topic Re: Api endpoint to merge companies in APIs & Integrations

Api endpoint to merge companies

Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:08:20 GMT

Is it an api endpoint to merge companies. I see this feature on the platform

and an endpoint to merge contacts but nothing for companies in the api.
Is it just an oversight in the documentation or does it not exist publicly?

Re: Api endpoint to merge companies

3PETE — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:56:05 GMT

@gagalago There is not an endpoint at the moment to merge Companies. This action will have to be taken in the UI

Re: Api endpoint to merge companies

clintonskakun — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:21:36 GMT

We need this as well (and in Deals). Any plans to add it to the API? It would make things way easier for us.

Re: Api endpoint to merge companies

kth — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:54:00 GMT

What's the likelihood of publishing the underlying API you're using to make the company merges? We're looking to merge around ~3500 duplicate companies and would rather not do so by hand

It looks like you're POSTing to companies/v2/companies/:company_id/merge with {"companyIdToMerge":1234}. But if I try it I get a 405 Method Not Allowed. Damn.

I tried your support first which suggested to write here and so I relay their idea:

In the meantime, I did find this API post which might be modifiable: https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/companies/batch-update-companies

It seems to only work for property updates, but it might be able to be tweaked with the help of a dev to target the merge action.

Is there a way to do something like what they're suggesting with the existing company update API?

Re: Api endpoint to merge companies

Derek_Gervais — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:23:43 GMT

Hi @kth,

I'm not aware of any plans to make a public company merge endpoint, but I'd be happy to pass that feedback along internally. Just a reminder; if we created a company merge endpoint, it'd be on the public api.hubapi.com domain. Internal services used for the app are hosted on api.hubspot.com and are not supported for external use.

Re: Api endpoint to merge companies

sam2themax — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 19:00:38 GMT

How can we upvote this request?

It's easy to get duplicate companies into the system via the API, and trying to fix hundreds and thousands of them via the half dozen or so UI steps and intermediate page loads it takes to search for and click to merge (as described here: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/companies/how-do-i-merge-companies) is not feasible as a solution to clean things up.

Re: Api endpoint to merge companies

segmed — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:49:14 GMT

We would benefit from an API access to merging companies too. Writing a script to this this for us would be great.

Re: Api endpoint to merge companies

CKelso — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:46:00 GMT

They now support this:
https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/companies