Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi MCP Server

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Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 26 tools. Last commit 1 Nov 2026.

Read Employment Hero Payroll pay runs, payslips, timesheets and leave; approve or decline leave.

Uptime history 11 days of history · worst day 99%

11 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

186 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 1 Nov 2026

What changed 19

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 22 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

31 Oct a tool changed version4 times that day

30 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

29 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

28 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

25 Oct a tool changed version4 times that day

24 Oct a tool changed version3 times that day

23 Oct a tool changed version

22 Oct a tool changed version

and 11 more, back to 22 October 2026

Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add keypay --transport http https://keypay.usefulapi.io/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://keypay.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.keypay]
url = "https://keypay.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "keypay": {
      "url": "https://keypay.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "keypay": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://keypay.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 26

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

keypay

keypay_approve_leave_request

WRITE: approves a pending leave request (the employee is notified and the leave is applied to their pay). Check the request first with keypay_get_leave_request. Cannot be undone through this server. POST /business/{businessId}/employee/{employeeId}/leaverequest/{leaveRequestId}/approve.

keypay_decline_leave_request

WRITE: declines a leave request, with an optional reason the employee sees. Check the request first with keypay_get_leave_request. POST /business/{businessId}/employee/{employeeId}/leaverequest/{leaveRequestId}/decline.

keypay_get_business

One business by id: name, legal name, contact, address, ABN/company details, leave year, standard hours, pay cycle. GET /business/{businessId}.

keypay_get_employee

One employee's full record: name, contact, employment type, status, start/end date, pay schedule, primary location and pay category, rate and rate unit, hours per week, award, leave template, work types, tags. Tax file / national insurance / IRD / NRIC numbers, bank accounts and super member numbers are removed. GET /business/{businessId}/employee/unstructured/{employeeId}.

keypay_get_leave_balances

An employee's leave balances per leave category (accrued amount and unit), optionally as at a date. GET /business/{businessId}/employee/{employeeId}/leavebalances.

keypay_get_leave_request

One leave request: employee, category, dates, hours, status, notes. GET /business/{businessId}/employee/{employeeId}/leaverequest/{leaveRequestId}.

keypay_get_pay_run

One pay run by id: pay schedule, period, date paid, whether it is finalised, notation. GET /business/{businessId}/payrun/{payRunId}.

keypay_get_pay_run_payslips

Pay slip data for every employee in a pay run, keyed by employee: earnings lines, deductions, tax, super, leave taken and accrued, gross/net and year-to-date totals. Large for big pay runs. Bank account numbers and tax/identity numbers are removed. GET /business/{businessId}/payrun/{payRunId}/payslips.

keypay_get_pay_run_summary

One pay run with its total hours, gross wages and net wages. GET /business/{businessId}/payrun/{payRunId}/summary.

keypay_get_pay_run_totals

Per-employee totals of a pay run (gross, net, tax withheld, super and the like; the fields depend on the region). Bank payment details are removed. GET /business/{businessId}/payrun/{payRunId}/totals.

keypay_get_timesheet

One timesheet line by id. GET /business/{businessId}/timesheet/{timesheetLineId}.

keypay_get_user

The Employment Hero Payroll user this API key belongs to: id, email, display name and time zone. GET /user.

keypay_list_businesses

List the payroll businesses this user can access: id, name, region, legal name, contact details, pay cycle, number of employees. Start here: most other tools need a business id. GET /business (OData).

keypay_list_employees

List the business's employees with basic details: id, name, preferred name, gender, date of birth, contact details, address, start and end date, external id. Tax file, bank and super details are not part of this list. Filter with OData, e.g. "Surname eq 'Smith'". GET /business/{businessId}/employee/details (OData).

keypay_list_leave_categories

Leave categories of the business (annual, personal/sick, long service...): id, name, unit type, accrual rule. GET /business/{businessId}/leavecategory (OData).

keypay_list_leave_requests

List the business's leave requests: employee, leave category, from/to date, total hours, status (Approved, Pending, Rejected, Cancelled), notes. Filter by status, dates, category, location or employee. GET /business/{businessId}/leaverequest.

keypay_list_locations

Locations of the business (sites, departments): id, name, parent, fully qualified name, state. GET /business/{businessId}/location (OData).

keypay_list_pay_categories

Pay categories (earnings types) of the business: id, name, rate unit, loadings, super rate, whether leave accrues. GET /business/{businessId}/paycategory (OData).

keypay_list_pay_run_summaries

Pay runs with their totals: total hours, gross wages and net wages, plus the usual pay run fields. GET /business/{businessId}/payrun/summary (OData).

keypay_list_pay_run_warnings

Warnings on a pay run (for example an employee paid below their award rate or with a negative net pay): type, employee and message. GET /business/{businessId}/payrun/{payRunId}/warnings.

keypay_list_pay_runs

List the business's pay runs: id, pay schedule, pay period start/end, date paid, finalised flag, payslips published, notation. Newest first with orderby "PayPeriodEnding desc". GET /business/{businessId}/payrun (OData).

keypay_list_pay_schedules

Pay schedules of the business: id, name, frequency, last date paid, last pay run. Bank and tax account details are removed. GET /business/{businessId}/payschedule (OData).

keypay_list_timesheets

List the business's timesheet lines: employee, start/end time, units, work type, location, status, comments, breaks. Filter by employee or date with OData, e.g. "EmployeeId eq 123 and StartTime gt datetime'2026-04-01T00:00:00'". GET /business/{businessId}/timesheet (OData: $filter, $orderby, $top, $skip).

keypay_list_work_types

Work types of the business: id, name, pay category, leave category, short code. GET /business/{businessId}/worktype (OData).

keypay_report_gross_to_net

Gross-to-net report per employee: earnings by pay category, tax, deductions, super, net pay. Choose a date range (from_date + to_date) or one finalised pay run (pay_run_id). The report has no paging: at most 200 rows are returned (narrow with employee_id or location_id). GET /business/{businessId}/report/grosstonet.

keypay_report_leave_balances

Leave balances of all employees as at a date, per leave category. The report has no paging: at most 200 rows are returned (narrow with location_id or leave_category_id). For one employee use keypay_get_leave_balances. GET /business/{businessId}/report/leavebalances.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://keypay.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	318 ms	5 min ago

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Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 26 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: keypay_approve_leave_request, keypay_decline_leave_request, keypay_get_business, keypay_get_employee, keypay_get_leave_balances, keypay_get_leave_request and 20 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 186 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 26 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 186 ms on average, which is faster than 74% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Employment Hero Payroll MCP by usefulapi open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at keypay.usefulapi.io, which runs on its operator's own terms.