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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

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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What is ADP Workforce Now?

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 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
So far in my experience, Ceridian Dayforce is a nice system that integrates a lot of other software into one. I love that you can follow the employee life cycle. I wish the dashboards were not an additional fee because they can be really helpful to have predictive analytics.
Donald Ormsby, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The intersection performance, development, and compensation is wonderful. It is very comprehensive and every module works seamlessly with one another. Very intuitive reporting and reliable. I don't have to worry about potentially missing the lastest states updated labor or tax laws & compliance, because they have already addressed it. Love the Microsoft interface.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suitied to organisations who are looking to beenfit for a single solution for a variety of thier processes albeit it that many integrations are offered Ceridian Dayforce requires lots of configuartion but in my opinion, customisation in many places is very limited which can lead to a very unbranded looking application so it would be wise to consider this upfront it this is a deal breaker
September 08, 2023

The starts of Dayforce!

Erin Crouch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use HPW and feel like it has more functionality for the employer and helps us to streamline our processes exceptionally. However, Dayforce really has a much robust employee experience. This helps with the added work for those within the HR/Payroll Dept. with the loss of some of the processes that were better streamlined in HPW.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce will be great for our organization, especially with document management and info sharing. The profile information that moves seamlessly between module to module, and alerts and notifications to proper parties will be very helpful. This would be a challenge for anyone who does not want administrators to be privy to certain information.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my experience, Ceridian Dayforce has been particularly useful in getting data based insights on employee. We utilized the O data feature to capture instant updates to reports and make important decisions.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is very good for HR record management.. It could do better in Incident tracking, attendance tracking.. I believe it has a lot of room to improve in Job step policies and base rate policies. A company should be able to use both if they want to, but right now, Dayforce does not even have a dedicated column for base rate policy id in the employee employment status table. The product is pretty amazing, but it has so much potential to be perfected
Jason Upah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We like Dayforce. It's our core HR system that we use many modules in. Dayforce is our payroll provider and handles all of our year end reporting and ACA forms and W2s. In fact, we are a managed services client and we ask Ceridian to handle committing our payroll and benefits module.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is well suited to businesses with complex pay scenarios. The Payroll system is intuitive and can handle most issues without much oversite from the user. We also like the embedded audit reports within the payroll module and found ways to share those with the Benefits staff so they could use the reports and still maintain the integrity of the data.
Amanda Tetzner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have worked with Ceridian Dayforce in two entirely different industries, distribution, and law. In my experience with Ceridian Dayforce in the distribution industry, Ceridian Dayforce worked well because it could handle complex schedules, timesheets, and payrolls for the hourly population. In my experience with Ceridian Dayforce in the law industry, Ceridian Dayforce works well for the same reason. However, Ceridian Dayforce's scheduling and timesheet capabilities are maybe under-utilized in the law industry because it doesn't operate in such a high capacity.
May 31, 2023

Dayforce Review.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am only a year into my payroll career, and Dayforce has been the only payroll system I have used, but it is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. I use it every day, and the Ceridian education site is a great place to watch videos on how to get things done.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is singular system that works in real-time. It is an ideal solution for a business that cannot afford the time delays of posting updates in batch format. Using Dayforce has enabled our employees to enroll in benefits entirely online, track their worked and non-worked hours, request time off, view benefits and payroll info and more only by logging in one time.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At this time I am unable to identify any specific scenarios where Ceridian Dayforce is less appropriate. We are still learning and exploring all of the modules that we have and use. As we are able to learn more I may have further comments. Ceridian Dayforce is well suited for us as far as Payroll, workforce management and, once further developed, performance.
Tamara Thompson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my job being able to look up employees' is a must. It works great for what I need it to do in my job. As an employee, I enter my PTO and time away on the calendar, it goes to my supervisor to approve. Keeps track of pay stubs and year-end forms. Able to see time clock is great
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