Retrieve employee pay summary and pay adjustment data from Dayforce via RESTful Web Services to reconcile a completed payroll run.
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Steps
Authenticate to the Dayforce Identity token endpoint using the Web Services account credentials to obtain a bearer access token, as with any Dayforce Web Services call.
Call the RESTful Get Employee Pay Summaries endpoint, scoped by pay period or XRefCode, to retrieve per-employee gross-to-net summary totals for a processed payroll run.
Call the RESTful Get Employee Pay Adjustments endpoint to retrieve any adjustment-level detail (e.g., off-cycle corrections) tied to that same pay run.
Cross-reference the returned records against your general ledger account mapping, since Dayforce returns pay summary and adjustment data rather than pre-coded GL journal lines.
Use the documented paging mechanism to page through results when reconciling a full company payroll run rather than a single employee.
Re-run the pay summary call after any correction run, since adjustment data can post against a prior pay period after the original summary was first retrieved.
Known gotchas
Pay Summaries and Pay Adjustments are separate endpoints — a reconciliation that only reads Pay Summaries will miss off-cycle adjustment detail posted against the same pay period.
Dayforce also documents a Comparison of File Export Facility and Web Services describing when the batch file export path is preferred over the RESTful API for large payroll extracts — for very large exports, the file-based facility may be the documented approach rather than paginated REST calls.
There is no GL-coded output — mapping pay summary/adjustment line items to a chart of accounts is integration-side logic, not something the API returns natively.
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