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Acumatica to Ceridian Dayforce integration — real-time, two-way sync

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Why teams connect Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce share in real time, so the people Ceridian Dayforce manages stay current in the system that runs finance and operations.

Ceridian Dayforce is the system of record for people: who was hired, which department and location they sit in, who they report to, and how they are paid. Acumatica runs finance and operations, and much of what it does depends on that same information, from booking labor cost to approving an expense report to staffing a project. Where the two are bridged by re-keying or an overnight file, each side spends the day out of step, with new hires missing from the systems they need and leavers still active where they should not be.

Stacksync syncs Vendors, Sales Orders, Invoices, Purchase Orders in Acumatica with Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions, Time Away From Work & Balances, Employee (HR / Person Details), Employment Status in Ceridian Dayforce field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, so the people side stays authoritative for worker data while Acumatica keeps its own accounting and operational detail, and every change made in one is reflected in the other within seconds instead of at the next batch run.

Common use cases

  • 01 Align Acumatica's built-in CRM opportunities and cases with an external sales or support platform.
  • 02 Two-way sync of customers, orders, and invoices between Acumatica and a CRM so sales sees ERP truth without ERP logins.
  • 03 Replicate Compensation Summary and pay data into a warehouse for headcount, labor-cost, and compensation reporting without manual BI exports.
  • 04 Sync time data by posting raw clock entries from a third-party scheduling tool into Dayforce, or pulling Employee Punches and Schedules into a workforce-analytics database.

Common sync patterns

One org structure

Departments, cost centers, and locations that both systems reference stay in agreement, so labor cost, approvals, and reporting in Acumatica roll up to the same structure Ceridian Dayforce maintains.

Reporting lines drive approvals

Manager and reporting-hierarchy changes in Ceridian Dayforce keep expense and purchase approval chains in Acumatica pointed at the right people.

Where Ceridian Dayforce runs payroll: labor cost in the books

Pay and compensation data from Ceridian Dayforce posts into Acumatica as labor cost, so finance sees workforce spend without re-entering it by hand.

What you can sync between Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Acumatica objects Ceridian Dayforce objects How this pairing syncs
Payments Customer payment records reconciled against invoices from payment platforms. Employee (HR / Person Details) Core worker record keyed by XRefCode; GET Employees returns matching XRefCodes, then a per-employee GET fetches full HR details. New hires are added with POST and edits made with PATCH, so it is read and write. Payments is specific to Acumatica and Employee (HR / Person Details) to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Journal Transactions GL entries replicated into reporting databases. Employment Status Effective-dated employment status and type (active, leave, terminated) that drives active/terminated state for downstream provisioning; read, and writable as new dated status records. Journal Transactions is specific to Acumatica and Employment Status to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Projects Project cost and billing structures synced with delivery tools. Work Assignments Effective-dated position, department, location, and org-unit assignment; the most-synced record for org charts, provisioning, and analytics. Read and updatable via PATCH. Projects is specific to Acumatica and Work Assignments to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities and Cases Built-in CRM records synced with external sales and support tools. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments Compensation Summary returns pay rate and frequency for reporting; Employee Pay Adjustments are written as effective-dated records via PATCH to post pay changes back to Dayforce. Opportunities and Cases is specific to Acumatica and Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Customers AR master data synced with CRMs and billing tools. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries Time-and-attendance punches; raw clock entries are added with POST and punches removed with DELETE, so time data flows both ways between Dayforce and scheduling or workforce tools. Customers is specific to Acumatica and Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Vendors Supplier records aligned with procurement and AP automation. Employee Schedules Shift and schedule assignments; created and updated through POST and PATCH schedule endpoints and paged with pageSize, used to push schedules from a WFM tool or pull them for analytics. Vendors is specific to Acumatica and Employee Schedules to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Acumatica Ceridian Dayforce Sub-second propagation

DetectionAcumatica notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Push notifications configurable on data changes, plus polling on LastModifiedDateTime fields.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Ceridian Dayforce through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Ceridian Dayforce Acumatica Sub-second propagation

DetectionCeridian Dayforce notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. No CDC stream.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Acumatica through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Ceridian Dayforce: Dayforce does not publish numeric rate limits; thresholds vary by tenant and exceeding them returns HTTP 429, so large employee reads are paged (pageSize) and throttled with backoff. Employee list calls return XRefCodes only, so each employee needs a follow-up GET.
What ships with Acumatica ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce

Connect Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Acumatica–Ceridian Dayforce connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Acumatica or Ceridian Dayforce instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

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Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Acumatica or Ceridian Dayforce data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Acumatica or Ceridian Dayforce record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Acumatica ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

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EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce.

How the Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce connectors work

Acumatica

Integration surface
Contract-based REST API (JSON over versioned endpoints), plus SOAP web services and OData access to Generic Inquiries
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 or cookie-based session login with Acumatica credentials
Change detection
Push notifications configurable on data changes, plus polling on LastModifiedDateTime fields
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks

Ceridian Dayforce

Integration surface
REST API (Dayforce RESTful Web Services, v1/v2), JSON payloads
Authentication
HTTP Basic authentication with a dedicated Web Services user plus the client namespace (Company ID), or an OAuth 2.0 access token from the Dayforce identity endpoint (POST dfid.dayforcehcm.com/connect/token, client_id Dayforce.HCMAnywhere.Client). Token-based auth is recommended, and the Web Services role with the Read Data subfeature must be enabled on the account.
Change detection
No CDC stream. Broad change detection uses delta polling on GET Employees with filterUpdatedStartDate/filterUpdatedEndDate and filterUpdatedEntities to pull only records changed in a window. Dayforce also has native Event Notifications (the Notification Publisher) for lifecycle events — hire, rehire, terminate, and workflow validation — delivered by push to a receiver service or by querying unacknowledged notifications; the publisher runs roughly hourly and each notification must be acknowledged.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Dayforce does not publish numeric rate limits; thresholds vary by tenant and exceeding them returns HTTP 429, so large employee reads are paged (pageSize) and throttled with backoff. Employee list calls return XRefCodes only, so each employee needs a follow-up GET.
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How it works

How to connect Acumatica to Ceridian Dayforce — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Acumatica connected
    Ceridian Dayforce connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Acumatica and Ceridian Dayforce objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Acumatica ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Acumatica Ceridian Dayforce
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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