15 core services covering configuration, integrations, module buildouts, and ongoing support. Every engagement is hands-on-keyboard technical work.
Custom XML form configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization. We build forms that work the first time and keep working through updates.
Automate approvals, notifications, and business processes inside Dayforce. Replace email chains and manual handoffs with reliable automation.
Custom reports and analytics that actually pull the data you need. Scheduled, formatted, and reliable enough to hand to your CFO.
Document templates, e-signatures, and employee self-service configuration. Give your team the paperless experience they were promised.
Set up, debug, and monitor SFTP feeds to carriers, vendors, and third-party systems. No more silent failures sending bad data downstream.
Integration Studio exports built right. We handle the data mapping, transformation logic, error handling, and ongoing monitoring.
Fix broken imports, clean up data mapping, and establish reliable data pipelines moving data in and out of Dayforce.
Moving from a legacy system? We handle the historical data extraction, transformation, validation, and loading into Dayforce.
Full module buildout from scratch or rescue of a botched implementation. Goal setting, review cycles, merit matrices, and comp statements.
Benefits enrollment, carrier connections, ACA compliance, and open enrollment configuration. Make benefits season painless.
Applicant tracking, offer letter workflows, and new hire onboarding. First impressions matter — make them smooth.
Time tracking, scheduling, absence management, and workforce management configuration. Get your labor data right.
Dedicated support during critical payroll cycles. We watch, validate, and fix issues in real time — before they hit employee paychecks.
Hands-on training your team will actually use. Admin training, end-user workshops, and documentation built for your specific configuration.
Ongoing Dayforce administration and optimization. Think of it as your fractional HRIS team — available when you need us, without the headcount.
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The Dayforce API enables bidirectional data flow between Dayforce and your ERP, HRIS, benefits carriers, time-tracking systems, and data warehouses. We build the integrations that make it work.
Whether you're syncing employee data from an existing HRIS before go-live, pushing payroll results to your ERP, sending deductions to benefits carriers, or pulling time-tracking data from a legacy system — the Dayforce API handles it. We work with all major integration patterns: SFTP managed file transfer, REST API connectors, scheduled batch jobs, and real-time event-driven hooks.
Typical integration frequency: daily batch or real-time. Go-live timelines range from 2–6 weeks depending on complexity. We monitor error rates post-deployment and tune data flows until they're clean.
Most mid-market Dayforce implementations run 4–9 months. Complexity — integrations, data volume, benefits carriers — extends that range. Here's the typical sequence:
Scope the project, document requirements, audit current state, align on priorities. Expect 8–15 stakeholder interviews. Deliverable: project charter and phased work plan.
Core configuration, historical data migration, integration build. Data migration is where most projects slip — fix it here, not at go-live. Deliverable: configured system ready for UAT.
End-to-end testing, parallel payroll runs, HR/payroll user training, benefits enrollment validation. Parallel run is non-negotiable — run at least one full payroll cycle against the old system.
Cutover execution, first live payroll support, real-time issue resolution. Hypercare staffing is critical — you need fast response times during the first 2–4 weeks.
Configuration refinement, release regression testing, benefits carrier validations, additional module rollout. Stabilize before adding scope.
The most common mid-market migration. ADP Workforce Now and ADP Run both have migration paths, but the data never comes over cleanly on its own.
What carries over: employee demographics, pay components, some deduction codes. What doesn't: custom ADP scripts, historical absence balances, custom report logic.
Time and attendance migration is the hardest part of a UKG/Kronos exit. The data structure is different; the tolerance for errors is zero.
The Dayforce time model handles most UKG/Kronos patterns — but overtime rules, labor allocation, and badge-to-employee mapping are where migrations fail silently.
Workday HCM migrations require careful data extraction and re-normalization. The data exists — it's a matter of getting it into Dayforce's structure correctly.
Workday's data model is more flexible than Dayforce's — migration prep often surfaces configuration gaps that were masked by Workday's customization options.
Before you move data, fix what's broken in your current system. Migrating garbage into a clean system creates a bigger problem.
Use this checklist to hold your implementation team accountable. If something isn't done, it needs an owner, a reason, and a documented risk acceptance.
Payroll, taxes, benefits, time & attendance — all modules signed off
All SFTP, API, and ERP integrations tested end-to-end with carrier
At least one full payroll run matched between old and new system
All carriers confirmed, deductions correct, coverage effective date validated
All state, local, and district tax registrations verified and configured
HR, payroll, and manager users trained and signed off
All employee, payroll, and benefits data validated post-migration
Support team identified, escalation paths documented, SLAs agreed
Hypercare isn't a buzzword — it's the period where the system is under real load for the first time and problems surface fast. We structure it in three windows with clear response times.
Issues reported by 2pm get same-day response. Critical production issues (payroll can't run, tax filing at risk) get 2-hour response.
Response times extend to next-business-day. Focus shifts to optimization and surfacing configuration refinements.
Your internal team takes ownership. We provide documentation, training, and on-call support for edge cases.
Dayforce integrations fail in ways that don't show up in test environments. Field mapping breaks on the first real payroll run. SFTP credentials rotate silently. Date formats drift between systems. A generic consultant who configured the integration six months ago isn't watching — and by the time you notice, you've got 60 days of bad data.
The deeper problem: most Dayforce consultants treat integrations as a checkbox. They build to spec, hand it over, and move on. When it breaks — and it will — there's no ownership. You get a "we'll take a look" email and a three-week wait.
What deep Dayforce integration expertise unlocks: we know where Dayforce's data model is rigid and where it's forgiving. We know which carriers require specific file formats and which ones accept anything. We know the Integration Studio quirks that cause intermittent failures. That knowledge comes from doing this full-time, on mid-market implementations, for years.
It also means faster scoping. We've seen your problem before. We can give you a fixed price in 48 hours instead of a three-week discovery sprint.
Automated file delivery to and from carriers, benefits providers, payroll processors, and ERP systems. Includes monitoring, retry logic, and error alerting.
Custom XML forms for data collection, onboarding, benefits enrollment, and employee-facing workflows inside Dayforce.
Custom Dayforce reports built and scheduled — pushed to your data warehouse, FTP endpoint, or email distribution on a defined cadence.
End-to-end Integration Studio builds — from data mapping and transformation rules to error handling, monitoring, and scheduled exports.
REST API integrations built to your spec — connecting Dayforce to ERP systems, benefits platforms, payroll processors, and custom internal tools.
No hidden fees. No "it depends" until the SOW. These are real numbers you can budget against today.
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