POST and PATCH Employee Subordinate Resources

Dayforce RESTful Web Services Developer Guide

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R2025.2.1
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POST and PATCH Employee Subordinate Resources

You can use the POST and PATCH HTTP verbs to add and update employee HR data in Dayforce. There are a number of subordinate resources that you can use to insert and update employee HR data in Dayforce. The URL for the subordinate calls is constructed as follows:

https://www.dayforcehcm.com/api/[CompanyName]/V1/Employees/[XRefCode]/[sub-resource name as listed below]

The following is the list of sub-resources that can be used in the URL structure above to insert and update employee HR information:

  • Addresses: Insert or update employee address information.
  • CANFederalTaxes: Insert or update Canadian federal taxes information.
  • CANStateTaxes: Insert or update Canadian provincial taxes information.
  • CANTaxStatuses: Insert or update Canadian provincial tax filing status information, such as single or married.
  • ClockDeviceGroups: Insert or update employee clock device group assignments.
  • Contacts: Insert or update employee contact information.
  • DirectDeposits: Insert or update employee direct deposit information.
  • DocumentManagementSecurityGroups: Insert or update employee document security groups.
  • EmergencyContacts: Insert or update employee emergency contact information.
  • EmployeePayAdjustCodes
  • EmployeeWorkAssignmentManagers: Insert or update employee direct manager assignments.
  • EmploymentAgreements: Insert or update employee employment agreement information.
  • EmployeeProperties: Insert or update employee property information.
  • EmploymentStatuses: Insert or update employment status information.
  • Ethnicities: Insert or update employee ethnicity information.
  • HealthWellnessDetails: Insert or update employee health and wellness information.
  • HighlyCompensatedEmployees: Insert or update the highly compensated employee indicator.
  • Locations: Insert or update employee location and authority assignments.
  • MaritalStatuses: Insert or update employee marital status information.
  • OnboardingPolicies: Insert or update employee onboarding policy assignments.
  • Roles: Insert or update employee role assignment details.
  • SSOAccounts: Insert or update employee SSO account assignments.
  • UserPayAdjustCodeGroups: Insert or update users' pay adjustment code groups.
  • USFederalTaxes: Insert or update employee US general tax information.
  • USStateTaxes: Insert or update employee US State tax information.
  • USTaxStatuses: Retrieve US tax status information, such as state filing status single or married.
  • WorkAssignments: Insert or update employee work assignment details.
  • WorkContracts: Insert or update employee work contract and associated work pattern information.