Time Entries

Record a manual retroactive entry

Record a past work span for an employee as a retroactive manual entry.

  • employee_id, started_at, ended_at and reason are required; optional pauses.
  • Outside the employment period: 422 business_rule_violation (clocking_outside_employment_period); nothing is written.
  • Returns 201 with the span's clock_out entry.
post/companies/{company}/time-entries/manual

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.factuarea.com/v1
  • URL: https://api.factuarea.com/v1/companies/{company}/time-entries/manual
  • 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

Idempotency-Keystring
Example:01928f10-7c0e-7c4a-9b7d-2f8a6e3c1d4b

Client-generated opaque key (up to 255 characters; UUID v7 recommended) that makes retries safe: the first response is cached and replayed for repeats without re-executing the mutation. Reusing a key with a different body returns 422 idempotency_key_reused; the values of secret fields (password, secret…) count as part of the body, so retrying with a corrected secret under the same key is a different request, never the replay of the earlier answer. See the Idempotency guide.

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

employee_idstring uuid required

Employee ID (UUID v7) the retroactive workday is recorded for.

started_atstring date-time required

Start of the retroactive workday in ISO 8601.

ended_atstring date-time required

End of the retroactive workday in ISO 8601 (after the start).

reasonstring required

Required reason for the retroactive entry.

Response

Manual time entry recorded. The Location header contains the canonical URL of the new time entry.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "id": "01933a21-ae43-7d5f-9b6c-3c4d5e6f7a01",
    "object": "time_entry",
    "employee_id": "01933a1f-8c21-7b3d-9e4f-1a2b3c4d5e01",
    "entry_type": "clock_in",
    "occurred_at": "2026-05-04T09:03:00Z",
    "recorded_at": "2026-05-04T09:03:01Z",
    "source": "web",
    "created_at": "2026-05-04T09:03:01Z"
  }
}

Changes

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