Model employee benefits enrollment with Merge HRIS's Benefit and Dependent common models
domain: hr-payroll · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Call GET /benefits to list Benefit objects, each linked to an employee and (optionally) an employer_benefit plan via UUID references
Read provider_name, employee_contribution, company_contribution, start_date, and end_date off each Benefit object to reconstruct current enrollment
Note the benefit_plan_type field on the Benefit object is deprecated - prefer resolving plan type through the linked employer_benefit object instead
Use the separate Dependent model to represent a covered dependent (child, spouse, domestic partner) linked to the employee
Use field_mappings and remote_data on the response to access organization- or provider-specific fields not normalized into the common model
Known gotchas
remote_was_deleted indicates a record was deleted at the source but is still returned by Merge for reconciliation - filter it out of active-enrollment views
Not every underlying HRIS/payroll provider supports the same subset of Benefit fields - check Merge's supported-fields matrix per integration before relying on a specific field
Confirm write (POST) support separately per provider before building a two-way benefits sync - the common model documents the read shape
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