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

Keep Monday 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 Monday and Workday

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

Workday holds the financial truth: who the customers are, what they were billed, what they paid. Monday is where part of the day-to-day work happens, and that work often involves the same customers and transactions. Without a live connection, the two drift apart, and people end up answering questions from stale copies.

Stacksync keeps Compensation, Time Off and Absence, Payroll Results, Suppliers in Workday and Workspaces, Boards, Items, Subitems in Monday in sync, bi-directionally and in real time. Whatever records Monday 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 Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
  • 02 Push completed payroll results into a finance system or data warehouse each pay cycle.
  • 03 Two-way sync of Items and their Column values between a monday.com board and Postgres so ops teams work in SQL while project owners stay in monday.com.
  • 04 Write closed deals or provisioning records from a CRM or ERP into monday.com Items to kick off delivery and onboarding boards.

Common sync patterns

Where Monday collects payments or triggers charges: events land in Workday

Payment and charge activity flows into Workday as it happens, so the books reflect reality without manual reconciliation.

Where Monday tracks people or companies: one identity

A customer's details updated in either system update the other, so finance and the rest of the business stop maintaining two versions of the same customer.

Where Monday handles customer conversations: billing context in view

Front-line teams see invoice and payment status from Workday next to the customer they are helping, without logging into the finance system.

What you can sync between Monday 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.

Monday objects Workday objects How this pairing syncs
Column values Typed fields (status, date, people, numbers, connect-boards); polymorphic JSON usually written together via change_multiple_column_values. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. Column values is specific to Monday and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Groups Named sections that group items inside a board; synced as a grouping attribute or category field on the row. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. Groups is specific to Monday and Positions to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Updates Comment and activity threads attached to items; read out into a database for reporting or written back as notes. Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control. Updates is specific to Monday and Compensation to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users Account members referenced by people columns; read to resolve owner and assignee IDs to names and emails. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools. Users is specific to Monday and Time Off and Absence to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Workspaces Top-level containers that hold boards; used to scope which boards a given sync covers. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems. Workspaces is specific to Monday and Payroll Results to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Boards Table-like containers that hold items; each board maps to a synced table, and its columns define the field mapping. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools. Boards is specific to Monday and Suppliers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Monday 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.

Monday Workday Sub-second propagation

DetectionMonday notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Board-scoped webhooks (create_item, change_column_value, item_deleted, and similar) for real-time events.

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

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Monday: Complexity-budget limits: a single query caps at 5M complexity points and ~10M points/min per user token (1M on trial/free) over a sliding 60s window.
What ships with Monday ⇄ Workday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Monday 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 Monday or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Monday and Workday connectors work

Monday

Integration surface
GraphQL API (single endpoint, api.monday.com/v2)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for installed apps, or a per-user personal API token (admin/member scope); a date-based API version is sent via request header
Change detection
Board-scoped webhooks (create_item, change_column_value, item_deleted, and similar) for real-time events; polling falls back to the item updated_at field
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Complexity-budget limits: a single query caps at 5M complexity points and ~10M points/min per user token (1M on trial/free) over a sliding 60s window
Monday 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 Monday 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 Monday 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
    Monday connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

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

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SSO & SCIM

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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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