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!

Anshuman Bhardwaj

August 10, 2022

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.

Kritika Yerrapotu, Ria Garg

August 10, 2022

Marketing

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. 

Nick Kephart

August 4, 2022

Product

Your July 2022 Product Update

This past month at Merge, we’ve been focused on a slew of improvements focused on streamlining and supercharging your experience with Merge. This includes support for a wider array of use cases across our HRIS, ATS, and Accounting Unified APIs, new functionality that accelerates your time to value, and new guides to help introduce you to what a unified API can do.

Gil Feig

August 2, 2022

Learn to handle any edge case with Authenticated Passthrough Requests

An Authenticated Passthroug 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.

Pritak Patel, Kevin Zhang

July 28, 2022

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.

Gil Feig

July 25, 2022

Company

5 Questions with a Growth Marketer | Meet Aaron

Welcome to 5 Values, 5 Questions with Merge, where we sit down with a member of the Merge team to find out what makes them tic. Curious about what drives marketing at Merge? You won't want to miss our sit-down chat with Aaron Lu, growth marketer.

Anthony Lagana

July 19, 2022

Marketing

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. 

Anthony Lagana

July 15, 2022

Marketing

Highlighting Our Partnership with ClickUp

The ClickUp team recently spun up a card highlighting the integration our team at Merge team built! In honor of the launch, we wanted to feature what’s possible with Merge’s ClickUp integration through our Unified Ticketing API.

Anthony Lagana

July 13, 2022

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.

Gil Feig

July 12, 2022

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!

Max Gong, Aaron Lu

July 12, 2022

Marketing

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.

Anthony Lagana

July 8, 2022

Product

Meet Unified Writes

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

Gil Feig

July 6, 2022

Product

Introducing API Log Search

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

Gil Feig

June 29, 2022

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.

David Donnelly

June 9, 2022

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.

Ria Garg, Aaron Lu

May 19, 2022

Marketing

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.

Anthony Lagana

May 2, 2022

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.

Fed Finjap

April 28, 2022

Marketing

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.

Nick Kephart

April 27, 2022

Company

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.

Shensi Ding

April 25, 2022

Marketing

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

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

Sooter Saalu

April 25, 2022

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.

Oluseun Falodun

April 25, 2022

Marketing

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.

Ria Garg

April 12, 2022

Marketing

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.

Anthony Lagana

April 11, 2022

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.

Shensi Ding

April 4, 2022

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.

Dan Rothman, Aaron Lu

February 28, 2022

Engineering

How to Stop Being Rate Limited: Best Practices for Making API Calls At Scale

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

David Donnelly II

February 17, 2022

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.

Anthony Lagana, Lee Wang

February 16, 2022

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.

Dan Rothman, Elton Leong

February 15, 2022

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.

Pritak Patel

January 20, 2022

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

Lee Wang

January 19, 2022

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! 

Elton Leong

December 3, 2021

Product

Fulfilling the Promise of Payroll APIs

A unified payroll API ends integration strategy headaches.

Shensi Ding

November 24, 2021

Marketing

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.

Gil Feig

November 16, 2021

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

Gil Feig

November 3, 2021

Company

Announcing Merge's Partnership with UKG

Today, Merge is announcing our official partnership with UKG. We’re thrilled to join the UKG Technology Partner program and launch our integrations with UKG Pro™ and UKG Ready™.

Shensi Ding

September 21, 2021

Product

What is a Unified API?

In this article, Tara Pichumani introduces the Merge Platform team by outlining the decisions that went into building Merge’s Unified API. The Merge Unified API empowers developers to integrate once and gain access to 45+ integrations throughout HRIS, ATS, and Accounting.

Tara Pichumani

September 17, 2021

Marketing

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.

Ethan Bevington

September 15, 2021

Design

My Design Internship at Merge

Learnings and musings from Merge's first design intern

Lanna Wang

September 8, 2021

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/

Ethan Bevington

July 12, 2021

Design

Designing Docs for Merge's Unified API

Information Architecture with Merge's Founding Designer

Simeon Lee

June 30, 2021

Engineering

An Interview with Ashby’s Aaron Norby 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.

Shensi Ding

June 23, 2021

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.

Dan Rothman

June 15, 2021

Company

Let's build a more inclusive, integrated future together

We’re overjoyed to celebrate pride with our employees, customers, and the rest of the world!

Gil Feig

June 3, 2021

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.

Gil Feig

May 27, 2021

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.

Shensi Ding

May 17, 2021

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.

Gil Feig

May 13, 2021

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.

Gil Feig

May 11, 2021

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.

Shensi Ding

April 8, 2021

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

Ria Garg