INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

shiftbase_get_user

One employee by user id or email address, with teams and departments.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://shiftbase.usefulapi.io/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for shiftbase_get_user and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Potential side effects detected · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.shiftbase-mcp]
url = "https://shiftbase.usefulapi.io/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shiftbase-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shiftbase.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: shiftbase-mcp
Remote MCP URL: https://shiftbase.usefulapi.io/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shiftbase-mcp": {
      "url": "https://shiftbase.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "shiftbase-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shiftbase.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "shiftbase-mcp",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://shiftbase.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

shiftbase_get_account — The Shiftbase account this API key belongs to: company, country, time zone, working-day start/end, plan facts.
shiftbase_list_users — List employees (users) with their teams and departments, contact details, employee number, start/end dates and plus-min hours balance.
shiftbase_list_departments — List departments (sites/branches that own teams, shifts and schedules) with address and timesheet/clocking settings.
shiftbase_list_teams — List teams (the rows of the schedule within a department), optionally for one department.
shiftbase_list_locations — List active locations (addresses that group departments).
shiftbase_list_shift_types — List shift types (the templates a scheduled shift uses: name, short name, default start/end time and break), optionally for one department.
shiftbase_list_rosters — List the schedule (rosters = shifts assigned to employees) for a date range of at most 62 days: date, start/end time, break, employee, team, shift type, department, published state, hours and cost.
shiftbase_get_roster — One scheduled shift by its occurrence_id, with the employee, shift type, team and who created/changed it.