Week 1, July 2026
Merge Unified
Accounting adds expense reports, HRIS gains iTrent and OmniHR
Expense reports endpoint added to Accounting
Pulling expense report data into a workflow previously meant reconciling it by hand outside the API, since Unified Accounting had no object for it. Accounting now supports GET /expense-reports, so you can fetch expense report records the same way you already fetch invoices or bills. The new endpoint accepts an employee_id filter, and GET /employees now supports filtering by email_address too, so you can look up the right employee or expense report without pulling the full list. See the expense reports docs.
New
iTrent connector
Companies running iTrent for HR previously had no way to sync that data through Merge. iTrent is now available in the HRIS category, covering GET /employees, GET /employments, GET /groups, and GET /locations. Data comes through the same normalized schema you already use for every other HRIS integration on Merge, so switching HR systems does not mean rewriting your integration. See the HRIS docs.
New
OmniHR connector
OmniHR joins the HRIS category this week, covering GET /companies, GET /employees, GET /employments, GET /locations, and GET /groups. Teams running OmniHR can sync that data through Merge's standard HRIS schema instead of building a custom integration against OmniHR's native API. See the HRIS docs.
New
Merge Agent Handler
Slackbot connector launches, Salesforce gains generic records, Ramp adds POs
Slackbot connector
Connecting Slack as a human user meant agents ran under that person's account, inheriting their channels, their DMs, and their access history. The Slackbot connector gives agents their own identity: a dedicated bot with 48 tools across messaging, channels, and files. Activity in Slack shows up under the bot, not whoever set up the connection. See the connectors overview.
New
Generic record tools for Salesforce
Most Salesforce orgs have custom objects that do not fit any standard schema, and until now agents could only read and write the objects Merge had already modeled. Generic record tools give Salesforce agents full CRUD on any object, standard or custom, without waiting on Merge to add support for it. A query-injection guard ships alongside the new tools, so agents building dynamic queries cannot be tricked into reaching data outside the intended object. See the connectors overview.
New
Ramp purchase order support
Ramp agents could read purchase orders but not act on them, so any change still routed through a person in Ramp's UI. Ramp now supports full purchase order management: agents can create, update, archive, and manage line items on POs directly. That covers the full PO lifecycle end to end, not just the pieces that were easy to add. See the connectors overview.
New
Access Key scope updates
Access Keys previously locked in their scope at creation, so narrowing or widening what a key could reach meant issuing a new one and rotating it through every service that used it. You can now update an Access Key's scopes directly in the dashboard, adjusting its access without generating a new key or breaking anything already using the old one. That matters after a security review, or when a key needs broader access as a new integration comes online. Docs link TBD, see the Agent Handler product page for now.
Merge Gateway
Adds custom complexity classifiers, brings back Fable 5
Custom complexity classifiers for Build Your Own Router
Build Your Own Router ships with Merge's default complexity classifier, but not every product routes prompts the same way. You can now train a custom complexity classifier tuned to your own use cases, so routing decisions reflect how your traffic actually breaks down instead of a general-purpose model. This is useful if your prompts cluster differently than the traffic the default classifier was tuned on. Docs link TBD, see the Gateway product page for now.
New
Fable 5 by Anthropic
Fable 5 is back on Merge Gateway after being removed, and it is one of the premium frontier models available today. You can route to it through Build Your Own Router or call it directly like any other model in the catalog, with no separate setup required. See the model catalog.