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Folk CRM to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Folk CRM 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 Folk CRM and Workday

Sync customers, invoices, and payment status between Workday and Folk CRM in real time, so sales sees the money and finance sees the relationship.

Finance and sales describe the same customers in different systems. Folk CRM knows the relationship: who the contacts are and what is in motion with the account. Workday knows the money: what was invoiced, what was paid, what is overdue. When the two are connected only by exports, each side works partly blind.

Stacksync links Workers, Organizations, Positions, Compensation in Workday to Companies, Groups, Custom fields, Notes in Folk CRM with bi-directional, real-time sync. New customers, updated billing details, invoice status, and payment activity move in whichever direction you configure, field by field, with conflicts resolved by rules you set. The result is one version of each customer, visible from both sides.

Common use cases

  • Sync worker records from Workday into IT and identity systems so hires, transfers, and terminations provision access automatically.
  • Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
  • Keep folk and a billing or customer success tool aligned on company records as deals close.
  • Sync folk people and companies with a marketing or outbound tool so outreach lists stay current.

Billing detail changes flow back

When a contact or address is corrected in Folk CRM, Workday gets the update before the next invoice goes out.

Collections with context

Finance sees the account owner and relationship history from Folk CRM when chasing a balance, and sales sees that the chase is happening.

Where Folk CRM tracks deals: closed-won creates the finance record

A won opportunity creates or updates the customer in Workday with the right billing details, so invoicing starts without re-keying.

What you can sync between Folk CRM 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.

Folk CRM objects Workday objects
Custom fields Group-scoped attributes that receive enriched or computed values from external systems. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools.
Notes Free-text context attached to people and companies, readable for reporting. Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used.
Reminders Follow-up items that can be created from external triggers. Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials.
People Contact records; the primary entity synced with outreach and enrichment tools. Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs.
Companies Organization records linked to people and kept aligned with billing or CS systems. Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs.
Groups Shared workspaces that organize contacts; group membership is often the field integrations act on. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems.
What ships with Folk CRM ⇄ Workday

Connect Folk CRM and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Folk CRM–Workday connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Folk CRM or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Folk CRM 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 Folk CRM or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Folk CRM ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Folk CRM and Workday.

How the Folk CRM and Workday connectors work

Folk CRM

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (Bearer token)
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling of list endpoints as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits

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 Folk CRM 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 Folk CRM 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
    Folk CRM connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Folk CRM 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 · Folk CRM ⇄ 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
    Folk CRM Workday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Folk CRM and Workday integration FAQ

SECURITY

Security teams love Stacksync

As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

SOC 2 type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
CSA STAR
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
→ SECURITY WITH BENEFITS

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:

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