Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Braze or Ceridian Dayforce instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Braze to Ceridian Dayforce integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Braze 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 Braze and Ceridian Dayforce
Keep the people, teams, and status that Braze and Ceridian Dayforce share aligned in real time, so a hire, role change, or departure recorded in one reaches the other within seconds.
Each tool in Braze keeps its own list of who can use it: users, members, or agents, along with the team they sit on and whether they are still active. Ceridian Dayforce is the authoritative record of the same people as employees, with their department, manager, and employment status. When those two are connected only by manual account admin or a periodic export, the work tools drift: new hires wait days for access, team and manager changes never catch up, and people who have left keep standing accounts.
Stacksync syncs Custom Events, Purchases, Segments, Campaigns in Braze with Time Away From Work & Balances, Employee (HR / Person Details), Employment Status, Work Assignments in Ceridian Dayforce bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, moved, or offboarded in Ceridian Dayforce creates or updates the matching user in Braze within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of spreadsheets and one-off account changes. Where Braze captures details of its own, such as a corrected contact or a login identity, those can flow back to Ceridian Dayforce in whichever direction you configure.
Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps its own extras; only the shared facts, who a person is, which team they belong to, and whether their access should be on, are held in agreement.
Common use cases
- 01 Sync CRM and billing attributes onto Braze user profiles so lifecycle campaigns target accurate plan and status data.
- 02 Push product usage events from a database or warehouse into Braze to trigger onboarding and retention journeys.
- 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
Offboarding: no standing access after a departure
When someone is marked as leaving in Ceridian Dayforce, the matching account in Braze is deactivated or flagged, so departures do not leave open access behind.
One employee directory
A person's name, title, contact details, or status corrected in either system updates the other, so both sides stop maintaining separate copies of the same person.
Org and team structure kept current
Department, team, and reporting-line changes from Ceridian Dayforce keep the groups, queues, or projects in Braze assigned to the right people.
What you can sync between Braze 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.
| Braze objects | Ceridian Dayforce objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Campaigns Message sends whose metadata and analytics are read for reporting. | 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. | Campaigns is specific to Braze and Employee (HR / Person Details) to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Canvases Multi-step journeys; entry and performance data is read for lifecycle analysis. | 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. | Canvases is specific to Braze and Employment Status to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Subscription Groups Channel-level opt-in states synced with consent records in other systems. | 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. | Subscription Groups is specific to Braze and Work Assignments to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Content Blocks Reusable message content referenced across campaigns. | 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. | Content Blocks is specific to Braze and Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Users The central profile object, identified by external ID, Braze ID, or user aliases; the main sync target. | 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. | Users is specific to Braze and Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Custom Attributes Profile fields written from CRMs, warehouses, and product databases to drive personalization. | 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. | Custom Attributes is specific to Braze and Employee Schedules to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Braze 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.
Braze Ceridian Dayforce Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Braze for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Braze Currents streams engagement events outward.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Ceridian Dayforce through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Ceridian Dayforce Braze Sub-second propagation
DetectionCeridian Dayforce notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. No CDC stream.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Braze through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Braze: Endpoints have per-endpoint rate limits documented by Braze; batch endpoints accept multiple users per request.
- 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 Braze ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce
Connect Braze and Ceridian Dayforce for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Braze–Ceridian Dayforce connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Braze 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 Braze or Ceridian Dayforce record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Braze ⇄ 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 Braze and Ceridian Dayforce.
How the Braze and Ceridian Dayforce connectors work
Braze
- Integration surface
- REST API
- Authentication
- REST API keys scoped to specific endpoints, issued per workspace
- Change detection
- Braze Currents streams engagement events outward; profile reads otherwise rely on export endpoints and polling
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- Endpoints have per-endpoint rate limits documented by Braze; batch endpoints accept multiple users per request
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 Braze 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 Braze 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.
Braze
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Ceridian Dayforce
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OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Braze 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 · Braze ⇄ 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.
Braze Ceridian DayforceCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Braze and Ceridian Dayforce integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Braze and Ceridian Dayforce: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Braze's Campaigns and Canvases), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Braze: Profiles can be addressed by external ID, Braze ID, or user aliases, and identity resolution across these matters when merging data from other systems. 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 Braze and Ceridian Dayforce without custom code.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Braze and Ceridian Dayforce records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Braze and Ceridian Dayforce connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Braze–Ceridian Dayforce integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Braze and Ceridian Dayforce. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on Braze: Braze Currents streams engagement events outward; profile reads otherwise rely on export endpoints and polling. On Ceridian Dayforce: 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. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
SECURITY
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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.
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HIPAA BAA
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SSO & SCIM
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Alerts
Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.
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