Changelog
Learn about Merge’s latest integrations and features
Merge has updated the look and feel of Merge Link! One of our most important interfaces, we’ve improved the appearance and greatly simplified the user experience of our drop-in integration authentication workflow component so that our customers’ end users have a delightful time connecting their products to third-party data providers.
Reminder: New Pricing Structure
As a reminder, we’ve updated our pricing structure to reflect feedback about ATS, HRIS, and free plans. Rather than simply charging per API call we’ll be pricing according to the following metrics:
HRIS: $0.50 per Employee object per month
ATS: $0.15 per 100 Candidates per month
Free Tier: Up to the first 200 employees or 66,667 candidates
We’re also offering two annual plans to expand the scope of our offering. Check out our new pricing page to see all the perks of our premium plans!
In addition to our existing documentation about our API, we’ve rolled out a unique Guides section to provide extremely detailed walkthroughs of key aspects customers have requested for information about as they’re getting set up!
Field Supported By Platform Added
We’ve added information about whether or not a particular action and object is supported on each of our integrations to enable our customers to conveniently understand platform-specific nuances in our Documentation.
New Pricing Structure
As our customer base has grown, we’ve updated our pricing structure to reflect feedback about ATS, HRIS, and free plans. Rather than simply charging per API call we’ll be pricing according to the following metrics:
HRIS: $0.50 per Employee object per month
ATS: $0.15 per 100 Candidates per month
Free Tier: Up to the first 200 employees or 66,667 candidates
We’re also offering two annual plans to expand the scope of our offering. Check out our new pricing page to see all the perks of our premium plans!
We’re thrilled to share that we’ve added webhooks for integration sync status to our platform! Additional configurability for webhooks includes the ability to manage whether you get notified of a completed sync event between Merge and the authenticated integration, or get the latest changed data sent to your receiving server.
API Changes
Reminder: We added a new field called start_date to the hris.Employee object. Hire_date now reflects the most recent hire date of an employee, and start_date now reflects when the employee has started at the company.
Other fixes and improvements:
- Merge Link style change
- Webhooks interface updates to reflect new capabilities
We’re continuing to add more excellent content to our docs, including our new page highlighting available-actions. This allows our customers to easily understand what functionalities they can access — highlighting all the possibilities that come from integrating with Merge! Check it out here.
Other fixes and improvements:
-Minor bug fixes and changes
-Design updates for Webhooks
In order to help streamline issues resolution, we’ve added the ability for users to opt into email notifications about integration issues. This will enable our customers to react quickly to problems when they arise, diagnose what’s going on, and efficiently deliver solutions to their customers. Check out how to configure them here!
Homepage
This has been a big week for the Merge homepage as we’ve launched a whole new piece to the integrations section! Each integration page now includes all the objects supported on the platform, making it faster and easier to understand the capabilities of all our integrations. We’ve also added code snippets to our homepage!
New Integrations: Workday
Merge is now live with Workday through our HRIS API. This integration is a priority for many of our customers, so we’re unbelievably happy to be able to add it to our list of integrations.
If you would like to take advantage of this offering, navigate to Configuration → Integrations → HRIS, and toggle Workday.
Other fixes and improvements:
- Minor bug fixes and changes
- Small design adjustments to Linking Flow
- API Tester interface improvements
We’re thrilled to share the Merge Help Center with all our users. Customer experience sits at the core of our mission, and we built our Help Center to empower our customers to find the answers to the questions they need conveniently and efficiently.
Find answers to all your questions about Merge here and check out our related blog post.
API Changes
HRIS: We’re adding a new field called start_date to the hris.Employee object. Hire_date will reflect the most recent hire date of an employee, and start_date will reflect when the employee has started at the company.
IMPORTANT: We will be transitioning all existing values for hire_date to start_date, and hire_date will reflect the actual date an offer is made.
This transition will occur on Monday July 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
SDKs: We’ve now added two Elixir SDKs, which you can access for ATS and HRIS.
Linking Flow: We’ve launched a new linking flow that improves the customer experience by clarifying steps with a more standardized, simplified design across all integrations. Internally, the built-in stylings will allow future non-technical integration engineers to easily create and update linking flow steps.
Other fixes and improvements:
- Docs enhancements for our webhooks page
- Added welcome banner to Dashboard
- Minor bug fixes and changes
We're so excited to announce a redesign of our documentation. We pride ourselves on a developer-centric experience, and sensible, beautiful documentation is absolutely critical for our customers and our company.
Check out the newly designed documentation here. To learn more about our thought process behind this change, our designer, Simeon Lee, wrote a blog post on his design process.
New Integrations: UKG Ready and TalentLyft
UKG Ready and TalentLyft are now live through our Merge ATS API! To enable these integrations, go to Configuration -> Integrations -> toggle UKG Ready and TalentLyft.
API Changes
- GET /Candidates - We now offer the ability to filter candidates by first_name, last_name, or email
- POST for Merge ATS API - Remote_user_id is now an optional parameter for all ATS POST endpoints. Please note that certain integrations still require a remote_user_id parameter to be passed in - you can view which integrations require it via our Available Actions endpoint.
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new single tenant offering. From speaking with our enterprise users, it was clear that single-tenancy was important to part of offering best-in-class security and industry-specific compliance standards.
If you'd like to find out more about how to enable single tenancy for your organization, check out our blog post or drop us a line at hello@merge.dev!
New integrations: Lano and Wrk
We are pleased to announce two new integrations to our ATS offering - Lano and Wrk.
If you'd like to enable these integrations to optimize your talent management and hiring processes, go to Configuration → ATS → Toggle Lano and Configuration → ATS → Toggle Wrk.
We're pleased to announce the release of the Merge Blog, where you can learn more about Merge and what we do, how we design and build user-centric products, and how we think about APIs and integrations. Subscribe for updates to the blog here, and while you're at it, check out our most recent post from Co-founder Gil Feig, where he shares what Merge is up to for Pride Month. Happy Pride!
New Integration: Paychex
We are pleased to announce a new integration: Paychex, a leading HR, Payroll, & Benefits provider. With over 680,000+ clients in the US and Northern Europe, Paychex is an excellent addition to your integrations offering that will give your product wide reach.
If you'd like to enable Paychex, go to Configuration → HRIS → Toggle Paychex.
API Changes
- HRIS: We now offer a Java SDK for our Merge HRIS API! To access the SDK, please refer to this repository.
- HRIS.TimeOffBalance - We now support TimeOffBalance, which pulls information about PTO used and PTO balance remaining for a given employee. Please refer to our documentation for more details.
Integration changes
Smartrecruiters - We now support POST actions for Smartrecruiters Candidates with nested applications, RemoteUser, Scorecard, and ScheduledInterviews. For more information, please use the available actions endpoint.
Other Fixes and Improvements
- Fixed bugs related to scraper & improved error messages.
- We've made a number of improvements to our user experience for Writes, including:
- Better error handling and messaging around fields that are relations to other objects.
- Propagating error messages received from the remote system back to the developer.
- Improved data validation to ensure that developers get helpful feedback when building request bodies.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
We're excited to announce two major additions to our integrations portfolio - Justworks (Merge HRIS) and SmartRecruiters (Merge ATS)! With both of these partners being some of the fastest growing companies in the HR and Recruiting space, we're excited to be able to offer these integrations to our customers.
If you would like to enable it for your organization, navigate to Configuration → Integrations → HRIS or ATS, and toggle Justworks or SmartRecruiters.
Linking Flow Redesign
As a company, we highly prioritize the developer and end-user experience when it comes to cross-platform integration authorization. As part of our ongoing design efforts, we've revamped the look and feel of our drop-in integration authorization component, which now features a sleeker design that favors Merge's neutral palette.
Linking Flow Redesign
As a gateway between many different platforms - each with their own brand and style - Merge strives to design an experience that unobtrusively intermediates connections between products. This is one step along this journey - stay tuned for more design updates to come in the coming weeks!
API Changes
- Integrations Metadata Endpoint - You can now make a request to /api/integrations to programmatically fetch information about the integrations Merge offers.
- ATS POST /Candidate and POST /Application - We're excited to support these endpoints for the following additional integrations: Greenhouse, Lever, SAP Successfactors and Breezy HR.
- ATS.attachment.attachment_type is now fully supported across all integrations
Other Fixes and Improvements
- We've updated our linking flow for OAuth to include better logging for when an integration encounters bad authorization, which will appear on the Logs page.
- Better error logging and improvements to the user experience for our POST endpoints, especially with regards to missing or incorrect input.
- Fixes to how we handle pagination for certain integrations.
- Fixed documentation to include HRIS Employee.employee_number.
- Fixes to parsing country data.
- Remote data now includes a path_parameters section for any relevant endpoints that have a path parameter.