What is Workday Extend?

Workday Extend allows organizations to build custom applications directly within Workday, while leveraging the existing user interface, security framework and data model. These applications are designed around bespoke business processes, often solving an industry-specific challenge or replacing a custom system.

What types of applications can be built with Workday Extend?

Organizations use Workday Extend to build applications that support unique HR, payroll, finance and operational workflows. These applications help extend Workday functionality while maintaining a connected and secure user experience within the Workday platform.

How do I know whether my organization needs Workday Extend or a Built on Workday solution?

Organizations with highly customized or differentiated business processes may benefit from Workday Extend, while those looking to solve common industry-specific challenges quickly may find more value in Built on Workday applications. Evaluating business goals, timeline, scalability and complexity helps determine the right approach.

What are the benefits of Workday Extend and Built on Workday solutions?

Workday Extend and Built on Workday solutions help organizations improve efficiency, reduce manual work and solve business challenges that fall outside standard Workday functionality. These solutions enable teams to leverage existing Workday technology and maintain a unified user experience.

What services does Invisors provide for Workday Extend?

Invisors provides advisory, solution design and full deployment services for Workday Extend. Services include use case evaluation, requirements discovery, application design, development, testing and deployment support to help organizations successfully extend Workday functionality.

Workday Extend + Built on Workday Services

Every organization has processes that don’t quite fit inside standard Workday functionality. That’s where Workday Extend and Built on Workday come in.

Invisors can help you evaluate the right approach, custom-built or ready-to-deploy, so you can move faster, reduce complexity and deliver better results. Whether you need a tailored application or a proven Workday Marketplace solution, we will help you unlock more value from Workday in less time.

There are two ways to extend Workday to meet your organization's needs.

Workday Extend

What is it?

Custom applications specifically built for your organization.

Designed around your unique business processes
Built directly within your Workday environment
Leverages Workday’s UI and security model
Ideal for complex or differentiated needs

Built on Workday

What is it?

Pre-built applications ready for you on the Workday Marketplace.

Developed using Workday Extend technology
Ready to deploy quickly
Built to solve common industry-specific challenges
Continuously enhanced and supported by Invisors

Learn more about our Extend + Built on Workday products and services.

What do we offer for Workday Extend?

Custom Extend Solutions
Build purpose-fit applications for complex needs – from payroll processes to onboarding and financial workflows, all while remaining fully integrated within Workday.

Extend Framework Apps
Leverage Invisors pre-built frameworks based on common use cases to accelerate delivery, with the flexibility to configure and scale.

Learn more about our Extend expertise

How can Invisors help?

Invisors provides a spectrum of services around the Workday Extend product.

Advisory Support Services

For when you’re exploring options

Brainstorm use cases
Validate product capabilities
Demo our library of solutions

Solution Design Services

When you’d like to develop it yourself

Facilitate requirements discovery
Blueprint the solution design
Field your development questions

Full Deployment Services

When you’d like Invisors to develop it

Develop the solution
Facilitate user acceptance testing
Migrate to production

What do we offer for Built on Workday?

Invisors is building industry-specific apps for Professional Services, Staffing, Architecture & Engineering, and Retail & Hospitality. The following apps are live on Workday Marketplace and are part of a robust suite of apps called Invisors PayBill solution.

PayBill – Contract Mgmt - Allows customers to manage their required contract nuances with ease while still leveraging delivered WD functionality.
Customer Transaction Approval - Allows for billable time and expenses to be approved by the end customer prior to invoicing.
Pay When Paid - Assures supplier invoices are not paid until corresponding customer invoice is paid.

Applications planned for 2026:

Multi-Rate Pay
Mass Time Loads
Field Ticketing (Unit Based Billing/Pay)
Cost Plus Billing
Project Initiation

How can Invisors help?

Invisors delivers Built on Workday applications in a way that aligns with each organization’s strategy, whether as a focused, standalone initiative or as part of a larger Workday implementation.

For existing Workday customers, we enhance current processes by seamlessly integrating these applications into their established Workday environment.

For new Workday implementations, we embed Built on Workday apps into the overall deployment to create a more robust and future-ready solution from the outset.

Learn more + see demos of Invisors PayBill apps

Invisors is at the forefront of Workday innovation, helping organizations design, build and deploy applications that go beyond standard functionality.

Supporting a growing community of Workday Extend customers, bringing proven experience to every engagement

Experience delivering applications across HCM and Financials, designed to solve real business challenges with measurable impact

Accelerating development with reusable frameworks, reducing time to value and increasing consistency

Continuously investing in Built on Workday innovation by expanding our Workday Marketplace presence with scalable, ready-to-deploy solutions

Workday Partner of the Year for Innovation Winner 2025 Invisors

We don’t just build apps – we help you choose the fastest path to value.

The best example of how Invisors brought us outcome-oriented solutions was through the Pay When Paid application. They came to us not just with a solution that met all the needs we gave them, but they anticipated things that would come up in the day-to-day of transaction processing that we had not communicated to them.

Justin Junkel

Executive VP - Global Technology, Operations and Finance at Pinnacle Group

Workday Extend and Built on Workday Resources

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Workday Extend enables custom applications to be built on Workday

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Invisors recognized with a Star of Excellence in ISG Provider Lens® 2023 Workday Ecosystem

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Workday Extend and Built on Workday Services FAQs

Though they leverage the same underlying technology, Workday Extend is used to develop fully custom applications tailored to an organization’s specific needs, while Built on Workday solutions are pre-built applications available on Workday Marketplace and designed for faster deployment and repeatable use cases. Organizations often choose between the two based on complexity, timeline and business requirements.

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Workday Extend + Built on Workday Services

There are two ways to extend Workday to meet your organization's needs.

Workday Extend

Built on Workday

Learn more about our Extend + Built on Workday products and services.

What do we offer for Workday Extend?

Invisors is at the forefront of Workday innovation, helping organizations design, build and deploy applications that go beyond standard functionality.

Workday Extend and Built on Workday Resources

Workday Extend and Built on Workday Services FAQs

What is Workday Extend?

What is the difference between Workday Extend and Built on Workday?

What types of applications can be built with Workday Extend?

How do I know whether my organization needs Workday Extend or a Built on Workday solution?

What are the benefits of Workday Extend and Built on Workday solutions?

What services does Invisors provide for Workday Extend?