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What is Dayforce Powerpay?

Dayforce Powerpay allows small businesses to pay and manage employees. It is used to simplify and automate payroll processes with automatic payroll calculations and remittances to the CRA and RQ, and streamlines payroll with connected time and attendance tracking to…

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What is Dayforce Powerpay?

Dayforce Powerpay allows small businesses to pay and manage employees. It is used to simplify and automate payroll processes with automatic payroll calculations and remittances to the CRA and RQ, and streamlines payroll with connected time and attendance tracking to help ensure people are paid…

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

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Product Details

What is Dayforce Powerpay?

Dayforce Powerpay is a payroll and HR software solution for Canadian small businesses. Powerpay helps to reduce risk by cutting through compliance complexity, streamlining processes, and by providing automatic calculations and remittances. Powerpay includes features such as payroll processing, reporting, self-service, record management, onboarding, time-off requests, managed payroll, HR advisory, integrations, and time and attendance. Powerpay customers have access to a customer service team that is NPI-trained and that offers live support.

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Dayforce Powerpay Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Dayforce Powerpay allows small businesses to pay and manage employees. It is used to simplify and automate payroll processes with automatic payroll calculations and remittances to the CRA and RQ, and streamlines payroll with connected time and attendance tracking to help ensure people are paid accurately.

QuickBooks Online and ADP Streamline Payroll are common alternatives for Dayforce Powerpay.

Reviewers rate Support for external payroll vendors highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Dayforce Powerpay are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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An effective, simple, and easy to use payroll administration tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 14, 2021
We use Ceridian Powerpay for payroll administration and some minor HR activities/processes. The software is used for processing payroll for all areas of the organization on a bi-weekly basis. The main business problem it solves is providing a single solution for the administration of payroll that, due to its nature, makes the process more streamlined and simplified, eliminating many of the otherwise manual aspects of payroll. As nearly all of our workforce is salaried, the actual payroll process can be completed in less than an hour without fail.
  • Ceridian Powerpay simplifies the payroll process, very little manual work involved during each payroll run.
  • Ceridian Powerpay is mostly an intuitive interface with easy to understand workflows to allow for multiple users to be able to use the system if required.
Cons
  • Reports could be more robust. You can pull reports from Ceridian Powerpay, but they are often relatively necessary and not useful for more advanced analysis and filtering, which would have to be done manually.
  • Changes to the system cannot always be completed on your own and require intervention from Ceridian via support. While this meant as a safety feature so that it doesn’t compromise the setup of your company, more advanced users should be able to use this without intervention/support.
Ceridian Powerpay is useful for an organization with either a small or large workforce, with a reasonably simple payroll setup. Our organization does not have any complicated commission schema, so Ceridian Powerpay works excellent for standard payroll that doesn’t change too much from week to week, often with salaried employees that have predictable compensation. I would hesitate to recommend Ceridian Powerpay to an organization with more complication pay systems, especially if they are larger as Ceridian Powerpay seems better suited to standard payroll without anything outside of the norm. While not feature-rich overall, Ceridian Powerpay gets the job done, and it is easy to use, so you can rely on multiple users in the organization being trained to use the software without requiring a significant investment on your part.

Dayforce Powerpay saves me time and money

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 19, 2024
AF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dayforce Powerpay
10 years of experience
We have been using Dayforce Powerpay for several years now and our company changed owners and Dayforce employees helped us set up the new company and new ownership. They took care of adding all employees to the new account and take care of our old account. It was a very detailed process and I am grateful they were able to help us out so much. They followed up via phone calls and emails and due to our businesses odd hours, it was difficult to follow up with calls, but the emails were all very detailed and we appreciated it very much. They walked us through all the processes and every time we needed help, there was someone to talk to or they would follow up if they couldn't answer our questions right away.
  • Providing live help when needed
  • In-depth tutorials and help on their website
  • Easy to use interface
  • Simple layouts
Cons
  • Able to see employee information without having to open a new pay run
  • Able to download mass reports instead of one at a time
We are a small business - and even though we are small and don't make near use of all of the options in the program, I love it because all my remitting is done for me, all the calculating, all the vacation pay, holiday pay, overtime, everything is kept track of really well and I don't have to worry about missing information if I was to do this myself. I also love the direct deposit options and my employees love it and the paystubs and the ability to put messages on their paystubs! I honestly can't think of a scenario where Dayforce Powerpay wouldn't be suitable!! I wouldn't change companies, even if it saved me money as I love all the functions, the information and the ease of ROE and T4's.

Ceridian Powerpay - my payroll best friend

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 22, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dayforce Powerpay
5 years of experience
Ceridian Powerpay is currently being used by our organization for payroll processing. While we have a small team, especially during the pandemic, it is still the best payroll software I have experience with regardless of team size. Ceridian helps ensure payroll is processed quickly, accurately, and on time every time. The interface is extremely user friendly, you can customize payroll settings accordingly. Being in the hospitality industry we are able to apply tips to payroll if needed. Ceridian makes it easy to add and remove employees easily - which is extremely beneficial in an industry with high turnover rate and during this pandemic. Issuing automatic ROEs and T4s is also a huge bonus. It really helps take the stress off of the individual who processes payroll.
  • Very intuitive and user friendly interface.
  • Automatic ROEs and T4s.
  • Customizing your payroll needs whether that be tips, commission, extra deductions, dual pay rates, etc.
  • Their support is extremely helpful, although rarely needed.
Cons
  • Would be great if you could search for specific ROEs in the system rather than having to go into each individual pay period package to locate - especially when there may be 10+ ROEs.
In all honestly I don’t know a situation where Ceridian Powerpay would not be appropriate to use. I have used it at a company with 12 employees, and at a company with 100 employees. The system works great regardless of company size and the benefits significantly outweigh any (if any) negatives.

I only have experience with the system in the hospitality industry but it covered all our needs and more that I can only imagine that would apply to other industries as well.

Dayforce Powerpay is an awesome business tool: takes the worry out of payroll!

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 12, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dayforce Powerpay
7 years of experience
I process the bi-monthly payroll for the school. We have under 20 employees. This payroll system is easy to use and if you have an issue your call is answered quickly. The support staff are so efficient and pleasant to deal with. Better still, I do not have to address issues like ROE's, T4's or monthly tax payments. Powerpay takes care of all of this. I just LOVE this system!
  • Processing monthly payroll with a verification before submission of the payroll.
  • Records of Employment when an employee leaves.
  • T4's records of annual earnings
  • Payment of monthly taxes to the government
  • Help when you need tax questions answered
Cons
  • I love Powerpay the way it is! Please don't mess with what isn't broken!
With Powerpay you are not 'wondering' if your input will have the desired effect on an employee's pay cheque. You can actually see what the employee will be paid, what their tax burden is for the month! Not many payroll companies offer this feature. It's terrific to process payroll and know that the employee will receive the correct remuneration. No 'retro payments' to keep track of!

Great tool for small organizations!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 19, 2024
SC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dayforce Powerpay
7 years of experience
As a small not-for-profit association, Dayforce Powerpay is a wonderful, right-sized tool for our needs. With a small number of employees, it is important for us to have an easy-to-use and high-support payroll tool. Every time I seek support from Ceridian, I am impressed. Their experts are pleasant, knowledgeable, and very patient. I can't recommend Dayforce Powerpay enough!
  • Automated payroll.
  • Calculates deductions accurately.
  • Easy access to reports.
Cons
  • None.
I am not a CFO or payroll expert, but rather the Executive Director of a small not-for-profit. The Dayforce Powerpay tool is easy for me to navigate and use. When I need support, it is always available.
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