UKG Ready
Stop exporting payroll. UKG Ready posts every pay run, employee change, and headcount update straight into DualEntry — automatically.
Overview
The UKG Ready integration with DualEntry automatically syncs payroll, pay statements, employees, departments, locations, benefits, pay groups, and headcount directly into your accounting system. Each pay run posts as a single consolidated journal entry per payment, departments and locations flow through as classifications, and employee changes update in near real time via webhooks — so finance teams skip the manual exports, close payroll faster, and keep workforce data current across the GL.
Payroll journal entries
Pay statements
Pay statement items
Payments
Employees
Departments
Locations
Pay groups
Benefits
Companies & entities
Headcount
Data synced
The integration syncs the following data types:
- Each UKG Ready payment posts to DualEntry as one consolidated journal entry, grouped by payment and pay date
- Pay statement line items — earnings, taxes, employee deductions, and employer contributions — flow into the JE with full amounts, currency, and employer flag
- Payroll tax consolidation is enabled by default, so taxes are summarized cleanly inside the same payroll JE
- Pay periods and pay dates drive the JE date and memo, keeping books aligned with the actual payroll calendar
- Individual pay statements are tracked but skipped in favor of the consolidated entry, so no double-posting
- Pay statement items sync with category (earnings, taxes, employee deductions, employer contributions), name, employer attribution, and amount direction
- Each item maps to a user-configured DualEntry GL account, with optional credit-account routing for offset entries
- Mappings are normalized once and reused across pay runs, so new pay statement items only need GL setup the first time they appear
- The full UKG Ready directory syncs into DualEntry, with first, middle, and last names preserved
- Each individual maps to a DualEntry customer record, classification line, and company simultaneously, so employee data is available wherever it's needed in the GL
- Active and inactive status flows through, and department assignments come along for downstream reporting
- Employee creates, updates, and terminations propagate via UKG Ready webhooks, not just scheduled syncs
- UKG Ready departments sync into DualEntry as classification lines under your configured department classification
- Locations sync the same way under the Location classification
- Both are keyed by their fully-qualified name (including parent), so nested structures stay intact
- Department and location lifecycle events — creates, renames, deactivations — propagate automatically
- UKG Ready benefits sync as classification mapping records, with description and frequency preserved for reporting
- Pay groups sync the same way, keyed by UKG Ready pay group ID and name
- Both stay current as benefits and groups change in UKG Ready
- UKG Ready entities map to DualEntry companies on connect; mappings can be reviewed and adjusted from the integration page
- A payroll vendor is auto-created on connect and mapped to a DualEntry vendor for payment routing
- Connection metadata — provider info, products, entity mode, and timestamps — is stored against the integration for audit and support
- Connection health is validated daily, and the UKG Ready provider catalog refreshes weekly
- Total active employee counts and department-level headcounts are derived from the directory and refreshed on every sync
- Calculated-at timestamps are preserved, so FP&A and board reporting always reference a known point-in-time count
- Headcount is computed from the synced directory itself, with no extra UKG Ready API calls or manual reconciliation
Key Features
- Consolidated payroll posting — Each pay run lands as a single, clean journal entry per payment, with taxes summarized by default.
- Faster reconciliation — Pay statement items map to GL accounts once and reuse those mappings on every run, accelerating your close.
- Real-time workforce visibility — Employee, department, and headcount changes propagate via webhooks, not just scheduled syncs.
- Accurate dimension tracking — Departments, locations, pay groups, and benefits sync as classifications, so payroll JEs carry the dimensions your reporting needs.
- Multi-entity support — UKG Ready entities map to DualEntry companies, so multi-entity payroll posts to the right books automatically.
- Native integration — Built and maintained directly by DualEntry. Connect via OAuth in a few clicks; no third-party connector required.
FAQ
No. The integration is native — built and maintained on DualEntry — and requires no third-party connector. You authenticate with UKG Ready once and have entities, employees, departments, and pay groups syncing within minutes.
The integration eliminates manual payroll exports and re-entry. You get consolidated payroll journal entries posted automatically, employee and department data kept in sync, real-time headcount, dimension tracking via classifications, and faster month-end close — all without finance and HR maintaining separate spreadsheets.
No. The UKG Ready integration is one-way: data flows from UKG Ready into DualEntry. UKG Ready remains the source of truth for payroll and HR; DualEntry is the source of truth for the GL.
UKG Ready uses DualEntry's Consolidated Payroll Strategy by default, which groups all pay statement items for a single payment into one journal entry. Earnings, taxes, employee deductions, and employer contributions appear as separate lines mapped to your configured GL accounts. Payroll tax consolidation is enabled by default and can be adjusted in integration settings.
DualEntry runs scheduled syncs against UKG Ready on a recurring cadence and validates the connection daily. Webhooks trigger narrower, near-real-time syncs for company updates, employee events, and pay statement creates and updates — so most changes propagate within minutes rather than waiting for the next scheduled run.
Yes. Any data synced from UKG Ready into DualEntry is encrypted in transit and at rest. DualEntry is IFRS/GAAP-compliant and operates within all regulatory and industry frameworks. Read more on our Trust page.
