Validate time-off request

POST

/time_offs/validate

POST

/rest/time_offs/validate

curl -X POST https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/time_offs/validate \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{}'

{
  "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": 1.5,
    "new_end_date": "2025-05-15",
    "custom_fields": [
      {
        "id": "d290f1ee-6c54-4b01-90e6-d701748f0851",
        "key": "reason",
        "name": "Reason",
        "schema": {
          "type": "string",
          "is_nullable": false,
          "enum": [
            "Family emergency",
            "Medical"
          ]
        },
        "field_requirement": "ALWAYS_REQUIRED",
        "requirement_conditions": [
          {
            "operator": "IS",
            "static_items": [
              "Engineering",
              "Product"
            ],
            "static_value": "Engineering",
            "left_field_key": "department",
            "right_field_key": "team"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "is_event_based": false,
    "new_start_date": "2025-05-13",
    "remaining_balance": 10,
    "require_attachment": false,
    "require_description": false,
    "event_details_fields": {
      "birth_date": {
        "type": "date-only",
        "required": true
      },
      "adoption_date": {
        "type": "date-only",
        "required": false
      },
      "was_premature_birth": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "required": true
      },
      "had_multiple_children": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "required": true
      }
    },
    "max_time_off_percentage": 0.5,
    "validation_error_message": "Time off request is invalid. Please check the dates and time off type.",
    "amount_next_tracking_period": 1.5,
    "custom_field_validation_results": [
      {
        "reason": "REQUIRED",
        "message": "This field is required.",
        "key": "reason",
        "field_id": "d290f1ee-6c54-4b01-90e6-d701748f0851"
      }
    ],
    "country_specific_validation_results": [
      {
        "validation_type": "BRAZIL_MAX_REQUESTS",
        "data": {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "start_day": 1,
              "end_day": 3
            }
          ],
          "max_requests": 3
        },
        "is_valid": true,
        "description": "This policy doesn’t allow more than 3 requests to be submitted in a single period"
      }
    ],
    "remaining_balance_next_tracking_period": 10,
    "country_specific_validation_results_next_tracking_period": [
      {
        "validation_type": "BRAZIL_MAX_REQUESTS",
        "data": {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "start_day": 1,
              "end_day": 3
            }
          ],
          "max_requests": 3
        },
        "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. Call this ahead of submitting the actual time-off request to catch validation errors early and avoid a failed creation attempt.

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

Learn more about 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