Deel: Create a new adjustment — request body — body data

API reference · Contract 2026-10-27

SDK schema: Create a new adjustment — request body — body data

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Details of adjustment to create
adjustment_category_id	string	Required within parent	Adjustment category id. Minimum length: 25
amount	Model	Required within parent	Expand Create a new adjustment — request body — body data amount Amount of adjustment.
contract_id	string	Required within parent	The identifier of the contract associated with the adjustment Minimum length: 5
country	string	Optional	Country the expense was incurred in, which is not necessarily the contract country. Conditionally required: for adjustment categories configured to require a country, which is typically an expense category, and for Global Payroll contracts whenever the organization has the compliance check enabled, which applies to any category. Leave the field out entirely when it does not apply - sending it empty is rejected, because the pattern still applies to a value that is present. Maximum length: 2 Minimum length: 2 Pattern: ^[A-Z]{2}$
cycle_reference	string	Optional	Cycle reference of adjustment.
date_of_adjustment	string or null	Optional	Short date in format ISO-8601 (YYYY-MM-DD). For example: 2022-12-31. Format: date
description	string	Required within parent	Description of adjustment. Maximum length: 255 Minimum length: 3
move_next_cycle	boolean or null	Optional	If an adjustments can belong to another payroll cycle.
odp_only	boolean	Optional	EOR contracts only. Restrict the adjustment to on-demand payroll: when true it is never attached to a regular payroll cycle, and it is automatically denied if it is still not part of an on-demand payroll 30 days after creation. Sending it for any other contract type is rejected, because on-demand payroll does not exist there. Editable only through this API, and it forces move_next_cycle to false.
submitter_profile_id	integer or null	Optional	The identifier of the profile that submits the adjustment. Must be a profile authorized on the target contract. When omitted, the adjustment is attributed to the profile resolved from the API token. Minimum: 1
title	string	Required within parent	Title of adjustment. Maximum length: 255 Minimum length: 3
vendor	string	Optional	Vendor of adjustment. Conditionally required: for adjustment categories configured to require a vendor, which is typically an expense category, and for Global Payroll contracts whenever the organization has the compliance check enabled, which applies to any category. Leave the field out entirely when it does not apply - sending it empty is rejected, because the length constraint still applies to a value that is present. Minimum length: 3

Referenced models: Create a new adjustment — request body — body data amount