Zoho Recruit's API, as we design around it
We took each fact from the vendors' own documentation and listings. The sources list at the foot of this page links each one.
Verified on 28 September 2026.
- Authentication
- Zoho Recruit's API uses OAuth 2.0 with scopes per module, such as ZohoRecruit.modules.candidates.READ, and each data center that hosts Zoho Recruit has its own API domain. Tokens come from Zoho Accounts, the OAuth service of Zoho's shared platform, where an app registers in the Zoho Developer Console. Zoho issues an access token only after a user grants consent, each access token lasts one hour, and a refresh token gets new ones until the user revokes it.
- Webhooks
- A Zoho Recruit workflow rule calls a webhook when a record in a module such as Candidates or Job Openings meets its criteria. A webhook sends up to 10 fields, and custom parameters can carry an auth token. After a failure Zoho Recruit sends one more notification 15 minutes later, then stops for that trigger.
- API limits
- Zoho Recruit counts API credits in a rolling 24-hour window: 5,000 plus 250 per user license on Standard, 10,000 plus 500 per license on Professional, and 15,000 plus 1,000 per license on Enterprise. Each edition also caps concurrent calls per user per app, from 10 on Standard to 20 on Enterprise. Workflow webhooks have their own cap: on Professional, 10,000 calls a day or 100 per user license, whichever is lower.
- Test environment
- Zoho Recruit offers a Sandbox that mirrors the production setup after each refresh, where admins test workflow rules, Blueprints and other settings before deploying them. Records entered in the Sandbox stay there, and emails sent from it do not reach recipients. An admin can add up to 5 developers to the Sandbox without buying licenses.
- Marketplace listing
- Zoho Marketplace. Zoho Marketplace lists extensions for Zoho's products, Zoho Recruit among them, and Zoho reviews each app's code, function, security and content before it lists the app. An app must comply with OWASP, work as its description states and come with documentation that the partner hosts. Zoho states that the review takes around two weeks.
- API styles
- REST