Remote
Bring new starters, changes and leavers from Remote into every system that needs them, with HR approving each change.
32 ways to read, 6 ways to write, each write switched on by you.
Quality checks
Built and tested with example responses.
- Ready to connect: doneEvery listed action is built in.
- Built and tested with example responses: doneEach action is built from the provider’s published API and tested against example responses, errors, rate limits and paging.
Connected, approved, proven.
The things teams do most with Remote, an example flow with a person in the loop, and what Nexra keeps as proof.
Top actions
- Create custom fieldApproval by rule
- Create departmentApproval by rule
- List leave balancesRead
Example flow
- Remote · List leave balancesDone
- Remote · Create custom fieldNeeds approval
- Nexra · Record the decision and result in the evidence chainProven
Example workflow. Routine runs go through on their own. Only a change your rules flag, such as one over a limit you set, waits for the right person, who sees the exact change and the rule before it reaches Remote.
What gets logged
- Whether it ran on its own or who approved it, and under which rule
- A fingerprint of the exact request sent to Remote
- Remote's reply: what it created or changed
- One entry in the evidence chain, linked to the one before
Try this in the sandbox
Run the whole flow with test data in your sandbox, then connect a Remote Technology, Inc. test account before you go live.
For developers
Technical detail
Read, find and update Remote employments; read and record time off; read expenses, timesheets, cost centers, org structure, leave policies, holidays, payroll calendars and directory users.
Remote Technology, Inc. API docs- Source actions
- 32
- Destination actions
- 6
- Data types
- 22
What you can map
Reads are always available. Writes are off until you switch them on for a connection, and governed writes follow your policies.
Company managers2
- Get company managerSource
One company admin or manager with role.
- List company managersSource
Admins and managers of the company.
Company structure nodes1
- List company structure nodesSource
Org-structure nodes (cost centers, supervisory orgs and others) of an employment.
Cost center allocations1
- List cost center allocationsSource
Cost center splits of every employment in the company.
Countries1
- List countriesSource
Countries Remote supports, with EOR onboarding availability.
Custom field values3
- Get employment custom field valueSource
One custom field value of an employment.
- List employment custom field valuesSource
Typed custom field values for one employment.
- Set employment custom field valueDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Sets a custom field value on an employment.
Custom fields2
- Create custom fieldDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Creates an employment custom field definition.
- List custom fieldsSource
Employment custom field definitions with type.
Departments2
- Create departmentDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Creates a company department.
- List departmentsSource
Company departments.
Employment cost centers1
- List employment cost centersSource
Cost center allocations of one employment.
Employment jobs1
- Get employment jobSource
Job architecture of an employment: job family, level, career track and code.
Employments4
- Get employmentSource
One employment with manager, dates and company.
- List employmentsSource
Employees and contractors with status, job title, department and country.
- Find employmentSource
Finds employments by short ID or partner external ID, or by login email matched inside Nexra (the email is never sent in the URL).
- Update employmentDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Updates work email, manager, department or external IDs.
Expense categories1
- List expense categoriesSource
Selectable expense categories for an employment or a country.
Expenses2
- Get expenseSource
One expense by ID.
- List expensesSource
Expenses with amounts in cents, status, category and review.
Holidays1
- List public holidaysSource
Public holidays of a country (optionally a subdivision) for a year.
Leave balances1
- List leave balancesSource
Leave policy summary for one employment: entitlement, booked, taken and balance.
Leave policies1
- List leave policiesSource
Leave policies (standard and custom) that apply to one employment.
Offboardings2
- Get offboardingSource
One offboarding request by ID.
- List offboardingsSource
Resignations and terminations (confidential details excluded).
Payroll calendars1
- List payroll calendarsSource
Per-country payroll cycle dates and cut-offs for a month (no amounts).
Scim groups2
- Get directory groupSource
One SCIM group by ID.
- List directory groupsSource
Departments in SCIM 2.0 form with member user IDs.
Scim users2
- Get directory userSource
One SCIM user by ID.
- List directory usersSource
Company users in SCIM 2.0 form with department, employee number and manager.
Timeoff types1
- List time-off typesSource
Time-off types available to employees or contractors.
Timeoffs4
- Record approved time offDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Records time off that was already approved, with per-day hours.
- Get time offSource
One time-off record by ID.
- List time offSource
Time off with type, status, days and approval.
- Update time offDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Changes the dates, days or notes of a time-off record, with an edit reason.
Timesheets2
- Get timesheetSource
One timesheet with time trackings.
- List timesheetsSource
Timesheets with hour totals by category.
Access and limits
- Authentication
- Remote customer API token
- Plans and access
- Remote customers with API access; API tokens are created by company admins. A customer API token acts as the admin who created it. Employment changes are limited by employment status (see limitations).
- Test environment
- Remote's sandbox at gateway.remote-sandbox.com uses ra_test_ tokens and is fully isolated.
- Rate limits
- 300 requests per minute per company; HTTP 429 with x-ratelimit-reset.
- Pagination
- page and page_size (max 100) with current_page and total_pages.
- Provider events
- Remote webhook callbacks for employment, onboarding, offboarding and contractor invoice events, signed with a per-callback key. Flows can start the moment something happens: when an employee's onboarding starts; when an employee finishes onboarding; when an employment's status changes; when an employment's details change.
Before you build a flow
- Expense creation is excluded: Remote records created expenses as approved and reimburses them through payroll, which is a payout.
- Employment updates send only work email, manager, department and external IDs. Remote allows work email for invited employees, manager and work email for active employees, and external IDs in any status; contract changes need a contract amendment.
- Time off created through the API is recorded as already approved (Remote's API only creates approved time off); it requires an approver and approval time.
- Timesheets, offboardings, countries, time-off types, leave policies, holidays, cost centers and payroll calendars are read only. Approvals, declines, cancellations, send-backs and offboarding requests are not automated.
- Time-off updates require an edit reason and never send a status, so they cannot approve or cancel leave.
- Excluded by policy: employment creation and invitations, onboarding steps, contract amendments, offboarding and termination requests, company-manager creation and role changes (invitations and privilege changes), expense creation and review (reimbursement payouts), incentives, pay items, payroll runs, payslips, billing documents, contractor invoices, benefit offers, bank, tax, personal, address, emergency-contact and identity-verification data, work-authorization and travel-letter requests, documents and files, and every delete.
- The existing List employments operation keeps its Login email filter, which Remote receives as a query parameter. New flows should use Find employment, which never sends the email in the URL.
- Directory users and groups use Remote's SCIM 2.0 endpoints with startIndex and count paging; SCIM filter expressions are not exposed.
- Remote has no updated-since filter for employments, time off or expenses; flows read full lists.
- Remote has no idempotency key; uncertain creates are not repeated automatically.
- Bank details, personal details and emergency contacts are not mapped.
Developer reference
- Create the Remote Technology, Inc. credentials described above with the narrowest permissions your flows need.
- In Nexra, open Connect, then Connections, then New connection, choose Remote, enter its settings and credentials, and tick only the write actions you need. Connection guide
- Test the connection, then use its actions as flow sources and destinations. Flow guide
Machine-readable detail: GET /api/public/connect/connectors/remote and the Connections API.