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title: "Connect Dayforce to Metaintro | Metaintro"
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# Connect Dayforce to Metaintro

Set up a Dayforce sourcing user so people who choose to share with you arrive in Dayforce Recruiting as applications.

Last updated: November 11, 2026[Employers](/help/category/employers)

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## Before you start

You need a Dayforce administrator who can change Recruiting client properties, edit roles and create user accounts.

You need Dayforce Recruiting. Metaintro connects as an external job board, using Dayforce's candidate sourcing web service.

You will paste three things into Metaintro:

- Your client namespace
- The user name of a Dayforce user made for Metaintro
- That user's password

## Create the credential in Dayforce

These steps follow Dayforce's guide to [POST Candidate Sourcing](https://help.dayforce.com/r/documents/Dayforce-Web-Services-Introduction-Guide/RESTful-POST-Candidate-Sourcing) and [Get Job Postings](https://help.dayforce.com/r/documents/Dayforce-Web-Services-Introduction-Guide/RESTful-Get-Job-Postings).

1. Go to **Recruiting Setup > Client Properties**.
2. Turn on **Allow Candidates and Job Application Sourcing from External Job Boards**. Without it, Dayforce refuses every call from Metaintro.
3. Go to **System Admin > Roles**. Create a role for Metaintro, or open the one you use for job boards.
4. On the role's **Features** tab, turn on **HCM Anywhere > Web Services > Patch/Post Candidate Sourcing and Job Application Sourcing**. This is the Candidate and Job Application Sourcing system user role.
5. If you want résumés attached, give the role permission to create résumé documents. Dayforce lists these document privileges on the Dayforce Developer Network.
6. Create a user account just for Metaintro and give it that role. Dayforce asks for one account per job board, so Recruiting can show where each application came from. Dayforce's guide does not name the menu for creating the user; use the user setup you normally use.
7. Set a password for the user and note the user name.
8. Find your client namespace. It is the company name in your Dayforce web services address, as in dayforcehcm.com/api/your-namespace. It is also shown as the Namespace in **Site Setup > Client**.

## Connect in Metaintro

1. In Metaintro, go to **Settings > Integrations**.
2. Choose **Dayforce Recruiting**.
3. In **Client namespace**, enter your namespace.
4. In **Web services user**, enter the Metaintro user's user name.
5. In **Password**, enter that user's password.
6. Select **Connect**.

Then map your jobs, set your rules, check the preview and go live.

## What Metaintro sends and reads

Metaintro only sends people who chose to share their profile with you for a specific job.

- **Jobs:** Metaintro reads your active career-site postings so you can map them.
- **Application:** each person is sent to the mapped posting as a sourced application, with their name, email and phone. The source is Metaintro.
- **Résumé:** attached when the person has one.
- **Proof card:** a link to their proof card, and their summary, go in the cover letter.

Metaintro does not read stages back from Dayforce. Move and track candidates in Dayforce.

## Limits

- Only active postings on your career site can be mapped. Internal-only requisitions are not visible.
- Sourcing partners cannot add notes, so the proof card goes in the cover letter instead.
- Metaintro cannot move stages or read them back.
- Metaintro cannot search your existing Dayforce candidates. If the same person already applied another way, check for a duplicate profile in Dayforce.
- Dayforce limits how many web service calls each client can make. Metaintro paces its calls and retries later when Dayforce says the limit is reached.

## If something goes wrong

- **The user name or password is rejected:** check both, and make sure the user is active and its password has not expired. Then connect again.
- **Access is refused:** check that the role has the Patch/Post Candidate Sourcing and Job Application Sourcing feature, and that the client property for external job boards is on.
- **No jobs appear:** only active career-site postings are listed. Check that the job is posted to your career site.
- **Résumés are missing:** give the role permission to create résumé documents.
- **Too many requests:** Dayforce has paused calls for a moment. Metaintro waits and tries again by itself.
- **The namespace is not found:** use the namespace exactly as it appears in your Dayforce web services address.

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