Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dayforce
Score 7.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Dayforce HCM is a cloud-based platform encompassing HR, payroll, benefits, and talent and workforce management. It provides companies with a scalable framework and real-time data, such as continual pay calculations, to enable efficient decision-making.N/A
Xactly Incent
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Xactly Incent is a software solution that allows companies to design, automate and manage incentive compensation—from the simple to the complex—and align seller behavior with revenue goals. With Xactly Incent helps customers to reduce time spent on plan administration, realize higher quota attainment, eliminate payout errors and increase payout accuracy, drive better performance with commission visibility. With its integrations, companies can combine compensation data with CRM, ERP, HCM and…N/A
Pricing
DayforceXactly Incent
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DayforceXactly Incent
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
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DayforceXactly Incent
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Features
DayforceXactly Incent
Human Resource Management
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Dayforce
7.8
581 Ratings
0% below category average
Xactly Incent
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Ratings
Employee demographic data8.1504 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.4539 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.9529 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.8531 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.4482 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management7.7527 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.5351 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
8.4
581 Ratings
4% above category average
Xactly Incent
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Ratings
Pay calculation9.0567 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.5283 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.9131 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.0456 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.0552 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.5436 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management8.1294 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
8.0
527 Ratings
1% below category average
Xactly Incent
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Approval workflow8.3495 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details7.7509 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.9416 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
8.1
593 Ratings
0% below category average
Xactly Incent
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View and generate pay and benefit information8.5564 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.7577 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.0397 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.1206 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.0473 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.5
97 Ratings
3% below category average
Xactly Incent
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Tracking of all physical assets7.597 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.2
580 Ratings
5% below category average
Xactly Incent
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Report builder7.6571 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.7571 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.3399 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.8
373 Ratings
3% below category average
Xactly Incent
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New hire portal7.8363 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.8319 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.7
240 Ratings
6% below category average
Xactly Incent
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Corporate goal setting7.4201 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.8220 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility7.6188 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.9225 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.8
264 Ratings
2% below category average
Xactly Incent
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Performance plans7.5245 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.6210 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking7.9247 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.8243 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.0219 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
6.9
119 Ratings
13% below category average
Xactly Incent
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Create succession plans/pools7.194 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking6.8102 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search6.6107 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.094 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.3
286 Ratings
6% below category average
Xactly Incent
-
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Job Requisition Management7.5270 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.5264 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.5221 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.5253 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention6.6216 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.4263 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.2257 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
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Ratings
Xactly Incent
8.6
79 Ratings
8% below category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings7.379 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings9.32 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings9.32 Ratings
Revenue Forecasting00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
Pipeline Analytics00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Sales ICM
Comparison of Sales ICM features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
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Ratings
Xactly Incent
7.1
84 Ratings
19% below category average
Sales compensation plan creation00 Ratings7.579 Ratings
Complex sales crediting00 Ratings7.174 Ratings
Sales compensation process automation00 Ratings7.477 Ratings
Incentive auditing/regulation compliance00 Ratings7.263 Ratings
Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting00 Ratings7.272 Ratings
Incentive modeling00 Ratings7.255 Ratings
Agile incentive strategy00 Ratings6.751 Ratings
ICM mobile visibility00 Ratings6.848 Ratings
Sales Gamification
Comparison of Sales Gamification features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Xactly Incent
8.1
68 Ratings
11% below category average
Sales contest templates00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Custom sales contests00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Team competitions00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Multiple competitions00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Contest flexibility00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Sales rep view00 Ratings7.568 Ratings
Mobile game functionality00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Game notifications & updates00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Social competition / Game collaboration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Sales game integration to Salesforce00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Sales performance reporting00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
TV streaming00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
DayforceXactly Incent
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(621 ratings)
7.8
(268 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(85 ratings)
8.0
(44 ratings)
Usability
6.3
(60 ratings)
7.2
(22 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(12 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Performance
5.0
(13 ratings)
6.2
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(65 ratings)
5.9
(22 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(11 ratings)
7.4
(8 ratings)
Online Training
7.4
(18 ratings)
8.7
(8 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.6
(43 ratings)
4.0
(14 ratings)
Configurability
8.8
(13 ratings)
4.7
(10 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(8 ratings)
4.9
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.9
(14 ratings)
4.9
(11 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(18 ratings)
8.8
(8 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.9
(12 ratings)
7.9
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
DayforceXactly Incent
Likelihood to Recommend
Dayforce
Ceridian is well suited for transferring time data between systems to ensure employees are accurately compensated based on their time. Ceridian is not ideal when an employee has transferred to a different country. (As previously mentioned, we are required to create a new user record which with our setup requires the existing employee to be hired in the new location).
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Xactly Corp
Xactly Incent is well suited for communicating commission information to the field. I love that they can just log on and see all the data they need to verify the commissions they receive. I also like the option to post messages and announcements within the application.
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Pros
Dayforce
  • Reporting. It has an extensive report builder with stock reports, ad-hoc reports, and the ability to build your own custom reports.
  • Payroll. The continuous payroll engine makes processing complex payrolls much easier and faster.
  • Forms. The stock forms are a great jumping off point to start creating custom forms that work better for your processes and organization.
  • Documentation. Every module is well documented, and you're always bound to learn something if you read through them properly!
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Xactly Corp
  • It calculates the commissions so accurate based on the plan that we setup
  • It details the data reports in terms of Rankings, Payouts, Employee history etc
  • It works great with the combination of other Xactly products like Connect for automated processes and Analytics for Reports
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Cons
Dayforce
  • In payroll, there are sometimes issues with calculating pay when people’s rates change mid-pay period
  • Would love to see an option to assist with building SQL or XML statements in the future (maybe co-pilot AI?)
  • Would love an easy way to store pre-hire documents with candidates that syncs over to their HR profile when hired
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Xactly Corp
  • Maintaining Hierarchies can become difficult throughout the fiscal year if you have a multi-layered commissions model. My team would benefit from a smoother mechanism to update/maintain hierarchies in the system.
  • Special characters are not supported in the tool and that can become a problem given we use the system globally.
  • Game changer if the system allowed more customization on the people object.
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Likelihood to Renew
Dayforce
We are highly invested in Ceridian's Dayforce product. It give us the flexibility and scaling that our growing company needs. Its potential reaches beyond the basic HR functions to the decision making that our Management Team needs. Ceridian is always innovating the employee and employee experiences to offer cutting edge options.
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Xactly Corp
Xactly Incent is a great tool for calculating commissions. The interface is user friendly and the system is set up in a way that allows for multiple setups for each commission plan. Over the last couple years since I have been on the commission team we have been able to optimize our plans to promote scalability. Our sales and accounting teams have become familiar with navigating the system which promotes transparency. From an audit perspective, Incent provides us with the reports and data we need to provide to our auditors.
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Usability
Dayforce
I think it's very usable for the employee. I don't think it is as easy for the HR/PR admins - especially if there is an issue. There are so many setup screens that need to be looked at to try to figure out why payroll isn't calculating properly, hours aren't feeding over correctly, or benefits are not calculating properly. For the most part, they can't do their own troubleshooting. The same is true for the managers. Our managers find it cumbersome to go into make any schedule changes after the schedules have been generated.
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Xactly Corp
The devil is in the detail. It's not intuitive to use, also not for Sales employees. You need to train them. For superusers like me you need a lot of training to administrate the system. It has a lot of functionalities and complexity like staging and upload orders, reset triggers, updating & creating rate tables. A lot of formulars are necessary to learn.
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Reliability and Availability
Dayforce
We have never experienced a total/unplanned outages that effected our ability to process payroll. However, there are times when the application's speed is significantly effected - and processing a payroll may take up to twice as long as normal.
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Xactly Corp
Xactly Incent is always available, they have planned monthly maintenance on Friday nights but are very proactive to communicate it. Monthly maintenance is useful as they address any bugs and also are constantly upgrading the user interface to make it easier to use.
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Performance
Dayforce
We haven't noticed any slow-down due to the integration of Dayforce WFM with our Ceridian HPL products (HRIS and Payroll). The new HTML view of the timesheets don't load as quickly as the old Silverlight view - however, we have gotten used to the change.
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Xactly Corp
Xactly Incent performs extremely well. I have not experienced it "slowing down" when usage is heavy. This is particularly true when it comes to the regular recalculation of credits and commissions. It is not uncommon for Xactly to be dealing with hundreds of thousands of orders/credits in a pay period, but the system handles it well. Xactly recently changed their calculation engine and the speed for regular refreshes increased significantly.
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Support Rating
Dayforce
Most of the time the support is great; it's not always super efficient but I always get the help I need. Occasionally it takes a lot longer than we had hoped or get conflicting responses. We had one ticket recently where we were told we would have to pay the service team to support us on the project and then another person called the next day with the solution to our query and was able to find a solution easily. Generally, though, the response is great and they either walk me though how to do something via a Zoom Meeting or they email step-by-step instructions on how to do it and say if I have questions we can set up a meeting to discuss further.
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Xactly Corp
They take the time to understand the system. They keep us updated on the status of our cases. Finally, their continued follow up ensuring the initial issue was resolved is very nice. They will not close the case out until they have confirmed that our issue has been completely resolved and fixed.
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In-Person Training
Dayforce
Because the training we reviewed at Insights has changed how we use the system everyday. This is a key factor in our training.
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Xactly Corp
It was great, good explanations and good training material provided, we were able to get a really good idea of how to use the system. I also think that it was enough time to learn how to setup the system.
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Online Training
Dayforce
The online training is very good, there is a wide variety of topics offered and several dates and times. The instructors are very knowledgeable about the subjects they are teaching. There are so many ways to program Dayforce that just the basics seem to be covered in the class.
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Xactly Corp
Xactly offers training on new releases on a monthly basis and training on basic principles regularly via registration. My experience with both is that they do not provide the in-depth knowledge necessary to truly master the system and advanced courses still do not go to the level needed to autonomously manage the system and plans. Professional services are a large part of any cloud based service such as Xactly and I feel a reliance on such paid consulting services is a great money-maker for Xactly.
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Implementation Rating
Dayforce
Have a strong internal team. Communicate with your implementation team - they are there to make it work for you. Take the time to really think about how you want the system to work for you - in some cases, you may need to rethink your own business practices to see if you are working harder when the system could do it for you
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Xactly Corp
We have been satisfied with the implementation overall. The person from Xactly professional team was on our site to support the implementation and give us guides and instructions on how to operate the system in our case. it was really helpful moments. We have learned what and how to test Xactly Incent
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Alternatives Considered
Dayforce
All of the info for Payroll, HR updates, employee updates, Time worked and PTO are in a single application, with a single login, updated in every screen or module in real time. There is no lag in data from screen to screen or from user to user, its almost instant.
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Xactly Corp
I have been working on Incent since one year. I found it to be the greatest tool for calculating commissions. From credits to commissions to sketches, the system has it all, including the ability to conduct reports and statistics. It has a lot of features and customizations that are necessary for creating complex commission plans and calculating commissions. I enjoy its modern and user-friendly interface that makes the product more fascinating. Furthermore, the team's latest updates are excellent and make the product more effective and friendlier
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Scalability
Dayforce
Overall, we are extremely happy with the Dayforce WFM module. Our biggest pain point is concerning the twice annual software upgrades - which is the only reason I haven't rated them as a '10'. Because every customer is configured differently, the upgrades can sometimes have adverse effects on our current configured policies/rules. And although they roll-out the upgraded version in a test environment several weeks before go-live, not all testing is accurate in that environment. Some issues do not present themselves until you are working with live punches.
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Xactly Corp
It's very flexible. In most cases it can be adapted to your needs by programming which may cost extra money. We have a lot of different complans and close to 1.000 employees using Xactly in EMEA. It's mainly used by Sales and Finance
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Return on Investment
Dayforce
  • Performance Reviews/Comp used to be handled via paper and tracking/reporting was a nightmare - having all of that in the system is so much more efficient and provides huge ROI
  • Our organization used to have big problems with hiring managers going rogue and hiring positions that aren't approved by Finance - we built an approval workflow in the system that triggers before any req is approved which has completely solved this problem
  • Dayforce Wallet has been a huge perk for our employees - it's heavily used and our crew love it
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Xactly Corp
  • We are able to quickly and easily identify duplicate credit and commission calculations through data extracts in Incent.
  • We have literally saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by identifying gaps in our sales operations processes, which were giving multiple people credits on the same deals, across multiple GEOs.
  • We have cut processing time by 75% through Xactly Incent automations versus calculating manually in Excel.
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ScreenShots

Dayforce Screenshots

Screenshot of Dayforce Home ScreenScreenshot of Scheduling DashboardScreenshot of Compensation DashboardScreenshot of Succession Planning - Talent MatrixScreenshot of Payroll DashboardScreenshot of Dayforce Mobile - Recruiting

Xactly Incent Screenshots

Screenshot of Admin Dashboard: A quick snapshot into the overall performance of current compensation plans and Incent instance.Screenshot of Admin View of Quotas List and Dashboard: See and manage all quotas for teams.Screenshot of Admin View of Pay Curves: Adjust pay curves for reps based on set thresholds, quota attainment percentages and multiplier rates and then use those to build out commission rules.Screenshot of Admin View of Profiles List and Drilldown: Provides a comprehensive snapshot of payees’ details for streamlined reviewing and a detailed view of any payee in the system.Screenshot of Rep Dashboard: Increase rep productivity and trust with on-demand visibility into their commissions and payouts.Screenshot of Rep View of Incentive Estimator: Where teams can see how much they can earn based on current opportunities.