When you set up expense items and purchase items, you assign a resource category. It is a classification in procurement and resource management that provides a logical grouping to search and report on acquired items and services. It can also be used to drive different accounting behavior as it is a dimension in account posting rule types used in procurement and resource management.

Any item you want to track, from company vehicles to software licenses and access cards. For capital resources, you can capture the acquisition cost and record depreciation based on the depletion schedule attributes. You can also track resource custodianship.

A collection of goods and services that makes the requisition process simpler, faster, and more manageable.

These templates are specific to a company and can be used by all authorized workers. Only buyers and service coordinators can create or edit public templates. To provision new workers automatically, a template must be public.

Optional live or zero-dollar entries that are sent through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) to a financial institution to verify account and related information before sending or receiving actual direct deposits. If the prenote amount is not zero, cash is transferred to the account.

An annual budget for planned compensation for a position. Spend and projected spend for the position can be tracked against the budget.

A group of one or more pay group/run category combinations that share the same period schedule. In the Run Pay Calculation task, you can start a payroll processing run for multiple pay groups as a single action when they are part of the same pay run group.

A valid form of payment you use to pay invoices, payment elections, and other payments. Payment types are user configured, and each payment type is mapped to a payment method, whose values are delivered by Workday. For example, a credit card payment method could be mapped to the payment types such as Visa, Mastercard, and American Express.

Created as the result of a settlement run. Payments are grouped by payment category (supplier, expense, payroll, ad hoc supplier), bank, bank account, payment type (check, EFT), maximum payments in file, and integration system. Payments are also grouped by company, currency, and country.

Allows workers to designate how they want to receive payroll and expense payments. For electronic payments, the worker can set up one or more bank accounts. The payment election specifies the currency, pay types (such as check or direct deposit), and payment allocation amounts for each worker bank account. Workers can set up payment elections for payroll (or payroll interface) and expense payments.