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

Keep Ceridian Dayforce and DEAR Inventory 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 DEAR Inventory

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that DEAR Inventory 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. DEAR Inventory 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 Assemblies / Production, Locations, Products, Stock levels in DEAR Inventory with Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries, Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions, Time Away From Work & Balances 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 DEAR Inventory 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 Push sale orders from a storefront or CRM into DEAR for fulfillment without manual re-entry.
  • 02 Land orders, costs, and inventory movements in a warehouse for margin and stock-turn reporting.
  • 03 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.
  • 04 Two-way sync of Employee and Work Assignment data (position, department, location, org unit) into Postgres so provisioning, internal apps, and analytics read current worker and org data in SQL while HR keeps editing in Dayforce.

Common sync patterns

New hires ready to transact in DEAR Inventory

A new person set up in Ceridian Dayforce becomes an employee record in DEAR Inventory in time to submit expenses, enter time, or approve a purchase, without waiting on manual setup.

One org structure

Departments, cost centers, and locations that both systems reference stay in agreement, so labor cost, approvals, and reporting in DEAR Inventory 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 DEAR Inventory pointed at the right people.

What you can sync between Ceridian Dayforce and DEAR Inventory

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 DEAR Inventory objects How this pairing syncs
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. Products SKU records with pricing, suppliers, and bill-of-material links; the master data most syncs start from. Employee Schedules is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Products to DEAR Inventory — 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. Stock levels Per-location availability derived from inventory transactions; read-heavy in storefront syncs. Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Stock levels to DEAR Inventory — 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. Sale orders Customer orders through their pick/pack/ship lifecycle; synced with storefronts and CRMs. Time Away From Work & Balances is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Sale orders to DEAR Inventory — 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. Purchase orders Supplier orders and receiving records synced with accounting and planning tools. Employee (HR / Person Details) is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Purchase orders to DEAR Inventory — 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. Customers Buyer records aligned with CRM and accounting counterparts. Employment Status is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Customers to DEAR Inventory — 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. Suppliers Vendor records referenced on purchase orders. Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Suppliers to DEAR Inventory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and DEAR Inventory

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 DEAR Inventory Sub-second propagation

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

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

DEAR Inventory Ceridian Dayforce Sub-second propagation

DetectionDEAR Inventory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling with modified-since 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.
  • DEAR Inventory: Subject to the platform's per-account API rate limits.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ DEAR Inventory

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or DEAR Inventory 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 DEAR Inventory record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ DEAR Inventory 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 DEAR Inventory.

How the Ceridian Dayforce and DEAR Inventory 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

DEAR Inventory

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
Account ID plus application key sent as request headers
Change detection
Polling with modified-since filters; webhook notifications for sale and purchase events are available on subscriptions that include the Automation module
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's per-account API rate limits
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Ceridian Dayforce and DEAR Inventory 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 ⇄ DEAR Inventory
    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 DEAR Inventory
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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