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Assessment
today

Assessment API Updates - October 19, 2025

Highlights

  • ⚡️ Faster Workday Assessment Syncs: Syncing assessment orders from Workday is now significantly faster. By implementing caching and intelligently skipping orders that have already been processed, we've greatly reduced the number of API calls needed, improving overall performance.

Other Updates

  • SuccessFactors: We've added a note to our documentation to clarify that assessment information is only visible in the SuccessFactors UI after the assessment status is set to `COMPLETED`.
  • Recruitee: The integration page now includes a helpful link to an end-user guide explaining how the assessment workflow functions within Recruitee.
  • Greenhouse: Added a warning that the `result_url` provided when updating an assessment result must be a publicly accessible link.
  • Avature: The `assessment:order-received` webhook is now always sent when an assessment is initiated, ensuring consistent notifications.
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HRIS
today

HRIS API Updates - October 19, 2025

Highlights

  • 🔐 Certificate-Based Authentication for Azure AD & Entra ID: For app-only connections with Azure AD / Entra ID, you can now use certificate-based authentication. This provides a highly secure alternative to using client secrets.
  • 🌬️ HiBob Hire API Passthrough: You can now access HiBob's Hire API directly using our Passthrough API, giving you more flexibility to build custom hiring workflows.

Other Updates

  • Zoho People:
    • You can now create employees using a new, dynamic form. The integration supports both direct creation and invitation methods.
    • Added the `private_email` field to the employee model.
  • UKG Pro:
    • Added support for creating employees via a new form and import tool.
    • For multinational companies, you can now configure which countries to fetch dropdown options from.
  • Personio: The timesheets data model now includes support for custom fields.
  • Eurecia: Employee syncs are now more reliable. We've also officially marked custom fields as supported for this integration.
  • Entra ID: The user model now includes the `userType` field, allowing you to distinguish between Members and Guests.
  • CezanneHR: You can now access employee bank details via custom fields.
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ATS
today

ATS API Updates - October 19, 2025

Highlights

  • 🚀 Recruiterflow Actions Expanded: We've added powerful new capabilities to the Recruiterflow integration. You can now use the `move-application-to-stage` and `reject-application` actions. We also now sync rejection reasons and allow you to specify which user performs an action on behalf of.
  • ❓ Smarter Application Creation for Zoho Recruit: Creating applications in Zoho Recruit is now much more reliable. We automatically map any required candidate fields as screening questions for a job, which helps prevent application failures due to missing information.

Other Updates

  • Workable:
    • Improved the reliability of creating candidates with attachments, especially when read permissions for candidates are not granted.
    • Added better error handling for invalid social media URLs during candidate creation.
  • Zoho Recruit: The candidate model has been extended to include Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
  • SuccessFactors: Screening questions are now locale-aware, using the job's default language to ensure questions and answers are consistent.
  • Cornerstone OnDemand: Improved error handling when creating candidates, such as when a job has been closed.
  • Manatal: Syncs are now more reliable thanks to improved rate-limiting that prevents API errors.
  • iCIMS: Added support for the `outcome` field on applications.
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General
today

Platform Updates - October 19, 2025

Highlights

  • 📜 Richer, More Readable Logs: We've significantly upgraded the logs view in your dashboard. We now include non-HTTP logs (like warnings and informational messages), giving you a more complete picture of your integrations' activity.

Other Updates

  • 📡 Webhook Interaction Logging: Outgoing webhook calls are now tracked as their own interactions in the logs. This makes it much easier to confirm that webhooks were sent and to debug any delivery issues with your endpoints.
  • 🔄 Trigger Sync from Dashboard: You can now trigger a sync for an integration directly from the field re-mapping dialog, saving you a step after you've made changes.
  • 🔓 Download Decrypted SFTP Files: For SFTP integrations using PGP encryption, you can now download a decrypted version of a file directly from the dashboard.
  • 🛡️ Security and Reliability Improvements: We've updated several internal dependencies, including security patches, to keep the platform secure and reliable.
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HRIS
a week 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
a week 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
3 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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