Human Resources · Integration
Workday
Add Workday to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Workday holds workers rather than employee rows, and around them organizations, positions, compensation and time off, so what you want is usually a slice of a much larger business object. The integration surface is what makes Workday unlike anything else in this catalog. A great deal of it is report-as-a-service, where a customer publishes a custom report at a URL inside their own tenant and that URL becomes the endpoint, and the rest is SOAP web services with WSDLs versioned by release. There is no single documented resource to point at: what your product can read depends on which reports that customer built and which services their security groups permit. fastn stores each tenant's credentials and report addresses per customer and keeps pace as those versioned services move.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each customer connect their own Workday tenant, including the report URLs they publish for your product to call.
Read worker, position and organization detail so your product shows the reporting line a customer genuinely has.
Pull compensation and time off fields only where that customer's security groups expose them, mapped per tenant.
Write back through the web services a customer has enabled, rather than assuming a REST resource exists for it.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent answers who a worker reports to and which position they sit in, from one tenant's data.
An agent runs a published report and explains the result without anybody exporting a spreadsheet.
An agent checks whether a field is exposed by the customer's security configuration before promising an answer about it.
Example prompt
For this worker, what position do they hold, who is their manager, and how much time off remains?
Set up Workday in 4 steps
- 01Enable the Workday connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authorise their own Workday account, so calls run under their credentials rather than a shared key.
- 03Decide which employees, employment records and working time your product needs, map those fields, then enable the actions and triggers you want.
- 04Call it from your product and expose it to your agents through the same governed connection.
Why teams use the Workday integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a Workday integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Workday account inside your product and work their employees, employment records and working time there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: HR data is sensitive and its access rules are stricter than most systems. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a Workday update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Workday connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you keep people data current without manual re-entry without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a Workday integration to my product?
Enable the Workday connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Workday account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Workday client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Workday account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Workday account and only ever sees their own employees, employment records and working time. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Workday integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent answers who a worker reports to and which position they sit in, from one tenant's data.
Who maintains the Workday integration?
fastn does. When Workday changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
How is sensitive Workday employee data handled?
Access is scoped per tenant and limited to the fields you map, credentials are encrypted, and every read and write is logged. You expose only what your product actually needs rather than the whole employee record.
Can joiner, mover and leaver changes be automated?
Yes. Where Workday is where a hire, a role change or a departure is recorded, that change can trigger downstream provisioning or removal across the customer's other connected systems. Where Workday sits downstream of the HR system of record, the same event can be pushed into it so its worker list, schedules and access stay in step, which is where most of the manual effort sits.
What can I build with the Workday integration?
A common starting point: let each customer connect their own Workday tenant, including the report URLs they publish for your product to call. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Workday integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Workday does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Workday to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.