Connect time tracking data to every platform you run
Hubstaff’s time tracking API sends time, activity, PTO, payroll, and billing data to the tools you already use, with no nightly syncs or in-house connectors to maintain. Add teammates, approve time, and set limits straight from your existing systems while your workforce analytics stay in sync.
One API for the whole loop, from clock-in to client invoice
Hubstaff’s API covers clients, invoices, payments, PTO, and project budgets, as well as tracked time.
Time, activity, and screenshots via API
Pull tracked time, app and URL usage, attendance shifts, Job site visits, and optional screenshots into your BI tools or internal dashboards. Add time entries and approve or deny manual time requests through the same API.
PTO, schedules, and real-time webhooks
Manage PTO and time-off policies, approve requests, and read balances from your HR tools. Set time limits per member and create Smart Notification rules without opening Hubstaff. Webhooks automatically send timer, schedule, attendance, and project events to your tools as they happen.
Payroll-ready timesheets and pay rates
Sync tracked hours, pay rates, and team payments into payroll or HRIS systems without manual exports. If a record changes after your last sync, Daily Activity Updates pull in the correction. Once a timesheet is approved, it’s locked.
Clients, invoices, and project budgets
Create and update clients, read client invoices with line items, and pull project budgets and limit history into your finance tools. Billing stays tied to the hours actually tracked.
Your workforce data, now AI-ready
Hubstaff’s API is built to be AI-ready, with an official CLI and MCP server that make it easy to explore endpoints, query data, and bring workforce data into the AI assistants you already use.
- API. Raw access for developers, with every endpoint documented.
- Hubstaff CLI. Easy interaction from the terminal. It discovers every endpoint from the published schema, with nothing hardcoded.
- Hubstaff MCP server. Lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT query and reason over your workforce data.
Ask in plain English who worked more than 40 hours last week, or which projects are over budget. You decide what AI tools can read or write: access is scoped, every action is logged, and you can revoke it anytime. All three are official, first-party Hubstaff tools.
Get a clearer view of your operations and make smarter decisions with AI-ready workforce data.
Create custom solutions for clients
Use filters to tailor the way you display data for your clients. Or take it a step further by building a portal that allows clients to log in to view activities, tasks, notes, and more.
Rebuild Time & Activity, Apps & URLs, and attendance views in your own dashboards or client portal, or automate weekly client reports for agencies, BPOs, and staffing firms that need to prove billed hours. See how teams build custom workflows with the Hubstaff API.
Always improving
Versioned endpoints and a public changelog keep every integration stable as the API grows. Published schema means the CLI automatically picks up new endpoints.
More data
Read and write users, projects, time entries, pay rates, clients, and invoices, with full activity and PTO data behind them. The Hubstaff Tasks API covers tasks, checklists, and comments.
Security IT will sign off on
Built on OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Every token follows the role-based permissions of the member behind it, and rate limits are published in the authentication guide.
“If I didn’t have Hubstaff and all the features within Hubstaff, I would have to develop something myself, which would have cost a considerable amount of money.”
Affordable Staff turned to Hubstaff to manage and pay contractors and freelancers, streamlining operations as it grew. It saves $170,000 annually thanks to our platform.
Hubstaff automatically gathers all company information — hours tracked towards projects and budgets, for example — and builds custom reports.