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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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April 11, 2024
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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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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

7.9
Avg 7.8

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 7.7

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 8.1

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 7.9

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.

7.3
Avg 7.7
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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 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 25, 2018

User-Friendly HCM

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Across the whole organization for timekeeping, payroll, benefits, employee relations, onboarding, recruiting, and performance management.
  • The performance management module is very flexible. You can basically build it to do what you want.
  • The reporting functionality in Dayforce is very user-friendly.
  • In general, the platform is just clean and easy to use.
  • I would like to have a bit more admin capability in the performance module.
  • Email notifications tied to workflow are not always super easy to program. Sometimes, it’s difficult to identify what the error is.
  • Once an action has been completed, system notifications should stop but they don’t (i.e. reviews, timesheet approvals).
I would say that Dayforce is a pretty good system all around. I do not recommend it for organizations who have no experience implementing an HCM system as the process is somewhat complicated and all-consuming.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used by the entire organization, from the field to corporate. We use it for timekeeping, payroll, benefits, human resources, general ledger, and taxes.
  • It offers a lot of solutions "out of the box". If your company has no specialized/customized needs this would be excellent.
  • For the most part, customer service is responsive, aside from the busiest times of the year.
  • Documentation is extensive on all parts of the system. The DIG (Dayforce Implementation Guide) in particular, is very helpful.
  • Training and sales seem to be out of sync with the actual system. Sales promises our leaders things that in real life are not possible, or require additional fees/services to implement. Training has featured things that are no longer available live in the system. Support sometimes is out of sync with updates as well.
  • Support is overwhelmed the entire year. This means slow response times, unless you mark everything as urgent. If a ticket is marked as high priority, unless it is escalated we may not get a response beyond "your ticket has been received" for two weeks or more. Ceridian needs to hire more support people.
  • Communication on changes that will be made by hot fixes is often done after the fact.
When you don't need to customize, I can see where Dayforce would be great for most businesses. Unfortunately, our company is very large, has several combined legacy systems, and therefore we require a lot of customization to make things match/work as needed. We also are simply not able to report on everything we see in the system, which we need to be able to do to ensure things like taxes and earning codes are set up as needed, and to satisfy our users and auditors. Dayforce is a powerful database, but because it is also large it can be hard to use. Some of our less computer-savvy field users simply get overwhelmed by the user interface.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce has made it possible to monitor employees across multiple entities. Having multiple entities near each other and having employees working at each of them meant that they would have to be 'hired' at each one. With Dayforce, we just hire them once, and the system knows that they where they are working and from what entity to pay them from, while keeping the employee's records in one convenient place.
  • Bringing together multiple processes (i.e. benefits, time management, or payroll) into one easy-to-use system saves time and money.
  • Having one record across multiple entities/systems makes it easy to track an employee that works at each entity.
  • Reporting can be made a little easier to use. However, with updates that are in the future, this will be addressed.
Dayforce is a very robust system. It is perfect for medium to large companies that can be domestic or international. Dayforce may not be suited for small companies.
October 25, 2018

Dayforce Payroll User

Jennifer Kozelek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use on-boarding, HCM, Time, benefits, performance and Payroll. By using employee self service we eliminate a lot of paper flow.
  • The workflow options save a lot of time with paperwork having to go all over the place. With the click of a button a form is sent to the correct person for approval.
  • The notification blast option in Dayforce allows us to send all employees updates quickly even if they don't have access to their company emails right away. This helps us save time around holidays and at year end.
  • Being able to preview the payroll before your commit the payroll saves time as we are able to fix errors prior to the final commit. We are also able to see how a check is going to be impacted by a change before payroll is complete which helps reduce manual checks.
  • Sometimes the system will freeze up when you are trying to look people up.
  • The tables are still in Silverlight so I need to still use IE when everything else I use I can access the system in Chrome or Firefox which is a little more stable.
Dayforce allows use to have access from any state and any computer even if our network is down. It also gives us the flexibility to work remote of the network without having to log into our network.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is being used by the entire organization. The system allows all things to flow seamlessly from recruiting to hiring to HR to Payroll to Benefits. This increases the entire HR team's productivity and allows employees to focus on their new position. And managers can worry about training and not have to worry about HR responsibilities.
  • Recruiting
  • Onboarding
  • Payroll
  • Performance Management
  • Workflows
  • Customer support
For companies that have complex org structures. Dayforce is flexible enough to help companies with their own internal complexities.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is being used across our entire company - 270 franchise locations across Canada and the US as well as our head office/support centre. The large number of jurisdictions we operate in and a high rate of employee turn over at the restaurant level create some unique challenges for HR and payroll management.
  • Integration of Payroll and HR functions. A smooth flow of (accurate) information between these two functions drastically reduces payroll errors.
  • Payroll in general. The continuous calculation of payroll allows our team to see exactly where we are with payroll and the impacts of any changes or updates as they take place.
  • Support. Both from an account and technical perspective. Ceridian support teams appear to be knowledgable, responsive and take the time and effort to learn about our business and particular Dayforce configuration. We don't need to spend time explaining how our deployment is different from others when requesting support.
  • Surveys - Ceridian has indicated that the ability to generate and report on enagement surveys will be provided in furture releases, it isn't there yet...
Well suited for mid-size compnaies with more complex organizational structures

Smaller companies with simple payroll requirements will likely not see the benfits
Julie Strauss, PHR, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Ceridian Dayforce HCM company-wide. The system allows employees to be more self-sufficient and get their information at a moment's notice. They can get their earning statements, W-2, paid time off balances and much, much more. They can submit address changes, W-4 changes, direct deposit changes, request a leave of absence, marital status change...I can go on and on. Ceridian Dayforce HCM has especially helped HR and payroll better manage the data that hits their desk on a daily basis more efficiently and with less margin of error. The system is amazing.
  • Allows employees to submit personal changes either to address, direct deposit and/or a life event changes such marriage, the birth of a child.
  • The system also allows our employees to clock their time more efficiently using their mobile phone, computer or even a time clock that we have set up for them. This especially makes it easier for the manager to approve time as well.
  • Reviewing employee changes and payroll has been better as well with the reporting tool the system has in place. The standard reports and report templates make it easier to run custom reports as well. Fantastic tool.
  • I work in benefits and I can see how Ceridian can put a bit more focus on the benefit module. We don't have a typical plan year of January through December so the system takes a bit more specialized focus to set up the benefit plans.
  • The system could also work on how it calculates benefits with multiple payrolls. For example we have semi-monthly employees and bi-weekly employees and the system doesn't calculate the employee/employer costs of benefits properly between the two payrolls. It can only handle one type of payroll at a time so we have to manipulate the system to calculate the correct costs.
Ceridian Dayforce HCM is great for any size employer as long as the employer takes the time to truly test the system during implementation. We eliminated so much frustration by taking the time to test and retest the system to how we need it to work with our organization. We jumped in and implemented all the modules that were available to us at the time and we dedicated a team of 6 to 7 people throughout implementation to the project. This was time well spent for sure. I highly suggest doing that.

Darin Kuhnke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is used as our timekeeping, scheduling, and payroll application. Currently it is being used across all departments at the Hotel and Golf resort I work for. It truly helps by consolidating everything all into one program and gives us the tools, such as report writer, to be able to get accurate, and detailed information on our labor.
  • Continuous calculation for payroll, ensuring you, and the employee knows were they are at in the pay period, and can quickly identify discrepancies to be able to resolve them prior to payroll submission. This helps our admins not stress prior to payroll submission, and be able to deliver the most accurate paychecks for our employees keeping them happy.
  • Report writer! Get readouts of the information you need. Build your own report with the information you need. We use a variety of different reports to help us get the most accurate information from an HR, payroll, timekeeping perspective. We've found endless benefits to this function and use the information to push our company forward in the industry.
  • Excel to Dayforce. There are different ways to upload information straight into Dayforce, making it easy to get a new employee's information uploaded directly into Dayforce. This drastically cuts down on the labor time it took to get a new employee into the system helping our HR department get back to assisting our employees instead of being bogged down on data entry.
  • I think the scheduling component could use some work. Currently if someone has a different type of availability for work, you cannot simply look at the days they are available and visually see what they can work. You have to hover over the box to see what they can work. It would be benificial if there was a way for their availability to be visible A for AM, P for PM or O for open in each day.
  • Some of the upload functions could use some additional functions. We are currently trying to figure out how to upload our J1 visa employees, but have their social security tax blocked so we don't have to manually for all of their work assignments. It's very time consuming.
It is well suited for companies looking for a system that can do it all and work efficiently. Dayforce is continually going above and beyond provided new functions and the right support to make the most out of your day which makes all of us more effective. I think it may be a little overkill for a small company of 20 or less, but for our company of 1500-3000 (seasonally) it is fantastic.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is our system for time and attendance, payroll and benefits management and soon to project tracking. All departments from all locations access Dayforce from their actual location. Very tidy system with many benefits we've yet to get started with as illustrated in the Ceridian Insights conference. We are teaming up with a 3rd party vendor on how to take advantage of this system.
  • Excellent Payroll System
  • Very strong reporting system
  • Excellent way to get details on employees
  • Find that sometimes the system is very quick when selecting a function
  • Project tracking has been inadequate
  • Updates have been untimely on occasion
As stated, a great payroll system. Based on new developments, it appears that mobile use and compensation recommendations and succession planning are features that will be nicely taken care of. Only scenario I can think of that where Dayforce is not appropriate is if an organization is too small or cannot make adequate spend for it.
October 25, 2018

Yep, it does that.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire organization uses the full suite of Dayforce modules: HR, Payroll, WFM, Benefits, Onboarding, Recruiting, Dashboards, and Performance, although we have not gone through a Performance cycle yet. Dayforce has allowed us to move away from our outdated paper processes and to become more efficient and compliant. Our employees really appreciate the self-service features which allow them to make updates to their individual HR records without the hassle of filling out paper forms and sending them through to HR & Payroll.
  • The support team is excellent. I have never had a bad experience when I've reached out for support.
  • They do a good job of communicating release notes for updates.
  • Several of our users joke that Dayforce is smarter than we are. If you make an update, the software knows to update all of the affected areas.
  • One of the other software systems that I use on a regular basis tells you (in very fine print at the bottom of the screen) what table is affected when you click in any field to make updates. That is a feature that I would love to see in Dayforce.
  • It would be very beneficial if customers had SQL access to their own databases.
  • On occasion, I have felt that Ceridian turns things that should be offered out-of-the-box over to the Professional Services area as a billable project.
Dayforce is a great product. Internally, we've had some discussion that it may work better, or be more fully appreciated, in manufacturing settings. Our organization is an institution of higher education, and we have some specific struggles that relate exclusively to that area. Our implementation team had to do a lot of extra brain-storming to figure out how to make the features work most efficiently for us.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Dayforce for our internal and external staff. Our internal staff uses Dayforce for record and timekeeping. In addition to timekeeping and record keeping in our external population, the focus for Dayforce is onboarding.
  • Adjustments
  • Auto correcting
  • User-friendly material
  • Training/learning materials
  • Directions
Onboarding and Engagement
October 24, 2018

HCM done right!!

Jonathan Henry, SPHR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dayforce for time, attendance, HCM, and WFM. We use Dayforce across many countries and states. It has quickly become our single source of truth for our organization.
  • Ceridian Dayforce is especially responsive to its customer base, providing outlets for improvement, suggestions, and new features.
  • Dayforce is highly customizable which provides for great flexibility for configuration for all of our needs in various jurisdictions.
  • No real complaints.
[Dayforce is well suited for] Any company looking to track HRIS information, payroll and time/attendance.
October 24, 2018

Dayforce Review

Kerstin Falvey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our domestic organization uses Dayforce for Time and Attendance, Payroll, WFM, Performance, Benefits and Recruiting and Onboarding. We came to Dayforce because we needed one resource for all of our needs. We wanted an integrated tool that helped us come closer to being paperless.
  • Each module is connected. Dayforce is truly one integrated resource.
  • Dayforce has allowed us to share real time information with our employees. They know their pay, their hours for the week and can update their personal information anytime from anywhere.
  • The performance module of Dayforce is amazing and has allowed us to go 100% paperless and virtually administration free. We did the upfront work during implementation, but now what used to be a long and tedious process is now paperless and basically self-administered. Our managers love it and our employees find it easy to use!
  • Our implementation was rough. We needed consultants and the implementation team was really just "doers". Had we known this going in, we would have hired a 3rd party consulting group (which we now have post-implementation) to help us with best practices, ideas and testing. The Ceridian team couldn't (or wouldn't) do this for us.
  • The support team. One of the reasons outside of wanted one integrated tool that we came to Dayforce was because the support team at our previous vendor was not meeting our expectations. We were told during our sales call that the support team at Dayforce was 24/7 and great. Not quite the case. The ticketing is 24/7, but it may take up to 3 days to actually hear from someone on your ticket. It's a long time. Again, for this reason, we have continued our contract with our 3rd party consultant and go to hem instead of calling support. This way we most often have our issue resolved by the time that the support team would be making initial contact.

Good - one tool, user friendly, Ceridian continues to push out hotfixes, upgrades and new products, Insights was fantastic and I can't wait to go back to the next event and meet more users and learn more about the tool!

Areas of Improvement - Support language barriers and time differences, unhelpful CSMs, implementation "doers" versus sharers of best practices, most everything is billable.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is being used across the whole organization. Prior to Dayforce our employees didn't have the self-service capability available to them. It saves HR and Payroll time now that employees can update their address, tax exemptions, benefits, etc. directly in the HRIS system.
  • They are innovative when creating new technology.
  • They created one platform that covers all of our business needs.
  • They host a great annual conference with hands-on training.
  • More follow through from support-explaining why something happened.
  • Circling back with customers one year after implementation and fixing things that were set up incorrectly during implementation.
It is a robust product!
October 24, 2018

A great, flawed product

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian was intended to be a single-source HRIS that ties together businesses and provides simple reporting features.
  • Many seamless modules.
  • Reports were good and have been improved with dynamic editing.
  • Be problem solvers, not excuse makers.
  • So many easily intuitive fixes go overlooked.
  • Ceridian appears more focused on growth than taking care of current customers.
We cannot get some things to work through support portal and everyone seems fine with that.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire organization uses Dayforce. The “one stop shop” saves so much time! We have a pretty complex set up and love that it simplifies it. This product will help stop mistakes from manual entry into multiple softwares. Our company is made up of 10 EINs and our employees work across 5-6 EINs in any given pay period. To have a system with 1 employee ID that can calculate OT across all companies, allocating correctly to each company and reporting correctly on the W2s was a lifesaver. For all managers to see the same employee scheduled at all of the different locations in central place provides a great communication tool without having to track down the other manager. For Payroll and HR to see the same employee in one area and not have to reenter them three times is invaluable.
  • One ID for an employee.
  • You can customize the set up to meet your needs.
  • Truly EVERYTHING can be customized within Dayforce. You can have layers upon layers of seniority, company structure, timesheet rules, etc.
  • Everything you do is real time. This makes it so easy to see where your labor costs are at any moment. The second an employees shift closes by them clocking out for the day, the hours are loaded into their time sheets and the system knows how much the employee needs to be paid. Even better, the minute Payroll opens the pay cycle, the employee can ALSO see how much their pay check is going to be. This puts the responsibility back on the employee to verify that their timesheets are correct.
  • Support has improved, but it is still in need of improvement. The response time could be faster. Although on pay day they are spot on and help immediately.
  • To be able to log in as an employee and only see what they see would be unbelievable! Dayforce has an unbelievably great self service portal, but when an employee has an issue, it is difficult to help them because you aren't able to log in and see what the employee is seeing due to the fact that you have more powers within the system.
  • Report writing has gotten much easier, but it still needs a little bit of work. In order to write reports in the system, you still need to know quite a bit about the system.
Dayforce is amazing for organizations that are currently using separate systems for time/HR/payroll. To be able to put all our your systems into one is invaluable. To be able to make the system your own is invaluable.
October 24, 2018

Dayforce is our Hero

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is not only utilized by our HR Department, but across the whole organization. Ceridian has been able to assist our company with: .
  1. Employee Data
  2. Reporting
  3. Performance Tracking
  4. Talent Management
  5. Employment Maintenance / Management
Previously, our organization managed many HR changes via a paper file. Dayforce has truly overall allowed us, as an HR department, to track and manage employees' employment profiles seamlessly as well as with necessary compliance measures in place.
  • Transfer/Promotion: As a member of our HRIS team who manages employee data, transfers and promotions are my personal favorite. The seamless and quickness of processing these requests makes our jobs clean and easy. In return, we are allowed to make the quick adjustment due to business needs.
  • Employee Relations: Team Relate is something that Dayforce does particularly well. With the recent update to the Team Relate, we are able to really get a deeper dive into the comparability between a manager and employee. Allowing our managers to really focus on engagement and truthfully tie into attrition across the company. With our company pillars, this really is a fine touch in driving home and provide the resources for our managers to live out our company motto.
  • Reporting: Reporting allows for our organization to quickly provide Operational Leaders and managers with real time data that is crucial to manage employees / business needs / business analytic / performance base, etc. What especially nice about this feature, is that we are able to generate reports to specific roles as well as auto delivering reports to specific leaders within the company.
  • HR Profile/Employee Tracking: The cleanliness and easy access to employee profiles is really what makes the job of our HRIS specialist that much simpler. With everything located in one place and quickly visible, it is without guarantee that this function is anyone favorite who is consistently working in the system daily on employee's profiles.
  • Within the new People screen, we are unable to have access to the employee file. The employee file is something that is crucial to our managers as well as our HRIS team and something that we utilize daily. For now, we are able to go through the old "My HR" screen, however, still looking for a new upgrade to provide the file feature.
  • I would like to see labor distributions easily readable in People. Right now the locations need to be populated in order to see if there is a labor distribution available.
Ceridian Dayforce is well suited in our organization for all our HR needs: employee tracking, talent management, performance management, reporting, and more. I do not see Dayforce being able to provide what we need in a LMS platform as well as for offer letters being generated through Dayforce. Based on our specific company needs, we would need more customization.
Jennifer Grubb, CPP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we utilize the following modules within our organization:
- Payroll
- Benefits
- HR
- WFM
- Scheduling
- Benefits
- Recruiting & Onboarding
- Performance & Compensation

We have users at all levels of the organization (employees, managers, directors, executives) utilizing the system in various capacities on a daily basis. We are driving an interactive employee experience through the use of Dayforce and the technology it offers.
  • Payroll - They were first a payroll company, so it is nice to have a company that built the remaining HCM modules around the payroll. Rare find.
  • Relevancy - Remaining relevant by offering technology and features that are modern demands.
  • Partnerships - Great at cultivating positive partnerships with their clients.
  • Support and Development - Need to make sure glaring issues with current modules are resolved prior to developing and rolling out new features and modules.
  • Payroll Tax - Need to identify and resolve issues in a more timely manner, especially as it relates to the payroll tax demands.
Ceridian is striving for excellence, not always meeting that mark, but still trying. Consistently shows interest in client needs, but need to more quickly identify and resolve the issues. Support personnel should be better trained to assist customers in a more timely basis. Ceridian does want the best and does make an assertive effort to be the best.
Amedeo Vidaic | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is being used across all of our North American operations (and possibly internationally). We primarily use it for payroll, audit trails and electronically storing HR information. In Canada we also use it for time keeping and will begin shortly to use it for attendance.
  • As stated in the previous answer we utilize both the time and payroll features of Dayforce. This cross-function integration prevents us from having to import time data from another platform.
  • It also keeps all data on one platform so that it all flows between the different features and functionalities. For example, changing someone's time-sheet and then recalculating in payroll is intuitive and avoids going into another system to make the change and re-importing whole loads of time data.
  • The integration also maximizes attendance usage, as time data is tracked continuously under attendance and is adjusted with any time adjustments in real-time. This makes attendance and time flow between one another seamlessly and efficiently.
  • Dayforce's continuous calculation in general is a great capability of the system to make adjustments when they are necessary and see their effects immediately.
  • Payroll-complementing features such as report building, third-party remittance, organizational/job mapping for workers comp and year-end filing also work smoothly.
  • While I have been helped tremendously by Dayforce's customer support line, I think I would prefer if resolutions were made during that same call if business time allows for it for both sides of the transaction. While deferring resolutions through ticket logging is generally ideal, a call in might--generally speaking--call for resolution during that call, even if its not immediate. This would only apply to urgent issues of course and ticket logging through the support portal for less immediately urgent issues generally works just fine.
Great for cross functional integration and excels at payroll and features related directly to that aspect.
Barbara Sage | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is used by our company for both HR and for payroll and is currently being used for all US and Canadian based employees. We went live back in October 2017.
  • Pairing you up with a company like business to ask questions.
  • Account Reps are always there for you, even after you go live!
  • Their product support.
  • Training could be better.
  • Performance module is new, but Ceridian is open to change.
Quick turn around on tickets submitted to Support Portal.
Jim Carr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this as our primary payroll system. It is used in a large part of our organization and it is currently being implemented throughout all of our locations. This includes North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
  • The reporting is flexible and easy to create with preformed topics to get the information you need
  • There is online help to follow which is informative when trying to learn how to use the application.
  • Problems can be added to online ticket system and tracked with the support staff responding quickly via a phone call for or email depending on the severity.
  • New reports at the end of the year are a normal occurrence when doing new implementations. There needs to be more flexibility to get these done in the time required. Development should be available all year.
  • The removal of Silverlight needs to be replaced quicker for a better browser experience.
If your business is in North America, Ceridian works well. Functionality works well when implemented in this location. When doing a global implementation, currency is very important piece of information and that is missing when reporting data.
Gail Nichols | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce HCM was implemented company-wide in July 2018 to manage our core HR, payroll, time reporting, benefits, recruiting, onboarding, and performance/compensation/document management needs.
  • Single application
  • Comprehensive HR, benefits and payroll functionality
  • Strong mobile presence
  • Customer Support can be challenging at times. Ceridian is growing rapidly so we don’t always get the level of experience needed to resolve our issues as quickly as we would like.
  • They are migrating all functionality from Silverlight to HTML. Not everything has been migrated yet so it gets confusing when reporting. Thankfully, it’s a temporary situation.
  • Reporting has a steep learning curve when implementing as many modules as we did. That said, there are tons of canned reports available.
We eliminated nine systems and 22 interfaces by moving to Dayforce HCM. For us, having a single application to house all of our people data is invaluable. Plus, Dayforce HCM has a strong product roadmap so we are confident that we will always be at the forefront of technology. At this time we’re still learning Dayforce and suspect that will be the case for the coming year!
October 24, 2018

Ceridian gets it right!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Ceridian cross the whole organization.

Ceridian has helped our company to eliminate the majority of our paper use. We are now able to manage employee records, attendance and much more through one system. This allows us to pull reports and creates better use of data.
  • User-friendly platform for vacation requests, shift details, and earnings statements. Previously in our company employees were not able to see what vacation balances they had.
  • Clearly interpreted reports. This allows our company to pull the necessary data we need to understand the functions of our organization.
  • Streamlines payroll. Previously, we had to run payroll through multiple platforms since we have international employees. With Ceridian, we are able to run all payroll through the day force system.
  • We have had some issues with blocking out weekends on vacation, but have learned there is a way to program this.
  • Once out of implementation, we feel that the support team was not as helpful. There is definitely a drop off once the implementation team has completed your implementation.
  • It is definitely great for a medium to larger business that has a lot of employees to keep track of.
  • It would be too much of a system for a smaller business.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for all HR and payroll functions. We have implemented almost all modules with the exception of Recruiting and Document Management but we are in the process for both. Managers are using it to approve time, time away from work and shift trades. As well as submiting position change forms and compensation change requests. Employees use all features available to them including scheduling, time away, benefits, pay information.
  • Onboarding. This is a much more cohesive process for us that before using Dayforce. We were 100% paper and it took a lot of time and energy to administer the forms properly for all new hires. Onboarding puts the forms and other information all in one place.
  • Performance Management. We just launched this module but it will revolutionize the way we conduct performance reviews. Again we were 100% paper and moving to a focal cycle with no paper will greatly streamline our process.
  • Schedules. We used Excel spreadsheets to prep out the schedules each week. This is no longer needed. Saves tons of time.
  • I think reporting could be easier. It is sometimes difficult to find the fields I want to include in a custom report.
  • Form builders. I don't know how to code XML and this is absolutely necessary to build your own forms and not have to reach out to Support. A little frustrating.
Dayforce is really well suited for hourly staff. The scheduling, time away, and shift trading options were big selling points for us. Bonus points for those features being available through the mobile app. At least 50% of staff are millennials, highly tech connected - so mobile capabilities are absolutely necessary.
October 23, 2018

Could be improved

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is used by our whole organization. We are currently re-looking into the set up and reconfiguring the system before rolling out other features(I.e. performance management, compensation , etc). The majority of our employees are call center employees so we are looking toward rolling out schedules.
  • Able to process payroll/haven’t missed a payroll
  • User friendly
  • We’ve been having a lot of issues with our benefit feeds and having to do them manually
  • Reporting isn’t that great and can be improved - some of the canned reports are structured weird and makes it difficult to sort
  • Lots of things that Dayforce “can’t” do that their competitors can do
  • Supporting portal has gotten better but can be improved - language barrier with tickets being routed overseas
  • Dayforce charges for everything - simple fixes and escalated tickets to professional services are always $2,000+ sometimes it’s just for adding a column to a report
We came from Paylocity—which I think worked fine for a couple hundred employees but once we grew to 1,000, it wasn’t practical anymore - Dayforce can handle volume compared to Paylocity. I think Dayforce has a room for improvement (when compared to other competitors and things they can and cannot do).
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