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Microsoft, Team Chat
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Calendar, Email, Microsoft
monday.com
Project Management
Human in the Loop
AI Assistants
SimpleTexting
Phone & SMS
Google Sheets
Google, Spreadsheets
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft, Team Chat
Microsoft Outlook
Calendar, Email, Microsoft
monday.com
Project Management
Human in the Loop
AI Assistants
SimpleTexting
Phone & SMS
Google Sheets
Google, Spreadsheets
Google Forms
Forms & Surveys, Google
Airtable
Databases
ActiveCampaign
Marketing Automation
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Supported triggers and actions
Zapier helps you create workflows that connect your apps to automate repetitive tasks. A trigger is an event that starts a workflow, and an action is an event a Zap performs.
- New Employee
Triggers when an employee is newly hired.
Try ItTriggerPolling - First NameRequired
- Last NameRequired
- Birth DateRequired
- GenderRequired
- Social Security NumberRequired
- CultureRequired
- CountryRequired
- Hire DateRequired
- Effective Start Date
- Pre-Start Date
- Employment StatusRequired
- RoleRequired
- Base RateRequired
- Pay ClassRequired
- Pay TypeRequired
- LocationRequired
- DepartmentRequired
- JobRequired
- City
- Postal Code
- Address 1
ActionWrite- How update works
- EmployeeRequired
- Effective startRequired
- Effective end
- Merge forward
- Merge to
- Employee number
- Employment status
- CompensationInfoCopy
- Pay type
- Pay class
- Base rate
- Base salary
- Shift rotation day offset
- Shift rotation start date
- Create shift rotation shift
- Alternate rate
- Average daily hours
- Average overtime rate
- Base rate manually set
- Periodic salary
- Daily rate
- Normal weekly hours
- Normal semi-monthly hours top
- Normal semi-monthly hours bottom
- Vacation rate
- Target bonus
- Monthly hours
- FTE ratio
- FTE annual salary
- Full-time weekly hours
- Employment status reason
ActionWrite- Employee reference codeRequired
- Manager level
- Context date
- Copy_context_date
- Context date range from
- Context date range to
ActionSearch
- Terminated Employee
Triggers when an employee is terminated.
Try ItTriggerPolling - How replacement works
- EmployeeRequired
- Replace fromRequired
- Replace to
- Employee number
- Effective startRequired
- Effective end
- Employment status
- Pay type
- Pay class
- Shift rotation day offset
- Shift rotation start date
- Create shift rotation shift
- Alternate rate
- Average daily hours
- Average overtime rate
- Base rate
- Base rate manually set
- Base salary
- Periodic salary
- Daily rate
- Normal weekly hours
- Normal semi-monthly hours top
- Normal semi-monthly hours bottom
- Vacation rate
- Target bonus
- Monthly hours
- FTE ratio
- FTE annual salary
- Full-time weekly hours
- Employment status reason
ActionWrite- Copy
- Employee number
- Display name
- Employment status
- Org unit
- Department
- Job
- Position
- Hire start date
- Hire end date
- Termination start date
- Termination end date
- Updated start date
- Updated end date
- Updated entities
- Context date
- Expand
ActionSearch- EmployeeRequired
ActionSearch
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Code
Open the SDK docsWork in code with the Zapier SDK
Expose Dayforce actions from backend services, scripts, or agent code. Zapier handles the OAuth and scoped permissions. Access 9,000+ apps, plus thousands more with .fetch().
Install
npm install @zapier/zapier-sdk npm install -D @zapier/zapier-sdk-cli zapier-sdk login # create a Dayforce connection @ https://zapier.com/app/assets/connections
Run an action
// Typescript
import { createZapierSdk } from "@zapier/zapier-sdk";
const zapier = createZapierSdk();
const { data: connection } = await zapier.findFirstConnection({ app: "dayforce", owner: "me" });
await zapier.runAction({
app: 'dayforce',
action: 'create_employee',
connection: connection.id,
input: {
{inputKeyValuePairs}
},
});Direct API calls to raw endpoints through fetch are not yet subject to org-level app and action restrictions.
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