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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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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 (567)
    9.0
    90%
  • Update personal information (577)
    8.7
    87%
  • Pre-built reports (571)
    7.7
    77%
  • Report builder (571)
    7.6
    76%

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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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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

7.8
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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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is our all-in-one source for Employee data, employee self-service, payroll, recruiting, and performance. We use Dayforce across the organization. It has helped us transition away from paper in many cases, and we're working on more. We have recently begun integrations with other software our company uses, and are using an API as well.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Dayforce to manage employee records, their files, and process payroll. We haven't utilized the entirety of Dayforce yet, but we are looking into implementing the onboarding and document management features first. At the moment, the majority of our companies use another system that assists with our payroll processing, but within this year, we would like to incorporate about 6 companies into Dayforce entirely.
May 22, 2023

Short review.

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
HRIS system and timekeeping. Our old system was paper. DF put mostly everything in a paperless environment that is easier to track than before. Timesheets are a major plus to the paper system we had before. However, there are some items that remain on paper due to system limitations.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Using Dayforce has allowed us to bring information and processes together under one system - Recruiting, Hiring, Scheduling, Timesheets, Performance, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, and Reporting. Previously we had multiple systems that didn't all talk to each other and we had to use a lot of spreadsheets to report on data.
April 28, 2023

A robust product

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce to manage the HRIS and Payroll functions at 35 locations in 9 states. We are able to have both weekly and biweekly pay runs and utilize their On-Demand Pay option called the Wallet.<br>Ceridian is ever growing which is a good and bad thing. New features are continuously being added, but customer support can be lacking due to all the changes.<br>
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We've used Ceridian Dayforce for the last 5 years. We use both the Workforce Management and Payroll modules to process our hourly (weekly frequency) and salaried (semimonthly frequency) employees. Upon implementing the system, our processes are now more automated than before. This was important to us as we have a separate HCM system, we were looking to find a system that could interact well with it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is our Human Resources backbone. We have implemented it at each of our business units, and it connects us as one team instead of nine separate departments. We use it for the core functions: HR, Payroll, WFM, Benefits, Time & Attendance. We also use it for labor tracking, GL, reporting, recruiting, learning, performance, compensation, and engagement surveys. We are also in the process of rolling out use of Ceridian's succession planning and position management modules.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company is currently using Dayforce for our payroll, HR, workforce management, labor tracking, recruiting, benefits administration, and performance management. It has been a great experience. We are in the process of expanding it to eight other business units within the umbrella of our parent company. At Morgan, we plan to begin using Dayforce for compensation, onboarding, learning, and succession planning in the coming weeks and months.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dayforce for almost all aspects of our business - the biggest modules we utilize are People, Payroll, Recruiting, Learning, Benefits, Performance, and Compensation. Having an all on one system allows us to be consistent between all aspects of our HRIS function. We try to utilize the system in all aspects of the employee life cycle (from attracting talent, to making an offer, to hiring, creating merit increases, etc etc). We also heavily utilize the reporting aspects of the system to ensure that we are in compliance and doing the right thing with all of the previously mentioned modules. As a large employer it can be very difficult to keep things consistent and visible across the organization - using one platform for the vast majority of our HR functions allows us to more effectively do that
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for payroll, benefits, tracking attendance and much more. Payroll is processed bi-weekly. Benefits enrolment is entered in Dayforce and exported to our benefits provider. Attendance is tracked in Dayforce and sick days, vacation days, and personal days are accrued and tacked in DF. Our year end T4s are generated and printed in DF. Various reports for analysis are generated in DF as well.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for onboarding our new employees and enrolling their Health Insurance Benefits. We process three payrolls for our pay groups (Union, Exempt and Non Exempt Employees. In our day-to-day operations for our monthly Health Insurance billings, we use the Dayforce Reports and create reports that helps us audit our enrollments with Health, Dental and Vision insurance, Life Insurance, Short Term Disability (STD) and Long Term Disability (LTD) eligibility. Having these reports available to us, helps save us time and money in reconciling the monthly invoices we receive.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Ceridian Dayforce for Timekeeping and Payroll, Recruiting, Hiring and Onboarding, and just started using the Hub feature. Before implementation, we had a number of separate programs that required integration, i.e., one program for payroll and timekeeping, one program for people management, one program for Recruiting, etc. Now, with a few exceptions (we are not currently able to use the Scheduling module for our needs), everything is managed within one system.

There are many benefits to using Dayforce, especially on the Payroll side. However, there are some major drawbacks/limitations, especially with regards to the Recruiting module and features that are commonplace with Applicant Tracking Systems.

Overall, Dayforce has moved our organization in a good direction, but their sales team provided inaccurate information during the discovery and implementation phase, and Support takes a long time to respond to and resolve tickets.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ceridian Dayforce is used to manage all employees information in one module. It's used to manage time worked and allows our company to keep track of vacation, sick, etc time used. Employees are able to access their information which saves management time and allows the employee to keep track of their own vacation time available to them.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for all of our HR and Payroll needs. We implemented Dayforce in 2021, taking us from 6+ vendors to one for HR and Payroll. We love the platform and the end user ease. We have been able to not only integrate our processes, but we have been able to downsize our payroll department by 2 FTE. Customer Support is very responsive and helpful. I am very happy with the decision to go with Dayforce for our full HCM platform.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently utilize Ceridian Dayforce for: payroll, recruitment, employee workforce management, performance management, time and attendance and document control. We use Dayforce to support our operations with managing employment relationships, their pay, time entry and self serve items for employee files. We also use Dayforce messaging to reach employees with company wide communication.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce as our employee information system of record. It serves as our ATS, tracks time, attendance and entitlements, processes our payroll, manages our benefits administration and our performance management. Having so much data in one system is powerful for making data based decisions. Having a system that manages so many of our HR processes has created so many efficiencies in our team.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for hourly employees to clock in and out for their shifts and meals, request time off, input time off for emergencies, manage job candidates for review and scheduling interviews. It's a centralized software for us to track all employee hours and requests. We also can review and approve hours for payroll as well as to select and manage our benefits throughout the year.
Chris Ciechanowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is used to effectively manage our entire workforce. We utilize various modules to help better manage the entire employee Lifecyle. One of the greatest feature of Ceridian is the fact it's an all in one solution and you can customize the product be selecting the modules that are important for your business. In addition, the more you work and understand the Ceridian Dayforce system in it's entirety, the more powerful it becomes and the more powerful it grows over time as you understand what you are able to customize and build personally.
Kari France | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for payroll, benefits, onboarding, offboarding, recruiting, learning, applicant tracking system, performance reviews, recording timesheet information. We switched to Dayforce because before we were utilizing several different portals and platforms and with Ceridian Dayforce we have everything housed in one location and one login.
February 10, 2023

I love using Dayforce.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dayforce for Onboarding, Timekeeping, and Payroll Processing. Being able to have one program manage all these and more has been amazing. I love the education center and all the in-person trainings that they offer, in addition to having the Ceridian support team available for any issues that may arise.
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