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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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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.
- 8View company policy documentation(398) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 7.1Employee 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.
- 7.4Corporate 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.
- 7.2Create succession plans/pools(94) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 6.9Candidate 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 |
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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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(1131)Attribute Ratings
- 8.7Likelihood to Renew86 ratings
- 10Availability12 ratings
- 5Performance13 ratings
- 6.3Usability60 ratings
- 7.7Support Rating65 ratings
- 7.3Online Training18 ratings
- 7In-Person Training11 ratings
- 6.6Implementation Rating43 ratings
- 8.8Configurability13 ratings
- 9.9Product Scalability14 ratings
- 8Ease of integration8 ratings
- 9.9Vendor pre-sale12 ratings
- 8.9Vendor post-sale18 ratings
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(301-325 of 622)Dayforce Review
- Allows payroll to view checks prior to pay period ending
- Allow payroll to view preliminary totals
- Comparing Schedule to Timesheets and flagging discrepancies
- Implementation can be a little smoother. It's hard to answer all the preliminary questions on setup when we don't understand all the capabilities of the product or have never used the product.
- Some of the support staff are very hard to understand.
Payroll totals breakdown to employees & export feature are great.
- Configurable
- Flexible
- User-Friendly
- State-Mandated form integration into the Onboarding Module (NY, CA, DC)
- More robust Recruitment Module
- Feeds with Background/I-9 Vendors to allow you to selected the vendor of your choice, not just those that are integrated with Ceridian. Currently with EBI, and we have to initiate background screenings by flipping a status and the status of the backgrounds are housed outside the system.
Dayforce implementation user
- Form data: it allows you to use system or custom made forms. Helps allow managers at store level submit paperless request.
- Workflows: tied to a form, each workflow is custom with routing and notifications or conditions to ensure that what is submitted routes properly.
- Onboarding: allows for quick visibility to where progress is and who has completed.
- Forms to be mobile friendly
- Guided processes that can be edited after being published.
- Performance management to allow edits within qualifiers after posted.
- User Interface: modern look
- Reporting: mostly front end, easy for users
- Reporting is slow, needs more reporting on configuration changes/audits.
- Browser errors are annoying, no description of what the error means.
- Need admin capability from the mobile app.
Dayforce review
- Adapt
- Functionality
- Options
- Topic builder
- Speed
- Training
FA 1099 Customer Takes on Dayforce
- Allows the flexibility to bill each of our entities separately.
- Allow our W2 entities to handle benefits and payroll processing through one vendor.
- Dayforce simplified the 1099 processing for us.
- The transferring of employees between the three entities has caused us a lot of problems. This area needs a lot of improvement.
- The use of FEIN versus SSN needs to be more user-friendly.
- We have to make sure a special script is run every time there is a new release so we can continue processing our 1099s because the code is not part of the product. This keeps us on edge and concerned that we may not be able to pay our 1099 independent contractors based on our contract.
We want to tap into more potential.
- Support
- Development
- Communication
- It takes time for us to match up with the right analyst to help us close tickets.
- I think new users should be auto-scheduled for training.
- I think xoxo and the actual platform should be merged into a single sign-on system.
Moving on
- Payroll audit
- Respond more on payroll issues
- Self-service for benefits
Dayforce Review
- Payroll, instant calculations
- Automated workflows
- Customized reports
- Cost of additional modules
Happy client in the first year with Dayforce
- Flexibility of policies
- Audit functionality
- Reports
- More flexibility on role security
It’s a great product, but let’s make it greater!
- Training! I really liked the training available for new users to learn how the system works in Ceridian education.
- Support availability: it’s great to know we can pick up the phone for support in case we need quick assistance.
- Friendly! I worked with someone on the ticket and they asked me to stop by at Insights to say hi! Additionally, the President of Ceridian, Leagh, walked by me and I said hello. She stopped and chatted with me for a bit and I gave her some suggestions for the next Insights, she seemed genuinely interested and I never felt she was in a hurry to move on. Even the CEO, David Ossis at the general session gave out his email address. Who does that? I was very impressed!
- I think Insights should definitely have a FIT session for Benefits next year. Being new to Dayforce, it would really have been advantageous for me, as I felt the reporting was.
- Benefits module definitely needs an audit tab (who made changes and what changes were made, not just a history of when the change was made under history) and notes on the elections page. Having to run a report to see who made a previous change is frustrating.
- When registering for Insights sessions, make notes that certain sessions don’t need to be taken if you are attending FIT. For example, I registered for some of the reporting lab sessions thinking it was going to allow me to practice and ask questions or for help, only to find out I didn’t need to take them if I had done FIT. Finding this out during Insights made it difficult for me to register for other sessions and miss out on making appointments at CSZ.
View from HR
- Onboarding
- Support
- Employee use
- Timekeeping
- Recruiting
- Scheduling
- Vacation accruals
Why Dayforce Rocks!!!
- Talent management. The recruiting module is amazing. I can track the applicant throughout the whole interview and hiring process. It makes it so easy and fast to recruit and manage our talent pool.
- Onboarding forms are perfect. We used to have the employees sign 40 pieces of paper on policies, now they sign everything electronically! It is so fast and easy to understand.
- The "my people" function in Ceridian is so user-friendly and pretty error-free. It will stop you and flag an error if something is not correct.
- I just learned about the electronic reviews here at insights. Absolutely amazing. We were looking for something to streamline our tedious review and compensation changes process.
- Timesheets are a great feature. Easy to add vacations and PTO and modify time if need be for an employee.
- Vacations!!! We were recently bought by another company and we can't seem to get the vacations in line. They keep resetting back to the old system.
- I would like the opportunity to do background checks through the recruiting module of Ceridian Dayforce.
- Benefits administration. I would like to see benefits be able to apply through Dayforce. Maybe during orientation we could add the forms.
Dayforce
- Imports
- Less manual entry
- Works with other systems
Dayforce honest review
- Reporting
- Scheduling
- Payroll
- Org Structure
- More custom SQL
- Better implementation
Still too new to Dayforce
- Nice that everything is held in one spot.
- I don't like the fact that everything is a cost. Things that should be part of the software may be extra.
- Implementation should have been more hands-on and the team should have a good understanding of the company
- We did need more help with structure.
Like Dayforce
- Makes enrollment easier for employees.
- Makes the benefits department's job easier by sending file feeds.
- The ability to use the system to track our employees that are on leave.
- Age 26 dependent: the system needs to be able to automatically enroll the employee and any other family members down the next tier of coverage if applicable instead of terming the employee's coverage.
- Better benefit confirmation statements that can be configured for benefit and compensation.
- Better benefit reporting for invoice reconciliation.
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- It has brought her multiple learning platforms into one location.
- It has a very user-friendly mobile app that you are able to use as a time clock for your hourly employees.
- Some of the features that I am not able to do at this time is pulling training records with durations in reports.
Dayforce review
- Time and attendance
- The ability to preview paychecks
- The ability to import information into payroll
- Certain standard reporting is lacking.
- Support is hit or miss. Some are great, some are not that good.
- System set up is complicated.
Ceridian Dayforce Review
- Time and attendance
- Learning on the Dayforce mobile app
- Enable SSO on the Dayforce Learning app
Updates cause problems
- Well built reports
- Good tax services customer support
- Can be customized
- The system is slow.
- Lacks useful features like calculations for one employee.
- Quick entries are not tied to employees, but the payroll.
- Can't build reports easily.
In it to win it
- Timekeeping
- Performance
- Reporting
- The approval process for change forms. It would be helpful with dept changes and role changes if you could select more than one to approve at a time.
D-eh-force has been great
- Performance: the setup and the forms are user-friendly.
- Payroll: I act as the backup for payroll processing and the training needed was minimal.
- SOX compliance: we have not implemented manager & employee self-service, however, knowing that approvals are tracked within the system will be hugely beneficial.
- Balances, entitlements, and TAFW: it’s was not implemented well and remains very buggy.
- XML forms: Ceridian should look into a WYSIWYG feature for designing forms (e.g. drag-and-drop fields onto a form template).
- Roles and security: access to locations should be based on roles not based on individuals.
- Work assignments: this feature leaves a lot of room for error (e.g. previous assignments should be end-dated automatically).
Buyer Beware
- I struggle to come up with even one thing that I think Dayforce does particularly well. I have more issues than I have praise for the product.
- The sales presenters sold us a "bill of goods" which have not been delivered upon. We would told that Dayforce could be configured to work in our environment. The reality is there are far too many limitations to what we want the product to do.
- Implementation was very painful and challenging process. During our implementation period Ceridian changed project managers twice. We had three different project managers during our implementation. This made implementation disjointed.
- Even now after being out of implementation for nearly a year we have trouble with customer support and with product support. PS personnel can spend many hours working on a change item or configuration issue only to not have the effort pay off with a working fix. We would have spent thousands of dollars on PS only to have to get someone other than the originally assigned consultant to work on the matter to fix it.
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- Reduction of paper
- Auto benefit feeds
- Time keeping
- Reporting: use of custom fields.
- Entitlements: should be much easier to understand and implement.
- Modules included with purchase, instead of everything being a la carte.