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Workday Finance

APIs for Workday's cloud-based financial management system, enabling enterprise resource planning, accounting, financial analytics, procurement, grants management, inventory, and settlement services.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Workday Finance the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 17 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Workday Finance scores 67.7/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 67.7/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Workday Finance

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Workday Finance. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 17

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Workday Revenue Management API

SOAP API for managing revenue recognition, contracts, and billing processes. Supports revenue accounting workflows and contract analysis within Workday Financial Management.

Workday Expenses API

SOAP API for expense management, including expense reports, approval workflows, and reimbursements. Part of Workday Spend Management for tracking and controlling employee and or...

Workday Cash Management API

SOAP API for managing cash positions, bank transactions, and treasury operations. Supports cash flow forecasting, bank account management, and financial reconciliation processes.

Workday Budgets API

SOAP API for budget planning, tracking, and analysis. Enables programmatic management of budgets, budget amendments, and budget structure data within Workday Financial Management.

Workday Projects API

SOAP API for project management, tracking project costs, billing, and resource allocation. Supports project-based accounting, cost capture, and resource planning workflows.

Workday Settlement Services API

SOAP API for settlement management and payment services. Supports payment processing, bank routing, settlement runs, direct debit mandates, payment acknowledgements, cash balanc...

Workday Inventory API

SOAP API exposing Workday Financials Inventory data. Supports goods delivery, stock tracking, inventory adjustments, cycle counting, par management, directed picks, put-away ope...

Workday Professional Services Automation API

SOAP API for Professional Services Automation integrations. Exposes Workday Financials data for managing client-facing projects, services billing, resource staffing, and expense...

Workday Finance Accounts API

General ledger accounts and account structures

Workday Finance Cost Centers API

Cost center management and reporting

Workday Finance Financial Periods API

Fiscal period and year management

Workday Finance Journal Entries API

Journal entry creation and retrieval

Workday Finance Purchase Orders API

Purchase order creation and management

Workday Finance Requisitions API

Purchase requisition management

Workday Finance Supplier Invoices API

Supplier invoice processing

Workday Finance Suppliers API

Supplier account management

Workday Finance Worktags API

Worktag dimension management

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Postman Collections 2

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Arazzo Workflows 10

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Workday Finance Audit Open Period Journals

Find an open financial period, then list and inspect its journal entries.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Onboard Supplier and Raise Purchase Order

Resolve a supplier, confirm it is active, then raise a purchase order against it.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Reconcile Supplier Invoices

Confirm a supplier, list its outstanding invoices, then trace one back to its purchase order.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Record Balanced Journal Entry

Confirm the target period is open, post a journal entry, then read it back.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Record Supplier Invoice Expense

Create a supplier invoice in procurement, then post the matching expense journal entry to the general ledger.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Requisition to Purchase Order

Find an approved requisition, confirm the supplier, then raise a purchase order.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Supplier Invoice From Purchase Order

Read a purchase order, confirm its supplier, then create a matching supplier invoice.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Supplier Spend Overview

Resolve a supplier from the directory, then list its purchase orders and invoices.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Tag Journal Entry With Worktags

Resolve cost center and worktag dimensions, then post a tagged journal entry.

ARAZZO

Workday Finance Verify Account Balance

Find a general ledger account by type, then read its full detail and balance.

ARAZZO

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Workday Financial Management GraphQL Schema

This GraphQL schema represents the Workday Financial Management ERP domain, covering the full spectrum of enterprise financial operations. Workday Financial Management is a clou...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Workday Finance Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

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

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

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

Workday Finance Context

35 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Workday Finance API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Workday Finance API Rules

12 rules · 4 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 18

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

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

Account

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CostCenter

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FinancialPeriod

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Workday Finance Journal Entry

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JournalEntry

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JournalEntryCreate

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JournalEntryLine

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Workday Finance Purchase Order

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PurchaseOrder

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PurchaseOrderCreate

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Requisition

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResourceReference

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Workday Finance Supplier Invoice

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Supplier

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SupplierInvoice

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SupplierInvoiceCreate

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Worktag

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Workday Finance Journal Entry Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Workday Finance Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Workday Finance Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Workday Finance Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Workday Finance Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

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

Workday Finance Agentic Access

16 operations · 3 acting

16 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Workday Finance — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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