# Fourth — HRIS API: overview

> Canonical URL: https://developers.apideck.com/apis/hris/fourth/overview

Restaurant and hospitality-specific technology, services, and analytics to manage your workforce and inventory.
- Status: live
- Authentication: basic

- **external guides:**   - **url:** https://developer.fourth.com/en-gb/docs/uk-employee-api/guide
  - **source:** Fourth
  - **title:** Fourth UK Employee API guide
- **difficulty reason:** Credentials Only Via a Mutual Fourth Customer + Basic Auth With Vendor-Issued Keys
- **apideck credentials note:** Fourth issues credentials against each customer account.
- **account type required:** A Fourth UK Employee API account, with Fourth as employee master record and payroll system.
- **partnership url:** https://developer.fourth.com/en-gb/docs/getting-started
- **partnership required:** false
- **responsibility matrix:**   - **area:** Enable the connector
  - **customer:** ✓ In the Apideck Dashboard
  - **consumer:** ✓ (Fourth customer)
  - **area:** Request credentials from Fourth
  - **area:** Enter organisation ID, API key and secret key in Vault
  - **consumer:** ✓
  - **customer:** Implement Vault
  - **apideck:** ✓
  - **area:** Store credentials and route calls
- **supported resource categories:**   - **resources:** employees
employments
addresses
  - **name:** People
  - **name:** Company Structure
  - **resources:** departments
  - **resources:** time-off-requests
  - **name:** Time Off
- **difficulty:** involved
- **authentication note:** Organisation ID, API key and secret key, all issued by Fourth.
- **sandbox available:** true
- **sandbox url:** https://developer.fourth.com/en-gb/docs/getting-started
- **important to know:** Fourth does not sell or issue API access directly: live credentials are linked to a customer account, so a mutual Fourth customer requests them, and Fourth does not publish the API host, so you also obtain it from Fourth.
This connector runs on Fourth's UK Employee API, so it serves Fourth customers in the United Kingdom only.
- **rate limits:** No numeric limit published; Fourth advises at most one retry a minute on 5xx errors.
- **apideck credentials available:** false
- **partnership note:** No partner programme to join.
- **consumer access level:** A Fourth account admin able to request API keys from Fourth.
- **environment notes:**   - **environment:** Production
  - **description:** Fourth does not publish its hosts; production host details come from Fourth with the live credentials.
  - **environment:** Test
  - **description:** A separate environment with its own test credentials, also issued by Fourth.
- **sandbox note:** Test credentials come from the Fourth consultant assigned to the mutual customer's project; not self-serve.
- **webhooks:** Virtual webhooks - employee created and updated events

## Supported resources

- **custom field support:** false
- **downstream name:** Employees
- **downstream id:** employees
- **name:** Employees
- **id:** employees
- **status:** live
- **downstream name:** Divisions
- **status:** live
- **id:** departments
- **downstream id:** divisions
- **name:** Departments
- **custom field support:** false
- **name:** Time Off Requests
- **id:** time-off-requests
- **status:** live
- **downstream name:** Absences
- **custom field support:** false
- **downstream id:** absences

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

[API reference](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/hris/reference.md) · [Coverage matrix](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/hris/coverage)