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HRIS
6 days ago

HRIS API Updates - October 12, 2025

Highlights

  • 🚀 New Beta Endpoints for Performance Data: We've introduced new endpoints to access performance management data. You can now use GET /hris/performance-review-cycles and GET /hris/performance-reviews to retrieve information about review cycles and individual employee reviews.
  • 📊 Custom Fields for Timesheets: The Timesheet model across the HRIS API now supports custom_fields. This allows you to sync richer, more detailed time and attendance data from connected systems.

Other Updates

Model & Action Enhancements

  • Dayforce: The `create-employee` form has been significantly expanded with new fields for contact information, salary, and various company policies.
  • Paylocity: Timesheet data now includes support for custom fields.
  • YouServe: The employee model now includes the employee's manager_id, and name parsing has been improved for better accuracy.

Integration Enhancements & Fixes

  • Employment Hero: We've improved reliability by adding better handling for the provider's API rate limits.
  • Paycom: Fixed a bug where the `create-employee` action could unintentionally send welcome invites to new hires.
  • SuccessFactors: Syncs are now more resilient and will no longer fail if an employee has multiple personal information records.
  • 🐛 Reliability has also been improved for Dayforce and Workday syncs.
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ATS
6 days ago

ATS API Updates - October 12, 2025

Highlights

  • 🚀 New Integration: RecruiterFlow: You can now connect to RecruiterFlow to sync jobs, candidates, and users. The integration supports the `create-candidate` action, including attachments and screening questions.
  • 📈 Major Expansion for Avionté: We've significantly enhanced our Avionté integration. It now supports creating candidates, adding tags and attachments, moving applications between stages, and rejecting applications. We've also added support for partner webhooks to keep your data in sync in near real-time.
  • 📧 Support for Additional Contact Info: The `create-candidate` action now supports additional_email_addresses and additional_phone_numbers, allowing you to capture more comprehensive contact information for candidates.

Other Updates

New Actions & Model Extensions

  • 📎 Bullhorn: The `create-candidate` action now updates existing candidates with screening question answers, preventing data loss when a candidate reapplies.
  • 📎 Lever: You can now enable a new integration setting to prevent candidates from reapplying to the same job.
  • 📊 SuccessFactors: The Application model now supports custom fields.
  • 📊 iCIMS: We've extended our data models to include created_at for candidates and applications, and department for jobs.

Integration Enhancements & Fixes

  • Cornerstone OnDemand: The `create-candidate` action now supports additional types of file attachments.
  • eRecruiter: You can now explore custom fields for jobs using the Live Data Explorer in your Kombo dashboard.
  • Gem: Job posting visibility is now more accurately mapped to INTERNAL, UNLISTED, or PUBLIC. The integration is also now correctly marked as partner-only in the connection flow.
  • Greenhouse: We've clarified the API key instructions in the connection flow to make setup easier for your customers.
  • Personio: We've updated our integration to accurately reflect that several actions, like adding attachments, are not supported by Personio's API.
  • rexx systems: We've rolled out several fixes to make candidate creation more reliable and added a new setting to improve application source tracking.
  • Teamtailor: Candidate creation is now more resilient and will no longer fail if applying tags is unsuccessful.
  • Umantis: A new setting is available to translate customer-defined selection lists in job data.
  • Multiple Integrations: We've clarified in our documentation that for Bullhorn, Manatal, and Workable, only the primary email and phone number are supported when creating candidates.
  • 🐛 We've also improved the reliability of actions and data syncs for Ashby, BreezyHR, Coveto, d.vinci, Fountain, Heyrecruit, Oracle Recruiting, Taleez, and TalentSoft.
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Assessment
a week ago

Assessment API Updates - October 5, 2025

Highlights

  • 📎 Support for Result Attachments: You can now include attachments, such as PDF reports, when writing back assessment results. This is now supported for SmartRecruiters and SAP SuccessFactors.

Other Updates

  • New Features & Improvements:
    • 📊 Workday: You can now sync the hiring team members associated with an assessment order.
    • ⚙️ Ashby: Added a new integration setting to ignore assessment results with an `OPEN` status, which can prevent assessments from being prematurely marked as complete.
    • ⚙️ Recruitee: The connection flow now displays the specific webhook URLs that your customers need to use during setup, simplifying the configuration process.
  • Integration Fixes:
    • 🐛 Workday: We now correctly handle and skip assessment orders for candidates that have been purged, preventing sync errors.
    • 🐛 Jobylon: The integration now ignores incoming webhooks that are not related to candidates, preventing erroneous assessment orders from being created.
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HRIS
a week ago

HRIS API Updates - October 5, 2025

Highlights

  • ⭐ SAP SuccessFactors: Improved Concurrent Employment Handling: We've significantly enhanced our SAP SuccessFactors integration to more accurately handle employees with multiple concurrent jobs. The integration now correctly identifies the primary active employment to source data like job title and manager, and maps detailed data to employee-level custom fields.
  • 🚀 SAP SuccessFactors: Support for Proxied Domains: The connection flow for SAP SuccessFactors now supports connections via gateway or proxy domains, making it easier for your customers with complex enterprise network setups to connect.

Other Updates

  • New Actions & Expanded Coverage:
    • 📎 Leapsome: Added a new `create-employee` action, allowing you to provision new users in Leapsome.
  • Integration Improvements & Fixes:
    • 🐛 We improved the reliability of filtering employees by `group` when the group `type` field is missing from the source system.
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ATS
a week ago

ATS API Updates - October 5, 2025

Highlights

  • 🚀 Advanced Candidate Sync Filtering: We've introduced a powerful new setting in the Kombo Dashboard that gives you granular control over candidate and application syncs. You can now choose to sync all candidates and apply an upstream filter to limit the sync to a specific timeframe, such as "only candidates updated in the last 365 days." This helps reduce sync times and focuses on the most relevant data.
  • ⭐ SAP SuccessFactors: Template-Based Custom Fields: You can now manage required custom fields for job applications simply by uploading a Job Application Template file from SAP SuccessFactors into the Kombo Dashboard. Kombo will automatically parse the template and surface the required fields as screening questions, streamlining the setup process.

Other Updates

  • New Actions & Expanded Coverage:
    • 📎 iCIMS: Custom Field Support for Candidates & Applications: We've extended our iCIMS integration to fully support custom fields on both the Candidate and Application models.
    • 📎 Workable: Added support for syncing Job Postings and Candidate Tags.
    • 📎 CEGID TalentSoft: You can now fetch attachments for candidates and applications using the new `get-candidate-attachments` and `get-application-attachments` actions.
  • Integration Improvements & Fixes:
    • 🐛 Zoho Recruit: Retrieve the actual HTML job description. Previously, the API returned only plain text.
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Assessment
2 weeks ago

Assessment API Updates - September 28, 2025

Highlights

  • 🔍 Support for Background Checks: To better reflect its capabilities, the Assessment API is now also explicitly positioned for Background Checks. We've updated our documentation to clarify its use for both assessment and background check providers.
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HRIS
2 weeks ago

HRIS API Updates - September 28, 2025

Highlights

  • 📤 File Uploads for HiBob New Hires: The `create-employee-form` action for HiBob now supports file uploads. You can now include documents like contracts or ID cards directly when creating a new employee.
  • 🔐 More Reliable Azure AD Connections: We've reworked our Azure AD connection flow to use a more robust "app-only" authentication method. This provides a more stable and reliable connection for your customers, especially in enterprise environments.

Other Updates

  • 📋 Dayforce: We've made significant improvements to the `create-employee-form` action, including converting free-text fields like Country and State to dropdowns for better data quality and adding new fields for Union Membership, Gender, and Base Salary.
  • 🧩 BambooHR: We've expanded the field mapping for the employee form, adding better support for dropdown fields and more data types.
  • 🎂 Paychex: You can now include an employee's Date of Birth when creating them via the `create-employee-form` action.
  • 🐛 Reliability Improvements: We've shipped fixes and reliability enhancements for ADP Workforce Now, Factorial, Paycor, PeopleHR, and Silae.
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ATS
2 weeks ago

ATS API Updates - September 28, 2025

Highlights

  • 🚀 New Integration: Crelate: We've added support for Crelate, a popular recruiting CRM and ATS. You can now sync jobs, candidates, applications, and interviews.
  • ⚙️ New Candidate Sync Setting: You now have more control over which candidates to sync. A new integration setting allows you to choose between syncing all candidates or only those created via Kombo.

Other Updates

  • ✍️ Zoho Recruit: Job descriptions are now synced as rich, formatted HTML by parsing them from the public career site, providing a much better experience than the plain text previously available from the API.
  • 📊 Ashby: Candidate sources now include additional metadata such as the source type, giving you more context for your analytics.
  • 🐛 Error Handling and Reliability: We've shipped numerous improvements for more accurate and resilient error handling across many integrations, including ADP Workforce Now, AFAS, Cornerstone OnDemand, Greenhouse, Rexx, SAP SuccessFactors, TalentSoft, and Teamtailor.
  • 🛠️ Minor Integration Enhancements: We've also improved Coveto (custom fields in job fetches), Dvinci (job URL fallbacks), SuccessFactors (screening question ordering), Taleez (candidate source writing), TalentLink (job post URL added), and Workable (job closed error handling).
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General
2 weeks ago

Platform Updates - September 28, 2025

Highlights

  • 🔑 Enhanced API Key Security: You can now increase your security posture by applying IP address whitelisting and setting an expiry date for your API keys. These settings can be configured when creating a new key or updated for existing ones.
  • 📡 Safer Integration Scope Updates: Before changing the scope configuration for an existing integration, you will now see a detailed overview of which permissions will be added or removed. This helps prevent accidental breaking changes and ensures you understand the impact of any update.
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Assessment
3 weeks ago

Assessment API Updates - September 21, 2025

Highlights

  • 🕵️ Background Checks Now Supported via Assessment API: The Assessment API has been expanded to officially support background check workflows. Our documentation has been updated to guide you through configuring packages and processing orders for both assessments and background checks.
  • 🤝 Workday: Added full support for background checks. You can now sync background check orders from Workday and write background check packages back into the system.

Other Updates

  • 🧾 Redacted orders are now correctly excluded from the `get-open-orders` endpoint, ensuring you only receive active orders.
  • ⚡ Greenhouse: Improved performance and reliability when fetching assessment data.
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