Configure Personio Attendance and Absence webhook events for a shift-planning integration
domain: hr-payroll · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Under Settings > Integrations > Webhooks, create a webhook and subscribe to the events you need: Attendance-period.created/updated/deleted and Absence-period.created/deleted
Use Absence-period.updated.timerange specifically to catch date-range changes - Personio intentionally does not fire a webhook for every approval or certificate-upload change
Ensure the credential used has the Webhooks Read/Write scope, which is separate from the Employee/Attendance/Absence scopes
On receipt, treat Personio as the source of truth for absences and re-fetch the record via the API rather than trusting the payload alone
Build idempotent handling, since Personio's retry policy resends failed deliveries
Known gotchas
Personio webhooks retry only 3 times within 30-60 seconds of the first attempt - a brief outage can cause a dropped event with no further retries
Personio does not support redirects on the webhook URL
Absence webhooks intentionally suppress high-volume events like every approval step - only timerange changes are notified
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