# Zoho People

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zoho-people/  
**Website:** https://www.zoho.com/people/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

Zoho People is Zoho's cloud-based, AI-first HR management system (HRMS) spanning core HR, time and attendance, leave, performance, learning, recruitment, payroll and analytics — bundled inside the Zoho One business suite. The Zoho People REST API exposes employee records, custom forms, leave, attendance, time tracking, automation, and dashboard data in XML or JSON, secured with Zoho OAuth 2.0 via the Zoho Accounts service and the seven `ZOHOPEOPLE` scopes (employee, forms, dashboard, automation, timetracker, attendance, leave).

## Kin Score — 46.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 46.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 62.1 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 56.6 |
| Access Clarity | 56.6 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **Zoho People Attendance API** — Attendance entries, check-in / check-out, regularization.
- **Zoho People Automation API** — Workflow and automation triggers.
- **Zoho People Dashboard API** — Dashboard data reads for analytics widgets.
- **Zoho People Employee API** — Employee record CRUD across the People HRIS.
- **Zoho People Forms API** — Custom and standard form record operations.
- **Zoho People Leave API** — Leave types, balances, and request lifecycle.
- **Zoho People Time Tracker API** — Projects, jobs, and timesheet entries.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Zoho People Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 10 acting

## Security (3)

- **Zoho People Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Zoho People Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Zoho People Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Zoho People Plans Pricing**

## Tags

HR, HRMS, Human Resources, HRIS, Employee Management, Attendance, Leave Management, Time Tracking, Performance Management, Onboarding, Zoho, Authentication

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