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Overview

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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Dayforce

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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Pricing

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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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  • Setup fee optional

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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.

6.9
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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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce allows us to remain compliant with state-specific tax withholding. As a predominantly remote organization with employees in nearly all the states across the U.S., we needed a simpler way to manage withholdings. We also implemented a new overtime policy, and the settings within the system ensure that our hourly workers are honoring that policy.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We do not rely on Ceridian Dayforce for compliance. We use a legal team. Ceridian Dayforce actually refused to help with compliance when we had our implementation. Too much of a liability of them. That should have bene a red flag right there, but we had signed a contract and paid a lot of money.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce ensures that our payroll is compliant and accurate. They also provide peace of mind when reporting to government agencies. Additionally, if retroactive changes need to be made, Ceridian Dayforce is able to assist and take care of this for us. We plan to use Ceridian Dayforce for benefit eligibility in the future.
February 04, 2021

Dayforce for the win!

Michael McGee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
one of the features we adopted was the time rounding when clocking in and out. we round time on the 7 and 8min mark 0-7 rounds to 0 and 8-14 rounds to 15min this has helped in our call center as we often finish calls a couple min past shift so rather then having to manually adjust those times based on policy the system does it automatically.<br><br>with out Salary staff that have OT policies they are able to simply enter the OT hours they worked on any given day and their managers can approve it or deny it and leave notes which the agents can see
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It allows for the individual state withholding tax and supports our overtime policy and calculation. It always helps with benefit eligibility based on birth date and hire date. Also our time off was set up to match our benefit policy for full-time employees. We do not have any labor union rules.
Glenda Gordon Torres, CPP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce has helped significantly with tax compliance by automatically updating based on Work and Lived locations. It has also excellent capabilities around meal break compliance, predictive scheduling, and other scheduling regulations and penalties.
November 18, 2020

It's complicated

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are in multiple states, Dayforce helps us stay compliant with local, state and federal taxes. It also helps us track and monitor overtime to make sure we are accurately paying employees.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In some areas, mostly relating to H/R compliance is great. On the payroll side we have had issues getting reports that show our auditors that we are compliant with our grant requirements.
November 18, 2020

Robust HCM Tool

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I don't use Dayforce for payroll compliance-related items, so I don't have a lot to comment in this area.<br><br>As a federal contractor, I do struggle quite a bit to pull the information we need for Affirmative Action reports. I was surprised there weren't more canned reports out of the box for this type of thing, such as a report of positions changes that show whether a pay change was also associated in order to populate our promotions log.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The tax department needs some serious work. We are constantly getting corrections and notices from federal, state, and local taxing agencies. Addressing these is time consuming and expensive.
Evan Stroum | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In our legacy system a lot of the payroll tax was dependent on our knowledge of each state and locale. When we implemented Dayforce all the tax entities calculated the wages in each state as well as the limited wages correctly based on what we entered as the employee's address. On top of that the system validated addresses as well.
Mary Clinton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Absolutely helps with all tax issues, Dayforce knows what local taxes an employee must pay and adds them to their record. Automatically calculates overtime. If an employee earns compensatory time, it is calculated automatically and added to the employee's available balance. An employee's benefits eligibility is presented to them during onboarding, so they know all the options.
Emily Ozmon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
All enrollments are electronic from Benefit to tax filings. It allows up to stay in compliance without keeping track of paper. The electronic scheduling allows for better tracking of schedules to budgets and where the Overtime is happening in live time. The auditing feature in Timesheets allows us to follow where changes are being made and managers can see payroll information in up to the minute calculations.
November 17, 2020

Honest Review

Sarah Isaac | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Federal and State tax withholding. Flexible fields to set up for final hour compliance orders for payroll and WFM, most recently from Covid-19. CA Meal break penalty. Entitlement balance enforcement. Workflows. I won't lie, there are some compliance issues like CA Reg Rate that have not been easy to implement and doesn't seem to be a standard for DF.
Stacy Lowery | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The fact that we can check workflows, audit trails and have everything in one system helps keep us in compliance. It makes it so much easier when the auditors are here and it helps HR and Payroll audit what the managers are doing. Having Union employees, Dayforce has let us set up multiple policies for different versions of the CBO.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have automated taxes and implemented certain labor laws through Ceridian Dayforce but have found that even with managed pay, we are having to manage the process ourselves to ensure compliance.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PPACA compliance is fairly straightforward in Ceridian Dayforce. The module allows you to generate all of the required forms and edit each before marking the task complete. Ceridian Dayforce will then file and print the forms by the due date. I do wish the platform allowed a set standard code for the reporting of employee benefits on the 1095. Ceridian Dayforce also allows a file feed to our medical and Cobra vendor to comply with initial hire and termination Cobra notices.
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