Configure One-Way Messaging for Production Tenant
Security:
Set Up: Tenant Setup - BP and Notifications
domain in the System functional area.You can have 1 active one-way messaging configuration for each country that Workday supports.
Your one-way SMS configurations need to complete successfully before you can run your conversational messaging configurations. You can view the statuses of your configurations on the
Maintain Workday Messaging
report.Depending on the country, it can take up to:
- 24 hours for a one-way messaging configuration in Canada, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden to complete.
- 30 days for a one-way messaging configuration in the U.S. to complete due to the time needed for the third-party Application-to-Person (A2P) registration process.
- 7 days for a one-way messaging configuration in Australia and the UK to complete due to the time needed to review the regulatory bundle and provision a phone number.
- Access theMaintain Workday Messagingreport.
- In theOne-Way Messaging Configurationsection, clickConfigure One-Way Messaging.
- As you complete theOne-Way Messaging Configurationsection:From theCountry of Configurationprompt, select the country for which you’re creating a one-way messaging configuration.
- For Canada and the U.S., enter the area code you want your SMS phone number to have. If the area code isn’t available, Workday tries to secure the next available area code.
- Additionally, for the U.S., complete theCompany Informationsection. To get the best possible Trust Score and the highest Application-to-Person (A2P) messaging limits, ensure that your company information details match the information filed with your Employer Identification Number (EIN).
- For Australia, Denmark, Finland, and the UK, complete the required fields in theBusiness Information,Addresses, andSupporting Documentssections to create the regulatory bundle required to obtain a mobile phone number for SMS messaging.For descriptions of required information and the documents required for the regulatory bundle, see theRequirementssection. Upload supporting documents one at a time. The file size limit for each document is 5 MB. Acceptable document formats include:
- JPEG and JPG
- PNG
- PDF
Edit Tenant Setup - Systemtask to specify the file types you can upload into Workday.
On the
Maintain Workday Messaging
report, you can click View
to display the configuration details and phone numbers assigned to each country configuration. When the Configuration Status
column displays Success
for a country, its configuration is complete. One-way messaging uses a single phone number for each country configuration.When you complete the
Configure One-Way Messaging
task for publicly-traded, for-profit U.S. companies, the Workday Messaging subprocessor sends the brand representative you entered in the Company Information
section a two-factor authentication email. The brand representative must verify their identity by clicking the link in the email within 7 days. Private and not-for-profit U.S. companies don't receive a two-factor authentication email, even though they're also required to enter a brand representative.If your one-way messaging configuration fails to complete, ensure that the company information that you entered is accurate and run it again. Each time you rerun a Workday Messaging configuration, Workday removes any existing delivery overrides associated with the SMS channel in your routing rule. You need to set up delivery overrides again for your phone numbers on the
Edit Tenant Setup - Notifications
task. When your one-way configurations are complete on your Production tenant, you can: