Configure Payments Capabilities

Permissions Required: Finance Administrator

To manage Financial Institutions, Bank Accounts, and/or Payments configurations, you'll need to be a member of the Finance Administrator, Bank Administrator, Settlement Administrator, and/or Implementers security group.


Set Payment Types

Each payment type that will be processed using Bank Connect needs to be configured and mapped to one of the Workday-delivered electronic payment methods.

  1. Using the Workday search bar, navigate to the Maintain Payment Types task.

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  1. Add a payment type for each payment type you will be processing via Bank Connect.

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These payment types don’t need to include any indication that they’re paid via Bank Connect; this is recommended if you’re using multiple integrations for a single payment type.

Payment Types-to-Payment Method Mapping

New Payment Type
WD-Delivered Payment Method
CCD (Bank Connect)EFT
PPD (Bank Connect)Direct Deposit
Wire (Bank Connect)Wire
RTP (Bank Connect)EFT with Reference
Direct Debit (Bank Connect)Direct Debit
Reporting Only (Bank Connect)Manual

Configure the Settlement Run Business Process

Define the Settlement Run Event

  1. Using the Workday search bar, navigate to the Settlement Run Event business process definition.

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  1. Bank Connect enables payment approvals to be actioned in the dashboard according to payment limits and user entitlements. So, review or approval of transactions — rather than payments in the settlement run itself — is recommended to reduce redundancy.

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Define the Payment Release Event

  1. Using the Workday search bar, navigate to the Payment Release Event business process definition.

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  1. Click Configure Integration (in step b)

  2. Select Integration Processing Payment Message. Click OK.

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  1. Set the Integration Criteria. Click OK.

    • Leave Run As User blank, the Payments App will run using the ISU defined earlier.
    • Payment Message IDs value types should be set to Determine Value at Runtime

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