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POST
/
companies
Create a company
curl --request POST \
  --url https://sandbox.nmbr.co/services/payroll/companies \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "Cutting-Edge Telecom Solutions",
  "pay_day_movement_setting": "inherit"
}
'
import requests

url = "https://sandbox.nmbr.co/services/payroll/companies"

payload = {
"name": "Cutting-Edge Telecom Solutions",
"pay_day_movement_setting": "inherit"
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({name: 'Cutting-Edge Telecom Solutions', pay_day_movement_setting: 'inherit'})
};

fetch('https://sandbox.nmbr.co/services/payroll/companies', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://sandbox.nmbr.co/services/payroll/companies",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'name' => 'Cutting-Edge Telecom Solutions',
'pay_day_movement_setting' => 'inherit'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://sandbox.nmbr.co/services/payroll/companies"

payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"name\": \"Cutting-Edge Telecom Solutions\",\n \"pay_day_movement_setting\": \"inherit\"\n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://sandbox.nmbr.co/services/payroll/companies")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"name\": \"Cutting-Edge Telecom Solutions\",\n \"pay_day_movement_setting\": \"inherit\"\n}")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://sandbox.nmbr.co/services/payroll/companies")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"name\": \"Cutting-Edge Telecom Solutions\",\n \"pay_day_movement_setting\": \"inherit\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "id": "<id>",
  "object": "company",
  "data": {
    "name": "Cutting-Edge Telecom Solutions",
    "pay_day_movement_setting": "inherit",
    "external_ref": null,
    "preferred_locale": null,
    "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z",
    "token": {
      "access_token": "<token>",
      "expires_in": 60,
      "expires_at": "2026-01-01T01:00:00.000000Z"
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "/companies/<id>"
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json
name
string
required

The company's name.

pay_day_movement_setting
enum<string>

The company-level setting for how pay dates are adjusted when they fall on a weekend or bank holiday. Inherited by Business Entities and Pay Schedules whose own setting is inherit.

Available options:
inherit,
next_business_day,
previous_business_day
external_ref
string
Maximum string length: 255
preferred_locale
enum<string>

The locale used for payroll communications sent to Employees and Contractors within this company. If not set, the Partner's locale is used.

Available options:
en,
fr

Response

201 - application/json

Created

id
string
read-only

The unique identifier of the object in Nmbr.

object
string
read-only

The type of the object in Nmbr ("company").

data
Company · object