Integration · HR and recruiting
AI agents for Zoho People
Find and read employees and other Zoho People form records, add records, look up an employee's leave types and balances, apply for leave, and check employees in or out and read their attendance.
- Actions
- 7
- Read
- 4
- Write
- 3
Actions
What your agents can do in Zoho People
Find and read employees and other Zoho People form records, add records, look up an employee's leave types and balances, apply for leave, and check employees in or out and read their attendance, in the data center where the Zoho account lives.
Read 4
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Find employees or records
Lists records of a Zoho People form, employees by default (others like leave or department by their form link name), optionally only those where a field matches.
Get an employee or record
Reads one record of a form by its record ID (the key in Find employees or records, or Zoho_ID): every field, with lookups, addresses and tabular sections like work experience.
List an employee's leave types
Lists the leave types an employee can take, with each one's Id (what Apply for leave takes), Name, Unit (Days or Hours), PermittedCount, AvailedCount and BalanceCount.
Get attendance for a day
Reads an employee's attendance for one day (the signed-in person if no one is named; a manager can read their reports).
Write 3
Create, change or send.
Add a record
Adds a record to a Zoho People form (by its link name), with values keyed by field label name, like {"FirstName".
Apply for leave
Applies for whole days of leave for an employee: their record ID, a leave type ID from List an employee's leave types, and the first and last day in the organization's date format (like 07-Jan-2026).
Check an employee in or out
Records an attendance check-in or check-out for an employee (by employee ID or email address) at a time given as dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss, optionally with a location name.
A person can approve first
Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Sign in with Zoho and approve access (OAuth).
Settings
- Data center
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Zoho People data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can find employees or records, get an employee or record or list an employee's leave types in Zoho People, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update Zoho People
Have the agent add a record in Zoho People as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.
- 03
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Zoho People and Slack: it can find employees or records in Zoho People and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
Works well with
More HR and recruiting tools
- BambooHR5 actionsLook people up in the BambooHR employee directory, read an employee's work details, see who is out, and list or request time off.
- Personio15 actionsFind people and their employments in Personio, list and record absences and read absence balances, and read recruiting jobs, candidates and applications, with the company's API credentials.
- HiBob12 actionsFind employees in Bob and read their work profile, see who is out, read time-off requests, changes and balances, and request or cancel time off, with an API service user.
- Workday10 actionsFind workers in Workday and read their profile, direct reports and team, read time off, balances and the absence types a worker may request, request time off, list job postings, and run Workday Query Language.
- Greenhouse6 actionsFind jobs, candidates and applications, add notes to candidates, and add candidates or prospects in Greenhouse Recruiting, through the Harvest v3 API.
- Lever5 actionsFind and read candidates' opportunities and job postings, add notes, and add candidates to Lever, with an API key.
FAQ
Zoho People and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Zoho People?
Yes. The Zoho People connector has 7 actions: 4 read and 3 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Zoho People?
Sign in with Zoho and approve access (OAuth). The connection also asks for: Data center. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Zoho People without asking?
Only if you let it. Each of the 3 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs.
Can I use Zoho People in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Zoho People action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Zoho People to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.