Workday
Workday VNDLY is the contingent labor VMS that Workday bought for about $510 million, announced on 18 November 2021 and closed in December 2021. VNDLY was founded in 2017 and sold four modules at the time: contingent workforce management, statement of work management, independent contractor compliance and total talent acquisition.
Pricing model
Custom quote from Workday; no public list price
Deployment
Cloud
Platforms
Web
Free trial
No trial; Workday arranges demos
Legal name
Workday
There is no public price. VNDLY is sold by Workday account teams on a custom quote, and in practice the number depends on your existing Workday contract, the volume of contingent spend flowing through the system and whether you add the Statement of Work module.
Because Workday does not provide MSP services, budget separately for program management. Magnit, by comparison, bundles MSP staff with its own VMS, so a line-by-line cost comparison needs to include people as well as software.
Verified from the official pricing page on September 25, 2026. View source
Editorial verdict
I would put VNDLY first on the list for any enterprise that already runs Workday HCM and wants contractors, agency temps and SOW workers counted in the same headcount and cost reporting as employees. That link is the whole reason Workday bought the company, and Workday's own pages pitch VNDLY paired with HCM for total workforce reporting.
Outside a Workday estate the case is weaker. The 2021 acquisition release said VNDLY would keep integrating with third-party HR, finance, IT and legal systems, but current product pages barely mention non-Workday HCMs. A company on SAP SuccessFactors or Oracle should compare it against suite-neutral tools such as SimplifyVMS before assuming it fits.
The product itself is well regarded by analysts: Workday's product page cites Everest Group's 2026 VMS PEAK Matrix, where VNDLY placed as a Leader and Star Performer. Customers named on the product page are Peloton, College Board, Banner Health, Huntington National Bank, Medtronic and Illumina.
Large Workday HCM customers in regulated or high-volume sectors (the named customers span healthcare, banking, life sciences and consumer fitness) that want one record for employees and non-employees. It suits programs where HR owns contingent labor as much as procurement does, since VNDLY has a dedicated HR-facing product page covering worker classification, tenure policies and pay parity.
No other VMS in this group is owned by the HCM vendor itself. SAP Fieldglass has a similar relationship with SAP, and Coupa Contingent Workforce sits inside a spend platform, but VNDLY is the option where contingent worker data can flow into the same Workday tenant as employee records.
Workday is also adding AI agents on top. The Contingent Sourcing Agent, now generally available, grades applicants submitted by suppliers and resurfaces workers already in your database, with reasoning shown for each recommendation.
Commercially this is an enterprise purchase: Workday lists Enterprise as the buyer, there is no trial, and the sale runs through Workday account management. A 300-person manufacturer using three temp agencies would pay far less to start on a supplier-funded tool like SimpleVMS.
Workday VNDLY is the vendor management system Workday acquired in 2021 for contingent labor, including staffing agency workers and statement-of-work projects. It is sold to enterprise buyers on custom quotes, and its main appeal is keeping external workers next to employee data in the Workday HCM.
Still comparing? Dig deeper
This is the staff augmentation core: requisitions are created automatically, routed through configurable approval workflows and released to suppliers through a vendor portal.
Short-list views and interview scheduling for hiring managers reviewing supplier submissions.
Pre- and post-onboarding checklists, time and expense tracking, and tenure and rehire-eligibility rules.
The SOW module is listed as its own product on Workday's VNDLY navigation, for services engagements that are paid on deliverables rather than hours.
SOW vendors and staffing agencies are managed in the same system, which keeps supplier performance data in one place.
Rate agreements and spend thresholds apply across engagement types.
The HR-facing page lists worker classification, tenure policies and pay parity as areas VNDLY helps manage, with role-based data access for sensitive records.
Tenure management and local time rules help avoid co-employment exposure on long assignments.
Role-based access decides who sees rates, worker data and invoices.
The Contingent Sourcing Agent grades supplier-submitted applicants and recommends past contingent workers for new roles, keeping a human in the loop for the final decision.
Resurfaces workers already in the database, which reduces reliance on new agency submissions.
Each grade comes with the reasoning behind it, which matters for audit and bias review.
Evaluating Workday VNDLY means separating what sounds strong in the demo from what holds up after implementation for contingent workforce management software teams.
Where Workday VNDLY earns its place for enterprise teams
Workday's own messaging is that VNDLY connects with Workday HCM for process automation and full workforce visibility. For Workday customers this removes a custom integration project that other VMS buyers have to fund.
Extended workforce management handles agency requisitions through offboarding, and a separate Statement of Work module handles project-based services, so both spend types share suppliers and reporting.
Rate card management, spend thresholds and global digital invoicing with an invoice template generator give finance a single view of supplier billing.
Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group's 2026 VMS PEAK Matrix, with references such as Medtronic and Huntington National Bank.
What to press on in Workday VNDLY pricing calls before signing
Current pages focus on Workday HCM. If your HR system is something else, the core argument for VNDLY over a neutral VMS mostly disappears, and you should test the integration you need during evaluation.
Workday sells the platform, not program management. Buyers without an internal contingent workforce team must hire one or contract an MSP separately, unlike Magnit, which supplies both.
No list prices, no trial and a quote tied to a wider Workday relationship make it hard to benchmark before you are deep in a sales cycle.
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Expect the quote to scale with program size: number of workers, suppliers and countries, plus the modules in scope. Staff augmentation and SOW engagements are separate capabilities on Workday's product navigation, so ask for each to be itemised.
Integration to Workday HCM is the selling point, but connections to a non-Workday ERP, identity provider or payroll still need scoping. If you use an MSP, their fee sits on top of the VNDLY subscription, and some VMS contracts in this market are supplier-funded instead of client-funded, so ask Workday which model your deal uses.
Before you sign
Workday's own sales team handles VNDLY deals, usually as an extension of an existing Workday relationship. Plan the evaluation around integration proof and program staffing as much as the software itself.
Ask exactly which Workday HCM records VNDLY writes to, because the value of the purchase depends on contingent workers appearing in the same headcount, cost center and org reporting as employees.
Confirm how SOW is licensed and demonstrated, since Workday presents Statement of Work as a separate module and some programs only need staff augmentation in year one.
Decide who runs the program before signing, because Workday does not provide MSP services and the software alone will not manage supplier performance reviews or rate negotiations.
Request a reference in your industry and region, since the named customers are US-heavy and global invoicing, local time rules and tenure limits behave differently across countries.
Workday. It announced the deal on 18 November 2021 for about $510 million, mostly in cash, and completed it in December 2021.
It is marketed as Workday VNDLY. The old vndly.com domain redirects to the Workday VNDLY product page on workday.com.
No. It is a VMS platform. Programs that want outsourced program management contract an MSP separately or staff it internally.
Yes. Statement of Work is a named module alongside extended workforce management.
No. Pricing is quote-based and Workday offers a demo on request.
The Contingent Sourcing Agent grades applicants and rediscovers past contingent workers, and the platform uses machine learning to surface candidates who fit a requisition.
The closest alternatives split by who owns them and what else they bundle: independent VMS vendors, spend-suite modules and providers that include MSP staff.
| Product | Pricing | Free trial |
|---|---|---|
| Workday VNDLYThis tool | Custom quote from Workday; no public list price | No |
| Beeline | Custom quote | No |
| SAP Fieldglass | Custom quote | No |
| Avature CWM | Custom quote | No |
| SimpleVMS | Custom quote | No |
| SimplifyVMS | Custom quote | No |
Beeline is a contingent workforce management platform built to help enterprise organizations manage external labor with more control and visibility.
SAP Fieldglass is a cloud-based vendor management system (VMS) built to help organizations control their external workforce.
Avature CWM is the Contingent Workforce Management solution in Avature's Talent Acquisition Suite, next to its ATS and recruiting CRM.
A vendor-funded VMS with no client setup fee, aimed at mid-size light industrial and clerical staffing programs rather than global enterprises.
An independent VMS with direct sourcing and services procurement modules that lists connectors to Workday, SAP, Oracle and Coupa, a better fit when your HCM is not Workday.
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