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Ceridian Dayforce to Microsoft Dynamics NAV integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Ceridian Dayforce and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 Items, Sales Orders & Invoices, Purchase Orders, G/L Entries in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 inventory availability current in storefronts and customer portals.
  • 02 Run parallel sync during a NAV-to-Business Central migration so both systems stay usable.
  • 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

Reporting lines drive approvals

Manager and reporting-hierarchy changes in Ceridian Dayforce keep expense and purchase approval chains in Microsoft Dynamics NAV pointed at the right people.

Where Ceridian Dayforce runs payroll: labor cost in the books

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

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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV is created, updated, or deactivated, so the business system reflects the workforce as it actually is.

What you can sync between Ceridian Dayforce and Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV objects How this pairing syncs
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. G/L Entries Posted ledger entries replicated to warehouses for finance reporting. Employee (HR / Person Details) is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and G/L Entries to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — 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. Item Ledger Entries Inventory movement history read for stock and costing analytics. Employment Status is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Item Ledger Entries to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — 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. Dimensions Analytical codes carried on documents and entries for reporting splits. Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Dimensions to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — 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. Companies Per-company data partitions that scope every sync. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Companies to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — 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. Customers Customer cards synced with CRMs so sales sees ERP balances and terms. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Customers to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — 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. Vendors Vendor cards aligned with procurement and AP tools. Employee Schedules is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Vendors to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV Sub-second propagation

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

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Microsoft Dynamics NAV as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Ceridian Dayforce Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Microsoft Dynamics NAV are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Polling on modified/timestamp fields, or SQL Server change tracking/CDC on on-premises databases.

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.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Connect Ceridian Dayforce and Microsoft Dynamics NAV for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

How the Ceridian Dayforce and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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

Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Integration surface
SOAP and OData web services published from NAV pages and codeunits; direct SQL Server access on-premises
Authentication
Windows authentication or NavUserPassword credentials
Change detection
Polling on modified/timestamp fields, or SQL Server change tracking/CDC on on-premises databases; no native webhooks
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Ceridian Dayforce and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 ⇄ Microsoft Dynamics NAV
    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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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