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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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Dayforce Review

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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Awards

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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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ADP Workforce Now is a cloud-based HR platform for mid-sized businesses. It features customizable modules of various HR services that businesses can tailor to their specific needs, as well as regulatory monitoring and alerts to help businesses remain compliant.

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 7.8

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian is great for large employee populations. Especially those that are spread out, that require additional assistance. Great one system platform for those looking to eliminate multiple systems, this is a great opportunity. They assigned a CSM to follow the project from start to live. They are great at answering questions along the way.
Sarah Barnes, CPM | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is well suited for multi-national organizations of any size with both hourly and salary employees. The system is easily navigated and very user-friendly. The value you are receiving for the amount of money that you spend is worth it. I have used other programs that are more cost-effective, and they don't even compare to Ceridian Dayforce.
January 09, 2019

Opportunity

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Payroll previews are always available for review which means that if I want to see an employee pay 6 months from now, I can. We are able to send payment instructions and 5 minutes later I can see the results under previews.

In regards to taxes reconciliation and bank impounds, it seems like we are connecting with a completely different company and technology. STO (Source Tax Online) is not a user-friendly system which makes difficult to reconcile taxes payments. On the banking side, when amounts are pre-funded for different transactions, the team that handles those transactions seemed not to understand what the payroll team is trying to accomplish. The lack of communication between the teams turns into our company being over deducted and/or over refunded at times.

December 22, 2018

Just keeps getting better

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Being able to track audit trails for workflow changes and approvals eliminates risk. Multistate sick leave policies can be configured to assist with driving compliance. Pay Export Mapping helps keep our multiple pay structure aligned for processing payroll outside of Dayforce.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The great thing about Dayforce is how interactive and user-friendly it is. If you think there's a solution that's difficult to do or implement, Dayforce finds a way. It's great for your HR and payroll needs, combining both for a clean system.
November 21, 2018

Great product

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is great for payroll processing, it very easy to understand. I believe importing information could be a lot better. There seems to be a lot of hiccups when trying to do acquisition imports. The information needed for the import is not always understood. Dayforce could extend more training on that subject specifically.
November 20, 2018

Ceridian Dayforce HCM

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As with legacy products, expectation of our organization is to have dedicated and local tech support resources which is not currently available. I don't think we were well prepared for the implementation process which resulted in issues beyond implementation lasting over a year. Looking back though, the product is quite powerful and we can now say glad we switched.
October 31, 2018

Dayforce Review

lindsay lauzon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is not well suited to all organizations. There are a lot of hoops to jump through when assistance is needed. Specifically between tax and support.

Dayforce is well suited for smaller companies who don't have a lot of pay groups, PTO policies. Basics.
Karissa Hays | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Ceridian is excellent for time card management. It works nicely as it is available to employees via the app.

I would say that Ceridian is complicated to learn and it would be awesome if trainings were held throughout the year for new users to go to and learn how to function in the system. When starting a new job it was hard to put time towards the training modules because many other things were being thrown at me while working in the office. I appreciate learning by doing, but with Ceridian you can't muck your way through it and watching videos is painful for me.

October 29, 2018

Dayforce in Force

Jessica Von Vleck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce appears to be a product that was designed for retail, however, we have made it work for our environment in a law firm setting. It works well for time management to my knowledge, but our recruiting, performance management, and billing through accounting is still outside of Dayforce in other systems.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are using this program to store data or view timesheets it is a simple application to use, but if you are trying to run reports and manipulate functionality, you will be required to essentially become a programmer.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From all the sessions, training and implementation, I think Dayforce is extremely well suited for the retail industry. Or for those that use a lot of scheduling and timesheets. It's great to get more technology advanced users up and running right away instead of being taught an older system in the workplace.

Dayforce is less suitable for those who need to customize a lot of processes, forms, and data fields. The configuration for those types of requests are not always present.
October 25, 2018

Ceridian Newbie

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian is definitely well suited for a payroll module. I don't like the fact that you can't take reports from the payroll module and clone them so you can modify them to suit your business needs, as in, just changing the look of the report. Our company does not use Ceridian benefits, HR, or time and attendance at this time. I think with the entire suite it might make some issues non-existent, however at this time that is not possible
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is well suited to organizations looking for an end to end solution for their human capital management needs. Technical expertise is recommended as certain functionality, such as imports, require knowledge of XML and the use of FTP. This can be overcome by full usage of Ceridian's support and professional services teams.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Once you have balanced the payroll, the calculation process is quick and easy. After that Ceridian takes over and does all the tax reporting, funding etc. Once this data is calculated, there is only bare minimum of reporting. If you have custom reports your company is used to having those are extremely difficult and expensive to obtain.
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