Purpose: To give you more information about our open application programming interface (API) and explain the advantages of using the open API for your company.

"The BambooHR API is a RESTful Internet protocol built around making semantically meaningful HTTPS requests to access or modify a resource (usually an employee). The API can be used to manipulate employee data and generate reports in several formats." — Getting Started With The API

With the use of an API key, you can programmatically pull information out of BambooHR or push information into your account behind the scenes. APIs provide critical connective tissue and increasingly important functionality. Another advantage is third-party APIs are often flat-out better. They work better and give more flexibility than APIs that are built internally. Third-party API developers have more volume and access to a larger data set that creates network effects.  

Learn more about how our open API makes it easy to integrate other applications into BambooHR for sharing data across systems.