Noyo + Workday REST
Connect Noyo and Workday to Automate Benefits Enrollment and HR Data Sync
Stop manually moving benefits data. Sync employee records between Workday and Noyo in real time.
Why integrate Noyo and Workday REST?
Workday holds your system of record for employee lifecycle data. Noyo handles benefits enrollment and carrier connectivity. When records change in Workday — new hires, life events, terminations — that data needs to reach insurance carriers through Noyo accurately and fast. Without an integration, HR teams are stuck bridging two platforms by hand, which introduces errors and creates compliance exposure.
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Use case
Automated New Hire Benefits Enrollment
When a new employee is onboarded in Workday and their start date arrives, their eligibility data is automatically pushed to Noyo to initiate carrier enrollment. Employees are coverage-ready on day one without any manual intervention from the benefits team. HR administrators get confirmation once enrollment is successfully processed across all elected plans.
Use case
Real-Time Termination and COBRA Offboarding
When an employee is terminated in Workday, their termination date and reason go immediately to Noyo to trigger coverage termination with the appropriate carriers. Noyo's carrier connectivity handles timely offboarding from all benefit plans, and COBRA eligibility notices can fire automatically as part of the same workflow. No more paying premiums for people who no longer work there.
Use case
Qualifying Life Event (QLE) Processing
Life events like marriage, birth, adoption, or loss of other coverage recorded in Workday automatically trigger mid-year enrollment change workflows in Noyo. The integration passes the event type, effective date, and updated dependent information so Noyo can submit the right change requests to carriers. Benefits teams stop manually reviewing and re-keying QLE data from Workday into enrollment systems.
Use case
Dependent Add and Remove Synchronization
When employees update dependent information in Workday — adding a newborn, removing a former spouse, updating coverage elections — those changes sync to Noyo and get submitted to carriers automatically. Dependent rosters stay accurate across all benefit plans without benefits administrators manually reconciling records. Discrepancies between Workday and carrier records are flagged before submission, not after.
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Open Enrollment Data Push to Carriers
When open enrollment closes in Workday, all employee elections are batched and automatically transmitted to Noyo for carrier submission. The integration maps Workday plan codes to Noyo's carrier plan identifiers so elections land correctly without manual translation. Confirmation responses from Noyo are written back to Workday to update enrollment records and flag any failed submissions for HR review.
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Ongoing Member Data Reconciliation
On a scheduled basis, tray.ai workflows compare active member records in Workday against enrollment data in Noyo to catch discrepancies — mismatched coverage tiers, incorrect effective dates, missing dependents. Differences surface in a reconciliation report and get routed to the benefits team for resolution. It's a continuous audit process that keeps HR records and carrier enrollment data honest.
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Employee Address and Personal Data Change Propagation
Changes to employee home addresses, contact information, or demographic data in Workday are automatically synced to Noyo so carrier records stay current. This matters especially for state-mandated benefits and tax purposes, where address accuracy directly affects eligibility and compliance. The integration runs change detection on Workday worker profiles and pushes only updated records to Noyo to keep API overhead low.
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Noyo & Workday REST Challenges
What challenges are there when working with Noyo & Workday REST and how will using Tray.ai help?
Challenge
Mapping Workday Plan Codes to Noyo Carrier Identifiers
Workday uses its own internal plan and benefit group identifiers that don't natively match the carrier plan codes Noyo expects. Manual translation tables are fragile — they tend to break when plan configurations change during open enrollment or when new carriers come on board.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai includes a configurable data mapping layer where teams can define and maintain plan code translation tables without writing code. When plan configurations change, mappings get updated in one place and apply immediately across all related workflows, cutting the risk of misrouted enrollment data.
Challenge
Handling Enrollment Submission Errors and Carrier Rejections
Noyo carrier submissions can fail or get rejected due to data validation errors, missing fields, or carrier-side issues. Without a structured error handling process, failed submissions sit unnoticed, leaving employees without coverage while the benefits team has no idea anything went wrong.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai workflows include built-in error handling and conditional branching that capture failed Noyo submission responses, categorize the error type, and automatically route alerts to the benefits team with the specific employee record and error details. Retry logic handles transient failures, while hard rejections trigger immediate human review workflows.
Challenge
Workday API Rate Limits During High-Volume Periods
During open enrollment or large-scale HR events, Workday API call volume can spike fast. Hit the rate limits and you're looking at sync delays or incomplete enrollment submissions at exactly the worst time.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai handles API rate limiting automatically through built-in throttling controls and intelligent queuing. During high-volume periods, the platform distributes API calls across available capacity so all records get processed without hitting rate limits, and data processing order stays intact.
Challenge
Keeping Benefits Data HIPAA-Compliant in Transit
Benefits enrollment data contains sensitive personal health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) that has to meet HIPAA and other privacy requirements. Moving this data between Workday and Noyo through an integration platform introduces real compliance risk if it isn't properly governed.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai is built to enterprise security standards including SOC 2 Type II compliance, encryption of data in transit and at rest, and role-based access controls. The platform supports HIPAA-compliant data handling, and sensitive fields can be masked or tokenized within workflow configurations so PHI is never stored or logged in ways it shouldn't be.
Challenge
Keeping Sync State Accurate Across Asynchronous Changes
Employee records in Workday can be updated by multiple parties — managers, employees through self-service, payroll administrators — often at the same time. Without careful state management, integration workflows can process stale data, create duplicate submissions, or overwrite valid carrier records with outdated information.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai workflows support last-modified timestamp tracking and idempotency controls so only genuinely changed records trigger downstream actions in Noyo. The platform maintains sync state between runs, preventing duplicate submissions and ensuring the most recent Workday record version is always what gets transmitted to carriers.
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Noyo & Workday REST Templates
Find pre-built Noyo & Workday REST solutions for common use cases
Template
New Hire to Noyo Enrollment Trigger
Automatically detects newly active employees in Workday and initiates benefits enrollment in Noyo, passing all required eligibility fields and plan elections to the appropriate carriers.
Steps:
- Poll Workday REST API for workers with a hire date matching today or a configured look-back window
- Extract employee eligibility data including name, SSN, date of birth, address, and benefit elections from Workday
- Create or update the member record in Noyo and submit enrollment to all elected benefit plans
Connectors Used: Workday REST, Noyo
Template
Workday Termination to Noyo Coverage Cancellation
Monitors Workday for employee terminations and automatically submits coverage termination requests through Noyo to all active carriers, so offboarding from benefit plans happens on time.
Steps:
- Detect terminated workers in Workday REST by polling employment status changes on a scheduled interval
- Retrieve the employee's active benefit enrollments and termination effective date from Workday
- Submit termination requests for all active plans via the Noyo API and log confirmation responses
Connectors Used: Workday REST, Noyo
Template
Qualifying Life Event Sync from Workday to Noyo
Listens for qualifying life events recorded in Workday and triggers the corresponding enrollment change workflow in Noyo, including dependent updates and new coverage elections.
Steps:
- Poll Workday REST for benefit events with a status of open or in-progress tied to a qualifying life event type
- Map the event type and effective date to Noyo's change request schema and extract updated dependent and election data
- Submit the enrollment change request to Noyo and write the submission confirmation back to the Workday worker record
Connectors Used: Workday REST, Noyo
Template
Open Enrollment Batch Submission to Carriers
After the open enrollment window closes in Workday, this template batches all finalized employee elections and submits them to Noyo for carrier processing, with status written back to Workday on completion.
Steps:
- Query Workday REST for all employees with finalized open enrollment elections after the enrollment deadline
- Transform Workday plan identifiers to Noyo carrier plan codes and structure the enrollment payload for each member
- Submit batch enrollment updates to Noyo and update Workday worker benefit records with carrier confirmation statuses
Connectors Used: Workday REST, Noyo
Template
Scheduled Member Reconciliation Report
Runs a periodic comparison of active Workday employees against Noyo enrollment records, generates a discrepancy report, and routes mismatches to the HR team for review and correction.
Steps:
- Retrieve all active worker records from Workday REST and all active member enrollments from Noyo
- Compare records on fields such as coverage tier, plan codes, dependent counts, and effective dates to identify discrepancies
- Generate a structured reconciliation report and deliver it to the HR team via email or a connected HRIS dashboard
Connectors Used: Workday REST, Noyo
Template
Employee Address Change Propagation to Noyo
Detects address and demographic updates in Workday and automatically pushes the changes to Noyo to keep carrier member records accurate and compliant.
Steps:
- Poll Workday REST for workers with updated home address or contact information since the last sync timestamp
- Extract the changed fields and map them to Noyo's member update schema
- Submit the member update to Noyo and log the response, flagging any carrier rejections for HR review
Connectors Used: Workday REST, Noyo