Company

Meet the Mergies: Paul Spangfort

Paul Spangfort, a Software Engineer at Merge, shares why he decided to join our team, what he likes about Merge, the things that keep him excited about working here, and more!

Company

How data from product integrations can fuel cutting-edge AI features and products (3 real-world examples)

Learn how Assembly, Kraftful, and Telescope leverage data from their integrations to fuel best-in-class AI features in their product!

Company

Meet the Mergies: Kim Chuc

Learn about Kim Chuc's path to partner engineering, what she works on day-to-day, why she loves working at Merge, and more!

Company

Meet the Mergies: Ryan Schwary

Learn about Ryan's day-to-day work at Merge, why she joined our team, what she likes about working here, and more!

Company

Meet the Mergies: Amy Chen

Amy Chen, a Strategic Finance and Business Operations Manager at Merge, shares everything from why she decided to join our team to what she likes most about working here.

Company

Meet the Mergies: Jon Gitlin

Learn why Jon joined Merge, what he works on, and what he likes most about working here.

Company

Collision 2023: developer driven success

Merge Co-Founder, Shensi Ding and Ben Fletcher, partner at Accel sat down at Collision 2023 along with Milin Desai, CEO of Sentry, and Bernadette Nixon, CEO of Algolia for a panel conversation about how to build successful developer focused companies.

Company

A behind the scenes look at Merge

Shensi Ding, Co-Founder and CEO at Merge, and Ben Fletcher, Partner at Accel, discuss Merge, the Unified API market, and how to build a successful startup.

Company

5 questions with a partner engineer | meet Kevin

Our partner engineering team is integral to Merge! And there’s no one better than Kevin Silberblatt to represent them! Learn more about the team behind the magic at Merge!

Company

Announcing Merge’s $55 million Series B

We are excited to announce that Merge has raised a $55 million Series B! Learn more about what what that means for our product, our value to customers, and our team.

Company

5 Questions Your New Job Must Answer: Why I Chose Merge

How did Pritak Patel even end up at Merge? In the competitive landscape of startup recruiting, Merge's Growth and Solutions Engineering Lead walks readers through the five reasons why Merge stood out as the right choice.

Company

Announcing our $15 million Series A and Expanded Partnerships

Merge continues to invest in helping companies with the entire integrations lifecycle while expanding partnerships with top HR, recruiting, and payroll API providers

Company

Announcing Our Help Center

Merge’s Ethan Bevington walks readers through the process of creating our new help center. Have questions you need answered? Start searching at https://help.merge.dev/en/

Company

Announcing Merge’s $4.5M Seed Round and Accounting API

We’re proud to announce Merge raised $4.5 million in a seed round led by NEA, with Managing General Partner Scott Sandell joining Merge’s board of directors.

Company

Why We Started Merge

Merge’s goal is to change how B2B companies think about customer-facing integrations. Our team at Merge has been working extremely hard on our product, and we wanted to take a moment to share Merge’s origin story and why we’re so passionate about this space.

Product

How to overcome the challenges of building and managing product integrations (3 real-world examples)

Learn how Snappy, Travelperk, and Ledgy overcame significant challenges in building and managing their product integrations.

Product

3 ways that Merge enables you to keep your clients’ data safe

These features extend beyond the enterprise-grade security capabilities Merge provides out-of-the-box.

Product

What is Integrations Management

Learn what is Integrations Management and why it's important when thinking about your integration strategy.

Product

Meet Blueprint, our new AI powered tool to build better integrations

Blueprint is an AI-powered tool that analyzes API structures and translates them into standardized data schemas used in Unified APIs.

Product

Unified API evaluation guide

Developers considering a Unified API should consider 9 key capabilities that are essential for building great product integrations.

Product

How Unified APIs work

Unified APIs aggregate data from multiple supported integrations, normalize that data across integrations, manage authentication and authorization, consistently access that data via API, and sync the data continuously.

Product

How to build product integrations

The five most common approaches to building product integrations are Unified APIs, embedded workflow builders, integration marketplaces, ETL and reverse ETL, or building integrations yourself.

Product

Unified API pros and cons

When building customer-facing integrations you'll want to understand the major benefits and drawbacks of Unified APIs.

Product

Powering AI with product integrations

The most successful B2B AI companies source data via software integrations to power their AI products.

Product

5 Tips for Writing Great Error Messages

Learn 5 tips when writing great error messages for your end users that we followed when building our Detailed Error Messages feature.

Product

Read, Write, and Update Custom Objects From Any CRM With One API

Merge Custom Objects enables you to interact with your customer’s unique data models to support deep, CRM-specific use cases

Product

Learn to handle any edge case with Authenticated Passthrough Requests

An Authenticated Passthrough Request is an API call you make to Merge that we pass on to the third-party API of your choosing. In short, anything you can do with direct integration, you can do with Merge. Only with Merge, it’s just a little bit easier.

Product

The Fastest Way to Sync Directory Data

Starting today, you can now offer integrations with Okta SCIM, Azure Active Directory, Google Workspace, OneLogin, and Jumpcloud SCIM through a single Unified API. SCIM-based systems are now part of our HR, Payroll, and Directory Unified API.

Product

Integrations, Fast. Say hello to Magic Link

One shareable URL. Zero front-end code. Merge Magic Link is the fastest way to get your users integrated through Merge.

Product

Meet Unified Writes

Anticipate anything. Push data to third-party platforms with a single build. Experience magic with Merge’s Unified Writes.

Product

Introducing API log search

One search bar. Every request, to and from Merge. Text searchable, and filterable by any aspect of the log.

Product

Introducing Requested Data in Merge Link

Show your users what data you're requesting from them as they onboard through Merge Link. Read on to learn about our latest update to Merge Link, and how you can display requested data in your product’s linking flow.

Product

Power Your CRM Integrations with Merge

Merge has expanded into a fifth category of integrations with the release of our Unified CRM API. Use Merge to power your app's integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, and more.

Product

Time To Build What Matters — Introducing Our Unified Ticketing API

Meet your users where they’re at. Add project management and customer service integrations with a single build. Do more than ever with Merge’s Unified Ticketing API.

Product

Introducing the Ignore Objects Function

Merge customers can now specify what end-user data is stored in Merge’s servers with the ‘ignore’ object request for any HR and payroll or ATS object.

Product

Introducing Model and Field Level Scopes

Merge users are able to control the data Merge syncs at the model and field level with our new Scopes feature.

Product

Fulfilling the Promise of Payroll APIs

A unified payroll API ends integration strategy headaches.

Product

What is a unified API?

A Unified API is a single, aggregated API that provides an abstraction layer that simplifies authentication, data transformation, syntax, and data syncing for multiple APIs of a similar type (e.g. HR or accounting). 

Product

Building Integration-first Products Right Using Adaptive UIs

In this post, Merge co-founder Gil Feig talks about how you can build better integrated products using UIs that are adaptive to the functionality of each platform you integrate with.

Product

Integrations in 3 Methods — Why Merge is API First

Enterprise B2B companies need to integrate and maintain an average of 90+ vendors to ensure customer satisfaction. Developers need to decide the best method to build those integrations: scraping, reverse-engineering internal APIs, or building with official APIs. At Merge, we build our integrations with official APIs because of their speed, scalability, and stability. We build for enterprise customers.

Product

How Top Employee Benefits Providers Use Merge’s New Bank Info and Pay Group Models

Platform team member Ria Garg walks readers through Merge's two new common data models, and some exciting use cases for them

Engineering

How to POST candidates using the BambooHR API in Python

We'll cover every step you need to follow in order to programmatically POST candidates to BambooHR via Python.

Engineering

How to get comments from Jira using JavaScript

Learn how to authenticate with Jira and pull comments from it via JavaScript.

Engineering

How to get projects from Jira using JavaScript

we’ll guide you through the process of setting up authentication for the Jira API and then break down the process of executing a GET request to retrieve projects. Lastly, we'll walk through a single API endpoint that can connect to dozens of third-party ticketing systems. 

Engineering

How to get attachments from Jira using JavaScript

We’ll cover how you can set up authentication for the Jira API and use 'get' requests to retrieve attachments. We’ll then introduce you to a single API endpoint that can help you connect your product with dozens of ticketing systems (including Jira).

Engineering

7 best practices for building and maintaining API integrations

We'll guide you through seven best practices that'll ensure your API integrations are a success, regardless of whether you're building integrations between your internal applications or between your product and clients' applications.

Engineering

How to get attachments from Jira using Python

In a few steps, we'll cover how you can authenticate and get attachments from Jira’s API using Python.

Engineering

How to get projects from Jira using Python

Learn how to authenticate and get projects from the Jira API—via Python—in a few steps.

Engineering

How to get comments from Jira using Python

Learn how to authenticate and get comments from the Jira API—using Python—in a few steps.

Engineering

How to fetch deal pipelines from HubSpot using Python

Learn how to authenticate and fetch Deal Pipelines via the HubSpot API using Python.

Engineering

How to read API documentation

We'll cover everything you need to know to read API docs successfully, from how you can go about reading specific sections to some of the terminology you should understand.

Engineering

How to get tasks from ClickUp using JavaScript

Learn how to authenticate and list tasks from the ClickUp API using JavaScript.

Engineering

Getting tickets from Zendesk using JavaScript

Learn how to authenticate and list tickets via the Zendesk API using JavaScript.

Engineering

What is API rate limiting?

Learn about what API rate limits are, why they exist, and the type of rate limits you might run into.

Engineering

How to use python to get tasks from ClickUp

Learn how to use python to authenticate and list tasks from the ClickUp API.

Engineering

How to use python to get tickets from Zendesk

In this article, we'll walk through how to use python to authenticate and list tickets via the Zendesk API.

Engineering

How to get tickets from Jira using Python

In this tutorial, we'll cover setting up authentication for the Jira API and how to get tickets using Python.

Engineering

How to integrate with the BambooHR API using JavaScript

We'll break down how you can perform API integration in JavaScript by sharing specific examples with BambooHR.

Engineering

How to build API integrations in Python

We'll break down how you can build API integrations with Python by sharing examples with Recruitee.

Engineering

How to get org charts from HR systems

Learn how you can get org charts from BambooHR, BreatheHR, and Humaans into your product via Merge.

Engineering

A guide to the API integration process

Learn each of step integrating with APIs—regardless of whether you're using REST, SOAP, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs.

Engineering

How to create a deal in Pipedrive with a Unified API

Learn how Merge's unified API can help you automate tasks in CRMs, and you'll see how to use it to create a deal in Pipedrive.

Engineering

How to get all candidates with the Ashby API in Python 

Learn how to write a script in Python that lets you retrieve candidates from the Ashby API.

Engineering

How to fetch sales invoices from the Moneybird API using Python 

Learn how to GET sales invoices from the Moneybird API via Python. 

Engineering

How to fetch tasks from Pipedrive using Python

Learn how to authenticate and list tasks from Pipedrive via the Pipedrive API.

Engineering

How to get jobs with a unified API (with an example from BambooHR)

Learn how, exactly, you can use Merge's unified API to easily get jobs from BambooHR.

Engineering

How to fetch candidates from Greenhouse using Python

Learn how to authenticate and list candidates from Greenhouse via the Greenhouse API.

Engineering

How to get employees from any HRIS with Merge

We'll break down each step and use BambooHR as an example.

Engineering

How to get candidate statuses from applicant tracking systems

We'll break down each step of getting candidate statuses from Workable using Merge.

Engineering

How to automate user deprovisioning with Merge's Unified API and Humaans

We'll walk you through every step so that you can automate the user deprovisioning process with ease.

Engineering

How to automate user provisioning with Merge's Unified API and BambooHR

Learn how you can use the Merge Unified API to trigger employee deprovisioning in a task-list application based on their employment status change in BambooHR.

Engineering

How to add candidates to applicant tracking systems

We'll cover every step in adding candidates to an applicant tracking system using Merge.

Engineering

How to GET lists with the Klaviyo API

Learn how to use the Klaviyo API with Python to manage lists, subscribers, and campaigns.

Engineering

Unblock sales in under 30 minutes with Merge + ChatGPT

Learn how you can use ChatGPT to accelerate your backend integration with Merge.

Engineering

How to spin up Redis Cluster in Docker

Learn more about how to spin up a Redis cluster in Docker.

Engineering

How to fetch employees from Paylocity using Python

Learn how to authenticate and list Employees from Paylocity via the Paylocity API and in a standardized format via the Merge Unified API using Python.

Engineering

How to fetch employees from Gusto using Python

Learn how to authenticate and list Employees from Gusto via the Gusto API and in a standardized format via the Merge Unified API using Python.

Engineering

How to fetch users from Okta using Python

Guide on how to authenticate and fetch users from Okta's API with Python.

Engineering

How to fetch users from Okta using JavaScript

Learn how to authenticate and list Users from Okta via the Okta API and in a standardized format via the Merge Unified API using JavaScript.

Engineering

How to fetch employees from Gusto using JavaScript

Learn how to authenticate and list Employees from Gusto via the Gusto API and in a standardized format via the Merge Unified API using JavaScript.

Engineering

How to fetch employees from Rippling using Python

We'll help you retrieve employee data from Rippling's API (using Python) by breaking down every step you need to follow. We'll then introduce you to a solution that not only lets you integrate Rippling with your product but also lets you offer dozens of additional customer-facing HRIS integrations.

Engineering

How to fetch conversations from Intercom using Python

Learn how to authenticate and list Conversations from Intercom via the Intercom API and in a standardized format via the Merge Unified API using Python.

Engineering

How to fetch employees from Factorial using Python

Learn how to authenticate and list Employees from Factorial via the Factorial API and in a standardized format via the Merge Unified API using Python.

Engineering

How to fetch leads from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales using Python

Learn how to authenticate and list Leads from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales via the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales API and in a standardized format via the Merge Unified API.

Engineering

How to fetch opportunities from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales with Python

Learn how to authenticate and list Opportunities from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales via the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales API and in a standardized format via the Merge Unified API.

Engineering

50 years of virtualization shows us what’s coming next

50 Years of Virtualization Shows Us What’s Coming Next

Engineering

How to add a subscriber (and more) with the Mailchimp API

Learn more about how to use the Mailchimp API, including how to create a Mailchimp account, install the necessary packages and libraries to work with the API, obtain an API key, authenticate with the API, create new subscribers, update or delete existing subscribers, and manage your lists and campaigns.

Engineering

How SCIM provisioning works

SCIM is a popular standard for managing directory integrations. This article covers the history of SCIM, why it is popular, and how to understand the basic data models and concepts that comprise the SCIM schema.

Engineering

How to add users with the Okta SCIM API

Learn more about how to set up a basic Okta integration by authenticating with the API and then creating and reading users in a Python application.

Engineering

How to create tasks in Asana via the Asana API in Python

You'll learn how to use the Asana API to create new tasks and fetch all available tasks programmatically using a Python script.

Engineering

How to Set Up an Admin API User in Salesforce and Create Contacts

A step-by-step guide for creating contacts in Salesforce using the Admin API, webhooks, and Python.

Engineering

How to Create Invoices from the QuickBooks Online API in PHP with OAuth2

The tutorial covers how to create a QuickBooks app, connect your software to QuickBooks, handle authentication using Oauth2.0, and create and fetch invoice information programmatically using the QuickBooks API

Engineering

How to Use the Freshdesk API with Python and Webhooks

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Freshdesk API and Python to retrieve and generate tickets on Freshdesk, and how to use a webhook with Freshdesk to get updates of changes.

Engineering

From the Eng Org: How we built Custom Objects for Salesforce and Hubspot (so you don’t have to)

Engineering

How to GET contacts from the HubSpot CRM API in Python

Set up a basic Hubspot integration by handling authentication with the API, getting contacts, and setting up webhooks.

Engineering

How to Retrieve Incidents Using the ServiceNow API in Python

How to get incidents from the ServiceNow API using Python and webhooks

Engineering

How to GET all files from the Dropbox API

How to set up a basic Dropbox integration by authenticating with the API and getting all files with Postman.

Engineering

Create Tickets with the Zendesk API in Python

How to set up a basic Zendesk integration by authenticating with the API and by pulling and GETTING all tickets with Python.

Engineering

How to GET all files from SharePoint REST API with Postman

Engineering

How to Make a GET Request for All Commits from the GitLab API in Python

Step-by-step tutorial on how to set up a basic GitLab integration by authenticating with the API and by getting all commits using Python.

Engineering

Understanding the difference between RPC and REST for web APIs

RPC and REST are common architectural-style used by developers in developing Web APIs. This post explores the benefits of RPC and REST and when it is best to use either of them.

Engineering

Advice on Scaling Engineering Orgs: "Don’t interview like Google, if you’re not building Google"

Product and engineering leaders from Segment and Plaid discuss how to scale development teams, hire effectively, and build a strong technical recruiting brand.

Engineering

How to GET All Issues with the Jira API in Python

Learn how to set up a basic Jira issues integration by authenticating with the API and setting up webhooks.

Engineering

Guide to Webhooks (with Examples from Jira)

System integration is vital for tech companies, especially for the tech team to notify the product team of their progress. This article shows how with webhooks and examples from Jira.

Engineering

How to Build a Zenefits API Integration: Developer Guide

Zenefits is a popular HRIS with features that range from onboarding and exiting, payroll, benefits, and time tracking. As you’re building out your own app’s integration support, providing users an easy way to sync their Zenefits data with your own app can drive more sales. This guide will teach you how!

Engineering

How to GET and create issues with the Jira API (with code snippets!)

Jira is one of the most popular Ticketing and Task Management API platforms we integrate with. In this article, we’ll cover authentication, building a GET request, and building a POST request - in short, everything you’ll need to successfully call the Jira API!

Engineering

Managing Long-Running Tasks with Celery and Kubernetes (or, Keeping Your Sanity During Deploys)

Critical tasks running? Balancing Kubernetes deployments? Feeling... a bit lost on how to balance it all? Merge engineer Lee Wang takes us through the Merge team's solution to the code deployment problem.

Engineering

How to GET invoices in JSON from the Netsuite SOAP API using Python

In this article, you’ll learn how to understand Oracle Netsuite’s documentation, how to configure user permissions to begin an integration, and how to build a sample SOAP envelope with Netsuite’s API in order to GET invoices.

Engineering

Building a SOAP API Integration When You Already Know REST: The Full Walk-Through

Learn how to build a SOAP integration when you already understand REST. We'll use Python and Workday as an example, but you can apply the principles you've learned here anywhere.

Engineering

How to GET employees from the Workday API with Python

Workday, a leading HR and payroll provider, uses a SOAP protocol for structuring their API. Get started on your first direct Workday integration with this article, and learn the nuances of Workday authentication.

Engineering

How to stop getting rate limited by APIs

Merge engineer David Donnelly walks readers through the best practices and approaches for implementing a robust rate limit tracker.

Engineering

OpenAPI tutorial: How to automatically generate tests for OpenAPI generator SDKs

Merge Engineer Lee Wang walks readers through how to automatically generate tests for OpenAPI Generator SDKs

Engineering

Simplifying our linking flow: Prefixes and Suffixes

Today, we’re excited to highlight a new feature we’ve built to improve our linking flow, and make it much more clear for end users what information they need to provide! Prefixes and Suffixes streamline your customer's linking process and reduce your support load! 

Engineering

An interview with Ashby on RPC APIs

In this piece, Shensi Ding (Co-founder at Merge) talks with Ashby engineer Aaron Norby about integrating with RPC APIs. Ashby is a next-generation Applicant Tracking System (ATS), with customers like VanMoof, Deel, Census and Modern Treasury. Merge’s partnership with Ashby is live and available for all users.

Engineering

Announcing Single Tenancy at Merge

Merge is a leading provider of HRIS, Payroll, and Accounting integrations for B2B companies. In this article, we outline the how and the why behind our brand new single tenant offering for enterprise customers.

Insights

HCM integration: here’s everything you need to know 

We’ll cover what HCM integration is, common use cases you can implement, the benefits of implementing these use cases, and more. 

Insights

How to access your API key in Zendesk

We’ll help you kickstart the integration process with Zendesk by walking through every step you need to follow to retrieve your API key.

Insights

7 accounting APIs to integrate with in 2024

We'll help you discern the key differences across popular accounting systems' APIs so that you can build to each platform more easily.

Insights

How to access your API key in Dropbox

We'll cover every step you need to follow to get your API key in Dropbox.

Insights

How to access your API key in Insightly (3 easy steps) 

Learn how, exactly, you can access your API key in Insightly.

Insights

What is a bidirectional sync? Here’s what you should know

To help you suss out the scenarios that best suit bidirectional syncs, we’ll cover common examples. We’ll also break down the benefits of two-way, or bidirectional syncs, to help you gauge whether they address your business needs.

Insights

How to access your API key in Intercom

Learn every step you need to take to procure your unique API key in Intercom.

Insights

A guide to external system integration

We’ll walk through everything you need to know about external system integrations; this includes the use cases they can support, the benefits they provide, and a way to build them.

Insights

‍How to calculate the cost of API integrations

Deciding whether to build API integrations isn't so simple. We’ll help simplify your ROI analysis by sharing a rough estimate of how much these integrations cost and by breaking down the various inputs that may influence your expenses. 

Insights

Top challenges of API pagination for multiple integrations

We’ll explore what API pagination means, the different types of API pagination, and the challenges of supporting pagination across multiple APIs.

Insights

7 file storage APIs you should integrate with

We’ll walk through 7 popular file storage platforms’ APIs and then introduce a solution that can help you build file storage integrations via a single universal API.

Insights

7 benefits of SaaS integration

Learn about the benefits of SaaS integration for both internal and customer-facing use cases.

Insights

How to access your API key in Box (5 steps) 

We'll break down every step you need to follow to retrieve your API key in Box. 

Insights

5 best practices for building software integrations

To help make integration development, maintenance, and management easier on your team, we’ll cover several software integration best practices.

Insights

The top challenges of normalizing multiple API integrations

We’ll cover how data normalization works when integrating multiple APIs as well as the top challenges of performing it in this context.

Insights

5 software integration examples worth implementing

Whether you’re looking to connect your internal software applications or the software your clients use with your product, you likely have a wide range of options to choose from. To help you prioritize them, we’ll cover some of the most impactful software integrations.

Insights

How to access your API key in ClickUp (4 steps)

We'll break down every step you need to follow to retrieve your unique API key. We'll also cover additional key items related to ClickUp's API.

Insights

How to get your ChatGPT API key (4 steps)

We’ll cover each step you need to take to retrieve and use your ChatGPT API key. We'll also provide context on the API's pricing, rate limits, and errors.

Insights

7 best practices for integrating your applications

Our best practices touch on everything from prioritization to documentation to goal-setting to tooling.

Insights

Why integration maintenance (almost) ruined my life

Our CTO and Co-Founder, Gil Feig, shares the challenges he's faced when maintaining his company's integrations.

Insights

Product Profiles: Jason Hatchett, Senior PM at Drata

Learn how Drata's product team is structured, measures their work's ROI, approaches integrations, and more.

Insights

7 application integration examples worth implementing

Discover power application integration examples between your internal systems and between your product and 3rd-party applications.

Insights

A guide to integrating multiple APIs

We'll explain what integrating multiple APIs means, the use cases worth building, the challenges worth anticipating, and the criteria for selecting a 3rd-party tool that can support your efforts.

Insights

11 application integration tools to consider in 2024

We'll break down a variety of options, both for internal and customer-facing integration scenarios, to ensure you can find the best solution for your organization.

Insights

A guide to embedded workflow tools

Learn about common ways to use an embedded workflow tool, the benefits these tools provide, the specific vendors you can choose from, and more.

Insights

What is software integration? Here’s what you need to know

We’ll break down the different ways you can build software integration, the benefits software integration provides, the tools that can meet your software integration needs, and more.

Insights

How to plan any API integration project (4 steps)

We’ll share 4 steps that can help you build a robust plan for any API integration project. And while these steps are geared toward customer-facing integrations, they can also be used for internal integration projects as well. 

Insights

What is automated provisioning? Why it’s important and examples

To help your organization use auto-provisioning effectively, we’ll walk through what it is, its benefits, examples of using it, and some best practices for implementing it in your product.

Insights

A guide to marketing automation integration

We'll cover everything you need to know about integrating your marketing automation tools, from the benefits of doing so to the common use cases worth implementing.

Insights

4 common API integration challenges (based on our research)

Learn about the top challenges that hundreds of product managers and engineers face when building product integrations.

Insights

‍3 scenarios that can break your product integrations

Learn how, exactly, 3rd-party APIs can break your integrations, and discover what you can do to prevent this from happening.

Insights

Product Profiles: Rahm Fehr, Senior Director of PM at Gong

Learn how the product team at Gong is structured, runs sprints, approaches integrations, and more!

Insights

Why the ongoing process of performing integration maintenance is detrimental to your business

Learn about four long-term consequences that come with maintaining your product integrations in-house.

Insights

Why support from 3rd-party APIs often falls short of your wants and needs

Learn about the support API providers offer, the different ways it falls short of your business needs, and how you can avoid relying on it.

Insights

A guide to maintaining your product integrations

“Integration Maintenance'' is the work done by your engineers to fix bugs, edge cases, and unexpected errors caused by varying response bodies from third-party API through the entire lifecycle of your product.

Insights

The top 5 SaaS integration challenges (based on our research)

We uncovered the top challenges that hundreds of engineers and product managers face when building product integrations.

Insights

What is API integration management? Here's what you need to know

Learn what API integration management is, the common issues you might run up against, and the approaches for performing it.

Insights

Webhooks vs REST APIs: when to use one over the other

To help you use webhooks and REST APIs effectively over time, we’ll define each, review their respective advantages and disadvantages, and compare them directly.

Insights

Product Profiles: Carlos Armas, Product Director at TravelPerk

Learn how Carlos' teams run sprints, use retrospectives to improve, build product integrations, and more.

Insights

A guide to API integration middleware

Learn what API integration middleware is, common ways it's leveraged, the categories of solutions you can use, and more.

Insights

REST API integration: use cases, best practices, and tools

Learn everything from how REST API integrations work to the best practices in building them to the tools you should consider using.

Insights

Product Profiles: Noah Sclar, Sr. Product Manager at CUES

Learn how Noah and his team run sprints, measure success, approach product integrations, and more.

Insights

5 data synchronization examples worth implementing

Learn about impactful data syncs between your internal applications as well as between your product and clients' applications.

Insights

3 integration platforms that B2B SaaS companies should consider

We'll break down the different categories of solutions you should consider as well as specific vendors within those categories.

Insights

API integration: here’s everything you need to know

Learn what API integration is, why it's important, common use cases, and more.

Insights

7 benefits of API integration

We'll cover the top benefits to help you determine whether your organization should build API integrations.

Insights

9 API integration examples that can transform your business

We'll cover examples between your product and 3rd-party apps and between the apps your organization uses internally.

Insights

5 benefits of an embedded iPaaS (and where it falls short)

Learn how embedded iPaaS solutions can benefit you orgnanization as well as where they fall short.

Insights

What are 3rd-party integrations? Here’s what you should know

We'll cover everything you need to know about 3rd-party integrations, from the benefits they provide to the solutions you can choose from.

Insights

13 API integration tools to consider using in 2024

We'll breakdown several API integration vendors that are worth considering for internal and customer-facing use cases

Insights

How to run API integration tests

We'll walk you through the process of API integration testing by using real-world examples and a detailed guide.

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The ultimate guide to SaaS integration

We'll cover everything you need to know about SaaS integration, from how it works to different implementation options.

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Point-to-point integration: pros, cons, and alternatives

We'll cover everything you need to know about point-to-point integration.

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Embedded iPaaS: what it is, examples, and pros and cons

We'll cover everything you need to know about embedded iPaaS solutions.

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Polling vs webhooks: when to use one over the other

We'll cover how polling and webhooks work, their respective pros and cons, and when to use one over the other.

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5 ticket APIs worth building to

We'll also break down the specific endpoints you should build to across the five ticketing platforms.

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What is a native integration? A look at its pros and cons

Learn how native integrations works, their benefits and drawbacks, the 3rd-party solutions you can use instead, and more.

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Native vs 3rd-party integrations: how to decide between them

We'll cover the pros and cons of each approach as well as directly compare the two.

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Where to find a free NetSuite integration

Learn about the vendors that do—and don't—provide a free integration with NetSuite.

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A guide to using Lead APIs (with examples from Pipedrive)

Learn how you can sync lead data between your product and CRM solutions.

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CRM API integration: definition, examples, benefits, tools

Learn about common use cases for CRM integration, the benefits of implementing them, and much more.

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ERP API integration: definition, examples, tools, and more

Learn everything you need to know about ERP API integration, from common use cases to different implementation approaches.

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What is unified integration? Here’s what you need to know

Learn what unified integration is, why it's important, and more

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What is an integration marketplace? Here’s what you need to know

We'll define integration marketplaces, highlight how they work with real-world examples, and much more.

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Unified API platform vs integration marketplace as a service

Learn about the pros and cons of each platform to decide if your organization should adopt either.

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API aggregator: what it is, why it’s important, and examples

Learn everything from what API aggregators are to the top benefits they provide to the different vendors you'll come across.

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What are product integrations? Plus how to implement them

Learn what product integrations are, why they're critical, and the 3 approaches for implementing any.

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Unified API vs embedded iPaaS: a look at their key differences

Learn about their respective strengths and weaknesses so that you can decide which is best for your organization.

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SFTP vs. API Integrations: Which is Best?

Learn about their respective strengths and weaknesses to decide on the approach that suits your business.

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5 key benefits of Unified APIs

Discover the top benefits of a Unified API platform to determine whether it's right for your business.

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Guide to document and file storage APIs and integrations

This File Storage API Guide includes the top file storage APIs, key file storage concepts and data schemas, top integration use cases, and tips on how to get started.

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How to get access to quality B2B data for AI

Learn about the importance of data quality and the role of APIs in AI tool development

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Guide to accounting APIs and integrations

This Accounting API Guide includes the top accounting APIs, key accounting concepts and data schemas, top integration use cases, and tips on how to get started.

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Why every startup should be adding integrations in 2023

Integrations are a top priority on software roadmaps this year because they bring enormous business value – read on for examples of how startups have improved their competitiveness using integrations while maintaining focus on their core product objectives.

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Guide to HRIS integrations

This guide provides insights into HR systems, how their data and APIs are structured, and common integration use cases.

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Guide to IT Service Desk APIs

IT service desks such as ServiceNow, Jira, and Freshservice are important integration points for software, security, and monitoring tooling. This guide covers key API concepts, data schemas, and integration use cases.

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Guide to Project Management APIs

Project management APIs from Asana, Clickup, Jira, Monday, and others are popularly used to power integrations. This guide details common API data schemas and use cases.

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How to Productize API Integrations

Software integrations are valuable for users, but does that mean they should cost money? This go-to-market framework helps you decide whether to charge customers for your product integrations.

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Guide to Software Project Management APIs

Project management APIs are frequently used for integrations with other SaaS products. This guide covers the most common APIs, their data schemas, and key integration use cases.

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Guide to Customer Help Desk APIs

Looking to integrate with help desk APIs like Zendesk and Intercom? This guide helps you choose which providers to support, how to choose the right data, and how to power use cases in your product.

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Guide to ATS API integrations

Looking to expand your ATS integration offerings? The landscape of ATS systems (and the APIs they power) is built up of legacy systems, scrappy newcomers, and everything in-between.

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Guide to CRM API Integrations

‍Whether you're just scoping out your first CRM integration, or already have a fully built our Salesforce or HubSpot integration, this guide will synthesize and summarize the often complex landscape of CRMs.

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To Excel, or Not Excel: How to Build the Next FP&A Super App

Across the board, the top 10 FP&A apps differentiate themselves by offering integrations to power robust, customizable dashboards.

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Accounting Concepts: The Developer's Essential Guide

Accounting terms can be confusing, especially when trying to simplify these terms across different accounting providers and APIs. This is a developers' essential guide to understanding accounting terminology.

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Guide to payroll API integrations

Getting paid: it’s more than important to you — it’s a BIG business to everyone else Payroll as a market is growing rapidly and seeing a lot of disruption. Concepts such as embedded payroll allow products to add payroll services without building it themselves. Novel consumer user cases, such as credit checks and lending software, are popping up to utilize rich set of payroll data being made available. B2B software integrations are proliferating as the payroll system expands and innovates. 

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Investing in Integration Management

Integration management - or, the activities, infrastructure, and time that you need to spend around the connections you build - soon begins to eclipse the actual cost of building the integration itself. 

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6 Ways Integrations Drive Business Results

How do companies of all sizes - from boot-strapped teams of three to global enterprises - use product integrations to ultimately increase their bottom line? The answer lies in trusting an integration platform as a service (iPaaS), such as a unified API or embedded workflow builder, to offload the cost of integrations and increase a company’s ability to add integrations quickly.

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9 Ways Your Product Can Use Project Management Integrations

Whether your customers use project management software like Asana, internal ticketing systems like Jira, or customer service platforms like Zendesk - providing deep integrations with project management software can bring your product to the next level.

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Workflow Automation vs. Unified API: What's Best for Your Integrations Strategy?

Product integrations are complex, generally suck and… are completely necessary for your business. Until the past 5 years, however, your only option was to build each and every product integration yourself. But now there are many tools - including unified APIs and workflow automation platforms - that can help with the work. In this article, we’ll break down the three types of product integrations and help you determine which method best suites each approach.

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How to Pull Employee Data from the BambooHR API (with examples)

Learn how to pull Employee data from the Bamboo HR API.

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Why You Need a Unified Accounting API

Regardless of whether your customers are using QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, or any other accounting provider, a unified accounting API (also known as a ‘universal api’) can provide you with more than just a set of accounting API integrations: it can help you smoothly process transactions for all your customers.

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10 Ways Your Product Can Use Ticketing Integrations

Whether your customers use project management software like Asana, internal ticketing systems like Jira, or customer service platforms like Zendesk - providing deep integrations with ticketing software can bring your product to the next level.

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Not All API Companies are the Same

Merge Co-founder Gil Feig talks about the different kinds of API companies and explains how unified and universal API companies have emerged to meet rising demands for connected software systems.

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How Merge Helps Post-Sales Teams Succeed with Integrations

Growth team member and customer success contact extraordinaire Ethan Bevington covers Merge's three pillars of support for post-sales teams.

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The Rise of Cool APIs

API startups are hot. With the rise of Twilio, the near-acquisition of Plaid, and the surge of recent startups in the space, it’s clear that tomorrow’s tech companies will be powered by external APIs, each responsible for outsourcing a different piece of infrastructure. In this piece, Gil Feig (Co-Founder at Merge) and Julianna Lamb (Co-Founder at Stytch) discuss some of the most important trends seen across rising players in the API space.