# Acerta — HRIS API: overview

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Acerta is a belgian HR service provider offering payroll, administration, and personnel management solutions for businesses.
- Status: live
- Authentication: oauth2

- **environment notes:**   - **description:** Live employer data on api.acerta.be; selected with the connection's Environment setting.
  - **environment:** Production
  - **environment:** Acceptance
  - **description:** Acerta's test environment on a-api.acerta.be; selected with the same Environment setting.
- **sandbox note:** An Acceptance environment; the Client ID is shared across environments and Acerta issues a separate secret for Acceptance.
- **partnership url:** https://www.acerta.be/en/software-integrations
- **difficulty:** moderate
- **supported resource categories:**   - **name:** People
  - **resources:** employees
  - **resources:** agreements
agreement-employments
  - **name:** Employment
- **apideck credentials note:** Acerta issues credentials per employer and does not allow them to be shared.
- **partnership required:** false
- **responsibility matrix:**   - **area:** Enable the Acerta connector in the Apideck Dashboard
  - **customer:** ✓
  - **area:** Request API access and credentials from Acerta
  - **consumer:** ✓
  - **area:** Connect the Acerta account in Vault
  - **consumer:** ✓
  - **apideck:** ✓
  - **area:** Authentication and API requests to the chosen environment
- **difficulty reason:** Credentials Issued by Acerta Per Employer
- **apideck credentials available:** false
- **sandbox available:** true
- **important to know:** Acerta publishes no self-service signup, so each consumer must request API access from Acerta before a connection can be tested.
- **authentication note:** Client credentials flow; no user-consent step.
- **beta:** false
- **consumer access level:** No user sign-in: the connection runs on the credentials Acerta issues, not on a user role.
- **account type required:** An Acerta employer account; the Employer ID identifies which employer's agreements are listed.
- **webhooks:** No webhooks - data is read by polling.
- **partnership note:** Contacting Acerta's integrations team opens API access, with advice on architecture and integration.

## Supported resources

- **status:** live
- **custom field support:** false
- **downstream id:** employees
- **id:** employees
- **name:** Employees
- **downstream name:** Employees

An omitted operation list does not establish operation support. Verify the selected operation in the coverage matrix.

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