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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 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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Awards

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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

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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.

7.9
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.

7.4
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

Dayforce Video

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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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October 24, 2019

Dayforce Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allows payroll to view checks prior to pay period ending
  • Allow payroll to view preliminary totals
  • Comparing Schedule to Timesheets and flagging discrepancies
  • Implementation can be a little smoother. It's hard to answer all the preliminary questions on setup when we don't understand all the capabilities of the product or have never used the product.
  • Some of the support staff are very hard to understand.
Meagan Bare, MBA, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Configurable
  • Flexible
  • User-Friendly
  • State-Mandated form integration into the Onboarding Module (NY, CA, DC)
  • More robust Recruitment Module
  • Feeds with Background/I-9 Vendors to allow you to selected the vendor of your choice, not just those that are integrated with Ceridian. Currently with EBI, and we have to initiate background screenings by flipping a status and the status of the backgrounds are housed outside the system.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Form data: it allows you to use system or custom made forms. Helps allow managers at store level submit paperless request.
  • Workflows: tied to a form, each workflow is custom with routing and notifications or conditions to ensure that what is submitted routes properly.
  • Onboarding: allows for quick visibility to where progress is and who has completed.
  • Forms to be mobile friendly
  • Guided processes that can be edited after being published.
  • Performance management to allow edits within qualifiers after posted.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User Interface: modern look
  • Reporting: mostly front end, easy for users
  • Reporting is slow, needs more reporting on configuration changes/audits.
  • Browser errors are annoying, no description of what the error means.
  • Need admin capability from the mobile app.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allows the flexibility to bill each of our entities separately.
  • Allow our W2 entities to handle benefits and payroll processing through one vendor.
  • Dayforce simplified the 1099 processing for us.
  • The transferring of employees between the three entities has caused us a lot of problems. This area needs a lot of improvement.
  • The use of FEIN versus SSN needs to be more user-friendly.
  • We have to make sure a special script is run every time there is a new release so we can continue processing our 1099s because the code is not part of the product. This keeps us on edge and concerned that we may not be able to pay our 1099 independent contractors based on our contract.
Kimberly Colón-Möller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Support
  • Development
  • Communication
  • It takes time for us to match up with the right analyst to help us close tickets.
  • I think new users should be auto-scheduled for training.
  • I think xoxo and the actual platform should be merged into a single sign-on system.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Training! I really liked the training available for new users to learn how the system works in Ceridian education.
  • Support availability: it’s great to know we can pick up the phone for support in case we need quick assistance.
  • Friendly! I worked with someone on the ticket and they asked me to stop by at Insights to say hi! Additionally, the President of Ceridian, Leagh, walked by me and I said hello. She stopped and chatted with me for a bit and I gave her some suggestions for the next Insights, she seemed genuinely interested and I never felt she was in a hurry to move on. Even the CEO, David Ossis at the general session gave out his email address. Who does that? I was very impressed!
  • I think Insights should definitely have a FIT session for Benefits next year. Being new to Dayforce, it would really have been advantageous for me, as I felt the reporting was.
  • Benefits module definitely needs an audit tab (who made changes and what changes were made, not just a history of when the change was made under history) and notes on the elections page. Having to run a report to see who made a previous change is frustrating.
  • When registering for Insights sessions, make notes that certain sessions don’t need to be taken if you are attending FIT. For example, I registered for some of the reporting lab sessions thinking it was going to allow me to practice and ask questions or for help, only to find out I didn’t need to take them if I had done FIT. Finding this out during Insights made it difficult for me to register for other sessions and miss out on making appointments at CSZ.
October 24, 2019

Why Dayforce Rocks!!!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Talent management. The recruiting module is amazing. I can track the applicant throughout the whole interview and hiring process. It makes it so easy and fast to recruit and manage our talent pool.
  • Onboarding forms are perfect. We used to have the employees sign 40 pieces of paper on policies, now they sign everything electronically! It is so fast and easy to understand.
  • The "my people" function in Ceridian is so user-friendly and pretty error-free. It will stop you and flag an error if something is not correct.
  • I just learned about the electronic reviews here at insights. Absolutely amazing. We were looking for something to streamline our tedious review and compensation changes process.
  • Timesheets are a great feature. Easy to add vacations and PTO and modify time if need be for an employee.
  • Vacations!!! We were recently bought by another company and we can't seem to get the vacations in line. They keep resetting back to the old system.
  • I would like the opportunity to do background checks through the recruiting module of Ceridian Dayforce.
  • Benefits administration. I would like to see benefits be able to apply through Dayforce. Maybe during orientation we could add the forms.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Nice that everything is held in one spot.
  • I don't like the fact that everything is a cost. Things that should be part of the software may be extra.
  • Implementation should have been more hands-on and the team should have a good understanding of the company
  • We did need more help with structure.
October 23, 2019

Like Dayforce

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Makes enrollment easier for employees.
  • Makes the benefits department's job easier by sending file feeds.
  • The ability to use the system to track our employees that are on leave.
  • Age 26 dependent: the system needs to be able to automatically enroll the employee and any other family members down the next tier of coverage if applicable instead of terming the employee's coverage.
  • Better benefit confirmation statements that can be configured for benefit and compensation.
  • Better benefit reporting for invoice reconciliation.
October 23, 2019

Ceridian Dayforce Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It has brought her multiple learning platforms into one location.
  • It has a very user-friendly mobile app that you are able to use as a time clock for your hourly employees.
  • Some of the features that I am not able to do at this time is pulling training records with durations in reports.
October 23, 2019

Dayforce review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time and attendance
  • The ability to preview paychecks
  • The ability to import information into payroll
  • Certain standard reporting is lacking.
  • Support is hit or miss. Some are great, some are not that good.
  • System set up is complicated.
October 23, 2019

Updates cause problems

Tomas Moran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Well built reports
  • Good tax services customer support
  • Can be customized
  • The system is slow.
  • Lacks useful features like calculations for one employee.
  • Quick entries are not tied to employees, but the payroll.
  • Can't build reports easily.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Performance: the setup and the forms are user-friendly.
  • Payroll: I act as the backup for payroll processing and the training needed was minimal.
  • SOX compliance: we have not implemented manager & employee self-service, however, knowing that approvals are tracked within the system will be hugely beneficial.
  • Balances, entitlements, and TAFW: it’s was not implemented well and remains very buggy.
  • XML forms: Ceridian should look into a WYSIWYG feature for designing forms (e.g. drag-and-drop fields onto a form template).
  • Roles and security: access to locations should be based on roles not based on individuals.
  • Work assignments: this feature leaves a lot of room for error (e.g. previous assignments should be end-dated automatically).
October 23, 2019

Buyer Beware

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I struggle to come up with even one thing that I think Dayforce does particularly well. I have more issues than I have praise for the product.
  • The sales presenters sold us a "bill of goods" which have not been delivered upon. We would told that Dayforce could be configured to work in our environment. The reality is there are far too many limitations to what we want the product to do.
  • Implementation was very painful and challenging process. During our implementation period Ceridian changed project managers twice. We had three different project managers during our implementation. This made implementation disjointed.
  • Even now after being out of implementation for nearly a year we have trouble with customer support and with product support. PS personnel can spend many hours working on a change item or configuration issue only to not have the effort pay off with a working fix. We would have spent thousands of dollars on PS only to have to get someone other than the originally assigned consultant to work on the matter to fix it.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reduction of paper
  • Auto benefit feeds
  • Time keeping
  • Reporting: use of custom fields.
  • Entitlements: should be much easier to understand and implement.
  • Modules included with purchase, instead of everything being a la carte.
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