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Ceridian Dayforce to Cin7 integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7 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 Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that Cin7 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. Cin7 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 Contacts, Branches / locations, Stock adjustments and transfers, Credit notes / returns in Cin7 with Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries, Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions 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 Cin7 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 Keep customer records aligned between Cin7 and the CRM to remove duplicate account entry.
  • 02 Write purchase orders created in a planning tool back into Cin7 for receiving.
  • 03 Push new hires (Employee, Employment Status, Work Assignment) from an ATS or onboarding tool into Dayforce with POST once a candidate is hired, pre-fetching valid XRefCodes for department, position, location, and pay group.
  • 04 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.

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 Cin7 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 Cin7 pointed at the right people.

Where Ceridian Dayforce runs payroll: labor cost in the books

Pay and compensation data from Ceridian Dayforce posts into Cin7 as labor cost, so finance sees workforce spend without re-entering it by hand.

What you can sync between Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7

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.

Ceridian Dayforce objects Cin7 objects How this pairing syncs
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. Purchase orders Supplier orders synced with procurement and accounting workflows. Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Purchase orders to Cin7 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Contacts Customers and suppliers, matched to CRM records to keep account data consistent. Time Away From Work & Balances is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Contacts to Cin7 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Branches / locations Warehouse entities that scope every stock movement and order allocation. Employee (HR / Person Details) is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Branches / locations to Cin7 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Stock adjustments and transfers Inventory movements read for audit and reconciliation reporting. Employment Status is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Stock adjustments and transfers to Cin7 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Credit notes / returns Return documents synced so finance and support see the same refund state. Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Credit notes / returns to Cin7 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Products SKU records with options and pricing, synced with storefront and marketplace catalogs. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Products to Cin7 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7

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.

Ceridian Dayforce Cin7 Sub-second propagation

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

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Cin7 through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Cin7 Ceridian Dayforce Sub-second propagation

DetectionCin7 notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling on modified-date filters.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Ceridian Dayforce 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.
  • Cin7: Subject to per-account API rate limits that differ between Cin7 Omni and Cin7 Core.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Cin7

Connect Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7 for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Ceridian Dayforce–Cin7 connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Ceridian Dayforce or Cin7 instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or Cin7 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 Ceridian Dayforce or Cin7 record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Cin7 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 Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7.

How the Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7 connectors work

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.
Ceridian Dayforce setup guide

Cin7

Integration surface
REST API; note that Cin7 Omni and Cin7 Core (formerly DEAR Systems) are separate products with separate APIs
Authentication
API key credentials (paired with a username or account ID, depending on the product)
Change detection
Polling on modified-date filters; webhook support exists on some editions for order and stock events
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to per-account API rate limits that differ between Cin7 Omni and Cin7 Core
How it works

How to connect Ceridian Dayforce to Cin7 — 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 Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7 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
    Ceridian Dayforce connected
    Cin7 connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Ceridian Dayforce and Cin7 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 · Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Cin7
    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
    Ceridian Dayforce Cin7
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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