7shifts API

Name: 7shifts API
Brand: 7shifts API
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Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the 7shifts API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the 7shifts API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with 7shifts API.

Provision and manage 7shifts companies, locations, departments, and roles

Create, publish, and update shift schedules for restaurant locations

Record and edit time punches against published shifts

Manage employees, including hires, terminations, and role assignments

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For Agents

Manage restaurant scheduling, shifts, time punches, employees, and labor settings across the full 7shifts platform. Useful for agents that operate or report on restaurant workforce data.

Use for: List all locations under a 7shifts company, Create a new shift for a server at the downtown location next Friday, Find employees who clocked in late yesterday, Approve a pending time-off request for a specific user

Not supported: Does not handle POS sales data, food inventory, or customer-facing reservations - use for restaurant workforce scheduling, time tracking, and labor settings only.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use 7shifts API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Restaurant Schedule Automation

Restaurant operators automate weekly schedule creation by combining the schedules and shifts endpoints with their own forecasting. The API exposes /v2/company/{company_id}/locations and the shift CRUD endpoints needed to publish a schedule for hundreds of employees in a single run, replacing manual entry in the 7shifts UI. A first working integration takes a developer three to five days end to end.

For each location returned by /v2/company/{company_id}/locations, create the next week's shifts via the shifts endpoints based on a forecasted demand input.

Payroll and Time Punch Integration

Payroll providers pull approved time punches and labor totals from 7shifts to feed restaurant payroll runs. The time punches and labor settings endpoints return the hours, breaks, and overtime data needed to calculate pay accurately, replacing CSV exports or scraped UI reports. Building a payroll-grade integration is typically a two-week project including reconciliation tooling.

Pull time punches for a given company over the previous pay period, group by employee and location, and emit a payroll-ready CSV with regular, overtime, and break minutes.

Workforce Reporting Across a Restaurant Group

Multi-location restaurant groups build internal dashboards on top of 7shifts to monitor labor cost percentage, no-shows, and overtime by location. The companies, locations, shifts, and time punches endpoints provide the source data for these reports without manual exports. A first dashboard is roughly a one-week build for a single restaurant group.

Pull all locations for a company, fetch published shifts and time punches for the trailing four weeks, and compute labor cost percentage by location.

Time-Off and Engagement Workflows

Operators use the time-off endpoints to manage approvals from outside the 7shifts UI - for example, syncing time-off into Slack or auto-approving requests under a certain length. Engagement endpoints similarly push announcements into the in-app feed for shift staff. A typical integration is two to three days for a single workflow.

List pending time-off requests for a location, approve any under three days that do not conflict with critical shifts, and post a confirmation to the engagement feed.

AI Agent Restaurant Operations Assistant via Jentic

An AI assistant connected through Jentic can answer questions like 'who is scheduled to close tonight at the downtown location' by chaining the locations, schedules, and shifts endpoints. Jentic stores the OAuth credential in the vault and exposes operations by intent, so the agent never needs to read the 7shifts API reference. End-to-end response time is under ten seconds per query.

Search Jentic for 'list scheduled shifts for a location tonight', load the matching 7shifts schedules operation, and return the list of employees with start and end times.

Key Endpoints

138 endpoints — the 7shifts api is the full developer interface to 7shifts, a team management platform built for restaurants.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/oauth2/token

Exchange credentials for a 7shifts OAuth access token

GET

/v2/whoami

Identify the authenticated user and tenant

GET

/v2/companies

List companies accessible to the credential

GET

/v2/company/{company_id}/locations

List locations under a company

GET

/v2/company/{company_id}/labor_settings

Retrieve labor enforcement settings for a company

POST

/v2/partner_company_creation

Create a 7shifts company on behalf of a partner

GET

/v2/company/{company_id}/inactive_reasons

List configured reasons for marking employees inactive

POST

/oauth2/token

Exchange credentials for a 7shifts OAuth access token

GET

/v2/whoami

Identify the authenticated user and tenant

GET

/v2/companies

List companies accessible to the credential

GET

/v2/company/{company_id}/locations

List locations under a company

GET

/v2/company/{company_id}/labor_settings

Retrieve labor enforcement settings for a company

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your 7shifts OAuth, API key, and basic auth credentials are stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. They never enter the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'list a company's locations' or 'read labor settings', and Jentic returns the matching 7shifts operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

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FAQs

Specific to using 7shifts API through Jentic.

What authentication does the 7shifts API use?

The API supports multiple schemes - OAuth 2.0 for partner integrations, marketing API keys for marketing endpoints, and basic auth for legacy clients. The /oauth2/token endpoint exchanges client credentials for an access token. When called through Jentic these credentials are held in the encrypted vault and attached at execution time, so they never appear in agent context.

Can I create and publish a shift schedule with the 7shifts API?

Yes. The API exposes shift CRUD endpoints scoped to a company and location. After listing locations via /v2/company/{company_id}/locations you can create individual shifts and then publish them as a schedule. The API supports both single-shift and bulk operations.

What are the rate limits for the 7shifts API?

7shifts applies per-token rate limits that vary by integration tier; the documentation describes them as fair-use rather than a single public number. Back off on HTTP 429 with the Retry-After header. For payroll integrations that pull large amounts of time-punch data, batch by location and pay period rather than polling continuously.

How do I pull time punches for payroll through Jentic?

After running pip install jentic and setting JENTIC_AGENT_API_KEY, search Jentic for 'pull time punches for payroll', load the 7shifts time punches operation, and execute it scoped to the company and pay period. Jentic injects the OAuth token automatically.

Does the 7shifts API include POS or sales data?

No. 7shifts focuses on workforce data - schedules, shifts, time punches, employees, and labor settings. Sales and POS data come from the partner POS systems that integrate with 7shifts. To compute labor cost percentage you typically join 7shifts labor data with sales pulled from the POS API separately.

Where does this OpenAPI specification come from?

This 7shifts spec was published as part of a third-party OpenAPI examples collection rather than directly by 7shifts. Jentic mirrors and validates it against the live API at api.7shifts.com so it stays usable for agent and developer tooling. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the 7shifts API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which 7shifts operations and credentials the agent can use. Since 7shifts puts the company id in the URL path (/company/{company_id}/...), a rule can pin the agent to a single company and to read-only calls like listing that company's locations and reading its labor settings, and nothing else. You explicitly choose the operations it may call, so a write operation such as partner company creation is never available unless you add it.

7shifts API

Connect the 7shifts API to your agent

Capabilities

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Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

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