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Changes in Anaplan or Ceridian Dayforce instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Anaplan to Ceridian Dayforce integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce
Keep the employee, department, and cost records that Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce share consistent in real time, so the finance system and the people system stop drifting apart.
Anaplan runs the money side of the company: who gets paid, what it costs, and which part of the business the cost belongs to. Ceridian Dayforce runs the people side: who works here, which team they sit in, and how their employment changes over time. The two overlap on the same people and the same org structure, because every employee is also a payee and every department is also a cost center. When that overlap is maintained by hand, a new hire, a transfer, or a termination has to be keyed twice, and the two systems start to disagree about who is active and where the cost lands.
Stacksync syncs List Items, Versions, Import and Export Actions, Processes in Anaplan with Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries, Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions, Time Away From Work & Balances in Ceridian Dayforce bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, updated, or deactivated on either side appears on the other within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV exports and nightly batch jobs.
That matters most when money follows a people event. A hire that finance can pay, a leaver whose access ends, a transfer that redirects cost to the right team, all happen from one change instead of two, so headcount and spend reconcile from the same set of records.
Common use cases
- 01 Load actuals from an ERP or warehouse into Anaplan modules so forecasts start from current financials.
- 02 Sync CRM pipeline data into Anaplan for sales capacity and quota planning.
- 03 React to Dayforce Event Notifications for hire, rehire, and terminate to provision or disable IdP and app access and update downstream records as the changes post.
- 04 Replicate Compensation Summary and pay data into a warehouse for headcount, labor-cost, and compensation reporting without manual BI exports.
Common sync patterns
People-driven costs land in finance
Compensation, reimbursements, or other costs tied to a person on the Ceridian Dayforce side flow into Anaplan for posting, so the books reflect what people actually cost without manual re-entry.
New person becomes a known record in finance
When someone is added in Ceridian Dayforce, a matching employee or payee record appears in Anaplan, ready for payroll, expenses, or cost allocation without anyone rekeying the details.
One employee identity
A person's name, ID, or contact details corrected in either system update the other, so finance and HR reference the same person instead of maintaining two versions.
What you can sync between Anaplan 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.
| Anaplan objects | Ceridian Dayforce objects | How this pairing syncs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Versions Scenario dimensions (actual, budget, forecast) that scope which slice a sync reads or writes. | 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. | Versions is specific to Anaplan and Employee Schedules to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Import and Export Actions Predefined data-movement definitions the Bulk API executes. | Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions Configuration reference data; POST creates org units and departments and PATCH updates job, position, department, and org-unit data. Used to resolve and validate XRefCodes when mapping employee writes. | Import and Export Actions is specific to Anaplan and Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Processes Ordered bundles of actions run as a unit during scheduled syncs. | Time Away From Work & Balances Time-off requests and accrual balances read per employee; pulled into scheduling, payroll, or absence-reporting databases and used to reconcile leave against downstream systems. | Processes is specific to Anaplan and Time Away From Work & Balances to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Cell Data Individual intersections readable and writable through the transactional API. | 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. | Cell Data is specific to Anaplan and Employee (HR / Person Details) to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Models The planning workspaces that contain all data; syncs target a specific model. | 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. | Models is specific to Anaplan and Employment Status to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Modules Multidimensional grids of line items where plan data lives; the main read/write surface. | 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. | Modules is specific to Anaplan and Work Assignments to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Anaplan 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.
Anaplan Ceridian Dayforce Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Anaplan for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling and scheduled export actions.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Ceridian Dayforce through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Ceridian Dayforce Anaplan Sub-second propagation
DetectionCeridian Dayforce notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. No CDC stream.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Anaplan through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Anaplan: Subject to the platform's API rate limits; large data movements are designed to run through bulk actions.
- 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 Anaplan ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce
Connect Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Anaplan–Ceridian Dayforce connection.
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Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Anaplan 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 Anaplan or Ceridian Dayforce record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Anaplan ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce.
How the Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce connectors work
Anaplan
- Integration surface
- REST APIs: a Bulk API that runs predefined import/export actions and a transactional API for model metadata and cell data
- Authentication
- Token-based sessions obtained via basic authentication, CA certificates, or OAuth 2.0 through Anaplan's authentication service
- Change detection
- Polling and scheduled export actions; the platform does not expose change events
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- Subject to the platform's API rate limits; large data movements are designed to run through bulk actions
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.
How it works
How to connect Anaplan 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.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Anaplan 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.
Anaplan
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Ceridian Dayforce
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OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Anaplan 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.
objects · Anaplan ⇄ Ceridian DayforceCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Anaplan Ceridian DayforceCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Anaplan's Versions and Import and Export Actions), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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On the Anaplan side: List Items, Versions, Import and Export Actions, Processes, plus custom fields where Anaplan exposes them. On the Ceridian Dayforce side: Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries, Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions, Time Away From Work & Balances. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Common patterns for Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce: People-driven costs land in finance; New person becomes a known record in finance; One employee identity. Compensation, reimbursements, or other costs tied to a person on the Ceridian Dayforce side flow into Anaplan for posting, so the books reflect what people actually cost without manual re-entry.
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Anaplan: REST APIs: a Bulk API that runs predefined import/export actions and a transactional API for model metadata and cell data. Authentication: Token-based sessions obtained via basic authentication, CA certificates, or OAuth 2.0 through Anaplan's authentication service. Ceridian Dayforce: 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. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Anaplan: The transactional API allows reading model metadata and reading or writing individual cell values without a full import. Ceridian Dayforce: Native Event Notifications (the Dayforce Notification Publisher) cover employee lifecycle events — Hire, Rehire, Terminate (and their cancels) and Workflow Validation — pushed to a receiver service or pulled via unacknowledged-notification queries; the publisher runs about hourly and notifications must be acknowledged. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Anaplan and Ceridian Dayforce without custom code.
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