Post v1workerscontractor — warp-api

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Workers

Create a new contractor. The worker will be created in draft status and must be invited separately via the invite endpoint. For business contractors, the businessName field is required.

post/v1/workers/contractor

Request body

entityType'individual' | 'business' required

Whether the contractor is an individual person or a business entity.

firstNamestring required

a string with no leading or trailing whitespace

lastNamestring required

a string with no leading or trailing whitespace

positionstring required

a string with no leading or trailing whitespace

businessNamestring

a string with no leading or trailing whitespace

scopeOfWorkstring nullable

A description of the work the contractor will perform.

startDatestring required

A date string in the form YYYY-MM-DD

emailstring required

Personal email address. The invite will be sent here.

workEmailstring nullable

An email with a reasonably valid regex (shamelessly taken from zod)

departmentIdstring required

The department to assign this contractor to.

managerIdstring required

The worker id of this contractor's direct manager.

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The contractor's pay schedule. Must be a pay schedule that the company has configured.

Example request

{
  "scopeOfWork": "Frontend development for the customer dashboard",
  "startDate": "2000-01-01",
  "email": "john@joinwarp.com",
  "workEmail": "john@joinwarp.com",
  "departmentId": "dpt_1234",
  "managerId": "wrk_1234"
}

Response

Success

idstring required

The id of the worker.

positionstring required

type'employee' | 'contractor' required

startDatestring required

A date string in the form YYYY-MM-DD

endDatestring nullable required

A date string in the form YYYY-MM-DD

isBusinessboolean nullable required

businessNamestring nullable required

firstNamestring required

lastNamestring required

emailstring required

An email with a reasonably valid regex (shamelessly taken from zod)

workEmailstring nullable required

An email with a reasonably valid regex (shamelessly taken from zod)

preferredNamestring nullable required

displayNamestring required

The "ui" name of a worker. If it's a business contractor business name is used. Otherwise we default to preferred name, then first-last.

timeZonestring nullable required

The IANA timezone of the worker (e.g., America/New_York).

Example response

{
  "id": "wrk_1234",
  "position": "Research Engineer",
  "startDate": "2000-01-01",
  "endDate": "2000-01-01",
  "firstName": "Jonathan",
  "lastName": "Galt",
  "email": "john@joinwarp.com",
  "workEmail": "john@joinwarp.com",
  "preferredName": "John",
  "displayName": "Jack Galt",
  "timeZone": "America/New_York",
  "department": {
    "id": "dpt_1234",
    "name": "Engineering"
  }
}