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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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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 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.

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When we were in the discovery mode of Dayforce to replace a competitor that doesn't fit our growing companies need. We attended the 2018 Ceridian INSIGHTS conference and could not have been more pleased to network with Ceridian employees as well as other prospects, new and long term customers that have been with Ceridian as it grew. Every employee we spoke to was with the company for more than 5 years. Their ability to be easily accessible when needed. The owner, David Ossip even spent the time to let us know we can contact him at any time. When we demo'd Ceridian we had a great experience with the user friendliness, ease of use and the ability to customize it for our business. We have been fortunate enough to have been assigned a great team to work with. Our primary problem is that we are scattered in 14 states. Our HR department has roughly 5 members that utilize various, HCM, HRIS, etc platforms. Cutting costs but not features.
Sarah Barnes, CPM | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is being used by all employees across the organization in the US and Canada. We have hourly and salary employees who use Dayforce on a daily basis. We were having a lot of issues with accurate timekeeping system for our hourly employees, and time-off tracking for salary employees. Dayforce is a single system that covers all the needs of the business. From time tracking, recruiting, HCM, payroll, reporting and much more.
Jennifer Duarte | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Dayforce across the entire organization: payroll, benefits, timekeeping, onboarding, performance management, employee/manager self-service, regulatory reporting, taxes, reports, scheduling, and HRIS. Inefficiency and indirect cost savings with improved productivity.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is being used for payroll and HR. The implementation was catered specifically to our company (a multi-shift operation) and it is now our main source of payroll and HR for the entire company. The biggest problems it addressed was the ease in which it handled all the information and storage of the information as opposed to how manual we were doing everything before.
November 21, 2018

Great product

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is currently being used for all human resources, benefits and payroll functions. It addresses the employee self-service function as well as streamlining training for HR process and procedures.
November 20, 2018

Ceridian Dayforce HCM

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire organization uses Dayforce HCM. We use payroll, HR, and Time modules. The product significantly streamlines internal processes and reduces the need to paper. Although the processes are still initiated by HR and subsequently concludes with HR, each department has an active role in executing tasks within Dayforce which also reduces workload in HR.
November 01, 2018

Experience at a glance

Julia Oca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is being used across our organization from our sales associates to our CEO. It has been most beneficial in interweaving our company cultures from corporate to the field. It has also made business decisions much quicker to make by having so much data at our fingertips.
Karissa Hays | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian is our time clock, benefits and recruiting mechanism. We will look forward to adding more pieces in the coming years (onboarding for 2019!). All departments in our hospital are using Dayforce. It address the issue where we were using multiple systems for HR functions. It is allowing users to become experts in one system instead of multiple.
October 29, 2018

Dayforce in Force

Jessica Von Vleck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire organization uses Dayforce self-service. We also utilize the manager capabilities in WFM. As an HR specialist, the majority of my day is spent in Dayforce, and it is heavily used by the rest of the HR department.

Using Dayforce has allowed us to roll out many paperless processes including onboarding for new hires and manager functions that were previously completed via a paper workflow.
October 29, 2018

Just a few words

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is currently used within our university with well over 500 employees at any given time throughout the year. We have purchased several modules with pay being our priority. We are starting to implement HR specifc modules with the hopes of streamlining some administrative tasks and increasing the employee experience.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for almost all of our HR and payroll needs. All of our associates use it for WFM and our site managers use it for scheduling and timesheet approvals for payroll. The entire organization uses it to some capacity based on their roles in the company. It is a thorough and comprehensive solution.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is being used across our whole organization for our HR/Payroll needs. We just had our first commit a few weeks ago. It solves the use of multiple systems, duplicate data entry, and employee experience.
October 25, 2018

Ceridian Dayforce review

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Ceridian Dayforce Payroll module only and it is used for the North America business. It is used to process payroll and interface all required payroll related information with other third party vendors.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is currently used as our HCM platform across our part of our organization and is being reviewed as potentially a solution across the entire company. It helps to enhance our business processes by providing a "one stop shop" for all of our employee information.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is being used by our payroll department to process all weekly, monthly and semi-monthly payrolls. We use the system for reporting our pay data to all departments/divisions within our company. Basically this is our total payroll application and is used for anything related to our payroll processing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our initial implementation was HCM and Payroll in 2014. Since then we have implemented Recruiting and Benefits. We are in the process of Implementing Performance Management. We are also looking at Documents Management.
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