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

Keep Onelogin 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 Onelogin and Workday

Keep the people who can act on financial records in Workday matched to their identities in Onelogin, so access is provisioned, updated, and revoked in real time.

Workday runs the money — the ledgers, invoices, budgets, and payments — and every one of those actions is taken by a person with a login. Onelogin is where those people and their access actually live: who is employed, what team they belong to, and what they are allowed to do. The two systems rarely share customers or transactions, but they share the one thing that governs both — the user. When that overlap is maintained by hand, a departed employee keeps finance access for weeks and a new hire waits on a ticket to get any.

Stacksync keeps Journal Entries, Custom Reports (RaaS), Workers, Organizations in Workday aligned with Roles, Apps (app instances), Groups, Mappings (mapping rules) in Onelogin, field by field and in real time. A person added, moved, or deactivated on the identity side updates their matching user in the finance system within seconds, with the role or permission set mapped from the group they belong to. Direction is yours to set: lead provisioning from the directory, or let an HR-owned finance record drive the downstream accounts.

For a finance team, that alignment is an audit control rather than a convenience. When the user list in the books matches the identity source of truth, segregation-of-duties and access reviews start from data that is already correct instead of an export that was current last quarter.

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 Read Users, Apps, and Groups into a database for identity, license, and app-assignment inventory across the OneLogin account.
  • 04 Two-way sync Users between OneLogin and an HRIS or Postgres so new hires, attribute changes, and terminations provision and deprovision SSO accounts automatically.

Common sync patterns

People attributes for allocation and approvals

Department, manager, and employee identifiers carried in Onelogin flow to Workday, so expense routing, cost-center allocation, and approval chains use the same org data as the directory.

Where Onelogin is the identity source: offboarding reaches the books

When a person is deactivated in Onelogin, their matching user in Workday is disabled in the same motion, so departed employees keep no standing access to financial records.

One user roster across both systems

People, their status, and their contact details stay matched between Workday and Onelogin, so the finance system's login list reflects who actually works here instead of drifting out of date.

What you can sync between Onelogin 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.

Onelogin objects Workday objects How this pairing syncs
Apps (app instances) Connected SAML/OIDC application configs on the account; create, update, delete, and assign to users and roles - the writable app catalog. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. Apps (app instances) is specific to Onelogin and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Groups Account groups used for mapping and reporting; listed and read through the API, which has no create or update endpoint, so groups are read-only. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. Groups is specific to Onelogin and Positions to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Mappings (mapping rules) Attribute-driven rules that assign roles and app access; full CRUD via the Mappings API, then reapplied across matching users. Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control. Mappings (mapping rules) is specific to Onelogin and Compensation to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Events Audit log of every authentication and admin action; read-only, filtered by since/until, and pushed live through the Event Webhook. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools. Events is specific to Onelogin and Time Off and Absence to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Authentication factors (MFA) Per-user registered MFA factors; enrolled, verified, and removed through the MFA API for lifecycle and security workflows. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems. Authentication factors (MFA) is specific to Onelogin and Payroll Results to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Custom user fields Account-level custom attributes on the User record; read and written alongside the standard user profile fields. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools. Custom user fields is specific to Onelogin and Suppliers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Onelogin 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.

Onelogin Workday Sub-second propagation

DetectionOnelogin notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Event Webhook (Event Broadcaster) posts batches of Event objects to a registered endpoint in near real time.

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

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Onelogin: Account-level limit of 5,000 API calls per hour shared across all access tokens; responses carry X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset, over-limit calls return HTTP 429, and the count resets each hour. Paid plans can request an increase.
What ships with Onelogin ⇄ Workday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Onelogin 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 Onelogin or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Onelogin and Workday connectors work

Onelogin

Integration surface
OneLogin API (REST, v1 and v2 resource endpoints on <subdomain>.onelogin.com) plus the Event Webhook (Event Broadcaster) for event delivery
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 client credentials - an admin generates an API credential pair (client_id + client_secret) in the OneLogin portal and exchanges it at POST /auth/oauth2/v2/token for a bearer access token sent on every call; each credential carries a scope (Manage all, Manage users, Read users, etc.) that governs read vs write.
Change detection
Event Webhook (Event Broadcaster) posts batches of Event objects to a registered endpoint in near real time; the Events API also supports polling with since/until time filters and pagination for historical backfill.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Account-level limit of 5,000 API calls per hour shared across all access tokens; responses carry X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset, over-limit calls return HTTP 429, and the count resets each hour. Paid plans can request an increase.

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

    Choose tables

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

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