{"id":"06888e77-2379-4e25-b33d-3ab75f54f9e5","task":"Retrieve employee pay summary and pay adjustment data from Dayforce via RESTful Web Services to reconcile a completed payroll run.","domain":"help.dayforce.com","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."],"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."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T15:36:44.293Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/06888e77-2379-4e25-b33d-3ab75f54f9e5"}