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Added Contractor Management flow

We're launching the Contractor Management flow: a new flow type for managing 1099 contractors throughout their lifecycle, along with several contractor API improvements.

The contractor_management flow provides a unified view of all contractors by status (Active, Onboarding, Dismissed) with built-in actions for editing details, dismissing and rehiring, viewing payment history, sending portal invitations, and managing onboarding. Read more in our Deactivate a Contractor guide.

Why this matters

Managing contractor lifecycle events—dismissals, rehires, and status changes—previously required partners to coordinate multiple API calls and track state transitions manually. The new flow and endpoints provide a structured, auditable approach to contractor lifecycle management, reducing integration complexity and the risk of conflicting state changes.

New flow type

contractor_management, a unified interface for managing contractors across their full lifecycle. Requires entity_type: "Company" and entity_uuid: <company_uuid>.

Inherits all add_contractors scopes plus partner_portal_invitation:write.

New flow settings available in the Developer Portal

  • Enable portal invites in contractor_management flow
  • Enable contractor self-onboarding in contractor_management flow

To get started, create a flow using the Create a flow endpoint with flow_type: "contractor_management".

New endpoints

Contractor dismissals and rehires

Contractor payment receipts

Updated endpoints

Contractor list

  • GET /v1/companies/{company_uuid}/contractors
    • New query filter: onboarded_active (boolean) — filter for onboarded, active contractors
    • New query filter: terminated_today (boolean) — filter for contractors with a dismissal effective today
    • New query param: include=portal_invitations — embed portal invitation status in the contractor response, consistent with the existing include parameter on GET /v1/companies/{company_uuid}/employees

Contractor payments

Contractor updates

  • PUT /v1/contractors/{contractor_uuid}
    • Setting is_active when a scheduled dismissal or rehire is pending now returns a 422 directing the caller to cancel the scheduled transition first