Overview
To authenticate BambooHR using an API Key, you will need to provide the following information:
Subdomain
API key
This guide will walk you through finding or creating those credentials within BambooHR.
Prerequisites
Please ensure you fulfill all the requirements to set up the integration:
You have Full-Admin access in your company's BambooHR instance, or someone has shared their access with you
OR
You have a Custom Access Level with sufficient access
If your use case is basic user provisioning, please see this article on enabling sufficient access
In general:
You should set your Access Level to view "All Employees", otherwise the data synced will be missing employee records
You should allow View Access to information you want to be synced
You should allow View Access to view your section to ensure your record is also synced
You can find your access level in BambooHR by going to Settings > Access Levels
Instructions
Step 1: Add your BambooHR subdomain to the linking flow
For example, if you sign in at "acme.bamboohr.com", add acme
Do not enter the full "acme.bamboohr.com"
Step 2: Find your BambooHR API key
Click on your name in the upper right-hand corner and in the user context menu click on API Keys
Click Add New Key in the upper left corner
Input an API Key Name, and then click Generate Key
Copy the API key that appears, and add it to the linking flow
