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

Keep Ceridian Dayforce and Unleashed Software 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 Unleashed Software

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that Unleashed Software 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. Unleashed Software 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 Warehouses, Stock Adjustments, Bills of Materials, Invoices in Unleashed Software 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 Unleashed Software 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 Mirror Purchase Orders and supplier data to a data warehouse for procurement reporting.
  • 02 Sync Customers bi-directionally with a CRM so credit terms and delivery addresses match everywhere.
  • 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

Where Ceridian Dayforce runs payroll: labor cost in the books

Pay and compensation data from Ceridian Dayforce posts into Unleashed Software 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 Unleashed Software is created, updated, or deactivated, so the business system reflects the workforce as it actually is.

New hires ready to transact in Unleashed Software

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

What you can sync between Ceridian Dayforce and Unleashed Software

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 Unleashed Software 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. Stock Adjustments Manual quantity or value corrections synced for audit and reporting. Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Stock Adjustments to Unleashed Software — 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. Bills of Materials Production definitions used by assemblies; relevant for manufacturers syncing production data. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Bills of Materials to Unleashed Software — 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. Invoices Sales invoices raised from orders, synced into accounting systems. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Invoices to Unleashed Software — 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. Products SKU master records with pricing, units of measure, and inventory settings. Employee Schedules is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Products to Unleashed Software — 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 On Hand Quantity and value per product per warehouse; the read source for availability syncs. Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Stock On Hand to Unleashed Software — 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. Sales Orders Outbound orders with lines, status, and fulfillment detail; a common write target from storefronts and CRMs. Time Away From Work & Balances is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Sales Orders to Unleashed Software — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and Unleashed Software

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 Unleashed Software Sub-second propagation

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

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

Unleashed Software Ceridian Dayforce Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Unleashed Software for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling with modified-date filters on list endpoints.

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.
  • Unleashed Software: Subject to the platform's API rate limits; paginate list endpoints and batch where possible.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Unleashed Software

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or Unleashed Software 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 Unleashed Software record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ Unleashed Software 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 Unleashed Software.

How the Ceridian Dayforce and Unleashed Software 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

Unleashed Software

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API ID plus API key, with each request signed using an HMAC-SHA256 of the query string
Change detection
Polling with modified-date filters on list endpoints
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits; paginate list endpoints and batch where possible.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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