Skip to content
Human resources ⇄ ERP

Ceridian Dayforce to Dynamics 365 F&O integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

  • SOC 2 and 6 other compliance frameworks
  • POC with real engineers in minutes

Adopted by fast-scaling companies moving mission-critical data in real time

Case study
Migrated from MuleSoft
Case study
Migrated from Celigo
Migrated from Heroku Connect
Migrated from Matillion
Case study
Migrated from Fivetran
Case study
Migrated from Celigo
Why teams connect Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that Dynamics 365 F&O 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. Dynamics 365 F&O 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 Purchase Orders, Customer Invoices, Vendor Invoices, General Journal Entries in Dynamics 365 F&O 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 Dynamics 365 F&O 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 Sync customers, vendors, and released products into an operational database that internal apps read instead of calling OData directly.
  • 02 Push sales orders from e-commerce into F&O and sync fulfillment and invoice status back to the storefront.
  • 03 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.
  • 04 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.

Common sync patterns

Where Ceridian Dayforce is the worker system of record: one employee master

When a worker is hired, moved, or offboarded in Ceridian Dayforce, the matching employee record in Dynamics 365 F&O is created, updated, or deactivated, so the business system reflects the workforce as it actually is.

New hires ready to transact in Dynamics 365 F&O

A new person set up in Ceridian Dayforce becomes an employee record in Dynamics 365 F&O 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 Dynamics 365 F&O roll up to the same structure Ceridian Dayforce maintains.

What you can sync between Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O

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 Dynamics 365 F&O objects How this pairing syncs
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. On-hand Inventory Stock positions; read out to storefronts and internal apps for availability. Employment Status is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and On-hand Inventory to Dynamics 365 F&O — 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. Customers Customer master records; kept aligned with CRM accounts in two-way syncs. Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Customers to Dynamics 365 F&O — 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. Vendors Supplier master records; synced with procurement and AP tools. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Vendors to Dynamics 365 F&O — 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. Released Products Sellable product master; read out to commerce channels and CRM catalogs. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Released Products to Dynamics 365 F&O — 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. Sales Orders Order transactions; written in from storefronts or CRM and tracked through fulfillment. Employee Schedules is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Sales Orders to Dynamics 365 F&O — 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. Purchase Orders Procurement transactions; extracted for spend and supply chain reporting. Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Purchase Orders to Dynamics 365 F&O — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O

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 Dynamics 365 F&O Sub-second propagation

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

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Dynamics 365 F&O through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Dynamics 365 F&O Ceridian Dayforce Sub-second propagation

DetectionDynamics 365 F&O pushes changes as they happen — webhook events backed by change data capture. Change data capture via the Dynamics 365 Change Tracking feature, enabled per entity.

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.
  • Dynamics 365 F&O: OData requests are subject to platform throttling; high-volume loads belong in the Data Management Framework.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Dynamics 365 F&O

Connect Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Ceridian Dayforce–Dynamics 365 F&O connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Ceridian Dayforce or Dynamics 365 F&O instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or Dynamics 365 F&O 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 Dynamics 365 F&O record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Dynamics 365 F&O 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 Dynamics 365 F&O.

How the Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O 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

Dynamics 365 F&O

Integration surface
OData REST endpoint over data entities, plus the Data Management Framework for batch
Authentication
OAuth via Microsoft sign-in: provide the D365 F&O environment URL, sign in with Microsoft credentials, and grant the Stacksync app consent (admin consent may be required — "Need admin approval for this app")
Change detection
Change data capture via the Dynamics 365 Change Tracking feature, enabled per entity; falls back to periodic full-sync where change tracking is unavailable
Capabilities
read · write · CDC · webhooks
Rate limits
OData requests are subject to platform throttling; high-volume loads belong in the Data Management Framework.
Dynamics 365 F&O setup guide
How it works

How to connect Ceridian Dayforce to Dynamics 365 F&O — 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 Dynamics 365 F&O 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
    Dynamics 365 F&O connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O 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 ⇄ Dynamics 365 F&O
    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 Dynamics 365 F&O
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
Try interactive demo
FAQ

Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O integration FAQ

SECURITY

Security teams trust Stacksync

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.

Learn more about security
SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
→ SECURITY WITH BENEFITS

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:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

Related integrations

Every pair below is a real-time, two-way sync. Search all 414 integrations available for Ceridian Dayforce and Dynamics 365 F&O.

Popular · 7 of 414
All Ceridian Dayforce integrations All Dynamics 365 F&O integrations Browse all integrations
Coworkers laughing in front of a laptop in a casual office setting

Your last integration took months.
Your next one takes a prompt.

Book a demo Tour the platform on your own