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Postgres Heroku to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Postgres Heroku 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 Postgres Heroku and Workday

Work with Workday's financial data straight from Postgres Heroku: read it with ordinary queries, write to it from your own code, and let Stacksync keep both sides consistent.

Engineers need finance data more often than finance systems make it easy to get: for internal tools, reporting services, or logic that reacts to invoices and payments. Working through the vendor API means rate limits, pagination, and glue code that has to be maintained forever.

Stacksync mirrors Customers and Invoices, Journal Entries, Custom Reports (RaaS), Workers from Workday into Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns, Sequences, Follower Databases in Postgres Heroku and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Postgres Heroku, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Workday with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • Import journal entries from external billing or expense systems into Workday Financials.
  • Keep supervisory-organization hierarchies aligned with planning and workforce tools that model the same structure.
  • Sync Heroku Postgres into a warehouse for reporting without running ETL dynos
  • Keep several Heroku app databases aligned with one system of record

Write back safely

Updates written to the synced tables in Postgres Heroku propagate into Workday, so automations can create or correct finance records without custom integration code.

React to financial events

Changes in Workday appear in Postgres Heroku as row changes, so you can trigger downstream logic with the database tooling you already use.

Query finance data like any other data

Customers, invoices, and payments from Workday live in Postgres Heroku as regular tables or collections your team can join, index, and query.

What you can sync between Postgres Heroku 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.

Postgres Heroku objects Workday objects
Follower Databases Heroku-managed read replicas usable as low-impact sync sources. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems.
Tables Standard Postgres tables; the primary two-way sync target for app data. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools.
Views Read-side projections exposed to outbound syncs. Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used.
Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on refresh. Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials.
Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes. Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs.
Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts from connected systems. Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs.
What ships with Postgres Heroku ⇄ Workday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Postgres Heroku 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 Postgres Heroku or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Postgres Heroku and Workday connectors work

Postgres Heroku

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (standard PostgreSQL)
Authentication
Database credentials from the Heroku DATABASE_URL config var; SSL required
Change detection
Trigger-based capture or polling in most configurations; log-based logical replication availability depends on plan and Heroku's managed server settings
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No API rate limits; connection counts and performance are bounded by the Heroku Postgres plan

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

    Choose tables

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