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What is Dayforce?
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.
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DayForce HCM - The Lifesavers of the HR/Payroll Profession
One stop shop for HRIS, but could be better
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Dayforce: Great product but has its limitations.
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For us, the custom reports have given us the best view for hiring, scheduling, and compensation.
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- Special pays (restricted stock, employee stock plan, deferred stock, etc)
- Taxes: we are in many states, several with locals
- Tax service pays and files taxes on time.
- Easily process amendments.
- Automatic compliance notifications and …
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Popular Features
- Pay calculation (568)9.090%
- Update personal information (578)8.787%
- Pre-built reports (572)7.777%
- Report builder (572)7.676%
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What is Dayforce?
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.
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Features
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
- 8.1Employee demographic data(505) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 8.4Employment history(540) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 8Job profiles and administration(530) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 7.8Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(532) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 7.4Organizational charting(483) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 7.7Organization and location management(528) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 7.5Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(352) Ratings
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 9Pay calculation(568) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 7.5Support for external payroll vendors(283) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 8.9Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(132) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 8Benefit plan administration(457) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 9Direct deposit files(553) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 8.5Salary revision and increment management(437) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 8.1Reimbursement management(294) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Leave and Attendance Management
Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.
- 8.3Approval workflow(496) Ratings
Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.
- 7.7Balance details(510) Ratings
Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.
- 7.9Annual carry-forward and encashment(417) Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment enables unused paid time-off days to be carried forward to new year, or paid in cash.
Employee Self Service
Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.
- 8.5View and generate pay and benefit information(565) Ratings
Employees can view pay and benefit data and print pay stubs.
- 8.7Update personal information(578) Ratings
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
- 8.1View company policy documentation(398) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 7.2Employee recognition(206) Ratings
thank a team member
- 8View job history(474) Ratings
Employees can view all positions held at the company.
Asset Management
Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.
- 7.5Tracking of all physical assets(97) Ratings
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
HR Reporting
Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.
- 7.6Report builder(572) Ratings
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
- 7.7Pre-built reports(572) Ratings
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
- 6.3Ability to combine HR data with external data(400) Ratings
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
Onboarding
Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.
- 7.8New hire portal(364) Ratings
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
- 7.9Manager tracking tools(320) Ratings
Tracking tools allow hiring managers to check status on individual hires for all onboarding activities.
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 7.5Corporate goal setting(202) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 7.9Individual goal setting(221) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 7.6Line-of sight-visibility(189) Ratings
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
- 7.9Performance tracking(226) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 7.5Performance plans(246) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 7.6Performance improvement plans(210) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 7.9Review status tracking(248) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 7.9Review reminders(244) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 8Multiple review frequency(219) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.
- 7.3Create succession plans/pools(94) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 7Candidate ranking(102) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 6.6Candidate search(107) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 7.1Candidate development(94) Ratings
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
Recruiting / ATS
Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.
- 7.5Job Requisition Management(271) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 7.5Company Website Posting(265) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 7.5Publish to Social Media(222) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 7.5Job Search Site Posting(254) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 6.6Duplicate Candidate Prevention(217) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 7.4Applicant Tracking(264) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 7.3Notifications and Alerts(258) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
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What is Dayforce?
Dayforce is a global people platform for the modern workforce. An enterprise HCM solution, Dayforce combines payroll, HR, benefits, talent management, and workforce management in a single cloud application to power today’s boundless workforce. Dayforce helps organizations unlock their full workforce potential and operate with confidence no matter where they operate in the world.
Dayforce is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and Minneapolis, Minnesota with operations across the globe. The company’s brand promise to make work life better is the commitment it makes not only to customers, but to its own people and the communities Dayforce operates in.
Key product areas:
· HRIS
· Global payroll, on-demand pay
· Benefits
· Workforce management, including time and attendance and task management
· Talent acquisition, including recruiting and onboarding
· Talent management, including performance management, succession planning, compensation management, engagement surveys, and an integrated learning management system
· Advanced reporting, analytics, and dashboards
· HR self service via the Dayforce mobile app
Dayforce Features
Human Resource Management Features
- Supported: Employee demographic data
- Supported: Employment history
- Supported: Job profiles and administration
- Supported: Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
- Supported: Benefits information
- Supported: Organizational charting
- Supported: Organization and location management
- Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Payroll Management Features
- Supported: Pay calculation
- Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
- Supported: Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
- Supported: Payroll history for each employee
- Supported: Benefit plan administration
- Supported: Direct deposit files
- Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
- Supported: Salary revision and increment management
- Supported: Reimbursement management
- Supported: Statutory form management
Leave and Attendance Management Features
- Supported: Approval workflow
- Supported: Email notifications
- Supported: Balance details
- Supported: Travel absence management
- Supported: Annual carry-forward and encashment
Employee Self Service Features
- Supported: Employee login
- Supported: View and generate pay and benefit information
- Supported: Update personal information
- Supported: Request time off
- Supported: View job history
- Supported: View company policy documentation
- Supported: View company news and information
- Supported: Employee recognition
Asset Management Features
- Supported: Tracking of all physical assets
HR Reporting Features
- Supported: Report builder
- Supported: Pre-built reports
- Supported: Ability to combine HR data with external data
Integration with other HR capabilities Features
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by same vendor
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by different vendor
Performance Management Features
- Supported: Performance plans
- Supported: Performance improvement plans
- Supported: Review status tracking
- Supported: Review reminders
- Supported: Multiple review frequency
Succession Planning Features
- Supported: Create succession plans/pools
- Supported: Candidate ranking
- Supported: Candidate search
- Supported: Candidate development
Onboarding Features
- Supported: New hire portal
- Supported: Manager tracking tools
Performance and Goals Features
- Supported: Corporate goal setting
- Supported: Individual goal setting
- Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
- Supported: Performance tracking
Recruiting / ATS Features
- Supported: Job Requisition Management
- Supported: Company Website Posting
- Supported: Publish to Social Media
- Supported: Job Search Site Posting
- Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
- Supported: Applicant Tracking
- Supported: Notifications and Alerts
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Dayforce Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | Global |
Supported Languages | English (US), English (GB), French, French Canadian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Italian, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Hindi, Portuguese (Brazil), Croatian, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Thai |
Dayforce Downloadables
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Dayforce Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 1% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 18% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 81% |
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(1130)Attribute Ratings
- 8.7Likelihood to Renew86 ratings
- 10Availability12 ratings
- 5Performance13 ratings
- 6.2Usability60 ratings
- 7.7Support Rating65 ratings
- 7.3Online Training18 ratings
- 7In-Person Training11 ratings
- 6.6Implementation Rating43 ratings
- 8.9Configurability13 ratings
- 9.9Product Scalability14 ratings
- 8Ease of integration8 ratings
- 9.9Vendor pre-sale12 ratings
- 8.9Vendor post-sale18 ratings
Reviews
(101-125 of 266)Ceridian is great.
- Identifies applicable tax jurisdictions based on employee addresses
- Retros back pay changes
- Cannot set up delivery packages to different locations, must be by pay group only, which doesn't work for all companies
- Navigation is difficult to learn
Dayforce rocks!
- Payroll - easily can view timesheets and edit
- Recruiting - easy to screen and source candidates
- Performance - easily accessed reviews
- Reporting - very slow feature
- Workflow Management - not easy on the eyes
- Recruiting - sometimes adding more words to names actually includes more people instead of limiting the search
Single Database & Compliance For The Win
- Ability to comply with all of the various FLSA laws at the municipality level up through state level.
- Single database for managing WFM/HCM/HRIS.
- The path moving from selection to implementation and then to support is rocky. There are opportunities to improve communication and hand off as you move to support.
Good payroll, mediocre to poor HCM. Ceridian's current value proposition is that it's already installed and lower cost than Workday. They have positioned themselves as a commodity, which is not a great strategy. Honestly, I have been disappointed so far. The only reason I'm still considering Dayforce is an excellent Sales Executive who listens and is trying to help.
- Payroll services
- Time and attendance
- An excellent Sales Executive who is trying to help
- Product development is behind the speed of the market
- Its almost 2020 and the product owner for mobile is not allowed to commit a date for full mobile-first functionality, especially of forms
- Dashboards are dependent on being all in with Ceridian, which means that growing/acquiring businesses cannot use them. They are late to market with the Power BI solution
Excellent integrated HCM solution set
- Payroll processing
- Benefits management
- Open data platform
- H/R Management
- Workforce Management
- Benefits interfaces
- Secondary job scheduling
- Payroll seems to be a smooth process.
- Employee access on mobile works well.
- Payroll tax resources.
- Knowledge of all customer service reps seems a little lacking. Most issues end up with Professional Services for an extra fee.
- Implementation should be more helpful. This didn't seem to be set up with the correct needs of our company. Could be lack of understanding on our side, but we do not feel Ceridian guided us properly.
Good product that could use a bit more features and flexibility.
- Well integrated across modules.
- Flexible reporting.
- Client engagement.
- Having access to more data to report on our own.
- Lackluster training sessions.
- More point-in-time reporting capabilities.
Dayforce Review 2019
- Having an SQL background, the incorporation of SQL into Dayforce has provided an easy transition into HR.
- The team is able to help with issues quickly and provide good insights into why an issue may have been present. I appreciate how support will call and start a screen share session quickly to solve challenges.
- Attending DF128 Dashboarding with Dayforce Analytics, I was taken aback with the choice to use PowerBI as the analytics tool. While I understand it is a Microsoft product and may interact well with SQL, I am worried about the mixture of coding languages within the same overall product. DAX is not hard to code but it is not consistent with the SQL used everywhere else. Another key is for your clients that already have PowerBI licenses and can create Odata links, API's or excel reporting, they can choose to circumvent Dayforce and load into PowerBI themselves. This would open the possibility to integrate data from multiple internal sources without having to share that with Dayforce. With that said I do think it is a leap forward for Dayforce and look forward to having access to the module.
- Other issues ACCO Brands may be having are most likely self-inflicted as we have been on Dayforce since early stages and many changes have occurred since original implementation.
Easy to use
- Recruiting module is well beyond our expectations.
- Timesheets - Clocking in and out
- Performance Module easy to use
- The best payroll & HR system we've ever utilized.
- Maybe have a "refresh" button on the Home page?
Ceridian Dayforce Review
- Ceridian has a great portal for reporting. This helps our company stay on track with expenses.
- Ceridian is super user-friendly and easy to navigate.
- We have run into paying employees for "no reason" when reaching out to support we have received some responses that say "not sure why this happened" and our ticket was closed.
- Our accrued vacation seems to always have issues and problems that aren't explainable, this causes employees to have more or less time to take off.
- Our implementation was done 95% remotely with the Ceridian staff. it could have been more beneficial to have Ceridian in the same room during implementation processes.
Dayforce Review
- Simple reporting system makes it easy to look at pattens
- Payroll processing has been simplified with easy ways to import data into the system
- Having data from multiple modules in one system is very helpful when auditing
- Streamlining the custom report process would be very helpful
Candid Dayforce Review
We use it for hiring, benefits, for employee demographics, pay rates, employee profile information, and for reporting on any of these areas.
- I like the ability to add custom SQL in Reporting.
- I think the employee view where an employee can see their benefits and earnings is nice.
- Dayforce can be very slow at times, and the dependency on Silverlight is annoying. Every part of Dayforce should work on Chrome or Firefox without an extension.
- The education materials, documentation, and webinars need to be more user friendly. The Reporting tool is powerful but it is underutilized because the documentation and training on the fields, tables, data model, etc. need to be more thorough.
- The world is mobile and Dayforce needs to adapt to Mobile as soon as possible. My boss wants answers or reports that are easily available anywhere he is.
Handy Product
- Very user friendly
- Having a Flyout feature to check immediate impact to someone's pay is a great feature
- Training videos are helpful
- Sometimes when you call support you get someone who is untrained and has no idea how to help you.
- Some of our initial setup appears to be wrong, however we've had numerous band-aid solutions applied and now things are a mess and fixing everything is almost impossible.
- It's difficult for managers to manage both schedules and timesheets consistently - maybe something in place to make this easier for them?
Review
- It is robust, it can be a one stop shop for Human Resources and other company departments.
- There are a lot of different modules available.
- The Web Services capabilities are expanding.
- Support, they value their own productivity over the satisfaction of the client. For example, they will resolve tickets before you have confirmed you are satisfied with what they have provided you.
- Support, they over ask for calls when it is more efficient to answer back and forth for simple questions. Planning/scheduling calls can be difficult and can delay the solutions we need.
- More flexibility to make changes in the system in regards to structure and configuration.
An engineer with a passion for HR technology
- Report writing and ability to generate reports.
- Ability to use additional employee properties to create additional fields.
- Timekeeping
- Payroll earning and deduction reports are very useful
- During position change, the schedules have to be adjusted manually.
- During system upgrades, the workflows break and need to be tested again.
- Silverlight issues while using Dayforce with Macbook and Apple products.
Ceridian Dayforce from an IT Analyst's POV
- Easy payroll entry to GL entry
- Quick support resolution - The pod system makes it so much easier to have a back-and-forth conversation and going back to the same people you've worked with before is very comforting.
- We use a BI reporting software and it isn't easy/possible to get data out of Ceridian for use by the BI service.
Dayforce Payroll is a '10'
- Dayforce offers HR, Recruiting, Benefits, Payroll, and Workforce Management in a single application. Our associates have mobile technology which enables them to see their schedules, review their timecards or check benefit information 24 hours a day.
- Our associates have access to real time information 24 hours a day. They are able to see how much PTO time is available and request time away from work through mobile technology.
- The new 'Timecards' needs improvement. It is difficult to access the timecard totals (previously 'View Pay' in My Timecards) without having to drag the side bar down. It is not efficient.
- The HTML screens are slow and inefficient. We are still using Silverlight when possible.
First year happy customer
- Self service
- Professional Services
- Ability to handle global
- Ease of employee use
- Behind the scenes can be complicated as it relates to certain areas
- For the most part support has been great, but you occasionally get the person who doesn’t really know anything
- Finding all the bugs that implementation missed
Ceridian Dayforce Review
- Payroll
- WFM
- Visualization
- Support
- Reporting
- Reporting - the reporting module is very user-friendly and allows users to create custom reports to meet specific needs.
- Navigation - the database is organized in a way that is easy to navigate and user-friendly! I love how the site is clean and aesthetically pleasing.
- One-stop shop - it's a great to use HRIS that encompasses so much HR-related content. New additions with the system have tremendous power to positively enhance the employee experience!
- People functionality - certain data fields are delimited when another is changed (manager field delimits when a work assignment is modified). The user has to manually adjust that if a workflow is not being used.
- Reporting functionality - the system doesn't have the capacity to pull data for a group of people that are unrelated according to filters - you can't run a report for a group of people unless they have a shared characteristic that is stored within Dayforce.
Ceridian makes us Happy, Happy, Happy!!
- We process weekly, biweekly and semi monthly payrolls.
- We use Benefits for our employees' new hire benefits enrollment.
- Our employees use Open Enrollment to elect their yearly benefit elections.
- When terminating benefits you can't terminate Life and AD&D unless they have a beneficiary listed. They are now terminated - it doesn't matter. This function needs to be addressed.
Great System if you have all the Modules
- Streamlined Payroll
- Customizable to fit our needs
- Interfacing with third-party vendors
- The system loads very slowly.
- Report builders could be more streamlined - it’s not always easy to find the fields you need to add to the report.
Ceridian Dayforce Review
- Time and attendance management.
- Payroll processing and the committing process.
- Ease of using the system in general.
- Reporting on all data that is visible to us in not only in PDF but Excel as well and to be able to report on it all.
- Too many upgrades makes it hard to manage.
- Entitlement management.
Solid platform but needs more flexibility to be widely viable
- Payroll
- Analytics Insights
- Rigid org structure
- Difficult to support matrix relationships
Metals Manufacturing Employee Review of Ceridian Dayforce
- Dayforce has helped to bring about a lot of positive change within our organization, by allowing things to be streamlined in one place.
- The ability to search for troubleshooting assistance needs to be a little better.
- The response time to resolving issues needs to be shortened.