Validate time-off request | Deel

curl -X POST https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/time_offs/validate \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
  "data": {
    "end_date": "2025-05-15",
    "start_date": "2025-05-13",
    "recipient_profile_id": "ec3aeb49-0fed-41d0-87c6-86ec22b750b3",
    "dates": [
      {
        "date": "2025-05-13",
        "day_type": "FULL_DAY"
      },
      {
        "date": "2025-05-14",
        "day_type": "HALF_DAY"
      },
      {
        "date": "2025-05-15",
        "day_type": "HALF_DAY"
      }
    ],
    "is_paid": true,
    "description": "No description",
    "time_off_type_id": "a2c4a920-e186-4a17-8397-e5706eaf4ee4"
  }
}'

{
  "data": {
    "is_valid": true,
    "dates": [
      {
        "date": "2025-05-13",
        "type": "WORKING_DAY",
        "hours": [
          4,
          8
        ],
        "amount": 8,
        "time_off_percentage": 1
      },
      {
        "date": "2025-05-14",
        "type": "WORKING_DAY",
        "hours": [
          4,
          8
        ],
        "amount": 8,
        "time_off_percentage": 1
      },
      {
        "date": "2025-05-15",
        "type": "WORKING_DAY",
        "hours": [
          4,
          8
        ],
        "amount": 8,
        "time_off_percentage": 1
      }
    ],
    "amount": 24,
    "new_end_date": "2025-05-15",
    "new_start_date": "2025-05-13",
    "remaining_balance": -8.333333333333334,
    "require_attachment": false,
    "require_description": false,
    "country_specific_validation_results": [
      {
        "validation_type": "BRAZIL_MAX_REQUESTS",
        "data": {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "start_day": 1,
              "end_day": 3
            },
            {
              "start_day": 15,
              "end_day": 19
            }
          ],
          "max_requests": 30
        },
        "is_valid": true,
        "description": "This policy doesn’t allow more than 3 requests to be submitted in a single period"
      }
    ],
    "country_specific_validation_results_next_tracking_period": [
      {
        "validation_type": "BRAZIL_MAX_REQUESTS",
        "data": {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "start_day": 1,
              "end_day": 3
            },
            {
              "start_day": 15,
              "end_day": 19
            }
          ],
          "max_requests": 30
        },
        "is_valid": true,
        "description": "This policy doesn’t allow more than 3 requests to be submitted in a single period"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Validates a time-off request against policy compliance, available balance, blackout dates, and other rules before the request is created. The response includes an is_valid flag, any validation error message, adjusted start and end dates if applicable, balance projections, and country-specific validation results. Token scopes: time-off:read

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

## Authentication The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail. ```curl curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)

AuthorizationBearer

Standard OAuth2 security scheme based on https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/

Request

Time off request data

dataobjectOptional

Time off request data

Response

Time off request validation result

dataobject

Time off request validation result

Errors

400

Bad Request Error

401

Unauthorized Error

403

Forbidden Error

404

Not Found Error

500

Internal Server Error

1	curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \
2	-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'