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

Keep Drift 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 Drift and Workday

Sync customers, invoices, and payment status between Workday and Drift in real time, so sales sees the money and finance sees the relationship.

Finance and sales describe the same customers in different systems. Drift knows the relationship: who the contacts are and what is in motion with the account. Workday knows the money: what was invoiced, what was paid, what is overdue. When the two are connected only by exports, each side works partly blind.

Stacksync links Positions, Compensation, Time Off and Absence, Payroll Results in Workday to Playbooks, Meetings, Contacts, Conversations in Drift with bi-directional, real-time sync. New customers, updated billing details, invoice status, and payment activity move in whichever direction you configure, field by field, with conflicts resolved by rules you set. The result is one version of each customer, visible from both sides.

Common use cases

  • Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
  • Push completed payroll results into a finance system or data warehouse each pay cycle.
  • Sync meetings booked in Drift to CRM activities so pipeline attribution stays accurate.
  • Archive historical Drift conversation and contact data into a warehouse ahead of a platform migration.

Billing detail changes flow back

When a contact or address is corrected in Drift, Workday gets the update before the next invoice goes out.

Collections with context

Finance sees the account owner and relationship history from Drift when chasing a balance, and sales sees that the chase is happening.

Where Drift tracks deals: closed-won creates the finance record

A won opportunity creates or updates the customer in Workday with the right billing details, so invoicing starts without re-keying.

What you can sync between Drift 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.

Drift objects Workday objects
Conversations Chat threads with status and participants; the center of Drift's data model. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools.
Messages Individual messages within a conversation, used for transcript and intent analysis. Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control.
Accounts Company records used for account-based routing and targeting. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools.
Users Agents and sales reps who own conversations and meetings. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems.
Playbooks Bot flows that generate conversations and qualify visitors. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools.
Meetings Meetings booked through Drift, synced to CRM as sales activities. Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used.
What ships with Drift ⇄ Workday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Drift 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 Drift or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Drift and Workday connectors work

Drift

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via apps registered on the Drift developer platform
Change detection
Webhook events for new conversations, messages, and contact changes; polling for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits

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

    Choose tables

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

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SECURITY

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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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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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