#1 most frequent
United States of America
57.1%3,723 installations of 6,521
What is Dayforce?
Dayforce is a people platform that simplifies HR operations. As a unified HCMS, it delivers HR, payroll, benefits, workforce management, talent, and analytics—helping organizations boost productivity, stay compliant, and make smarter decisions with embedded intelligence and personalized experiences.
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Top Performing Features
Job Requisition Management
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
Category average: 7.8
Company Website Posting
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
Category average: 7.9
Job Search Site Posting
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
Category average: 7.7
Areas for Improvement
Report builder
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
Category average: 7.5
Pre-built reports
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
Category average: 7.4
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
Category average: 6.9
Who Buys & Uses Dayforce
#2 most frequent
Canada
26.0%1,693 installations of 6,521
#3 most frequent
Australia
4.9%322 installations of 6,521
Ceridian Dayforce - Offers a Lot, but Some Problems Can be Annoying
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently use Dayforce to manage employee records, their files, and process payroll. We haven't utilized the entirety of Dayforce yet, but we are looking into implementing the onboarding and document management features first. At the moment, the majority of our companies use another system that assists with our payroll processing, but within this year, we would like to incorporate about 6 companies into Dayforce entirely.
Pros
- Record keeping is fairly easy (compensation changes, Notes feature)
- A whole library of how and what to do with processes within Dayforce (using DIG), including the support site with extremely helpful articles and posts asked by other users with similar questions
- User-friendly for those not in an administration role (managers, employees)
Cons
- While the support site is helpful and people assigned to my questions were great, I've struggled with communicating with people when it involved implementing something new into our production site. Response times were low, they had trouble understanding what we needed to be implemented, and didn't apologize for it. My guess is that because we're one of Ceridian's "smaller" clients. Regardless of the size of your client, we still would like proper service! This is so far the only feature I have had issues with; the majority of Dayforce has been easy to use and I can self-learn pretty easily.
Return on Investment
- Positive impact: Less paper usage and helps encourage the HR and Payroll teams to print less and save files on employee profiles more.
- Negative impact: Used a large portion of the company's billable hours because we were assigned a consultant who didn't understand the goal (despite explaining it multiple times), which caused errors and time to fix those errors. Communication with the consultant was low and made me believe that it's better to rely on my own experience/learning instead of having someone from Ceridian implement it.
- Positive impact: Access to a lot of forums, guides, and comments and questions from other uses. Having these resources available helps me find the answers I need, plus it adds to on-the-go training.
Other Software Used
Microsoft 365, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Sheets
Ceridian Dayforce - strong suite of products that can be great.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
- Custom reporting.
- Time management, Time & attendance
- Compensation planning.
Cons
- Elections management.
- Retirement arrears management.
- Talent card.
Return on Investment
- Improved efficiency resulted in right sizing of Payroll team.
- Tax and compliance piece managed by Ceridian as part of managed services.
- Ability to integrate with global core HCM helped improve data quality.
Alternatives Considered
ADP GlobalView Payroll
Other Software Used
Empyrean Platform, Microsoft 365
Great Timekeeping and Payroll Solution
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
- ease of record keeping
- employee usage is simple and straightforward
- management of records and reporting
Cons
- custom reporting
Return on Investment
- increased productivity from a payroll standpoint
Alternatives Considered
Paycor, iCIMS Talent Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors and isolved
Great product
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used for employees to clock in and out, and track their time off, benefits, etc. I am a manager who oversees the employees.
Pros
- track time worked for the week
- track time off
- entering time off/pto
Cons
- Some employees have difficulty clocking in and out on the app
Return on Investment
- This has streamlined multiple products into one
- Great cost and time saver
Alternatives Considered
UKG Pro
Other Software Used
Bullhorn Talent Platform, Salesforce CMS, Indeed Recruiter Extension
Takes quite a bit of set up, but it's worth it!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
. Dayforce is used for all of our HR tasks including payroll, employee documents, onboarding, performance reviews and hiring
Pros
- Excellent onboarding function that makes it personal to your company
- Once set up properly, payroll is automated and seamless
- Employee profiles make it easy to see all key info at once
Cons
- Reports can be a challenge as they are very complex to create
- The mobile app has limited functions compared to desktop
- Not all features of Dayforce are used for us as it is built for enterprise-level companies
Return on Investment
- Cut down our payroll processing time from 1.5 days to 5 hours
- Enabled our hiring team to process 300+ resumes per month
- Centralized data has enabled company-wide reports and analytics that would have been manual compilation before.
Alternatives Considered
Gusto, Rippling and BambooHR
Other Software Used
Fyle, Microsoft 365
