# Update or upsert records in an application

Publish / saas

A variant of [Write to an application's API](https://meridian.online/operations/write-to-an-applications-api).

Change the application's existing records matched by key, or create them where none match.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/write-to-an-applications-api/update-records-in-an-application>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#write-to-an-applications-api)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Bruin: [`merge`](https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/ingestion/reverse-etl.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Bruin: [`replace`](https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/ingestion/reverse-etl.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Bruin: [`update`](https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/ingestion/reverse-etl.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Update/delete records in Salesforce`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:salesforcecommand) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Update/delete rows in Airtable`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:airtablecommand) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Update/delete rows in SharePoint list`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:sharepointlistcommand) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Zendesk command`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:zendeskcommand) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Salesforce Update`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/salesforceupdate.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Salesforce Upsert`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/salesforceupsert.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`OpenERP object output (deprecated)`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Salesforce Update`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Salesforce Upsert`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Update Salesforce`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/data_access/applications/salesforce/update_salesforce.html) (read 2026-09-27)