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Dynamics 365 F&O to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday

Keep Workday and Dynamics 365 F&O agreeing on customers, invoices, and balances, whether they split the finance workload or one is replacing the other.

Enterprises pair Dynamics 365 F&O for finance and operations with Workday for HR, and sync the two so labor data reaches the ledger and organizational structure stays consistent. Workday Workers, Organizations, and Payroll Results align with F&O entities, vendors, and cost accounting without manual file transfers.

Stacksync syncs Positions, Compensation, Time Off and Absence, Payroll Results in Workday with On-hand Inventory, Customers, Vendors, Released Products in Dynamics 365 F&O in real time and in both directions. You decide which system wins on which field, and every change made in one is reflected in the other within seconds instead of at the next batch run.

Common use cases

  • 01 Post Payroll Results from Workday into F&O each cycle without CSV handoffs.
  • 02 Keep Purchase Order approval chains in F&O accurate as Workday Positions and Organizations change.
  • 03 Reflect Time Off and Absence data in F&O-side project and operations costing.
  • 04 Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.

Common sync patterns

Worker-to-finance sync

Workday Workers and Positions map to F&O records so headcount changes reach financial planning and procurement approvals.

Payroll posting

Workday Payroll Results and Compensation data flow to F&O for cost accounting against the correct entities.

Org structure alignment

Workday Organizations sync with F&O dimensions so Purchase Orders and invoices code to current cost centers.

What you can sync between Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Dynamics 365 F&O objects Workday objects How this pairing syncs
Purchase Orders Procurement transactions; extracted for spend and supply chain reporting. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. Purchase Orders is specific to Dynamics 365 F&O and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Customer Invoices AR billing documents; status synced back to CRM and customer success tools. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. Customer Invoices is specific to Dynamics 365 F&O and Positions to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Vendor Invoices AP documents; synced with invoice automation systems. Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control. Vendor Invoices is specific to Dynamics 365 F&O and Compensation to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
General Journal Entries GL postings; read-only extracts for consolidated finance reporting. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools. General Journal Entries is specific to Dynamics 365 F&O and Time Off and Absence to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
On-hand Inventory Stock positions; read out to storefronts and internal apps for availability. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems. On-hand Inventory is specific to Dynamics 365 F&O and Payroll Results to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Customers Customer master records; kept aligned with CRM accounts in two-way syncs. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools. Customers is specific to Dynamics 365 F&O and Suppliers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Dynamics 365 F&O Workday Sub-second propagation

DetectionDynamics 365 F&O pushes changes as they happen — webhook events backed by change data capture. Change data capture via the Dynamics 365 Change Tracking feature, enabled per entity.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Workday through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Workday Dynamics 365 F&O Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Workday for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Dynamics 365 F&O through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Dynamics 365 F&O: OData requests are subject to platform throttling; high-volume loads belong in the Data Management Framework.
What ships with Dynamics 365 F&O ⇄ Workday

Connect Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Dynamics 365 F&O–Workday connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Dynamics 365 F&O or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Dynamics 365 F&O or Workday data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Dynamics 365 F&O or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Dynamics 365 F&O ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday.

How the Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday connectors work

Dynamics 365 F&O

Integration surface
OData REST endpoint over data entities, plus the Data Management Framework for batch
Authentication
OAuth via Microsoft sign-in: provide the D365 F&O environment URL, sign in with Microsoft credentials, and grant the Stacksync app consent (admin consent may be required — "Need admin approval for this app")
Change detection
Change data capture via the Dynamics 365 Change Tracking feature, enabled per entity; falls back to periodic full-sync where change tracking is unavailable
Capabilities
read · write · CDC · webhooks
Rate limits
OData requests are subject to platform throttling; high-volume loads belong in the Data Management Framework.
Dynamics 365 F&O setup guide

Workday

Integration surface
SOAP Workday Web Services (WWS), a REST API, and Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) endpoints for custom reports
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for the REST API; integration system users with WS-Security or certificate-based auth for SOAP
Change detection
Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
How it works

How to connect Dynamics 365 F&O to Workday — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Dynamics 365 F&O connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Dynamics 365 F&O ⇄ Workday
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Dynamics 365 F&O Workday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

Dynamics 365 F&O and Workday integration FAQ

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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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