Reference: Address Usages

Address usages track the purpose for an address. Example: Billing, Mailing, Shipping, and so on. Workday delivers several address usages and corresponding mapping values that you can configure using the

Maintain Address Usages

task.

You can rename an address usage or create a new one in the

Address Usages

column of the

Maintain Address Usages

task. You can map the new or modified address usage to the Workday-delivered values in the

Communication Usage Behavior Default

column. You can select

Default

to make the new or modified address usage the default behavior for the address usage. You can also restrict an address usage to specific countries.

The mapping values determine which address usages are available for selection when you enter or edit an address. Example: When you create a Corporate Billing address usage, you can map it to the Billing value. Corporate Billing then displays as an option on the

Usage

prompt when you enter or edit a business address. It's not an option if you enter or edit a home address.

Address usages and address types can be useful for tracking and reporting purposes. Workday provides 6 address types that you can associate with address usages. The combination of address usage and address type indicates the purpose of the address. Example: If your company has several addresses for a supplier business, you can track which address is for billing and which is for shipping. Example: You can associate the Payroll Tax Form usage with the home and work address types for tax reporting purposes. See: Steps: Add Worker Tax Elections (USA).

You can link a single address type to several different usages. Example: A person's home address can have a type of international assignment, mailing, other - home, or permanent address, but not procurement. You can select an address usage in the

Usage

or

Use For

prompt when you enter or edit the corresponding address types:

Workday determines which address types are valid for different business objects. The association of address type to business object also indicates which address usages are appropriate for a business object. Example: An educational institution can have an academic contact address, but not a home or work address. Similarly, a student can have an address type of home or institutional, but not one for business or lockbox. These business objects can have these address types:

The Business Entity and Person business object groups contain business objects. The contained business objects have the same address types as their business object group. Example: A pre-hire can have a home address and a work address because the Person business object can have a home address and a work address.