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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

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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February 02, 2024

Dayforce

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Dayforce for Payroll and HR. We have over 20 locations with varying ESA requirements and multiple jurisdictions. Dayforce is able to keep track of it all.
Allicia Bartel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is used for many of its applications, at our company. I personally use Ceridian Dayforce to generate and process payroll. We also use the onboarding, recruiting, time management systems and are currently in the process of implementing other modules such as compensation.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dayforce is our Payroll Engine system for timekeeping and Time & Attendance management. We also use the Performance, Talent, Compensation, and Learning modules of Dayforce. Dayforce Wallet is another product that is rolled out across North America. This helps us have a one-stop-shop HCM solution for our region where everything from employee master data to Payroll data to performance data lives, giving us a homogeneous platform to perform most of our HR calendar activities and then leveraging that rich data set to drive meaningful analytics.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for timekeeping and payroll within several of our business groups. Rolling this out as our new timekeeping solutions across the organization. Previously, each business group was utilizing their own timekeeping systems and this was being integrated to payroll. With everyone on the same system, this eliminates issues and streamlines our process.
January 16, 2024

Ceridian Dayforce review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Ceridian Dayforce mainly as a payroll service. We use the timesheets function for employees to track time we also load time from external timekeeping systems. It is also where all of out legal entity and tax information is stored. We have several external vendors that we have set up integrations for to send and receive information from Ceridian Dayforce.
January 16, 2024

Ceridian Dayforce Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce has helped our business adapt to changing demands for positions and compensation as the industry we operate in evolves. We have moved our recruitment and onboarding to Ceridian Dayforce to remove manual, paper-based processes. The platform is easy to modify with resources in many different methods - community network, articles, posts, and direct support.
Wendy Austin Lett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DayForce HCM is used across the whole organization for Time and Attendance and Employee Self-Service. DayForce HCM has multiple features/modules which streamline our daily processes and enables an increased accuracy rate of information posting to our employees master file. Workflows are a major benefit. Our workflows digitalized many documents and reduced 'lost or misplaced' information needed to ensure our employees receive accurate pay.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have implemented Dayforce to be used for Recruiting, onboarding, storing employee info and payroll. We primarily chose this product because we needed payroll in Canada and the US. Formerly we were using BambooHR as an HRIS and JazzHR for Recruitment, and just did Payroll thru Dayforce. We wanted to consolidate and just use one product, and Ceridian was the only provider that could do multi-country payroll.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pay and time. Achieved compliance with tax delegation and working in multiple states and or locations. Ease set up with regards to taxation behind earnings and deduction codes. Better, entitlement, set ups and configuration, can handle a multitude of configurations with regards to ESP stock, 401(k), eligibility, charity eligibility.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are utilizing all our current features, which are working to our advantage. Timesheets, Scheduling, Compensation module, Mobile, Benefits Open Enrollment, ESS, Wallet, Plan (Advanced Scheduling), Onboarding, Payroll, Benefits, and HUB. Store Managers use Messages, Approvals, People, Plan, Schedules, Timesheets · Operation View are used daily. Data Analytics is used when needed to relate to WFM. I do find that there are not enough resources that are SME's for Plan issues.
Anne Klosterman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use this for clocking in and out and for viewing/managing my timesheet, earnings, and time away information. It's also nice to be able to do all of this on the app. Overall, it's a very simple tool to learn and use. I would recommend it to anyone who asks me about it.
December 06, 2023

Loving Ceridian Dayforce

Caitlynn Smart | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ceridian Dayforce is utilized across our whole company. We use Dayforce for our HRIS needs plus the features of recruiting, forms, time management, careers, performance, benefits, and onboarding on a day to day basis. Dayforce is a easy to navigate system that we say is a self serve system for employees, they can change their personal information without having to go to HR employees and managers can set goals for individuals or even a whole team. Recruiting is a big portion used for us on a daily basis will our management team, the only thing I would note is to make sure to print the CV Resume as the one that shows on the page is a mix of what the candidate put on their resume and what Ceridian is reading and putting together, at times it makes no sense. Overall Ceridian Dayforce and gone above and beyond on the tools, resources, and support to make our HRIS as successful as possible.
October 16, 2023

Happy

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ceridian Dayforce for payroll, onboarding, performance evals, benefits, recruiting, and more. We use it for a variety of different things, we have a lot of modules that are accessible to us but we are not using it to its full capacity.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Prior to Ceridian Dayforce, everything was completed on a separate platform that did not community with each other fluently. With Ceridian Dayforce, we have been able to incorporate payroll, HR, benefits, and performance in one platform. This has greatly improved efficiency within the organization.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dayforce for all of our organizational needs. We use it for Recruiting, Benefits, Payroll, Employee Management, Performance Reviews, ETC. all our employees use it to clock in and out daily, request time off, etc.
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