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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 43 more developer resources.

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5 published contracts 3 Agent Skills
Business ProcessesWorkflowsApprovalsHuman ResourcesEnterpriseSoftware-as-a-ServiceHCMFinancial ManagementProcess AutomationEvent StepsSOAPGraphQL

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Standards implemented 4

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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 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).

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Workday Business Processes API pricing

Rate limits

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Workday Business Processes

14 quoted statements, read from Workday Business Processes's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Workday Business Processes

24 quoted statements, read from Workday Business Processes's own page on 2026-11-10.

PRIVACY

Compliance 1

Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.

Workday Business Processes

39 quoted statements, read from Workday Business Processes's own page on 2026-11-10.

COMPLIANCE

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Workday Business Processes

4 quoted statements, read from Workday Business Processes's own page on 2026-11-10.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Workday Business Processes

1 quoted statement, read from Workday Business Processes's own page on 2026-11-10.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Workday Business Processes

1 quoted statement, read from Workday Business Processes's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Workday Business Processes Context

31 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Workday Business Processes — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Workday Business Processes API Rules

44 rules · 8 error-severity 27 warn-severity 9 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI 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.

Workday Business Processes Business Process Overlay

4 actions · documentation · workday-business-processes-business-process-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Workday Business Processes Custom Business Process Config Overlay

1 action · update · workday-business-processes-custom-business-process-config-openapi.yml

DERIVED

JSON Schema 7

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Approval Request

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Business Process Definition

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Denial Request

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Inbox Item

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Initiate Process Request

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Process Instance

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Process Step

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 7

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

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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 Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Workday Business Processes Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Workday Business Processes Trust Center

SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, CSA STAR, FedRAMP, IRAP, HITRUST, HIPAA, GDPR, C5

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Workday Business Processes Scopes

2 scopes · implicit

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Workday Business Processes Agentic Access

201 operations · 77 acting

201 operations · 77 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

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 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: workday-business-processes
name: Workday Business Processes
description: '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.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/workday-business-processes.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/workday-business-processes/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: workday-business-processes:workday-business-processes-integrations-soap-service
  name: Workday Integrations SOAP Service (business process operations)
  description: 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, Reassign a business process step, and Get/Put business
    process delegations, which have no REST equivalent.
  humanURL: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/Integrations/v47.0/Integrations.html
  baseURL: https://wd2-impl-services1.workday.com/ccx/service
  tags:
  - SOAP
  - Integration
  - Delegation
  - Business Processes
  tags_raw:
  - SOAP
  - Integrations
  - Delegations
  - Business Processes
  properties:
  - type: WSDL
    url: wsdl/workday-business-processes-integrations-v47.0.wsdl
  - type: WSDL
    name: WSDL (provider-hosted, v47.0)
    url: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/Integrations/v47.0/Integrations.wsdl
  - type: Documentation
    name: Workday SOAP APIs
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-43742c5c-4caf-436f-bdd5-94330d32288c-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: APIReference
    name: Workday Web Services Production API Directory
    url: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    name: SOAP API Authentication and Security
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-4c354bdb-06cd-461d-a632-ea8303beaedb-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: Support
    url: https://community.workday.com
- aid: workday-business-processes:workday-business-processes-03-11-2023-api
  name: Workday Business Processes 03/11/2023 API
  description: Changes for v2023.10
  humanURL: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-e31b535f-7722-4f61-9795-a27ef9d78a86-enHYPHENus.md
  baseURL: https://{tenantHostname}/businessProcess/v1
  tags:
  - 03/11/2023
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/workday-business-processes-03-11-2023-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-94cb4185-fabd-4dd5-b391-6aefe9672e32-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/restapi/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-6c598444-ce67-40d5-bd95-267ecfe439b8-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/dan1370797408285.md
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://developer.workday.com/bundles/rest-directory-ui/public/static/openApiFiles/businessProcess_v1_changeLog.json
  - type: Support
    url: https://community.workday.com
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-business-process-definition-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-process-instance-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-initiate-process-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-process-step-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-inbox-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-approval-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-denial-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-business-process-definition-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-process-instance-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-initiate-process-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-process-step-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-inbox-item-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-approval-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-denial-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/workday-business-processes-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/workday-business-processes-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/workday-business-processes-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-e31b535f-7722-4f61-9795-a27ef9d78a86-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-0df5cd55-e578-43d3-b58f-ae98825d1df0-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/jws1518455553089.md
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/workday-business-processes-scopes.yml
- aid: workday-business-processes:workday-business-processes-03-15-2021-api
  name: Workday Business Processes 03/15/2021 API
  description: Changes for v2021.13
  humanURL: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-e31b535f-7722-4f61-9795-a27ef9d78a86-enHYPHENus.md
  baseURL: https://{tenantHostname}/businessProcess/v1
  tags:
  - 03/15/2021
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/workday-business-processes-03-15-2021-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-94cb4185-fabd-4dd5-b391-6aefe9672e32-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/restapi/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-6c598444-ce67-40d5-bd95-267ecfe439b8-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/dan1370797408285.md
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://developer.workday.com/bundles/rest-directory-ui/public/static/openApiFiles/businessProcess_v1_changeLog.json
  - type: Support
    url: https://community.workday.com
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-business-process-definition-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-process-instance-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-initiate-process-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-process-step-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-inbox-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-approval-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-denial-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-business-process-definition-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-process-instance-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-initiate-process-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-process-step-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-inbox-item-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-approval-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-denial-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/workday-business-processes-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/workday-business-processes-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/workday-business-processes-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-e31b535f-7722-4f61-9795-a27ef9d78a86-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-0df5cd55-e578-43d3-b58f-ae98825d1df0-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/jws1518455553089.md
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/workday-business-processes-scopes.yml
- aid: workday-business-processes:workday-business-processes-03-18-2026-api
  name: Workday Business Processes 03/18/2026 API
  description: Changes for v2026.11
  humanURL: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-e31b535f-7722-4f61-9795-a27ef9d78a86-enHYPHENus.md
  baseURL: https://{tenantHostname}/businessProcess/v1
  tags:
  - 03/18/2026
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/workday-business-processes-03-18-2026-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-94cb4185-fabd-4dd5-b391-6aefe9672e32-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/restapi/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-6c598444-ce67-40d5-bd95-267ecfe439b8-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/dan1370797408285.md
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://developer.workday.com/bundles/rest-directory-ui/public/static/openApiFiles/businessProcess_v1_changeLog.json
  - type: Support
    url: https://community.workday.com
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-business-process-definition-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-process-instance-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-initiate-process-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-process-step-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-inbox-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-approval-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/workday-business-processes-denial-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-business-process-definition-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-process-instance-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-initiate-process-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-process-step-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-inbox-item-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-approval-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/workday-business-processes-denial-request-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/workday-business-processes-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/workday-business-processes-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/workday-business-processes-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-e31b535f-7722-4f61-9795-a27ef9d78a86-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/GUID-0df5cd55-e578-43d3-b58f-ae98825d1df0-enHYPHENus.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.workday.com/doc/jws1518455553089.md
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/workday-business-processes-scopes.yml
- aid: workday-business-processes:workday-business-processes-04-01-2023-api
  name: Workday Business Processes 04/01/2023 API
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Does Workday Business Processes have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 30 APIs from Workday Business Processes, including Workday Integrations SOAP Service (business process operations), Workday Business Processes 03/11/2023 API and Workday Business Processes 03/15/2021 API, and 27 more.

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Yes. APIs.io indexes 29 OpenAPI specifications for Workday Business Processes, each linked for download from this page.

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Workday Business Processes documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Workday Business Processes Authentication.

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