Prepare Environment for Parallel or Go Live

Activate User's Guide

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2025.2
Overview of Prepare Environment for Parallel or Go Live

Overview of Prepare Environment for Parallel or Go Live

Use the Prepare Environment for Parallel or Go Live wizards to clean up the transactional and test data and clean up the data for Parallel or Go Live.

You can also use it to compare the output of Dayforce on the payroll side with your legacy payroll system. If parallel testing isn't completed, the data isn’t transitioned to support.

Note: For comprehensive information about Dayforce, see the Dayforce Implementation Guide (DIG).

Tasks

To access the Prepare Environment for Parallel or Go Live wizards

  1. In your browser, enter https://activate.dayforcehcm.com.
  2. Complete the following fields:
    • Company name
    • User name
    • Password
  3. Click Login.
  4. In the Profile menu (), click Quit Progress & Go Back to Central.

    The Activate Central page opens with a flashing blue icon () next to the Load Your Data section to indicate that this task is the current task.

  5. Click Prepare Environment for Parallel or Go Live. The Prepare Environment for Parallel or Go Live wizards show.
  6. Select the wizard that you want to complete.

Prepare the environment for the Parallel or Go Live wizards

You can use the following Prepare Environment for Parallel or Go Live wizards to prepare the environment: