acaStatus Field Deprecation

In preparation for this year's ACA reporting, BambooHR will be making product changes that may affect API integrations that depend on the acaStatus field. In particular, this field is being deprecated on November 1, 2019.

The field will continue to be available to read and write in the API, but is likely to become stale over time, as customers begin to use a different method of tracking ACA status. We don't yet have a firm design for the new method of ACA tracking in the API. We will be making further announcements as the API design becomes more set.

The replacement for the soon to be deprecated acaStatus field will be the acaStatusCategory field. It will be a text field with the following return options: contractor, full-time, intern-compensated, intern-not-compensated, part-time-eligible, part-time-ineligible, seasonal, and terminated. This field can not be updated directly but is calculated based on mappings for employment statuses found on the employmentStatus table.

Stay tuned.