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Ukg Pro to Zendesk integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Ukg Pro and Zendesk 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 Ukg Pro and Zendesk

Keep the people, teams, and status that Zendesk and Ukg Pro share aligned in real time, so a hire, role change, or departure recorded in one reaches the other within seconds.

Each tool in Zendesk keeps its own list of who can use it: users, members, or agents, along with the team they sit on and whether they are still active. Ukg Pro is the authoritative record of the same people as employees, with their department, manager, and employment status. When those two are connected only by manual account admin or a periodic export, the work tools drift: new hires wait days for access, team and manager changes never catch up, and people who have left keep standing accounts.

Stacksync syncs Ticket Forms, Tickets, Tickets Comments, Users in Zendesk with Terminations, Configuration Setup (Code Tables), Time & Attendance (UTA), Employee (Person Details) in Ukg Pro bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, moved, or offboarded in Ukg Pro creates or updates the matching user in Zendesk within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of spreadsheets and one-off account changes. Where Zendesk captures details of its own, such as a corrected contact or a login identity, those can flow back to Ukg Pro in whichever direction you configure.

Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps its own extras; only the shared facts, who a person is, which team they belong to, and whether their access should be on, are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Consolidate several Zendesk instances into one reporting database after a merger or brand split.
  • 02 Sync tickets, users, and organizations into Postgres so support analytics run on SQL instead of repeated API pulls.
  • 03 Keep Configuration code tables (jobs, locations, departments, cost centers) aligned between UKG Pro and an ERP so org and cost-center hierarchies match.
  • 04 Two-way sync of Employee and Job Details (position, department, supervisor, location, cost center) into Postgres so provisioning, internal apps, and analytics read current worker and org data in SQL while HR edits in UKG Pro.

Common sync patterns

Org and team structure kept current

Department, team, and reporting-line changes from Ukg Pro keep the groups, queues, or projects in Zendesk assigned to the right people.

Where Zendesk routes or assigns work by person: assignments follow the org

When someone changes teams or managers in Ukg Pro, the queues, ownership, or approvals in Zendesk update to match, so work reaches whoever holds the role now.

Onboarding: access ready on day one

A new hire recorded in Ukg Pro creates the matching user in Zendesk with the right team and manager already set, so people can start working without waiting on a provisioning ticket.

What you can sync between Ukg Pro and Zendesk

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.

Ukg Pro objects Zendesk objects How this pairing syncs
Time & Attendance (UTA) Timekeeping and worked-hours data exposed by the UTA services; synced into scheduling, payroll, or workforce-analytics databases. Tickets Comments Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Time & Attendance (UTA) is specific to Ukg Pro and Tickets Comments to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Employee (Person Details) Core worker record with demographics and identifiers; read by listing employee IDs then fetching each profile, and created on hire via the personnel/onboarding endpoints. Users End users and agents; matched to CRM contacts to keep requester data consistent. Employee (Person Details) is specific to Ukg Pro and Users to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Employment Details Employment status, hire and service dates, and company assignment; the record that drives active/terminated state for provisioning downstream. Organizations Company groupings for users; typically kept aligned with CRM accounts. Employment Details is specific to Ukg Pro and Organizations to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Job / Position History Effective-dated job, position, department, supervisor, location, and cost center; the most-synced record for org charts, provisioning, and analytics. Attachments Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Job / Position History is specific to Ukg Pro and Attachments to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Compensation Details Effective-dated pay rate and salary; usually read into a warehouse for comp reporting and writable as new dated changes through the compensation endpoints. Ticket Forms Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Compensation Details is specific to Ukg Pro and Ticket Forms to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Payroll (Pay Statements, Direct Deposit, Earnings) Pay statements, direct-deposit accounts, and earnings history; read-only pay data replicated into finance and warehouse systems for labor-cost reporting. Tickets The central work object; synced to databases for SLA and volume reporting or mirrored into engineering tools. Payroll (Pay Statements, Direct Deposit, Earnings) is specific to Ukg Pro and Tickets to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ukg Pro and Zendesk

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.

Ukg Pro Zendesk Sub-second propagation

DetectionUkg Pro notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. No CDC stream.

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

Zendesk Ukg Pro Sub-second propagation

DetectionZendesk notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Incremental export endpoints with cursor-based pagination, plus webhooks fired by triggers.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Ukg Pro: An API gateway throttles calls per client over a rolling window (typically per minute); UKG does not publish exact numeric thresholds. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 429, and UKG recommends a roughly one-second looping backoff before resuming (a Retry-After header is not yet standard). Reads are offset-paginated.
  • Zendesk: Request limits vary by plan; incremental export endpoints have their own allowances.
What ships with Ukg Pro ⇄ Zendesk

Connect Ukg Pro and Zendesk for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Ukg Pro–Zendesk connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Ukg Pro or Zendesk instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ukg Pro or Zendesk 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 Ukg Pro or Zendesk record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Ukg Pro ⇄ Zendesk sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Ukg Pro and Zendesk.

How the Ukg Pro and Zendesk connectors work

Ukg Pro

Integration surface
REST API (UKG Pro HCM REST services) with separate Onboarding and Recruiting REST APIs, plus legacy SOAP-based UKG Pro Web Services
Authentication
Core HCM REST APIs use HTTP Basic authentication with a dedicated web service account, plus a Customer API Key and a User API Key sent as headers (found under System Configuration > Security > Service Account Administration); the Onboarding and Recruiting REST APIs instead require a bearer Authorization Token from the token endpoint.
Change detection
No CDC stream. UKG Pro publishes Pro HCM Webhook Events for changes such as new hire, employee and job detail changes, termination, and PTO, which Stacksync subscribes to for near-real-time triggers; bulk and historical loads use paged reads with each service's modified-since filters.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
An API gateway throttles calls per client over a rolling window (typically per minute); UKG does not publish exact numeric thresholds. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 429, and UKG recommends a roughly one-second looping backoff before resuming (a Retry-After header is not yet standard). Reads are offset-paginated.
Ukg Pro setup guide

Zendesk

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth app authorization: enter your Zendesk subdomain (from {sub_domain_name}.zendesk.com) in Stacksync Connections and click "Authorize App"
Change detection
Incremental export endpoints with cursor-based pagination, plus webhooks fired by triggers
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Request limits vary by plan; incremental export endpoints have their own allowances.
Zendesk setup guide
How it works

How to connect Ukg Pro to Zendesk — 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 Ukg Pro and Zendesk 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
    Ukg Pro connected
    Zendesk connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Ukg Pro and Zendesk 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 · Ukg Pro ⇄ Zendesk
    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
    Ukg Pro Zendesk
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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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

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