.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Planday is a workforce management platform for shift-based businesses in hospitality, retail, healthcare, hotels, entertainment, and fitness, offering employee scheduling, time tracking and punch clock, absence and leave management, payroll reporting, staff communication, and HR. Planday (part of Xero) publishes a public REST/OAuth2 developer API at openapi.planday.com, organized into domains such as HR, Absence, Pay, Payroll, Portal, Punchclock, Reports, Revenue, Schedule, Contract Rules, and Security Group Membership, so partners and customers can sync employees, shifts, timesheets, pay rates, and cost data with external systems.

## Kin Score — 34.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 33.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |
| Access Clarity | 52.6 |

## Agent readiness — 8.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Planday API** — Planday's REST API secured by OAuth2 bearer tokens, separated into domains (HR, Absence, Pay, Payroll, Portal, Punchclock, Reports, Revenue, Schedule, Contract Rules, Security G...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Planday MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Planday Authentication** — oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes
- **Planday Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Software-as-a-Service, Workforce Management, Scheduling, Time Tracking, Payroll, Human Resources, Hospitality, Retail, REST, Authentication

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/planday/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.