Overview
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 HCM - The Lifesavers of the HR/Payroll Profession
One stop shop for HRIS, but could be better
Ceridian Dayforce in a nut shell
Dayforce: Great product but has its limitations.
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allows personalization
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Popular Features
- Pay calculation (568)9.090%
- Update personal information (578)8.787%
- Pre-built reports (572)7.777%
- Report builder (572)7.676%
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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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Features
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
- 8.1Employee demographic data(505) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 8.4Employment history(540) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 8Job profiles and administration(530) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 7.8Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(532) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 7.4Organizational charting(483) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 7.7Organization and location management(528) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 7.5Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(352) Ratings
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 9Pay calculation(568) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 7.5Support for external payroll vendors(283) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 8.9Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(132) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 8Benefit plan administration(457) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 9Direct deposit files(553) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 8.5Salary revision and increment management(437) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 8.2Reimbursement management(294) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
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.
- 8.3Approval workflow(496) Ratings
Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.
- 7.8Balance details(510) Ratings
Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.
- 8Annual carry-forward and encashment(417) Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment enables unused paid time-off days to be carried forward to new year, or paid in cash.
Employee Self Service
Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.
- 8.5View and generate pay and benefit information(565) Ratings
Employees can view pay and benefit data and print pay stubs.
- 8.7Update personal information(578) Ratings
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
- 8.1View company policy documentation(398) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 7.2Employee recognition(206) Ratings
thank a team member
- 8View job history(474) Ratings
Employees can view all positions held at the company.
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.
- 7.6Tracking of all physical assets(97) Ratings
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
HR Reporting
Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.
- 7.6Report builder(572) Ratings
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
- 7.7Pre-built reports(572) Ratings
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
- 6.3Ability to combine HR data with external data(400) Ratings
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
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.
- 7.9New hire portal(364) Ratings
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
- 7.9Manager tracking tools(320) Ratings
Tracking tools allow hiring managers to check status on individual hires for all onboarding activities.
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 7.5Corporate goal setting(202) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 8Individual goal setting(221) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 7.6Line-of sight-visibility(189) Ratings
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
- 8Performance tracking(226) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 7.6Performance plans(246) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 7.7Performance improvement plans(210) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 8Review status tracking(248) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 7.9Review reminders(244) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 8.1Multiple review frequency(219) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.
- 7.4Create succession plans/pools(94) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 7.1Candidate ranking(102) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 6.7Candidate search(107) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 7.3Candidate development(94) Ratings
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
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.
- 7.6Job Requisition Management(271) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 7.6Company Website Posting(265) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 7.6Publish to Social Media(222) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 7.6Job Search Site Posting(254) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 6.7Duplicate Candidate Prevention(217) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 7.5Applicant Tracking(264) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 7.3Notifications and Alerts(258) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
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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
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Dayforce Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | Global |
Supported Languages | English (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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Dayforce Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 1% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 18% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 81% |
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(1135)Attribute Ratings
- 8.7Likelihood to Renew86 ratings
- 10Availability12 ratings
- 5Performance13 ratings
- 6.1Usability60 ratings
- 7.8Support Rating65 ratings
- 7.3Online Training18 ratings
- 7In-Person Training11 ratings
- 6.5Implementation Rating43 ratings
- 8.9Configurability13 ratings
- 9.9Product Scalability14 ratings
- 8Ease of integration8 ratings
- 9.9Vendor pre-sale12 ratings
- 8.9Vendor post-sale18 ratings
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- The Dayforce HUBS are really nice to provide information to staff. It is pretty easy to set up and navigate and was really a great new feature the last few years.
- The Performance and Compensation module are really nice. They were pretty easy to navigate and set up.
- The resources Dayforce has is great. Being able to hop on a webinar, training or sign up for an Instructor Led Training is great.
- It would be nice to see what Dayforce could offer for "leave management".
- Every new enhancement seems to be billable. It would be nice to have the newer enhancements but being a non-profit, we can get all of these and sometimes it gets confusing what we can or can't have.
- Dayforce does have some quirks. Sometimes things stop working. It is easy enough to put in a case and typically the response time is good but to be told, it was a "fluke", is sometimes frustrating.
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- Dayforce Wallet
- Payroll
- WFM
- Mass uploads for more items
Dayforce
- HR records
- Time Away from Work
- Complex payroll rules
- Reporting - it is a bit too big and hard to maneuver
- Employee Self Serve is outdated
1 year after implementation
- provides a platform that has easy to use navigation.
- provides additional services and information to stay up to date on relevant and impactful information.
- has an internal system of checks and balances to make sure data in all parts of the system is accurate.
- accessibility to instant support. Not every question should require a case to be logged. There should be a chat feature built right into different areas of the system where if I am in payroll, for example, and don't understand how to resolve an error, I can send a message to get instant clarity/support/help.
- edit capabilities and better format options on the fixed format reports. We should be able to have an option to convert a fixed report into a customizable report and have more than just PDF as a format option on most of the payroll reports.
Ceridian Dayforce - strong suite of products that can be great.
- Custom reporting.
- Time management, Time & attendance
- Compensation planning.
- Elections management.
- Retirement arrears management.
- Talent card.
Ceridian Dayforce Review
- When the set-up is configured correctly, you can have many different earning rates and earning codes pay out through timesheets, oppose to manually entering them through the payroll QE. This allows for retros to be calculated automatically oppose to manually.
- The system allows for many different entitlement policies to be set-up automatically annually oppose to having to create the new policies annually.
- The system allows employees to make changes to their personal account and benefits directly, oppose to adding the admin work on the employer.
- Reports - The report creating database is not super user friendly. The configuration of needing to find specific fields and the formulas is not user friendly.
- Auditing accessibility. At times payroll election get added or dropped and there is no view on where the system took the information from. Would be nice to see some tracing, as we now have with timesheets and balances.
Great Timekeeping and Payroll Solution
- ease of record keeping
- employee usage is simple and straightforward
- management of records and reporting
- custom reporting
Ceridian Dayforce Honest Feedback
- Ceridian Dayforce Wallet is a great benefit that our employees enjoy. Access to pay on demand is such a cool feature.
- The survey analytics are so useful. We utilize this feature for employee opinion surveys and the analytics breakdown is very helpful for approaching the feedback from employees.
- The performance management too is easy to set up and easy for employees to use.
- The Ceridian Dayforce Hub homoage is a great tool to replace an internal intranet.
- In my opinion, the reports are not set up well. While they are customizable, they are not very intuitive. In my experience, the premade reports are set up in a very odd format that cannot be easily changed.
- In my experience, there are some weird issues that pop up when processing payroll. Sometimes the issues cannot be explained by the support team and seem to be random glitches.
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- Ceridian Dayforce timekeeping is very easy to use and implement
- Ceridian Dayforce wallet is a great feature that many of our employees utilize
- Navigation of the platform is easy to understand and follow
- entitlement configuration is rather clunky and can be hard to follow at times. There should also be small descriptions on each rule and what the use case are for each
- the ability to drag and drop pay policy and entitlement rules rather than copy and paste or click movement arrows
Ceridian Dayforce Review
- Correct pay
- Ease of use
- Ease of knowledge transfer
- Implementation was not as seamless as we expected
DayForce HCM - The Lifesavers of the HR/Payroll Profession
- Workflows reduce the number of face-to-face interactions and allows employees easy access to information such as address changes and direct deposit.
- Service, now, provides a faster turnaround on incidents.
- DayForce HCM is designed to reduce repetitiveness and 'loss' of information.
- The Reporting feature has room for MUCH improvement. We are not able to generate many needed finance/auditing reporting easily without assistance from service.
One stop shop for HRIS, but could be better
- Offering payroll in different countries
- Providing a comprehensive product
- In my opinion, the interface is one of the worst I’ve ever used. I believe it is not intuitive AT ALL, even trying to run a report requires either detailed worksheets or going through FAQs, for simple reports. While this is only listed as one item, it affects you every time you access the system.
- Recruiting tool is very cumbersome and difficult to view/access information
Ceridian Dayforce in a nut shell
- Labor, distribution amongst multiple states and work locations
- Assigned states and taxes based off of home address and virtual employee
- Far too many screens should be able to downsize that into multiple modules
- Reporting can be overwhelming
Dayforce: Great product but has its limitations.
HCM, WFM, Payroll, Performance, Compensation, Succession and all HR data reporting.
- Functionality is very scalable and robust
- User interface is clean and straightforward to use
- Mobile app is very useful
- The system appears to be have some shortfall like with Meal waivers and icons on the timesheet
- Implementation team sometime make errors in our configuration, causing processes to not work as intended
- dependent upon who get in Customer Support, the guidance and information provided may not be 100% accurate
Ceridian Takes the Difficulty Out of Dealing with Multiple Collective Bargaining Agreements.
- Very easy to use interface from SAP Fiori to Ceridian DayForce.
- Ceridian Reporting is easy to use and even easy with creating your own custom reports.
- Easy front end access for employees to access their Payroll forms and paystubs.
- There have been a few instances of users being locked out of Ceridian due to recent upgrades. Not ideal when an employee wants to see their paystub and is suddenly have login issues.
- Not the best for when an employee is transferred to another country as their employee number is locked to their SIN or SSN. And, we are required to create a new user record with a new employee number for the new country.
Ceridian is not ideal when an employee has transferred to a different country. (As previously mentioned, we are required to create a new user record which with our setup requires the existing employee to be hired in the new location).
My Dayforce Family Customer Story.
- I love having TAM Services.
- My CRE/TAM and AE are a great team and make me feel like part of the Dayforce family. They are always quick to resolve any issues.
- I was appointed Dayforce Ambassador, which is a great group that shares its knowledge and experiences.
- It is difficult to set up a time for a ticket when a Technical Consultant is in a time zone with many hours difference.
- Still unable to change to 2 decimal points in Compensation Module.
- With Power BI - difficult to bring in payroll reports as they are date driven by pp#.
Ceridian Dayforce is great.
- Time Clock.
- Time Sheet.
- Earnings
- Time Away Management.
- Allowing time clock to be edited without a manager.
- Ability to search other employees.
- Ability to sync calendar with other calendars.
New-ish to Dayforce
- On-demand payroll calculation.
- Automatic tax compliance.
- Customer service.
Loving Ceridian Dayforce
- Performance.
- Timesheets.
- Careers.
- Profile & settings.
- In timesheets it would be great to see one week at a time vs bi-weekly. I say this because its hard when going into week two of your timesheet to figure out how much time you have actually worked when the time from week one is now combined into week 2.
- In recruiting it would be helpful to have the CV default to the resume view instead of the system generating a botched version.
Ceridian Dayforce delivers
- Payroll submission
- HR employee record keeping
- compensations
- reviews
- report writing for customers
- accessibility to backend issues
- Tax Support
Efficient product and great company
- Customer Support
- Innovation
- 1 stop shopping
- Ease with adjusting reports
- Payroll election import term dates
- Making community searches easier to find items
Happy
- I appreciate how intuitive the system is and user friendly.
- It does a good job of separating modules.
- Having support be more accessible and easier to reach
Ceridian Dayforce has transformed our organization
- Reporting and data analytics
- Support
- Onboarding
- Benefit data feeds
- Higher customization by the user
- More hands on training during implementation
Complex but customizable
- Reporting
- Time tracking
- Benefit management
- Carrier feed visibility
- Self taught courses for learning opportunities
Great for adding organization to your Organization
- Keeps us organized
- Streamlines our employee user experience
- One-stop shop for our employees
- The Recruiting feature has given us many issues.