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Changes in Ceridian Dayforce or SAP instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Ceridian Dayforce to SAP integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Ceridian Dayforce and SAP 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 SAP
Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that SAP 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. SAP 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 Production Orders, Inventory / Stock, Cost Centers, Business Partners in SAP with Employment Status, Work Assignments, Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries 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 SAP 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 MES and WMS systems aligned with production orders and goods movements.
- 02 Expose sales order and delivery status to customer portals through a synced Postgres database instead of direct SAP access.
- 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 SAP 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 SAP pointed at the right people.
Where Ceridian Dayforce runs payroll: labor cost in the books
Pay and compensation data from Ceridian Dayforce posts into SAP as labor cost, so finance sees workforce spend without re-entering it by hand.
What you can sync between Ceridian Dayforce and SAP
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 | SAP 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. | Inventory / Stock Plant and storage-location quantities synced to storefronts and planning tools. | Employee (HR / Person Details) is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Inventory / Stock to SAP — 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. | Cost Centers Controlling masters read for mapping costs in finance integrations. | Employment Status is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Cost Centers to SAP — 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. | Business Partners The unified customer and supplier master in S/4HANA, the anchor object for CRM and procurement syncs. | Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Business Partners to SAP — 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. | Materials (Products) Item master with plant and sales views, synced to commerce, PLM, and CRM systems. | Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Materials (Products) to SAP — 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. | Sales Orders Order documents written from external channels and read for status and fulfillment. | Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Sales Orders to SAP — 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. | Purchase Orders Procurement documents synced with supplier portals and spend tools. | Employee Schedules is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Purchase Orders to SAP — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and SAP
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 SAP Sub-second propagation
DetectionCeridian Dayforce notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. No CDC stream.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to SAP through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
SAP Ceridian Dayforce Sub-second propagation
DetectionSAP notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Business events via SAP Event Mesh on S/4HANA.
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.
- SAP: Throttling is configured at the gateway and tenant level rather than as a single published rate limit.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ SAP
Connect Ceridian Dayforce and SAP for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Ceridian Dayforce–SAP connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or SAP 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 SAP record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ SAP 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 SAP.
How the Ceridian Dayforce and SAP 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.
SAP
- Integration surface
- OData (v2/v4) APIs on S/4HANA; BAPI/RFC and IDoc on ECC and on-prem systems; SOAP services
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 or basic auth via communication arrangements on cloud editions; SAP user credentials for RFC on-prem
- Change detection
- Business events via SAP Event Mesh on S/4HANA; change pointers with IDocs or timestamp polling on ECC
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Throttling is configured at the gateway and tenant level rather than as a single published rate limit
How it works
How to connect Ceridian Dayforce to SAP — 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.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Ceridian Dayforce and SAP with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
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OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Ceridian Dayforce and SAP 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.
objects · Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ SAPCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Ceridian Dayforce SAPCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Ceridian Dayforce and SAP integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Ceridian Dayforce and SAP: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Ceridian Dayforce's Employee (HR / Person Details) and Employment Status), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Change detection on Ceridian Dayforce: 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. On SAP: Business events via SAP Event Mesh on S/4HANA; change pointers with IDocs or timestamp polling on ECC. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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On the SAP side: Production Orders, Inventory / Stock, Cost Centers, Business Partners, plus custom fields where SAP exposes them. On the Ceridian Dayforce side: Employment Status, Work Assignments, Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Common patterns for Ceridian Dayforce and SAP: One org structure; Reporting lines drive approvals; Where Ceridian Dayforce runs payroll: labor cost in the books. Departments, cost centers, and locations that both systems reference stay in agreement, so labor cost, approvals, and reporting in SAP roll up to the same structure Ceridian Dayforce maintains.
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Ceridian Dayforce: 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. SAP: OData (v2/v4) APIs on S/4HANA; BAPI/RFC and IDoc on ECC and on-prem systems; SOAP services. Authentication: OAuth 2.0 or basic auth via communication arrangements on cloud editions; SAP user credentials for RFC on-prem. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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