Before you begin

Explore Attendance API to learn about the attendance module in Bob and how to use the API.

Required permissions

To use the attendance API, make sure the service user has the following permissions granted:

Action	Permission
Import attendance entries	People's data > Time attendance > Manage time attendance sheets
Fetch attendance summaries and daily breakdowns	People's data > Time attendance > Manage time attendance sheets

Attendance API endpoints

Resource	Endpoint
Import Attendance entries	Import attendance data
Attendance summaries	Fetch attendance summaries
Attendance daily breakdowns	Fetch daily attendance breakdown

Rate limiting

Rate limits are restrictions that our API imposes on the number of times a user can access our endpoints within a specified period of time. To learn more about rate limiting best practices, see Rate limiting.

Below is a table detailing the rate limits for each endpoint in the attendance endpoints.

Method	Endpoint	Limit per minute
POST	Import attendance data	5
POST	Fetch attendance summaries	100
POST	Fetch daily attendance breakdown	100