Workday
Service ID: workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.
At a Glance
- Difficulty
- 🔧ADVANCEDCustom Auth + Manual Per-Consumer Setup + Complex Permissions
- Authentication
- CustomBasic Authentication through a per-consumer Integration System User (ISU) — not OAuth.
- Webhooks
- Virtual webhooks — no native webhooks in Workday; Apideck polls employees, applicants, jobs, bills, suppliers, purchase orders, and customers.
- Partnership Required
- No(Apideck holds the Workday partnership; joining the Workday Partner Program yourself is optional.)
- Partnership Application
- Workday Partner Program↗
- Apideck Credentials
- Not available(Authentication is per consumer rather than per application, so there are no app-level credentials for Apideck to provide.)
- Costs
- No additional platform fees from Workday, and no connection limits imposed by Apideck.
- Sandbox Availability
- Not available(Testing runs against a consumer's own Workday tenant — no free trial, and Development tenants are contract-gated to existing Workday customers.)
- Account Type Required
- Workday tenant with Web Services access
- Consumer Access Level
- Administrator with privileges to create Integration System Users and manage security groups and domain security policies
- Rate Limits
- No published hard limits; Workday throttles under high tenant load.
Responsibility matrix
| Task | You (Customer) | Your Consumer | Apideck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create Integration System User (ISU) | — | ✓ | Instructions provided |
| Create Security Group | — | ✓ | Instructions provided |
| Grant Domain Permissions | — | ✓ | Required domains documented |
| Activate Security Policy Changes | — | ✓ | Instructions provided |
| Provide Credentials | — | ✓ | Secure connection form |
| Build via Unified API | ✓ | — | Maintains connector |
| Monitor Connections | ✓ Via Dashboard | Can revoke by disabling ISU | Logs & alerts |
Environments
- Single environment (testing and production share credentials)
- Testing options: ask a consumer to share a testing tenant, test against a consumer's production tenant using a dedicated limited-permission ISU, or — for enterprise customers who cannot obtain a testing tenant through a consumer — contact Apideck Support to discuss options. Be cautious when testing against production data.
🚨Important to Know About Workday
- Permission setup differs per Unified API: the consumer's Workday admin grants domain security policies separately for HRIS (13+), ATS (11+) and Accounting (22+), plus Business Process Security Policy edits before any write succeeds.
- Accounting writes are worktag-gated: invoices and purchase orders reject line items without a cost-center worktag (tracking_categories.id), and journal entries silently fall back to draft without one.
- AP bills cannot be incrementally synced: Workday returns empty updated_at/created_at on Bills and rejects filter[updated_since] with an UnsupportedFiltersError, so plan full re-fetches.
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