Employees

Find an employee by external ID

Look up an employee by their external_id (sent in the JSON body), the integration key that maps them to a record in a third-party system (ERP/CRM/HR). Distinct from the fiscal tax_id. Returns the matching employee or 404 if no employee uses that external_id within your company.

post/companies/{company}/employees/find-by-external-id

Request

Base URL: https://api.factuarea.com/v1
URL: https://api.factuarea.com/v1/companies/{company}/employees/find-by-external-id
Auth: one of:
- HTTP bearer
- API key in header X-API-Key

Path parameters

companystring uuid required

Public identifier (UUID v7) of the company. Get it from GET /v1/me (data.scope[].id).

Headers

Factuarea-Versionstring date

Example:2026-06-01

Pin the API version (YYYY-MM-DD, Stripe-style date versioning) for this request; omit to use the key's pinned version, or the latest if none. Unsupported version → 400 unsupported_api_version; malformed → 400 parameter_invalid_format. The effective version is echoed in the Factuarea-Version response header. See the Versioning guide.

Request body

external_idstring required

Response

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "id": "01933a1f-8c21-7b3d-9e4f-1a2b3c4d5e01",
    "object": "employee",
    "first_name": "Lucía",
    "last_name": "Fernández Ruiz",
    "email": "lucia.fernandez@empresa.com",
    "tax_id": "12345678Z",
    "job_title": "Desarrolladora backend",
    "employment_type": "full_time",
    "contract_hours": 40,
    "hire_date": "2024-09-02",
    "ccaa": "MD",
    "status": "active",
    "external_id": "EMP-1042",
    "metadata": {
      "erp_code": "IVA-GEN",
      "ledger_account": "477000"
    },
    "user_id": "01933a1f-8c21-7b3d-9e4f-1a2b3c4d5e02",
    "created_at": "2024-09-02T08:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-05-04T09:03:01Z"
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.