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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 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 7.9

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 7.8

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 8.2

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 8.0

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 7.8
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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

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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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Lisa Ozment Venable | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce to process payroll for 13K+ employees for Long Term Care. We are the largest Nursing Home company in Texas. We use Ceridian Dayforce for Benefits. We onboard at least 4-10 acquisitions per year. We have to track RN hours for PBJ and Telehealth.
October 04, 2023

Dayforce Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is being used company-wide for about 300 locations across 12 states. We currently have roughly 1000 employees and we use payroll, benefits, WFM, and HR modules. With our prior software, our processes were not as efficient and streamlined as we wanted them to be. Dayforce allowed us to create a platform that is solving these issues as well as provide much needed transparency for our employees.
Donald Ormsby, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce as our primary HRIS, including as our Recruiting ATS, Performance and for Benefits. It is user-friendly and intuitive. It allows for a high degree of customization to fit our complex needs. I love how it integrates with the Microsoft Office platform and the variety of API connections we can use to feed to our other systems. I have been impressed with their recent enhancements and excited about the additional features which they have teased as coming soon.
October 04, 2023

Getting a Little Better

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for payroll processing and HR. All employees use it to complete timesheets for appropriate earnings and labor distributions, that managers then review. HR sets up new hires and benefits, and payroll processes 4 pay groups bi-weekly. Performance management is now also being handled in Dayforce - also used by all managers and their employees.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is used as a full HCM Suite that covers our core HR, Payroll, T&A and Talent process within the HR and Finance functions. Having moved from various spreadsheet, paper forms and manaual proceses, Ceridian Dayforce has enabled a one system approach for many of our processes. With almost everything in one system it provides a famailr platform irrespetive of the task at hand for our managers and employees whilst providing management information across the whole platform to support decision making and provide central oversight.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I add features and authorization to see various fields of data to new or existing roles in Dayforce. I control what leaders can see data for their organization or the full organization. I run reports to verify data fields are complete for new hires to be paid correctly and access Dayforce. I provide requested reports to company leadership or enable certain forms and reports to be self service to employees based on approved access level (manager, HR Partner, VP, etc.)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for all HR operations in GardaWorld. Employees' data and pay information are managed in Dayforce. We utilize Dayforce reporting to make key decisions on employee retention strategies. Currently we have also implemented Dayforce hub as a means to enhance employee onboarding experience at GardaWorld. For an organization so big as ours Dayforce data and analytics module has been so handy in making key financial decisions.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for all of our HRIS and Payroll needs as well as timekeeping and scheduling. Using one central software is key to our success. There is no double data entry, or feeding data back and forth to try to keep all systems current. Payroll changes can be done real time and we can update employees quickly within the database.
Amanda Tetzner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for scheduling, timekeeping, payroll, HR profile management, benefits administration, and recruiting. Ceridian Dayforce acts as our central repository of employee information, and we use it to pull employee data out of other software that we use. Being a law firm, we have a range of different employee tiers, ranging from part-time hourly workers to partners/owners of the firm, and Ceridian Dayforce allows us to manage and pay all of those different employee tiers from one system. For recruiting, it improved our talent acquisition process by moving us out of email and spreadsheets into one centralized system where we can post a job and hire candidates directly into the HR system.
Josh Morgan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are presently wrapping up implementation for Core HCM. We had a phased approach to our implementation which has been both a blessing and a curse. Dayforce has given us the best insight in to operational concerns that need both immediate and long-term attention.
June 18, 2023

Dayforce.

Stacey Busija | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce was the first HCM system to be implemented in our association, replacing a cumbersome payroll system and many Excel spreadsheets. Key benefits were the self-service aspect, which replaced all the paper forms. We launched right before COVID and would have been unable to manage the furloughs, resignations, re-hires, and new hires without it (not to mention vaccination tracking and COVID pay). Now that we are back to "normal" operations, we are able to start implementing other modules and have recently launched dashboards and recruiting.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Ceridian Dayforce as part of the payroll service my organization uses. I submit my hours, request PTO, and update benefits on Dayforce. I will admit that it is not as intuitive as ADP, there is definitely a learning curve. I recommend companies having trainings when switching to this new payroll system because there will be a lot of confusion. I think the price is really what makes it worth it for organizations.
May 31, 2023

Dayforce Review.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Dayforce every day - we process our bi-weekly payroll, assist employees with time requests off, add new employees to Dayforce, run reports, collect data, process pay cycles, off-cycle pay cycles, etc.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Ceridian Dayforce as an all-in one solution to our need to manage payroll, HR, benefits, and talent management/scouting in one place. It was brought on in order to streamline old disconnected systems.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for Payroll, Recruitment, Onboarding and Performance. We have had payroll and performance since 2018 and I am going expanding on our use of the performance module this year. Onboarding and Recruitment were built out late 2022 and launched the beginning of 2023. These two modules have freed up time for our HR team with a process that is user friendly and efficient. I love it!<br>The performance module we have been using for a few years but it was set up to use at a very basic level. I am looking to expand that this year so that we have greater and more informative reviews for our employees. <br>The payroll module has changed and we have learned a lot about it over the last 5 years. Once again, the initial set up was not at the level for what we needed. Working closely with our payroll department we have made changes, revised and learned so that payroll runs a lot smoother now.
Tamara Thompson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dayforce every day in all of our facilities as well as in corporate offices. It is great for employer and employees. Entering time away, uploading documents, correcting time clock, benefits break down, year-end forms and so much more. Data entry is easy to navigate. Searching employees, reporting incidents, job and location history, wage increase, reviews. Dayforce is a great tool! I love it!
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