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Front to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Front 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 Front and Workday

Connect the financial records in Workday with the work happening in Front, so both stay current without exports or copy-paste.

Connecting Front to Workday links shared-inbox operations with the HR and finance system of record. HR service teams handling employee requests in Front Inboxes get Workday Worker, Position, and Time Off and Absence data in context, without granting inbox users direct Workday access.

Stacksync keeps Time Off and Absence, Payroll Results, Suppliers, Customers and Invoices in Workday and Comments, Contacts, Accounts, Inboxes in Front in sync, bi-directionally and in real time. Whatever records Front keeps and whatever events it produces, the overlap with Workday is mapped field by field, and a change on either side shows up on the other within seconds.

There is no middleware to build, no API rate limits to babysit, and no nightly job that leaves the morning running on yesterday's data.

Common use cases

  • 01 Run an HR helpdesk in Front backed by authoritative Workday Worker records.
  • 02 Answer Compensation and Payroll Results questions in Front without switching into Workday.
  • 03 Keep Front Contacts for internal requesters synced with Workday Organizations structure.
  • 04 Push completed payroll results into a finance system or data warehouse each pay cycle.

Common sync patterns

Employee context in the inbox

Workday Workers and Positions data pairs with Front Conversations so HR teams answer requests with current employment records.

Absence request handling

Workday Time Off and Absence records surface alongside related Front Messages for leave-related inquiries.

Org-aware routing

Workday Organizations data informs which Front Inbox owns a given employee Conversation.

What you can sync between Front 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.

Front objects Workday objects How this pairing syncs
Comments Internal team notes on conversations; usually read-only in syncs. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools. Comments is specific to Front and Suppliers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contacts People across channels; matched to CRM contacts, with custom fields carrying external context. Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used. Contacts is specific to Front and Customers and Invoices to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Accounts Company groupings of contacts; kept aligned with CRM accounts. Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials. Accounts is specific to Front and Journal Entries to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Inboxes Shared queues that conversations live in; used to segment reporting by team or channel. Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs. Inboxes is specific to Front and Custom Reports (RaaS) to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tags Labels applied to conversations; drive routing and category-level analytics. Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs. Tags is specific to Front and Workers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Teammates Agents; used for ownership mapping and workload reporting. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. Teammates is specific to Front and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Front 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.

Front Workday Sub-second propagation

DetectionFront notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Application webhooks and rule-triggered webhooks, with the events endpoint available for polling.

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

Workday Front 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 Front through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Front: Request limits vary by plan.
What ships with Front ⇄ Workday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Front 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 Front or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Front and Workday connectors work

Front

Integration surface
REST API (Core API)
Authentication
OAuth authorization via the Stacksync UI ("Connections" > "create new connection" > "Front" > "Authorize") — no coding required
Change detection
Application webhooks and rule-triggered webhooks, with the events endpoint available for polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Request limits vary by plan.
Front 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 Front 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 Front 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
    Front connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

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

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SECURITY

Security teams trust 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.

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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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