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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 Trial
  • 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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Reviews and Ratings

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Wendy Austin Lett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce HCM is designed to run payroll previews in real-time and allow users to see labor costs instantly. Initially, this feature did not appear as a positive benefit; however, we utilize Real-Time to analyze increases or decreases in our payroll prior to commit. This aids in reduced manual checks and other employee issues.
November 18, 2020

Dayforce it is

Lisa Chavez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is my favorite. I love being able to see the calculations before I actually send payroll. It has saved me so much time being able to catch errors, see the way a check is going to calculate, and make adjustments before payroll is committed.
Susan Babiuk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The speed on the return of information is excellent and allows us to quickly assess financial trends, but more importantly from an HR perspective, it has permitted real time sharing of data such as payroll, overtime, attendance, etc., that previously may have had to be given to HR in a report form the month following after the data was gathered and analyzed in various spreadsheets from the other programs.
October 23, 2018

Dayforce Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This has been huge - this is an amazing feature - as we know right away if something is not right and can address it immediately rather than running the batch and waiting for the preview to come through.
October 16, 2018

Dayforce HCM Advocate

jennifer soccio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization lives in a per-patient-day (PPD) existence. If we admit or discharge multiple residents, it changes the need that we have on staffing levels. With our ability to dive directly into the daily, shift-level or week-level of time - then we can better forecast staffing change needs. With schedules, we can anticipate on measurable PPD data what needs we will most likely have in the next month and adjust our recruiting efforts on the same data. From the employee perspective, they like being able to view what their work yields to them in gross wages. Win-win for us.
March 09, 2017

Dayforce HCM review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
This is a great functionality. I can see right away if someone's hours are not properly allocated and make the correction on the spot. This helps when I send the ledger information to accounting so numbers are reported as accurately as possible. I can send the labor information to departments so they can see labor cost so they can make adjustments as needed.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Not yet in production but this will have a beneficial impact to our operations. It can help moderate whether the margin on a rush order is large enough to accommodate the added OT incurred to meet the "rush date".
Ashlie Starkey, MHRM | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The real-time payroll enables us to review payroll after a change has been made. If we have a last minute change, we just update and refresh then confirm in the preview that the change took place correctly. We are able to process our payroll in less than one day, which is a huge improvement!
Dr. Anita Martin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our supervisors watch this closely. After the first week of the pay cycle they are determining their overall staffing needs for the following week. As they monitor their salaries vs. budget, they are able to keep closer track of their spend on a weekly basis rather than wait for reports to be returned the week of payroll and then be over budget and scrambling to reduce their staffing hours to bring the budget more in line. It provides a more strategic proactive function in staffing hours, than a reactive one.
Brenda Lebo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Real-time payroll information is a great asset in our organization. We are able to see that allocation and other information is accurate before committing the payroll and to make any necessary corrections in advance. This has decreased our after pay day issues tremendously.
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