HR & Payroll

Workday REST Data Extractor

Vern's Workday REST extractor imports a new user's hr & payroll data — job families staffing info, job profiles staffing info, jobs staffing info, and organizations — into your product through a single managed migration, handling Workday REST's auth, pagination, and rate limits for you. It's built for teams onboarding customers off Workday REST who want their data in your app from day one.

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Workday REST

SaaS API (REST)

Managed auth, retries, and throttling

Normalized JSON, CSV, and DB-ready output

Cleaned JSON, CSV, and DB-ready output

Export coverage

Know exactly what Vern pulls before you migrate.

Objects Vern extracts

Vern extracts the full set of queryable Workday REST objects (11 total), including: Job Families Staffing Info, Job Profiles Staffing Info, Jobs Staffing Info, Organizations, People, Workers, Workers Direct Reports, Workers History, Workers Payslips, Workers Staffing Info, and Workers Time Off Entries. 2 of these support incremental change tracking, so syncs pull only what changed.

Output schema

Normalized JSON per object with referential keys preserved, so the relationships between your user's records survive the import. Timestamps are returned in ISO 8601. Delivered as JSON or CSV, or loaded straight into your own application database or pushed to your API — whatever your product expects.

Where it can land

Your own application database (Postgres, MySQL), a direct push to your API or webhook, or JSON/CSV files, plus another hr & payroll system (7shifts, Ashby, BambooHR) when a user is switching tools.

Source details

Built for the source type shown above, with extractor content refreshed from the collection record.

Managed by Vern

The details you normally have to build yourself.

Authentication

API key / access token. Your user pastes their Workday REST API key once when they sign up; Vern stores it encrypted and attaches it to every request, handling header signing and retries so you never touch the raw credential.

Pagination

Vern detects and handles Workday REST's paging model (cursor, page-number, or offset) internally and returns one consistent, de-duplicated result set — so you import a user's complete data without ever managing page tokens.

Rate limits and gotchas

Workday REST enforces its own API rate limits. Vern queues and throttles requests internally so importing a new user's data never trips a 429 — even on a large account.

API-key sources rarely surface their true rate ceilings until you hit a 429 mid-import, and many silently cap page size. Vern throttles to stay under the limit and normalizes paging so a partial pull never lands a user in your product with missing data.

API quickstart

1. Create a migration for Workday REST
curl -X POST https://app.vern.so/api/v1/migrations \
  -H "x-api-key: $VERN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "name": "Workday REST → Postgres", "source": "Workday REST" }'
→ { "migration_id": "mig_..." }
2. Generate the extraction recipe (pulls live via the Workday REST API)
curl -X POST https://app.vern.so/api/v1/migrations/$MIGRATION_ID/runs \
  -H "x-api-key: $VERN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "kind": "generate", "extract_via_api": true }'
3. Run the approved extraction
curl -X POST https://app.vern.so/api/v1/migrations/$MIGRATION_ID/runs \
  -H "x-api-key: $VERN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "kind": "execute" }'
4. Download the normalized CSV export
curl https://app.vern.so/api/v1/migrations/$MIGRATION_ID/exports/{template} \
  -H "x-api-key: $VERN_API_KEY" -o workday-rest_export.csv

A cleaner way to extract without rebuilding source-specific plumbing.

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Common questions

Can I keep a user's Workday REST data in sync after the first import? Yes — 2 Workday REST objects support incremental change tracking, so after the first full import Vern pulls only what changed on re-run.

Can I move a user from Workday REST to 7shifts? Yes — Vern normalizes the Workday REST data model into typed tables that map cleanly onto 7shifts and into your own product.

What does it cost to read the Workday REST API? Workday REST's own API access follows Workday REST's pricing/plan; Vern is billed separately per import. Check Workday REST's developer docs for their current limits.