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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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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 Trial
  • 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?

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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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May 30, 2023

DF

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I like the payroll quick entry aspect where you can list check adjustments quickly and efficiently. This is super helpful when processing large payrolls. I do not like how there are issues and it takes them long to respond. A customer service chat where instant answers are possible would be helpful and useful.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's great for our hourly staff to track their time, plus with working remotely, they can use the web clock instead of the physical clock. The system works better now that it dos not require Silverlight. That also opened up access to more on the app. I feel that recently, some defects have occurred with system updates. It seems that there are more and more defects after updates.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I enjoy figuring things out on my own if I run into any errors and what's helped me was using the DIG or support site to help guide me in the right direction. There was an issue with payroll mapping and it involved benefits elections - I sent in a support ticket and they were extremely helpful and provided me with the correct articles to also attempt to fix it on my own. They also gave me the solution, but I thought it was quick and handy to access something so readily available.
May 17, 2023

Payroll Manager

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support is quick to resolve issues and make system updates. The payroll section is user friendly and far beyond other systems i have used. Continues to improve with what the times demand.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have consistent schedules, not a lot of changes with employees (transfers, promotions, changes in schedules or hours), Dayforce would probably meet your needs. If you need maximum flexibility, you may struggle with Dayforce. Also, if you have some basic SQL and XML experience, you will be able to work through creating custom fields in reports and creating custom forms. Customers do much of the implementation and on going work in Dayforce so you do need to be prepared to commit time to implementing and maintaining the system.
April 28, 2023

A robust product

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is very robust and has so many features, but each has its own charge. There are a lot of nickel and dime-type fees that can add up.
Tax services are very overwhelmed and understaffed. We have had multiple issues where tax issues have not been addressed for several months. These caused additional fees and penalties.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
If a company doesn't have any complex policies, Ceridian Dayforce would work well. We found Dayforce cannot accommodate our labor costing needs. Though they have the module, but it's not allowing to refine it further. It is crucial to provide the implementation consultants all the info they need to set up the system from the get go.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I can't think of too many scenarios where it's not well suited. Maybe it would be too much for a very small company. Maybe it's not the best fit for a company located in a country where Ceridian doesn't have its own payroll platform (list is shrinking). But for any company looking for efficiency and standardization in terms of payroll, HR, and even operational processes, I think you can't go wrong with Ceridian.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is perfect for a growing or maturing company that is looking to automate processes rather than relying on manual work, Excel sheets, and paper forms. It can help take your employee experience to the next level. If you are already heavily invested in a robust HRIS and Payroll system, switching to Dayforce couldn’t hurt, but the impact wouldn’t be as dramatic in many cases.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think for any large-scale employer Dayforce is a great choice. In my opinion payroll/pay logic is the system's bread and butter so if that is a current deficiency I think Dayforce is an easy choice. Once that decision is made you also are able to get a lot of efficiency out of the other modules that I have mentioned
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian DF meeting our needs and requirements. I've never had an issue processing payroll and generating year end T4 statements. Ceridian DF is very user friendly and the education center is great. I rarely enter a support ticket but when I do, it's addressed in a reasonable time. The support is very knowledgeable and always helpful. The benefits module is sometimes finicky.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From the reports we are able to generate on a monthly basis, we can easily reconcile our monthly enrollments with Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Life Insurance Coverage, Long Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) eligibility.

If the report is not just right, we learned how to adjust the report to meet our needs. For example, every employee has a number assigned to them. Sometimes when a report is generated it puts the two together in the same cell, since it is an excel document, you can easily separate the name and employee number by doing a Convert Text to Columns Wizard.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ceridian Dayforce has an excellent Payroll module, and our employees have benefited from our implementation of the Hub feature. Hub allows us to share news and information, collect policy acknowledgment, link to internal and external sources, etc. and customize content based on the audience role or company. In my opinion, the Recruiting module has many flaws, especially when compared to other Applicant Tracking Systems. For companies that recruiting and hire multiple positions frequently, you may be better off with a separate system that can be integrated with Dayforce.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ceridian Dayforce tracks employees time and attendance which makes it easier for management to review an accurate attendance information. The data collected is used to monitor attendance, edit any problems. This helps when it is time to authorize timesheets at the end of payroll saving time to focus on other areas that need management attention.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our change from our previous HRIS/Payroll vendor to Ceridian Dayforce, although a lot of work getting implemented, has been remarkable. The up to date products and the R&D that Ceridian dedicates to their product(s) is outstanding.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We really enjoy the use of it for Payroll; however has significant limitations for our needs with tax exemption and payroll processing.
Benefits continues to be a significant challenge resulting in signficant administration and reconciliations for very random system errors with calculations for earnings and deductions
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian does a good job at processing payroll properly - knowing and trusting that the system will properly process pay is such a huge deal. Though they are sometimes slow at loading federal and provincial tax forms. The employee information database is great.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The payroll tools are particularly close to heart for me. I feel that the features within Payroll are incredibly useful in auditing the pay [run] to ensure that employees are paid accurately. Often times, I'm just confirming that I can recreate manually a few employees' pay to confirm the setup is correct, which it most always is. I've primarily used Dayforce [Payroll] for mid-sized companies with between 3000 and 10000 employees, but I can see how this would benefit employers of a small sized company too. Since a company can customize Dayforce to their needs, it's really one size fits all. One thing to note is that during implementation, your company should KNOW what they want, and a general idea of the setup needed to get it. Preparation and pre-learning are key since the implementation specialists and as you go into Support, will basically let you lead - you tell them what you want and they try to implement it. There's no consulting on their part. No "do you think it is better to...". It shouldn't be a dealbreaker, just something to know going in.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is a good centralized human resource software for managing employee schedules, payroll, time off requests, and benefits. It's generally easy to use, but sometimes requires a few extra steps, such as if an employee is shown to have 2 hours scheduled off during a specific day, you don't see what hours on the timesheet. You have to go to a separate page to pull up time off requests if you want to see exactly when the employee is going to be away.
Chris Ciechanowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think to get the most out of Ceridian Dayforce you really need someone or multiple people that are willing to dive in and understand the system, push it, and learn what levers you can pull/push to get the results you are looking for. It's a tremendously powerful system, but unless you are willing to push it, you'll likely not get as much out as possible. I would probably recommend this for a mid to larger size company with multiple core users in a department. Last point, we have over 250 locations and Dayforce is built to handle a company our size and larger. It's a powerful tool.
Kari France | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am happy with Ceridian Dayforce overall. It is nice having all of our company and employee information in one place. We went live July 2021 and I would say our biggest issue(s) were the implementation and some of the SME's not being as knowledgeable and helpful in some areas/modules as others so that slowed down the process with some of the modules we were implementing. The support team is much more knowledgeable than the implementation team we found out after go live. Some modules are not as strong as others - say the engagements and learning compared with the payroll and benefits, but there are always releases coming out where Ceridian is making those modules better.
February 13, 2023

Dayforce is a winner

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It does a great job allowing us to automate processes where we send our employee benefits elections automatically to the carriers. We are able to easily create ad hoc reports and even create custom fields within those reports. We are able to easily import data if needed. They need to improve the way security is managed within the application so that you can give an individual access to a specific area without the person being a direct report of another person but still limit the data that is seen.
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