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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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Avg 8.2
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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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Dayforce is a great product

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 07, 2024
SH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dayforce Powerpay
8 years of experience
Our bookkeeping firm uses Dayforce Powerpay to run payrolls for 15 clients. It is a very efficient product with good software and the CSR staff are exceptional when compared with other payroll processing companies.
  • Running regular payroll for salaried and hourly employees
  • Adding extra payments such as bonuses, retro payments & vacation payouts
  • Processing ROEs
  • Providing payroll reports
Cons
  • It is frustrating that you need to open a new pay period to change an employee's salary amount
  • The deductions area could come pre-populated with options to choose from regarding medical/dental insurance, LTD, life & AD&D
Dayforce is excellent for companies where all employees are on salary as you can select "run as is" and be confident that your payroll will run every pay period.
Where Dayforce is less convenient is for payroll with hourly employees. Sometimes all the hours aren't available by the cutoff time and then it is necessary to run an Extra run to pay out the employees who submit their hours late. QBO payroll allows these employees to be added as soon as the hours are available at no extra charge.

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.

Powerpay is a powerful tool!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 14, 2024
SP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dayforce Powerpay
2 years of experience
We’ve been using Power Pay for more than 20 months and find it very reliable and user-friendly. We process hourly pay for approximately 1000 employees and salaried pay for approximately 400 employees. Employees have access to employee self-service for pay statements and tax forms.
  • Timely accurate payroll previews.
  • Easy to process records of employment.
  • Excellent general journal reports.
Cons
  • User defined reports.
  • Ability for client to enter previously deducted CPP and EI.
It is easy to process pay and handles garnishments very well. We’ve found the product to be very reliable and very user-friendly. The record of employment functionality works well with very few errors. We’ve run many extra pay runs with great success. We can import large volumes of detailed data.

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.

A Good Solution for Your Payroll Needs.

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 20, 2024
KW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dayforce Powerpay
2 years of experience
Our business uses Dayforce as its payroll processing system. We needed a system that was straightforward to use for both the payroll administrator and our employees. Dayforce gives us a reliable and easy-to-use payroll system for our bi-weekly needs. Clear reporting is also essential to our business needs.
  • Excellent Customer Service.
  • Clear Reporting.
  • Easy-to-use Payroll Processing.
  • Great Resources for Changes/Updates in Regulations.
Cons
  • Being able to look into employee information without having to start a payroll period.
Dayforce is a solid payroll processing system. It's always been reliable and straightforward. However, where Dayforce shines is in its customer support. I have used a few other systems that do the same thing but cannot touch the level of superior customer service that Dayforce provides. Customer service has always been knowledgeable, concise, polite, and professional—they are what keep me as a customer!
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