Dayforce

Score7.9 out of 10

1,195 Reviews and Ratings

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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Job Requisition Management
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
Category average: 7.7
Company Website Posting
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
Category average: 8
Job Search Site Posting
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
Category average: 7.6

Report builder
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
Category average: 7.4
Pre-built reports
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
Category average: 7.2
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
Category average: 6.5

Verified User

Director in Human Resources (10,001+ employees employees)

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

Verified User

Professional in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

LeAnne Wait View profile

Staffing Consultant in Professional Services at Vetcore (201-500 employees employees)

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

Kyla Sanders

Manager, Human Resources in Human Resources at Kestra Financial (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use all components of Dayforce to address Talent, WFM, Recruiting, Payroll, Benefits, and training.

Pros

WFM - time and attendance tracking is easy for admin and managers. There are only a few key steps and I am happy to hear that Dayforce is continually improving.
Payroll - we are a managed client so payroll processing is smooth and helpful.
Benefits - we are also managed with benefits so we get a lot of support for both admin and end-user

Cons

Technical glitches continue to ail us. Release schedules are not regular and don't always seem planned.
The ATS portion is clunky and regularly has major technical issues.

Return on Investment

The recruiting ROI is palpable. Our recruiters are more efficient in their sourcing and hiring that they have saved the company $1.2m in 18 months alone.

Alternatives Considered

Workday Cloud Platform

Verified User

Administrator in Finance and Accounting (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Dayforce for both HR and Payroll. It allows us to seamlessly work between the two and gives us access to an enormous amount of information.

Pros

Online storage of employee confidential information, including uploaded forms.
Manage Payroll and Benefits.
Takes care of Payroll Tax Reporting.

Cons

Font size and colors could be better, the screens can be hard to read.
There is so much data that finding the right report can be a challenge. Often, I have to build my own report, which is time-consuming.
Individual Support: We used to have account representatives, but this has gone away, and we now feel that there is little to no personal contact between Dayforce and the Customer.

Return on Investment

Dayforce does a great job, and they look to the future regarding the path of HRM and payroll.
The quality of support and resolving individual Issues has decreased over the last few years. We had an issue with a mistake that Dayforce Tax made on our quarterly reporting, and we ended up getting a hefty fine. Even though we requested Dayforce fix their error, nothing was ever done.

Alternatives Considered

Paycom

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Adobe Acrobat, Google Sheets

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Company Website Posting

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Ability to combine HR data with external data

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