Custom L1NDA integration
Appfront builds custom integrations that connect L1NDA with your payroll administration, HR system, point-of-sale system or in-house application. Using the L1NDA API and webhooks, we synchronise rosters, hours worked, availability and leave automatically and reliably. You avoid double data entry, reduce the risk of errors in payroll, and keep your planning and administration continuously aligned.
What is an L1NDA integration?
L1NDA is an all-in-one staff scheduling platform for building, rostering and managing teams. Staff see rota changes directly in the app, submit their availability, request leave and swap shifts with colleagues. Time tracking runs alongside the schedule, so hours worked are recorded automatically. L1NDA is widely used in hospitality, retail, care and the wider flexible workforce sector, where shifts vary from day to day.
In practice, a custom integration means: passing hours worked from L1NDA on to your payroll administration, synchronising rosters and shifts with adjacent systems, keeping availability and leave up to date in both directions, updating employee data from your HR package in L1NDA, and placing till or revenue data alongside staff planning. Changes are passed on in real time via webhooks, so your systems stay continuously aligned.
Appfront connects to the official L1NDA integrations and API and builds to the OWASP ASVS security standard. We tailor the data mapping, synchronisation logic and error handling to your actual rostering process, so the integration grows with your organisation and remains reliable during busy periods.
Rotas and shifts synchronised
Rotas and planned shifts from L1NDA stay automatically aligned with your adjacent systems. Changes, whether an extra shift, a swap or a cancelled shift, are passed on without anyone having to retype anything.
Hours through to payroll
Hours worked recorded in L1NDA's time tracking are passed on to your payroll system in a structured way. Premiums, breaks and periods are included in line with your pay rules, so the payroll run can go ahead without manual re-entry.
Availability and leave in line
Availability and leave requests stay in sync between L1NDA and your HR system. Approved leave appears in the rota straight away and balances remain accurate, so planners aren't scheduling on outdated information.
Our development process for L1NDA integrations
We work to a proven methodology that removes uncertainty early and delivers a stable integration. From an initial analysis of your rostering process, time registration and adjacent systems through to go-live and ongoing management, every step is aimed at an integration your team can understand and rely on.
We map out which data — rosters, hours, availability, leave — needs to flow between L1NDA and your systems, in which direction, at what frequency, and which payroll or scheduling rules apply.
We design the integration architecture, choose the right authentication and data mapping, and define an error handling and retry strategy.
Implementation with automated tests, structured logging and monitoring. You see working builds along the way.
Controlled go-live with data validation and a safety net, followed by ongoing management and further development.
What an L1NDA integration delivers in practice
Every L1NDA integration is set up specifically for your rostering process, time registration and adjacent systems. Below are the features we most often deliver for organisations that use L1NDA as the core of their staff planning.
Custom L1NDA API integration
A direct integration with the L1NDA API, with authentication via API token and a data mapping that matches your locations, departments and job groups. Together we decide which entities (employees, shifts, hours, leave) are exchanged and in which direction.
Synchronising rosters and shifts
Scheduled shifts and roster changes are synchronised with your till, management or in-house system. This lets you view workforce planning alongside revenue or occupancy, and everyone works from the same, up-to-date roster data.
Time recording and payroll export
Hours worked in L1NDA are passed on to your payroll administration periodically or in real time, including surcharges, breaks and cost centres according to your pay rules. Less manual work during the payroll run and fewer corrections afterwards.
Availability and leave
Availability that employees submit in L1NDA and approved leave remain in sync with your HR or absence management system. Balances are correct, planners can immediately see who is available, and duplicate administration disappears.
Payroll and HR export
As well as hours, we also handle employee changes: new contracts, changed roles or leavers. By connecting L1NDA to payroll partners (such as Nmbrs) and your HR system, employee data remains consistent everywhere.
Webhooks and real-time events
With webhooks, your system responds immediately to events in L1NDA: an approved shift, a clocked-in employee, a leave request. This makes the integration event-driven rather than based on periodic batches, with logging and retries for reliability.
Typical use cases in practice
An L1NDA integration looks different in every sector. We see a number of patterns recur, and for each we have a working setup, with attention to the right data mapping, sync direction and pay and scheduling rules.
Hospitality
Restaurants, cafés and hotel chains with shifts that vary from day to day. Rosters and hours worked from L1NDA flow through to payroll processing and are set alongside till revenue, so staff costs per shift become visible. See also our API integrations.
Retail
Shops and retail chains with multiple locations and flexible staffing. We keep employee data from your HR system up to date in L1NDA, while worked hours and availability are managed centrally, including during peak periods and seasonal busy spells. See also our Shiftbase integration.
Healthcare
Care institutions and home care organisations with irregular shifts and strict recording requirements. Rosters, availability and leave stay in sync with HR and absence management, and hours worked flow reliably into payroll processing — with attention to the privacy of personnel data.
Events and flexible staffing
Event agencies, catering companies and temping or flex organisations that schedule large groups of on-call staff. Availability, shifts and worked hours are linked to invoicing and payroll, so the admin stays accurate even with large, changing teams. See also our Factorial integration.
Technology we use
We build L1NDA integrations using the L1NDA API and webhooks, combined with the backend stack that suits you. The exact choice depends on your payroll, HR package and point-of-sale or management systems, so that your own team can manage or further develop the integration.
Why choose Appfront for your L1NDA integration?
Appfront has extensive experience building API integrations for a wide range of organisations in the Netherlands. We always start with a thorough analysis of your existing systems and processes. An integration should not only work technically, but also add practical value to the way you work.
For every integration, we write clear documentation and make sure your own team, or any future supplier, can understand and manage it. No black box, just transparent code and clear agreements on monitoring, alerting and maintenance.
You work with a dedicated point of contact who understands both the technical and the functional side. This keeps communication short, prevents misunderstandings and speeds up decisions when choices need to be made during development.
See also our wider services around API integrations, middleware, custom software and web app development. You can find an overview of all integrations on our integrations page.
- Experience with the L1NDA API, rosters, timesheets and leave
- Specialists in integrations with payroll and HR systems
- Familiar with point-of-sale and management systems in hospitality, retail and healthcare
- Secure by default — token rotation, webhook signature validation, scoped permissions
- Structured error handling and retry mechanisms
- Comprehensive logging and monitoring from day one
- Clear documentation your team can read and manage
- A fixed point of contact, no account managers passed around
- Ongoing maintenance and proactive further development
- A way of working aligned with your existing IT landscape
Security and privacy in L1NDA integrations
Rosters, worked hours, availability and leave are personal data, so an L1NDA integration always processes PII of your employees. Appfront builds to the OWASP ASVS. This includes storing API tokens in secure vaults, webhook signature validation, scoped permissions and regular audits of the data flows between L1NDA and your other systems.
Because this concerns staff data, we apply data minimisation: we exchange only the fields that are strictly necessary for the integration. We document the data flows between L1NDA, your payroll administration and HR system so that your record of processing activities is complete and you can demonstrably comply with the GDPR. Access to the integration is role-based and follows the principle of least privilege.
More on our security approach: information security policy and CVD policy.
- GDPR-compliant data processing and data minimisation
- Encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest
- Role-based access and least-privilege principles
- Audit logs with traceable data flows
- Automatic retries and dead-letter queues
- Monitoring and alerting for anomalies
- Secrets management in line with best practice
- Documentation for your record of processing activities
Frequently asked questions about L1NDA integrations
Answers to the questions we are asked most often about L1NDA integrations.
An L1NDA integration is a technical integration between L1NDA, the workforce scheduling and time registration platform, and another system, such as your payroll system, HR package, point-of-sale or management system, or a custom application. Via the L1NDA API and webhooks, schedules, hours worked, availability and leave are exchanged and synchronised programmatically. An integration can be simple (exporting hours worked once per period to payroll) or extensive (real-time shift sync, availability and leave in both directions, plus dashboards on payroll costs).
An L1NDA integration makes sense once you manage rosters and worked hours in L1NDA but also need that data in other systems — for example, to pass hours on to payroll, to set till revenue alongside staff costs, or to keep employee details from your HR system up to date in L1NDA. For organisations with irregular shifts in hospitality, retail or care, an integration prevents double entry and errors. If you only roster manually and use no other systems, an integration is less essential.
A simple integration, such as periodically exporting worked hours to your payroll administration, can go live within a few weeks. More extensive scenarios involving real-time shift synchronisation, availability and leave in both directions, till revenue integration and webhook-driven workflows usually take longer. After an intake meeting in which we map out your systems and data flows, we give you a realistic estimate.
We work with the L1NDA API and webhooks, combined with the backend stack that suits you — Node.js, Python, PHP, .NET or Go. Authentication runs via an API token. For the link with payroll administration we connect to the API of your payroll partner (such as Nmbrs), and for till or management systems to the relevant interfaces. We set up error handling, retry mechanisms and logging as standard.
The cost depends on the complexity of the data flows, the number of systems to connect, the desired synchronisation frequency and the amount of custom work in the business logic — think of pay rules, allowances or leave balances. Ongoing management, monitoring and support also affect the total investment. We always provide a clear quote after a no-obligation review of your situation.
Yes. Rosters, hours worked and leave data are personal data, so we build to the OWASP ASVS standard: API tokens in secure vaults, webhook signature validation, scoped permissions and strictly separated rights per integration. We process only the data that is necessary (data minimisation) and document the data flows so that your record of processing activities remains complete and you can demonstrably comply with the GDPR.
Yes. Appfront regularly takes over existing integrations, even if they were originally set up by another party. We review the API integration, data mapping, webhook configuration and error handling, document the current setup and propose improvements. From that point on we can handle changes, extensions and monitoring — including timely rotation of API tokens.
L1NDA suits organisations with varying shifts and flexible staffing — hospitality, retail, healthcare, bakeries, events and the wider flex sector. Typical situations include automatically passing hours worked on to payroll, managing availability and leave centrally, setting point-of-sale revenue against staff costs, and keeping employee data from an HR system up to date. For organisations with only fixed office hours and no roster variation, a scheduling tool such as L1NDA is less necessary.
Ready to build your L1NDA integration?
Tell us which data you would like to exchange between L1NDA and your payroll, HR system or point-of-sale system — we are happy to think along about shift sync, hours export, availability and leave. A no-obligation first conversation will give you a clear picture of the possibilities within half an hour.