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          • GET/employees
          • GET/employees/{id}
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/employees/{id}

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GET
/accounting/v1/employees/:id
GET
/api/accounting/v1/employees/:id
$curl -G https://api.merge.dev/api/accounting/v1/employees/id \
>     -H "X-Account-Token: X-Account-Token" \
>     -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>     -d expand=company
200Retrieved
1{
2  "status": "ACTIVE",
3  "id": "c640b80b-fac9-409f-aa19-1f9221aec445",
4  "remote_id": "11167",
5  "created_at": "2021-09-15T00:00:00Z",
6  "modified_at": "2021-10-16T00:00:00Z",
7  "first_name": "John",
8  "last_name": "Smith",
9  "is_contractor": true,
10  "employee_number": "325462",
11  "email_address": "johnsmith@merge.dev",
12  "company": "595c8f97-2ac4-45b7-b000-41bdf43240b5",
13  "remote_was_deleted": true,
14  "field_mappings": {
15    "organization_defined_targets": {
16      "custom_key": "custom_value"
17    },
18    "linked_account_defined_targets": {
19      "custom_key": "custom_value"
20    }
21  },
22  "remote_data": [
23    {
24      "path": "/actions",
25      "data": null
26    }
27  ]
28}

Returns an Employee object with the given id.

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Use the /linked-accounts endpoint to pull platform support information

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Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Token-based authentication with required prefix “Bearer”

Path parameters

idstringRequiredformat: "uuid"

Headers

X-Account-TokenstringRequired
Token identifying the end user.

Query parameters

expandenumOptional
Which relations should be returned in expanded form. Multiple relation names should be comma separated without spaces.
Allowed values:
include_remote_databooleanOptional

Whether to include the original data Merge fetched from the third-party to produce these models.

include_shell_databooleanOptional

Whether to include shell records. Shell records are empty records (they may contain some metadata but all other fields are null).

Response

statusenum

The employee’s status in the accounting system.

  • ACTIVE - ACTIVE
  • INACTIVE - INACTIVE
Allowed values:
idstringRead-onlyformat: "uuid"
remote_idstring or null

The third-party API ID of the matching object.

created_atdatetimeRead-only
The datetime that this object was created by Merge.
modified_atdatetimeRead-only
The datetime that this object was modified by Merge.
first_namestring or null<=255 characters
The employee's first name.
last_namestring or null<=255 characters
The employee's last name.
is_contractorboolean or null

True if the employee is a contractor, False if not.

employee_numberstring or null<=50 characters
The employee's internal identification number.
email_addressstring or null
The employee's email address.
companystring or nullformat: "uuid"
The subsidiary that the employee belongs to.
remote_was_deletedbooleanRead-only

Indicates whether or not this object has been deleted in the third party platform. Full coverage deletion detection is a premium add-on. Native deletion detection is offered for free with limited coverage. Learn more.

field_mappingsobject or nullRead-only
remote_datalist of objects or nullRead-only