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Sage X3 to Ukg Ready integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Sage X3 and Ukg Ready 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 Sage X3 and Ukg Ready

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that Sage X3 and Ukg Ready share in real time, so the people Ukg Ready manages stay current in the system that runs finance and operations.

Ukg Ready 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. Sage X3 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 Work Orders, Stock / Inventory by site, Bills of Material, GL Journals in Sage X3 with Reports (Report-as-a-Service), Employees, Employment / Positions, Compensation in Ukg Ready 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 Sage X3 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 orders from e-commerce or EDI channels into X3 sales orders and return delivery status.
  • 02 Publish per-site stock levels to storefronts and a WMS on a schedule.
  • 03 Two-way sync Employees and Employment/Position records with an operational Postgres database so internal apps and IT provisioning read job title, department, and status in SQL while HR edits in UKG Ready.
  • 04 Import computed Earnings and deductions into UKG Ready payroll runs from a warehouse or external time-tracking system ahead of each pay period.

Common sync patterns

Where Ukg Ready is the worker system of record: one employee master

When a worker is hired, moved, or offboarded in Ukg Ready, the matching employee record in Sage X3 is created, updated, or deactivated, so the business system reflects the workforce as it actually is.

New hires ready to transact in Sage X3

A new person set up in Ukg Ready becomes an employee record in Sage X3 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 Sage X3 roll up to the same structure Ukg Ready maintains.

What you can sync between Sage X3 and Ukg Ready

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.

Sage X3 objects Ukg Ready objects How this pairing syncs
Bills of Material Product structures read for planning and costing. Timesheet Entries Time-and-attendance punches, hours worked, and breaks; written from external time systems and read into warehouses for labor-cost reporting. Bills of Material is specific to Sage X3 and Timesheet Entries to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
GL Journals Financial entries replicated to warehouses for group reporting. Accruals / Time Off PTO balances, requests, and approver status; read for liability reporting and requests can be created against employee records. GL Journals is specific to Sage X3 and Accruals / Time Off to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Deliveries Shipment documents synced to logistics providers and customer portals. Payroll (Earnings / Deductions / Employee Payroll Runs) Earnings and deductions can be imported into pay runs; Employee Payroll Runs (gross, net, taxes) read back for GL posting and analytics. Deliveries is specific to Sage X3 and Payroll (Earnings / Deductions / Employee Payroll Runs) to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Business Partners (Customers and Suppliers) Shared partner master synced with CRMs and procurement systems. Benefits Plan enrollments, coverage tiers, contributions, and effective dates; typically read into benefits or finance systems. Business Partners (Customers and Suppliers) is specific to Sage X3 and Benefits to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Products Item master with units, costing, and site data, synced to commerce and PLM tools. Cost Centers / Groups Departments, locations, and hierarchy used as org structure; read to align headcount and budget models across systems. Products is specific to Sage X3 and Cost Centers / Groups to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sales Orders Order documents written from external channels and read for fulfillment status. Reports (Report-as-a-Service) Scheduled IBM Cognos extracts used for bulk historical pulls that the per-employee REST endpoints are not built for. Sales Orders is specific to Sage X3 and Reports (Report-as-a-Service) to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Sage X3 and Ukg Ready

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.

Sage X3 Ukg Ready Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Sage X3 for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Scheduled polling.

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

Ukg Ready Sage X3 Sub-second propagation

DetectionUkg Ready notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. UKG Webhooks for select events (employee.created, employee.updated, account/org changes) with HMAC signing.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Sage X3 as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Ukg Ready: Rate limits apply over roughly a 1-minute window and return HTTP 429 when exceeded (back off / exponential retry); UKG Webhooks run on a tiered quota with a free tier around 10,000 event notifications per month and 14-day event retention.
What ships with Sage X3 ⇄ Ukg Ready

Connect Sage X3 and Ukg Ready for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Sage X3–Ukg Ready connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Sage X3 or Ukg Ready instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Sage X3 or Ukg Ready 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 Sage X3 or Ukg Ready record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Sage X3 ⇄ Ukg Ready sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Sage X3 and Ukg Ready.

How the Sage X3 and Ukg Ready connectors work

Sage X3

Integration surface
SOAP and REST web services published from X3 business objects; direct SQL access to the underlying database on-prem
Authentication
Dedicated web-service user credentials (Basic auth) against configured connection pools
Change detection
Scheduled polling; no general webhook surface on the classic web services layer
Capabilities
read · write

Ukg Ready

Integration surface
UKG Ready REST API (v1/v2) plus the Import Tool (XML transactions) and Report-as-a-Service (IBM Cognos); a legacy SOAP API also exists
Authentication
A 7-digit company short name, a Web API key (Company Setup > Login Config), and a dedicated API service-account user (username/password) are exchanged for a session Bearer token sent on every request; Onboarding/Recruiting endpoints use a separate authorization token
Change detection
UKG Webhooks for select events (employee.created, employee.updated, account/org changes) with HMAC signing; broad change capture via polling REST endpoints with date filters or scheduled Report-as-a-Service extracts
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits apply over roughly a 1-minute window and return HTTP 429 when exceeded (back off / exponential retry); UKG Webhooks run on a tiered quota with a free tier around 10,000 event notifications per month and 14-day event retention
How it works

How to connect Sage X3 to Ukg Ready — 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 Sage X3 and Ukg Ready 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
    Sage X3 connected
    Ukg Ready connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Sage X3 and Ukg Ready 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 · Sage X3 ⇄ Ukg Ready
    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
    Sage X3 Ukg Ready
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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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.

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