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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-11-14
Steps: Set Up Award Packaging

Steps: Set Up Award Packaging

Set up your financial aid requirements and configurations for processes such as ISIR evaluation, packaging, and disbursement. See Steps: Set Up Student Financial Aid and Steps: Set Up Student Award Items.
You can assign award items to students through the award packaging process. You can package a student with financial aid for multiple periods in a financial aid award year simultaneously, or for a single academic period.
When you package a student’s financial aid, Workday uses the policies and strategies that are effective as of the standard start date of the academic period. See: Reference: Financial Aid Effective Dates.
  1. Packaging strategies identify the award items to package and the order in which to package them.
  2. Workday derives a student's packaging strategy from their academic unit and level, program area, or program of study. The strategy determines which awards to package and how to package them.
  3. Set up schedules for Workday to package financial aid awards for selected populations automatically.
  4. (Optional) Set up packaging holds.
    Packaging holds apply to need packaging only.
You can view details of a student's financial aid package using these reports:
  • Packaging Configuration Tool
  • Total Financial Assistance