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

Keep Namely 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 Namely and Workday

Keep the employee, department, and cost records that Workday and Namely share consistent in real time, so the finance system and the people system stop drifting apart.

Workday runs the money side of the company: who gets paid, what it costs, and which part of the business the cost belongs to. Namely runs the people side: who works here, which team they sit in, and how their employment changes over time. The two overlap on the same people and the same org structure, because every employee is also a payee and every department is also a cost center. When that overlap is maintained by hand, a new hire, a transfer, or a termination has to be keyed twice, and the two systems start to disagree about who is active and where the cost lands.

Stacksync syncs Custom Reports (RaaS), Workers, Organizations, Positions in Workday with Groups, Teams, Reports, Profile Fields in Namely bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, updated, or deactivated on either side appears on the other within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV exports and nightly batch jobs.

That matters most when money follows a people event. A hire that finance can pay, a leaver whose access ends, a transfer that redirects cost to the right team, all happen from one change instead of two, so headcount and spend reconcile from the same set of records.

Common use cases

  • 01 Keep supervisory-organization hierarchies aligned with planning and workforce tools that model the same structure.
  • 02 Sync worker records from Workday into IT and identity systems so hires, transfers, and terminations provision access automatically.
  • 03 Push Groups and Teams (departments, locations, team categories) into downstream apps to keep org structure and reporting lines aligned.
  • 04 Feed Namely Reports as JSON into a database on a schedule for roster, turnover, and diversity dashboards without manual CSV exports.

Common sync patterns

New person becomes a known record in finance

When someone is added in Namely, a matching employee or payee record appears in Workday, ready for payroll, expenses, or cost allocation without anyone rekeying the details.

One employee identity

A person's name, ID, or contact details corrected in either system update the other, so finance and HR reference the same person instead of maintaining two versions.

Department and cost-center alignment

The org structure maintained in Namely keeps the departments or cost centers in Workday current, so spend and headcount roll up the same way.

What you can sync between Namely 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.

Namely objects Workday objects How this pairing syncs
Job Tiers Leveling hierarchy grouping zero-to-many Job Titles; read to map seniority into warehouse dimension tables. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. Job Tiers is specific to Namely and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Groups Departments and locations that organize Profiles; synced to keep org structure aligned with a warehouse or IdP. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. Groups is specific to Namely and Positions to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Teams Teams and team categories a Profile belongs to; read and written for org-chart and provisioning workflows. Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control. Teams is specific to Namely and Compensation to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Reports Saved Namely reports returned as JSON snapshots that update instantly; read-only feeds for headcount and roster analytics. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools. Reports is specific to Namely and Time Off and Absence to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Profile Fields Metadata describing standard and company-defined custom field sections; read to discover schema and generate mappings. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems. Profile Fields is specific to Namely and Payroll Results to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Events Home-feed items such as announcements, birthdays, anniversaries, and new arrivals; typically read-only into comms tools. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools. Events is specific to Namely and Suppliers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Namely 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.

Namely Workday Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Namely for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No webhooks.

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

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Namely: Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
What ships with Namely ⇄ Workday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Namely 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 Namely or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Namely and Workday connectors work

Namely

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTPS)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 authorization-code grant, or a personal access token sent as a Bearer token; all calls run over HTTPS against https://{subdomain}.namely.com/api/v1
Change detection
No webhooks; integrations poll GET endpoints and compare the updated_at / created_at timestamps on Profiles and related objects to detect changes
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.

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

    Choose tables

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