Create a new light legal entity | Deel

Creates a minimal, standalone light legal entity from name, address, and point of contact email — reserved for whitelabel partner API integrations. Unlike the full legal entity creation endpoint, this requires no additional fields and triggers none of the invoicing/team/compliance/IRS side effects that fire for fully-onboarded entities.

Token scopes: legal-entity.light:write

Creates a minimal, standalone `light` legal entity from name, address, and point of contact email — reserved for whitelabel partner API integrations. Unlike the full legal entity creation endpoint, this requires no additional fields and triggers none of the invoicing/team/compliance/IRS side effects that fire for fully-onboarded entities. **Token scopes**: `legal-entity.light:write`

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Authentication

The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail.

$ curl -X GET 'https://api.deel.training/rest/v2/contracts' \
>   -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'

Learn more about authentication

## Authentication The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail. ```curl curl -X GET 'https://api.deel.training/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)

AuthorizationBearer

Standard OAuth2 security scheme based on https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

dataobjectOptional

Response

Successfully created light legal entity.

dataobjectOptional

Errors

400

Bad Request Error

401

Unauthorized Error

403

Forbidden Error

404

Not Found Error

500

Internal Server Error

$	curl -X POST https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities/light \
>	-H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>	-d '{}'

1	{
2	"data": {
3	"id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-4a5b-8c9d-0e1f2a3b4c5d",
4	"name": "Acme Corporation",
5	"address": {
6	"zip": "12345",
7	"city": "San Francisco",
8	"street": "123 Main St",
9	"country": "US"
10	},
11	"created_at": "2024-01-01T12:00:00Z",
12	"updated_at": "2024-01-02T12:00:00Z",
13	"entity_type": "light"
14	}
15	}

$	curl -X GET 'https://api.deel.training/rest/v2/contracts' \
>	-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'