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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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7 out of 10
April 11, 2024
We use Dayforce for the majority of all or our HR needs except learning management and leave management. We use the HUBS to get …
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10 out of 10
February 02, 2024
We use Dayforce for Payroll and HR. We have over 20 locations with varying ESA requirements and multiple jurisdictions. Dayforce is able …
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Popular Features

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  • Pay calculation (568)
    9.0
    90%
  • Update personal information (578)
    8.7
    87%
  • Pre-built reports (572)
    7.7
    77%
  • Report builder (572)
    7.6
    76%

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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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What is Justworks?

Justworks offers a platform for payroll, benefits, compliance support, with HR tools. As a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), Justworks offers PEO solutions that can bundle payroll, compliance, HR, and benefits under the Justworks umbrella, and help to administer employment-related…

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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.

7.9
Avg 7.9

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.4
Avg 8.0

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
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.1
Avg 8.1

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.

7.5
Avg 7.8

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

7.2
Avg 7.6

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.

7.8
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

7.7
Avg 8.2

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

7.8
Avg 8.0

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
Avg 7.9

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.

7.4
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

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

Dayforce Screenshots

Screenshot of Dayforce Home ScreenScreenshot of Scheduling DashboardScreenshot of Compensation DashboardScreenshot of Succession Planning - Talent MatrixScreenshot of Payroll DashboardScreenshot of Dayforce Mobile - RecruitingScreenshot of Dayforce Mobile - SchedulingScreenshot of Dayforce Benefits Decision SupportScreenshot of Dayforce AssistantScreenshot of Dayforce WalletScreenshot of Performance ManagementScreenshot of Docu SignScreenshot of Dayforce Dash BoardScreenshot of CompensationScreenshot of BenefitsScreenshot of Benefits IntelligenceScreenshot of ApprovalsScreenshot of Analytics DashboardScreenshot of AdministrationScreenshot of Workforce ManagementScreenshot of Workforce management AnalyticsScreenshot of Talent SolutionScreenshot of Payroll

Dayforce Video

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Dayforce Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish (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

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

ADP Vantage HCM, Workday Human Capital Management, and ADP Workforce Now are common alternatives for Dayforce.

Reviewers rate Pay calculation and Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Dayforce are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Dayforce Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)1%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)18%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)81%
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October 29, 2019

Ceridian is great.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Human Resources, Benefits, and Payroll use Ceridian Dayforce as our system of record for employees and our payroll processing system.
  • 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
Cerdian is well suited for payroll processing of retro adjustments.
October 29, 2019

Dayforce rocks!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire organization is using Dayforce but heavily within HR. It addresses timesheets, performance, payroll, recruiting, reporting.
  • 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
Dayforce all around is pretty simple to navigate. The only issue I would say is certain features like workflow are very slow.
Monika Tockstein, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Ceridian Dayforce at the enterprise level. It is helping us solve compliance issues within WFM and Payroll.
  • 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.
Dayforce understands retail and the challenges in this vertical. The complexities around the law from both FLSA to taxation and minimum wage are handled well by Dayforce.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
4 of our 5 US divisions use it. The other division is on Workday and raves about it. Ceridian payroll is great, but a lot of the HCM functionality is useless since it can't ingest data from other sources. Ceridian is about 3 years behind the market on the Power BI dashboard integration, were about 3 years behind on comp, and are also a few years behind on mobile forms functionality.

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
Payroll, time, and attendance are excellent. HCM and insights, especially dashboards, are not.
Randy Kirsch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is our enterprise H/R, payroll, benefits and WFM system that serves all employees.
  • Payroll processing
  • Benefits management
  • Open data platform
  • H/R Management
  • Workforce Management
  • Benefits interfaces
  • Secondary job scheduling
Well suited as an enterprise-level HCM suite.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are 5 companies with 5 separate FEIN's. We do our own payroll, one is biweekly and the rest weekly. One company has both union and non-union workers and the others are only non-union. We purchased Dayforce as one client. We use this for both Payroll and Benefits.
  • 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.
It may be that we are fairly new to it, but we have not seen a lot of positive scenarios. We are considering a "re-boot" and exploring resources to assist.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as our HR system of record and include Payroll, Benefits, WFM, etc. company-wide, except, currently, for foreign locations.
  • 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 is well-suited to most scenarios, except for industries where we have multiple rehires year after year.
October 29, 2019

Dayforce Review 2019

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is in use by our North American Human Resources department for employee tracking in the United States and Canada. In addition, for Canada, we have added WFM to track employee time. Currently, we do not keep maintain a centralized HRIS system with our global regions including EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and ANZ. We have signed a contract to expand the Dayforce footprint which I am excited to start work towards.
  • 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.
I do not have a background in HR or with other HR systems so would not be able to contrast against other tools.
October 28, 2019

Easy to use

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is being used across our entire organization. We use also use the Recruiting & Performance Module. Our corporate office is in San Diego and we have stores throughout the U.S. and Canada. Ceridian Dayforce has helped us with our scheduling needs and the ability to log in with only 1 sign-in is amazing.
  • 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?
Well suited for organizations needing a robust HR/Payroll system with the ability for more, such as recruiting, compensation, performance management, benefits, training.
October 28, 2019

Ceridian Dayforce Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is being used across the whole organization. We use Ceridian to track hours, benefits, etc.
  • 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.
Ceridian offers more reporting tools than our previous [payroll] processor and is more user-friendly.
October 28, 2019

Dayforce Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it for the whole organization for payroll, human resources, reporting, scheduling, and recruiting. It is helping us with auditing our data and processes, as well as allowing us to have better access to our data.
  • 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
Dayforce works well for most payroll functions and makes the processing simple compared to our old system. The scheduling system would work better if there way more flexibility.
October 28, 2019

Candid Dayforce Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dayforce for payroll and for a third of our human resources needs. We do not use it for tracking leaves of absences and workers comp. We also use other software for enrolling employees in training, and for engaging employees.

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.
I think it is well suited for reporting on the data that it collects. Like I said before we use other software in HR for training and for LOA and Worker's Comp.
October 28, 2019

Handy Product

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used across the whole organization. We use it for HR, Payroll and WFM.
  • 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?
Well suited due to its ease of navigation, but sometimes things happen overnight and we don't know why. We could be out of balance the next morning when nothing should have changed. Sometimes Dayforce calculates things incorrectly and we can't figure out why. Errors in pay are not easily described and that makes them hard to figure out how to solve.
October 28, 2019

Review

Yvette Olson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dayforce HCM for the entire company. The difficulties are thus, if you do not fit as a company how Dayforce wants you to use the software, you will find it to be very inflexible when trying to make Dayforce fit how your business is run. You almost have to change your business structure to fit Dayforce.
  • 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.
For unique companies that operate differently than the normal, Dayforce HCM is not a good fit.
Shreshthi Mehta, PMP®, PHR® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is primarily used for payroll, benefits administration and workforce management. It has been useful in getting information from employees working at different sites in less time. We have been able to reduce the use of paper by using Dayforce. It has also helped us conduct audits and synthesize our processes across departments. Employees are happy as they have better connections with HR.
  • 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.
Dayforce's report writing tool is very helpful in obtaining organization data. The ability to link different fields and create custom topics is very helpful while analyzing interdepartmental properties. We are able to generate reports on employee roles, forms, location, position, ethnicity etc. This has helped us create HR metrics for headcount, termination, retention to create HR strategy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce in our US locations. We use it for managing payroll, time and attendance, 401k. It solves a lot of issues we were having with our old provider involving shift premiums and labor allocation percentages.
  • 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.
Based on cost, it is well suited for medium to medium/large companies. Smaller companies would struggle to get a good ROI from Ceridian. A fully salaried workforce might also not require Ceridian's shift and time systems and would work with something simpler.
April Atkins, CPP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is used throughout our entire organization, including our associates in the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
Dayforce is very intuitive and the training through MyPath made our transition very easy for our associates. The payroll module (sitll using MyPay due to system response in Payroll) is definitely a '10' in my book! I think WFM still needs improvements. Our supervisors and managers have found it not as easy to use or read as Kronos.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a global organization who now has the capability to track all of our global employees, whether we pay them through Dayforce or not. It’s also been a one-stop shop for us as it relates to performance, recruiting, and onboarding; so it makes it extremely convenient for employees and managers, in addition to all the admins that we have.
  • 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
Very well-suited for a global workforce, even if you can’t run payroll for that country
October 28, 2019

Ceridian Dayforce Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our whole organization uses Dayforce. It helps with having an all-in-one HCM.
  • Payroll
  • WFM
  • Visualization
  • Support
  • Reporting
End user experience is very friendly. It would be helpful in reporting if Ceridian would provide a table document to teach users how to pull multiple fields accurately.
Jessica Summy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is being developed and used within our business and sister companies to streamline, clarify, and improve the employee experience by consolidating all HR-related content into one platform, including onboarding, time and attendance, organization management, time and attendance, performance management, compensation, reporting payroll, etc. While it is currently used by our HR team, the future goal is to increase self-service across the company and encourage use across the entire organization.
  • 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.
I think Dayforce is a great tool for work environments and cultures that seek to improve the HR and employee experience. After working with several Human Resource Information Systems, Dayforce is the most user-friendly platform I have worked with and continuously increases its functionality and capacity to enhance the work experience. There is a lot of potential to be unlocked with the various modules that are offered.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Ceridian DayForce for Payroll and Human Resources.
  • 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.
The main reason we decided to go with Ceridian was their ability to calculate health and welfare for our employees.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Dayforce for our payroll administration and HR record keeping. Employees have access to Dayforce to update their personal information and view vacation balances.
  • 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.
Dayforce works best when you have all the modules working together but we’ve had trouble interfacing it with some of our other vendors like benefits and timekeeping.
October 28, 2019

Ceridian Dayforce Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dayforce for the whole company from payroll, human resources, and time and attendance. It’s so nice having it all in one system in for pulling reports, as well as running and processing payroll.
  • 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.
Ceridian Dayforce is a great system overall that I recommend to most people.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We’re currently in the implementation phase for the product but the payroll functionality is unmatched. They Dayforce platform provides everything we need for our payroll and benefits platform. I would recommend this over and other platform for US payroll.
  • Payroll
  • Analytics Insights
  • Rigid org structure
  • Difficult to support matrix relationships
Dayforce is great for payroll and administrative ease. The basic setup of the solution does pose a lot of issues with .org structure. Additionally, the Compensation module lacks flexibility. The platform is best suited for medium to small and simple organizations
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is being used across our entire company for payroll, succession planning, health benefits. [It's also being used for] Workflows as well as recruiting and soon we will use it for onboarding new employees.
  • 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.
The capabilities within the recruiting and onboarding modules, with things like background check capability being done within Dayforce with our HireRight vendor make things easy for our HR specialist.
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