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

Keep Ceridian Dayforce and ConnectWise 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 ConnectWise

Keep the people, teams, and status that ConnectWise 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 ConnectWise 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 Service Tickets, Opportunities, Agreements, Projects in ConnectWise with Employment Status, Work Assignments, Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries 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 ConnectWise within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of spreadsheets and one-off account changes. Where ConnectWise 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 Keep configuration (asset) records aligned with an external CMDB or RMM tool.
  • 02 Sync time entries to payroll or BI tools for utilization analysis across technicians.
  • 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 ConnectWise 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 ConnectWise assigned to the right people.

What you can sync between Ceridian Dayforce and ConnectWise

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 ConnectWise objects How this pairing syncs
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. Companies Client and prospect account records that anchor most other PSA data in a sync. Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Companies to ConnectWise — 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. Contacts People attached to companies, commonly synced against CRM contact records. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Contacts to ConnectWise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Service Tickets Support and service desk tickets, including status, board, and priority fields. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Service Tickets to ConnectWise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Opportunities Sales pipeline records synced to CRMs for forecasting and handoff. Employee Schedules is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Opportunities to ConnectWise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Agreements Recurring contracts and managed-service agreements used for billing reconciliation. Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Agreements to ConnectWise — 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. Projects Project and phase records synced for delivery tracking outside the PSA. Time Away From Work & Balances is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Projects to ConnectWise — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and ConnectWise

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 ConnectWise Sub-second propagation

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

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

ConnectWise Ceridian Dayforce Sub-second propagation

DetectionConnectWise notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Callbacks (webhooks) on record changes, supplemented by polling on last-updated fields.

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.
  • ConnectWise: Subject to the platform's API rate limits per company and integration.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ ConnectWise

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or ConnectWise 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 ConnectWise record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Ceridian Dayforce and ConnectWise 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

ConnectWise

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
Public/private API key pair for an API member, combined with a registered clientId, sent via Basic authentication
Change detection
Callbacks (webhooks) on record changes, supplemented by polling on last-updated fields
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits per company and integration
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Ceridian Dayforce and ConnectWise 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 ⇄ ConnectWise
    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 ConnectWise
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

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.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

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