Setup Considerations: Payment Elections

You can use this topic to help make decisions when planning your configuration and use of payment elections. It explains:

Why to set it up.

How it fits into the rest of Workday.

Downstream impacts and cross-product interactions.

Security requirements and business process configurations.

Questions and limitations to consider before implementation.

Refer to detailed task instructions for full configuration details.

What It Is

Workday payment elections enable you to set preferences for how users get paid. You can determine how they can set up their payment elections through self-service and edit their payment elections.

Business Benefits

Workday payment elections make it easier for you to:

Audit payment elections changes.

Control reviews and approvals for payment election changes.

Customize the methods in which a person can receive their payment.

Enable international users to select their preferred currency.

Use Cases

You can manage payment elections for:

International users who want to receive different types of currency.

Pre-hires to set up bank accounts during the Onboarding process.

Terminated workers.

Users who want to split their payment across multiple accounts.

Payment election configurations also apply to supplier invoices, expenses, student payments, and student refunds.

Questions to Consider

Question	Considerations
How do you prevent bank returns?	You can use the Create Prenote Run task to validate electronic banking information for U.S. banks only.
What payment types do you want to use?	You can give employees the option to receive a check or direct deposit. If employees select check, Workday prints their home address on the check. When you don’t want to print out checks, you can limit a person to direct deposit only. Example: When a worker receives a bonus, you can configure payment types such as check or deposit. Workers can then select their preferred method.
Do you want to give specific rules on setting up payment elections?	You can set up rules on the Maintain Payment Election Rules task to give users the options on how they want to receive their payment.
Do you want to set criteria to control who is eligible to view a specific payment type?	You can set criteria to control who is eligible to view specific payment types on the Maintain Payment Election Rules task. Example: You can exclude temporary workers from seeing the Bonus payment election types because they aren't eligible for bonus payments.
What bank account attributes and validations do you want to put in place when a person enters their bank information?	You can use the Create Payee Bank Account Validation Override task to: Control which bank account attributes are mandatory or optional. Customize the display labels and format validations for different countries.
Do you have a worker transferring to another country?	You can add a rule to the Maintain Payment Election Options task to give workers options to change their country and currency. You can add the Add Payment Elections to do step on the Start International Assignment business process to ensure workers set up their payment preferences upon relocation.
How does Workday validate International Bank Account Number (IBAN)?	Workday follows the international standard. While the length of the IBAN may vary for each country, Workday provides a default setting, enabling you to override the length using the Payee Bank Account Validation Override task. When you enable and supply IBAN during bank account creation, we automatically verify the IBAN.

Recommendations

Workday recommends that you:

Add Manage Payment Election
as a process step on the Onboarding business process. It ensures that users finish setting up their bank information.

Set up your bank account attributes and validations on the

Create Payee Bank Account Validation Override

task. It ensures all manually entered bank IDs meet country requirements.

Requirements

No impact.

Limitations

When setting up rules for payment election options:

You can only set up 1 rule for payment preferences for expense, supplier invoice, student refunds, and student payments.

You can only set up 1 payment election rule per unique combination of pay group and run category.

You can split a payment into a maximum of 8 elections when you use ADP Check Print integration.

You can’t limit the number of bank accounts users can enter in Workday.

Tenant Setup

You can use the

Edit Tenant Setup - Global

task to enable the option to select different countries and currencies for payment elections.

You can use the

Edit Tenant Setup - Financials

task to mask the bank account number and IBAN to secure sensitive information.

Security

Domains	Considerations
Set Up: Payment Election in the Expenses functional area. Set Up: Payroll (Payment Election Rules) in the Core Payroll functional area. Set Up: Payroll Interface in the Payroll Interface functional area.	Users with access on these domains can set up payment preferences.
Manage: Payment Election in the Expenses functional area. Worker Data: Payroll (Payment Elections) in the Core Payroll functional area. Worker Data: Payroll Interface (Payment Elections) in the Payroll Interface functional area.	Enables you to set up new countries and currencies options for payment elections.
Person Data: Bank Account Masking in the Banking and Settlement functional area.	Enables you to view full unmasked bank information.
Self-Service: Payment Election in the Expenses functional area. Self-Service: Payroll (My Payment Elections) in the Core Payroll functional area. Self-Service: Payroll Interface (Payment Elections) in the Payroll Interface functional area. Self-Service: Student Financials in the Student Financials functional area.	Users with access on these domains can access their employee self-service (ESS) payment election tasks.
Manage: Student Payment Elections in the Student Financials functional area.	Enables you to access student bank accounts and student payment elections.
Worker Data: Payment Elections by Organization in the Core Payroll, Expenses, and Payroll Interface functional areas.	Enables you to set up payment election processing details and view these related report fields: Account Number IBAN Roll Number

Business Processes

Business Process	Considerations
Onboarding	To gather bank information from new users, you can add Manage Payment Elections as an action step.
Payment Election Enrollment Event	Workday recommends that you add an approval step to review bank information for possible inaccuracies and phishing attempts. You can add the Prenote of Worker Bank Accounts if New or Changed service step to alleviate the possibility of bank returns, for U.S. banks only.
Start International Assignment	You can add the Add Payment Elections to-do step to ensure workers set up their payment preferences when they relocate.

Reporting

Reports or Dashboards	Consideration
Audit Missing Payment Elections	Identifies a person missing any type of eligible payment elections.
Payment Elections	Lists a person's pay group and current payment elections including payment type and payment method.
In Progress Payment Elections Requiring Submit	Lists all payment elections that require administrative approval.

You can use the Payment Elections Current
business object to create filtered reports to:

Find changes made to payment elections.

Sort through preferred bank details.

You can use the

Payment Election History

report data source to view the history and track changes on all payment elections for a specific pay group.

Integrations

If you outsource your check printing or your payments, you can use these check print integrations:

ADP Check Print (Enhanced Performance)

Core Connector: Payroll Check Printing (Enhanced Performance)

WPN - Ceridian Check Printing

Connections and Touchpoints

Features	Considerations
Expenses	Payment elections determine the options a person can select regarding receiving their expenses.
Payroll	Payment elections determine the options a person can select regarding receiving their payments.
Student Financial	Payment elections determine the options students can select regarding receiving their refunds and make payments.

Workday offers a Touchpoints Kit with resources to help you understand configuration relationships in your tenant. Learn more about the Workday Touchpoints Kit on Workday Community.

Steps: Use Prenotes

Define Payee Bank Account Validations

Reference: Edit Tenant Setup - Global

Reference: Edit Tenant Setup - Financials