Enhanced Award Costs Processing is mandatory in 2027R1. Check your history first.
Once you opt in, there is no way back. Reversals, stuck lines and failed jobs in your legacy history cross over with you.
What changes when Workday makes Enhanced Award Costs Processing mandatory in 2027R1?
Workday plans to make Enhanced Award Costs Processing mandatory in 2027R1 for most customers. Most tenants are migrated automatically.
The new engine builds award costs from posted journal lines and cannot be switched off once enabled.
Saintilco AwardShift, the award costs processing cutover check, shows what it meets in your legacy history, in dollars.
Who is AwardShift for?
Grants and research finance offices on Workday Grants Management that still run legacy award costs processing. Already opted in? The after cutover run still applies.
Working on effort certification instead? Start with the free Effort Certification Review.
What does AwardShift find?
What crosses over with you at the switch:
- Reversals where the F&A and revenue never reversed
- Payroll lines stuck in Awaiting Settlement
- Ready to Bill lines outside their award line dates
- Failed award cost jobs
Each finding carries dollars where Workday documents the behavior, and a count where it does not.
It also asks who owns the opt-in date, custom reports and the cutover test plan. If nobody owns the test plan, that is the first finding.
How does AwardShift run, and what do you get?
On exports you already pull, as CSV or Excel. Nothing leaves your machine, nothing is written back to Workday, and no tenant access is needed.
You get:
- Findings ranked by dollars at risk, each with its next action in Workday
- A cutover task list by owner
- A run file to reload after cutover, so you see what closed
- A printable summary for whoever signs off the date
What does AwardShift cost?
Covers the run before cutover and the run after. Renewal is USD 225 a year for another 12 months and updated versions.
With the Sponsored Award Review: USD 2,450, USD 250 less than buying both. The Review alone does not include AwardShift.
Pay by card or bank transfer, or request an invoice.
Questions grants offices ask about AwardShift.
Can you go back to legacy award costs processing after opting in?
No. Workday says the opt-in is irreversible once enabled, and a rule already in use cannot take a new effective date.
Can you reprocess legacy award costs after opting in?
Yes, but legacy history reprocesses the legacy way: the whole transaction and every grant on it. AwardShift counts, per grant, what a reprocess will touch.
Is there a cutover checklist for customers already live on legacy award costs processing?
Workday's release note gives live customers no cutover work plan. AwardShift builds one from your exports, by owner.
Do you need access to our Workday tenant?
No. AwardShift runs in your browser on exports you pull, and changes nothing in Workday.
When should we run it?
Before you choose the opt-in date, and again after cutover.
What does AwardShift not do?
It does not opt you in, pick your date, replace your cutover test plan or give an opinion on your books.
How is AwardShift different from AwardSight?
AwardSight handles effort certification. AwardShift checks award costs processing cutover readiness.
Is Saintilco affiliated with Workday?
No. Saintilco Consulting is independent, with no vendor or reseller ties.
Pick your cutover date with the dollars in front of you.
Fifteen minutes to see whether AwardShift fits your cutover. No price is asked on that call.
Questions first? Write to Mel directly.
mel@saintilco.com
AwardShift findings are not legal, tax or accounting advice.