Set up Global Payroll Hub (GPH)

The Global Payroll Hub (GPH) plugin submits payroll cycle information from Deel to Workday's Global Payroll Hub. This centralises payroll processing visibility across vendors within Workday, allowing users with access to the Global Payroll Hub to monitor payroll cycle statuses directly in Workday.

Data synced: Payroll cycle information and statuses 

Sync direction: Deel to Workday (outbound) 

Available for: Global Payroll (GP) 

In this article

• Before you begin
  • Required permissions
• Activating domains for optional plugins
  • Step 1: Activate the required domains
  • Step 2: Assign users or groups to domains
  • Step 3: Activate pending security policy changes
• Workday setup
  • Step 1: Add the GPH feature to the external payroll vendor
  • Step 2: Edit the external payroll vendor mapping for GPH
  • Step 3: Enable GPH for the required pay groups
  • Step 4: Activate pending security policy changes
• Deel setup
  • Step 5: Enable the Global Payroll Hub plugin
• Using GPH

Before you begin

Before starting the GPH setup, make sure you have completed the required parts of the common connection setup. If you haven't done this yet, go to How to connect Workday GPC to Deel first.

Parts 1 and 2 of the common setup must be complete before continuing:

• Part 1: Connecting Workday to Deel - creating an ISU, setting up security groups, an API client, tokens, and connecting to Deel
• Part 2: Setting up DCoD - integration system, external payroll vendor, and vendor mapping

At least one DCoD sync must have run before GPH can be fully configured.

Required permissions

Before you enable the GPH plugin, add the following permissions to your security group in Workday. Use the Maintain Permission for Security Group task to add these.

Access type definitions:

• View = Read access via the UI
• View/Mod = Read and modify access via the UI

Activating domains for optional plugins

Some plugins require additional domain security policies to be active in Workday before they can be enabled in Deel. Each time you enable a new plugin, complete the steps below for that plugin before proceeding to its setup guide.

To find out which domains are required for the plugin you are setting up, refer to the Security permissions reference and locate the column for your plugin.

Step 1: Activate the required domains

1. Search for the domain using the domain: prefix. For example, domain: Set Up: Payroll Interface.
2. In the Domain Security Policy section, use the related actions to go to Domain Security Policy > Enable.

3. On the following screen, confirm the enablement.
4. Repeat for any remaining domains required for your plugin.

Already active?

If a domain is already active, skip it and move to the next one.

Step 2: Assign users or groups to domains

1. Open the domain.
2. In the Domain Security Policy section, use the related actions to go to Domain Security Policy > Edit Permissions.

3. In the Report/Task Permissions section, check that the required security groups are present. If any are missing, add them.

4. Save your changes.

To add users to the relevant security group, use the Assign Users to User-Based Security Group task.

Step 3: Activate pending security policy changes

1. Launch the Activate Pending Security Policy Changes task.
2. Enter a comment describing the reason for the change and save.

For more information, visit Activate Pending Security Policy Changes in the Workday Community.

Workday setup

Step 1: Add the GPH feature to the external payroll vendor

1. Launch the Edit External Payroll Vendor task and select the external payroll vendor created during the common setup.
2. Add Global Payroll Hub to the list of features for the vendor.
3. Save your changes.

Step 2: Edit the external payroll vendor mapping for GPH

1. Launch the Edit External Payroll Vendor Mapping task and select the external payroll vendor created during the common setup.
2. In the Feature Configuration section, add the Global Payroll Hub feature with the following attribute:

3. Save your changes.

Step 3: Enable GPH for the required pay groups

1. Launch the Maintain Pay Group Vendor Associations task.
2. Add a new vendor with the following settings:

Pay groups can only be assigned to one vendor 

If a pay group you want to assign is already assigned to another vendor, remove it from that vendor first.

Step 4: Activate pending security policy changes

1. Launch the Activate Pending Security Policy Changes task.
2. Enter a comment describing the reason for the change and save.

Deel setup

Step 5: Enable the Global Payroll Hub plugin

1. From the integration's main page, locate the Global Payroll Hub plugin and click Enable.
2. On the following screen, click Enable again.

Using GPH

After setting up GPH and syncing data, payroll cycle information becomes available in the Global Payroll Hub in Workday.

To view payroll cycle information:

1. Launch the Global Payroll Processing report.
2. Explore the payroll cycle information in the summary.

For more information on how to use the Global Payroll Hub, visit Setup Considerations: Global Payroll Hub in the Workday Community.