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.

June 6, 2023

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!

Young Kim

June 1, 2023

Product

Unified API Evaluation Guide

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

Nick Kephart

May 22, 2023

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.

Nick Kephart

May 22, 2023

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.

Nick Kephart

May 22, 2023

Product

Unified API Pros and Cons

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

Nick Kephart

May 22, 2023

Product

Powering AI with Product Integrations

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

Nick Kephart

May 18, 2023

Partners

Approaching HR Integrations Strategy with a Unified API for HR and Payroll

Hear from one of our partners, Lano, on the key benefits of a unified HR and payroll API approach.

Ronak Ganatra

May 15, 2023

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.

Michael Nyamande

April 25, 2023

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.

Irene Hu

April 19, 2023

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

Amr Abdou

April 13, 2023

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.

Lucien Chemaly

April 11, 2023

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

Anthony Lagana

April 4, 2023

Engineering

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

Prannoiy Chandran and Joshua Learn

April 4, 2023

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.

Lucien Chemaly

March 30, 2023

Engineering

How to Retrieve Incidents Using the ServiceNow API in Python

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

Ndafara Tsamba

March 23, 2023

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.

Max Gong

March 14, 2023

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.

Ndafara Tsamba

March 13, 2023

Engineering

How to GET all files from SharePoint REST API with Postman

Max Gong

March 9, 2023

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.

Marshall Chikari

February 23, 2023

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.

James Hickey

February 21, 2023

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.

Young Kim

February 16, 2023

Insights

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.

Nick Kephart

February 14, 2023

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.

Johannes Koch

February 9, 2023

Insights

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.

Nick Kephart

February 7, 2023

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.

Ivan Kahl

February 6, 2023

Insights

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.

Anthony Lagana

February 1, 2023

Insights

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.

Nick Kephart

January 31, 2023

Insights

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.

January 25, 2023

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.

October 24, 2022

Prove Your Concept: Introducing Our Free and Launch Plans

Free Unified API pricing includes unlimited integrations and up to 3 customers with linked accounts.

October 24, 2022

Insights

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.

Nick Kephart

September 28, 2022

Insights

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.

September 21, 2022

Insights

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.

September 19, 2022

Partners

Highlighting our Integration with ChartHop

September 8, 2022

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

Insights

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

Insights

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

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

My Growth Internship at Merge

Ishita Ahuja

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

Company

5 Questions with a Platform Team Member | Meet Ria

Our Platform team is integral to Merge! And there’s no one better than Ria Garg to represent them! Learn more about Ria and Platform at Merge!

Young Kim

July 18, 2022

Insights

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

Partners

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

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!

Max Gong, Aaron Lu

July 12, 2022

Insights

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.

Lee Wang

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

Insights

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

Insights

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

Insights

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

Insights

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

Insights

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

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.

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, Aaron Lu

December 3, 2021

Product

Fulfilling the Promise of Payroll APIs

A unified payroll API ends integration strategy headaches.

Shensi Ding

November 24, 2021

Insights

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

Partners

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?

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). 

Tara Pichumani

September 17, 2021

Insights

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

Insights

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