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Trigger on event
- Listen for a new event
- Parse and validate the payload
- Take an action with the linked tool
Breathe HR
50 tools available
BreatheHR is a simple, cloud-based HR software designed for SMEs to manage employee records, absences, performance reviews, and other HR processes.
Connect Breathe HR to Definable to automate repetitive tasks, sync data with the rest of your stack, trigger on real-world events. Personas call Breathe HR's 50 tools directly from chat or scheduled flows. You can wire it into any persona to read, write, and react when an event fires.
Common workflows with Breathe HR
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Daily summary
- Pull yesterday's activity
- Summarise with the model of your choice
- Send the digest via email or Slack
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Cross-tool sync
- Read records from one app
- Transform with a persona
- Write the result back via this integration
Breathe HR actions 50
Every Breathe HR action below is a callable tool any Definable persona can invoke.
Approve Leave Request
Tool to approve a leave request in BreatheHR. Use when an authorized user needs to approve a pending leave request.
Create Employee
Tool to create a new employee in BreatheHR. Use when you need to add a new employee record with their personal information, contact details, and employment information. Required fields are first_name, last_name, email, and company_join_date.
Create Employee Change Request
Tool to create a change request for an employee field. Use when you need to update employee information such as job title, department, or salary.
Create Employee Expense
Tool to create an employee expense record in BreatheHR. Use when an employee needs to submit a new expense claim for reimbursement or record a company-paid expense.
Create Employee Expense Claim
Tool to create a new expense claim for an employee. Use when you need to submit expenses for reimbursement by grouping one or more unclaimed expense records into a claim.
Create Employee Sickness
Tool to create a sickness record for an employee in BreatheHR. Use when you need to log an employee's sick leave with details like type, dates, and status.
Delete Employee Expense
Tool to delete an employee expense by ID. Use when you need to remove an expense record from the system.
Delete Employee Training Course
Tool to delete an employee training course record by its ID. Use when you need to remove a training record from an employee's profile.
Get Account
Tool to retrieve account information including ID, name, domain, UUID, and RTA usage status. Use when you need to check account details or verify account configuration.
Get Employee
Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific employee by ID. Use when you need comprehensive employee data including personal details, employment information, organizational structure, and compensation.
Get Employee Expense
Tool to retrieve a specific employee expense record by ID. Use when you need detailed information about a particular expense.
Get Leave Request
Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific leave request by ID. Use when you need to check the status, dates, or details of a particular leave/absence request.
Get Leave Request Cancelling
Tool to retrieve the leave request that is being cancelled. Use when you need to find the original leave request associated with a cancellation request.
List Absences
Tool to list all absences with optional filtering by date range, employee, department, and type. Use when you need to retrieve absence records from BreatheHR with pagination support.
List Employee Benefits
Tool to retrieve a list of employee benefits with optional pagination. Use when you need to access benefit information across employees.
List Employee Bonuses
Tool to retrieve employee bonuses from BreatheHR with pagination support. Use when you need to list bonuses across the organization.
List Change Requests
Tool to list change requests from BreatheHR. Use when you need to retrieve change requests with optional pagination.
List Company Documents
Tool to retrieve a paginated list of company documents from BreatheHR. Use when you need to access or view company-wide documents stored in the BreatheHR system.
List Company Projects
Tool to list company projects from BreatheHR. Use when you need to retrieve all projects associated with the company. Supports pagination via page and per_page parameters.
List Company Training Types
Tool to list company training types. Use when you need to retrieve available training type categories. Returns paginated training type records including identifiers, names, and timestamps.
List Department Absences
Tool to list absences for a specific department. Use when you need to retrieve absence records for employees in a department. Supports pagination and filtering of cancelled absences.
List Department Benefits
Tool to list all employee benefits for a specific department. Use when you need to retrieve benefit information including contributions, dates, and provider details for department members.
List Department Bonuses
Tool to list bonuses for a specific department. Use when you need to retrieve bonus information for employees within a department. Returns paginated bonus records including amounts, award dates, and descriptions.
List Department Leave Requests
Tool to list leave requests for a specific department. Use when you need to retrieve absence or time-off requests for employees within a particular department.
List Departments
Tool to list all company departments from BreatheHR. Use when you need to retrieve department information including IDs and names. Returns a paginated list of departments.
List Department Salaries
Tool to list salaries for a specific department. Use when you need to retrieve salary information for employees within a department. Returns paginated salary records including amounts, dates, and basis information.
List Divisions
Tool to retrieve all company divisions. Use when you need to view organizational divisions or departments.
List Employee Absences
Tool to list absences for a specific employee from BreatheHR. Use when you need to retrieve absence records for an employee with optional filtering and pagination.
List Employee Benefits
Tool to list benefits for an employee. Use when you need to retrieve all benefits associated with a specific employee by their ID.
List Employee Bonuses
Tool to list bonuses for a specific employee. Use when you need to retrieve all bonus records associated with an employee.
List Employee Change Requests
Tool to list change requests for a specific employee. Use when you need to retrieve pending or historical change requests associated with an employee.
List Employee Expense Claims
Tool to list employee expense claims from BreatheHR. Use when you need to retrieve expense claims, optionally filtered by employee ID or claim state. Supports pagination for large result sets.
List Employee Expenses
Tool to list employee expenses from BreatheHR. Use when you need to retrieve expense records, optionally filtered by employee or claim status.
List Employee Holiday Years
Tool to get holiday years for an employee. Use when you need to retrieve holiday allowance information for a specific employee, optionally filtered by date.
List Employee Jobs
Tool to list employee jobs with optional employee filtering. Use when you need to retrieve job information for employees. Returns paginated job records including title, employment type, dates, and timestamps.
List Employee Leave Requests
Tool to list leave requests for a specific employee. Use when you need to retrieve leave request history including vacation, sick leave, and other absence requests.
List Employees
Tool to list all employees in the BreatheHR account with pagination support. Use when you need to retrieve employee information from BreatheHR. Supports filtering by role type (HR, line manager) and RotaCloud integration status. Pagination is handled via page and per_page query parameters, with metadata returned in HTTP headers (Link and Total headers).
List Employee Salaries
Tool to list salaries for a specific employee. Use when you need to retrieve salary history or current salary information for an employee.
List Employee Training Courses
Tool to list employee training courses with optional filtering by employee and pagination support. Use when you need to retrieve training course records for employees.
List Holiday Allowances
Tool to list holiday allowances configured for the company. Returns tiered holiday allowances based on years of service (1-10 years). Use when you need to view or retrieve holiday entitlement configurations.
List Leave Requests
Tool to list all leave requests with optional date and employee/department filtering. Use when you need to retrieve absence or time-off requests across the organization, optionally filtered by date range, employee, or department.
List Locations
Tool to list all company locations from BreatheHR. Use when you need to retrieve location information including IDs and names. Returns a paginated list of locations.
List Other Leave Reasons
Tool to list other leave reasons configured for the company in BreatheHR. Use when you need to retrieve available custom leave types beyond standard leave.
List Salaries
Tool to list employee salaries with pagination support. Use when you need to retrieve salary information across the organization. Returns paginated salary records including amounts, dates, and basis information.
List Sicknesses
Tool to list all sickness records from BreatheHR with optional date filtering. Use when you need to retrieve sickness absence records with support for filtering by employee, department, date range, and RotaCloud integration status.
List Working Patterns
Tool to list all working patterns defined in the BreatheHR account with pagination support. Use when you need to retrieve working pattern information including weekly schedules, hours per day, and default patterns. Returns complete details for each pattern including day-by-day breakdowns.
Reject Leave Request
Tool to reject a leave request in BreatheHR. Use when an authorized user needs to decline an employee's time-off request with a provided reason.
Update Employee Expense Claim
Tool to approve or reject an employee expense claim. Use when you need to update the approval status of an expense claim by providing the claim ID and approver/rejector ID.
Update employee training course
Tool to update an existing employee training course record in BreatheHR. Use when you need to modify training details such as status, dates, notes, outcome, or other training attributes.
Update Sickness
Tool to update an existing sickness record in BreatheHR. Use when you need to modify sickness details such as status, dates, review notes, or other sickness attributes.
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Frequently asked questions
What can I automate with Breathe HR on Definable?
Anything Breathe HR exposes through its API. Common human resources workflows on Definable include automate repetitive tasks, sync data with the rest of your stack, trigger on real-world events. Personas can call any of the 50 Breathe HR tools directly, then chain the result into another integration without you writing code.
How does Breathe HR authentication work?
Breathe HR uses API_KEY on Definable. You connect once from the integrations page, scoped to the permissions you choose, and from then on any persona that has the integration enabled can act on your behalf. Tokens are encrypted at rest and rotated automatically.
Is the Breathe HR integration included in my Definable plan?
Yes — every Definable plan, including Starter, includes access to all 50 Breathe HR tools. You only need a separate Breathe HR subscription if Breathe HR itself charges per seat or per API call.
Is using Breathe HR through Definable secure?
Every call from a persona to Breathe HR is logged with the user, persona, prompt, and response. Tokens never leave Definable's secrets vault, scopes are configurable per persona, and you can revoke access at any time from the integration page.
How do I get started with Breathe HR on Definable?
Sign up for Definable, open the integrations page, find Breathe HR, and connect via OAuth or API key. You can immediately attach Breathe HR to any persona and start running workflows. The free Starter plan includes 5,000 credits/month.
What Breathe HR actions does Definable expose?
Definable exposes all 50 Breathe HR actions as callable tools — including `Approve Leave Request`, `Create Employee`, `Create Employee Change Request`, plus 47 more. Each tool gets a typed parameter schema so personas know exactly how to call it.
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