Chronicle API
Seamlessly Integrate Your Data with Chronicle
A powerful tool designed to help third parties integrate with Chronicle, enabling seamless data exchange between your systems and ours.
Chronicle API:
Whether you’re looking to push or pull data, the Chronicle API offers a robust interface to connect with our platform securely and efficiently.
By leveraging these API endpoints, you can automate and streamline how your data is handled, making it easier to sync and retrieve critical information across platforms.
The Chronicle API provides businesses with the ability to communicate directly with Chronicle. Through this API, customers can easily access and manage data related to:
- Employees
- Absences
- Absentee Records
- Real Clockings
Chronicle HR API
Rate Limiting
- Limit: Each endpoint allows a maximum of 10 requests every 10 minutes.
- Endpoint-Specific: Rate limits are applied individually to each endpoint.
- Action Upon Limit Reached: If you hit the limit, please reduce your request frequency and try again later.
Authentication
- Credentials: You will receive a Client ID and Client Secret. Keep these confidential and secure.
- Access Token: To retrieve an access token, call the /token endpoint. The token is valid for 20 minutes.
- Usage: Include the access token in your API calls for authentication.
- Authentication Method: We use OAuth 2.0 with the Client Credentials grant type. More details here
Get Started
To begin, please reach out to a member of the Chronicle team. We will provide you with your Client ID and Client Secret to facilitate access to the API.
From here you will be able to use these credentials to obtain an access token and get started.
To explore further, you can find more details here.
Contact us for a demonstration
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes – Chronicle has API’s to intergrate with third-party Payroll and HR providers such as Sage, Pegasus, SAP, Xero, Shape Payroll, MHR, Quickbooks to name a few. Chronicle Online can also export and import data using CSV files.
The break functionality in Chronicle is sophisticated and highly configurable. The implementation team can help you set up your various rules. There are even alerts if employees have missed a break or taken too long or short a break. Employees can also clock breaks on certain clocking devices and our smart-phone app.
Chronicle supports Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Overtime rules, we even do Clawback calculations and Flexi time overtime rules. What we recommend if write up your rules and share with our consultant who can help clarify how we would accommodate these calculations.
Designed to manage 100’s – 1,000’s of employees, Chronicle supports as many sites and different rules for Holiday, Shifts, and Overtime as your business need.
Yes, this is very common. A lot of companies have office staff clock on one technology and production warehouse staff clock using another. I.e. office using a fob/card and factory using biometrics.
An unlimited amount of employees can clock in and out on Chronicle.
Chronicle takes cyber security very seriously and spends significant resources every year in training our staff and strengthening our technology. Chronicle uses Microsoft Azure to host data, this is a very robust and reliable server in the cloud. All staff are Cyber Security and Information Security trained by Defence.com. Our product Chronicle Online has been penetration tested by Bulletproof, a third-party penetration testing company. Chronicle has a named Data Protection Officer, we are registered with the ICO. All Chronicle Staff have been trained in how to handle client data and have signed NDA’s and privacy contracts. Annually we also maintain a Cyber Essentials certification along with Safe Contractor certification and conduct regular Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA’s) as we introduce new technology.
