Workday Business Processes
Workday Business Processes is the workflow engine at the centre of Workday HCM and Financial Management: every hire, job change, expense report, requisition and payment runs as a business process event routed through configured approval, to-do and questionnaire steps. Workday exposes it as a first-party REST service, businessProcess v1, which reads business process types, events and event steps and performs the real actions on them — approve, deny, send back, reassign, cancel and rescind — alongside a Custom Business Process Config v1 service for authoring custom process types and event task definitions, business-process operations inside the Integrations SOAP service, and business process query fields in the Workday Graph API.
Workday Business Processes publishes 30 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including 03/11/2023 API, 03/15/2021 API, 03/18/2026 API, and 27 more. Tagged areas include Business Processes, Workflows, Approvals, Human Resources, and Enterprise.
The Workday Business Processes catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Workday Business Processes’ developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 37 more developer resources.
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| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GraphQL Ecosystem (Foundation, graphql.org listings, public GraphQL APIs) | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 30
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Workday Integrations SOAP Service (business process operations)
The Workday Web Services Integrations service, v47.0. Carries the eight SOAP business process operations — Approve, Cancel, Deny, Rescind and Send Back a business process, Reass...
Workday Business Processes 03/11/2023 API
Changes for v2023.10
Workday Business Processes 03/15/2021 API
Changes for v2021.13
Workday Business Processes 03/18/2026 API
Changes for v2026.11
Workday Business Processes 04/01/2023 API
Changes for v2023.13
Workday Business Processes 04/02/2022 API
Changes for v2022.14
Workday Business Processes 04/24/2023 API
Changes for v2023.16
Workday Business Processes 05/17/2025 API
Changes for v2025.20
Workday Business Processes 06/08/2026 API
Changes for v2026.23
Workday Business Processes 06/15/2024 API
Changes for v2024.24
Workday Business Processes 06/15/2026 API
Changes for v2026.24
Workday Business Processes 06/30/2026 API
Changes for v2026.26
Workday Business Processes 07/15/2023 API
Changes for v2023.28
Workday Business Processes 08/06/2022 API
Changes for v2022.32
Workday Business Processes 08/17/2026 API
Changes for v2026.33
Workday Business Processes 09/01/2021 API
Changes for v2021.37
Workday Business Processes 09/09/2021 API
Changes for v2021.38
Workday Business Processes 09/19/2022 API
Changes for v2022.38
Workday Business Processes 09/28/2024 API
Changes for v2024.39
Workday Business Processes 12/06/2025 API
Changes for v2025.49
Workday Business Processes 12/15/2025 API
Changes for v2025.50
Workday Business Processes Approvals API
Manage approval steps and approval chains
Workday Business Processes Business Process Definitions API
Retrieve and manage business process type definitions
Workday Business Processes Event Task Definitions API
A collection of Event Task Definitions for custom business process defined in Workday.
Workday Business Processes Events API
Returns a collection of events based on the specified parameters. You must specify either the worker or initiating worker query parameter. If you did not specify the worker nor ...
Workday Business Processes Event Steps API
Returns a collection of business process event steps based on the specified parameters. Only event steps that are awaiting action from the processing person are returned.
Workday Business Processes Inbox Items API
Manage user inbox items requiring action
Workday Business Processes Process Instances API
Manage running business process instances
Workday Business Processes Prompt Values API
Retrieves instances that can be used as values for other endpoint parameters in this service.
Workday Business Processes Types API
Returns all business process types. Secured by Public Business Processes.
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Postman Collections 4
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Open Collections 5
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Workday Business Process Approvals API
OPEN COLLECTIONWorkday Business Process Approvals Inbox Items API
OPEN COLLECTIONWorkday Business Process Approvals Process Instances API
OPEN COLLECTIONWorkday Business Process API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Workday Business Processes Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Workday Business Processes API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 2
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
JSON Schema 7
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Approval Request
JSON SCHEMABusiness Process Definition
JSON SCHEMADenial Request
JSON SCHEMAInbox Item
JSON SCHEMAInitiate Process Request
JSON SCHEMAProcess Instance
JSON SCHEMAProcess Step
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JSON Structure 7
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Workday Business Processes Approval Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWorkday Business Processes Denial Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWorkday Business Processes Inbox Item Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWorkday Business Processes Process Instance Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWorkday Business Processes Process Step Structure
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Examples 7
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Workday Business Processes Trust Center
SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, CSA STAR, FedRAMP, IRAP, HITRUST, HIPAA, GDPR, C5
SECURITYScopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
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Resources
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 9
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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