About Dayforce HCM
What is Dayforce HCM?
Dayforce HCM is a global human capital management solution designed to help HR departments manage the entire employee lifecycle from payroll to recruiting.
How do you use Dayforce HCM?
With Dayforce HCM, users can view all HR data in real-time in one place. Organizations can find and hire the right people, create schedules that support work-life balance, manage employee development, process payments, and administer benefits, all while monitoring compliance throughout the employee lifecycle.
Who uses Dayforce HCM?
Dayforce is mainly used by HR professionals within organizations that have between 500 and 50,000 employees.
How much does Dayforce HCM cost?
Dayforce does not share pricing details publicly. Please contact Dayforce for information on starting price and available plans or tiers.
Does Dayforce HCM have an app?
Yes, Dayforce has an Android and iOS app designed to help employees manage their own data.
Dayforce HCM pricing
Dayforce HCM does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial.
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Dayforce HCM Reviews
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- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Our experience with Day force has been great from Implementation on. We never felt alone.
Before Dayfore, we were using three different systems. One for payroll, one for time and attendance, and another for HR. We had to import data from one system to another so there was the potential of data dropping off. We were able to combine three systems into one with Dayforce. Since Ceridian uses one solution, once an employee is hired they are visible in all parts of the system immediately. No more waiting for overnight updates. Ceridian cut my payroll processing time by 40%, which allows me more time to audit my work. There are some great audit reports built into the system, which I run every payroll. They point to problems with can be corrected before we finalize for the week. The ability to run wage and tax registers, and W2's anytime of the year, allows me to fix any potential problems, which in turn make year end a breeze. My employees now are able to manage some of their own data, which alleviates the burden off HR and Payroll and allows the employee to update their records when it is convenient for them.
Pros
I love that it is one solution. No more imports, no more worries about data dropping off. The test portal allows us to set up new deductions and earnings, and test them before putting them into production. The future dating feature works really well. It allows us to enter increase early and test them in a future payroll to see how the employees pay check will look, and gives us more time to audit our changes thus relieving some of the stress that comes with year end. The education portal is a big plus. It allows us to learn at our own pace, and to schedule that classes that are helpful for each administrative role.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Dayforce simplifies and accelerates the payroll processing
Dayforce is an excellent option for any enterprise-level business. If you're looking to fix a problem with the system's mainstay functionality—namely, payroll and related "pay logic”—I think Dayforce is your best bet. After making that call, you'll also see increased productivity from the other modules I mentioned.
Pros
Ceridian Dayforce is used for many different purposes, including payroll, benefits, and attendance tracking. The payroll is run every other week. Dayforce is used for benefits enrollment, and the data is then sent to our supplier via an export. Dayforce is used to record and analyze attendance data, whereas DF is used to record and analyze vacation, sick, and personal time.
Cons
While progress has been made in the area of learning, its usefulness is limited by the fact that it is integrated from the outside. The scheduling module requires more human intervention than is ideal.
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Dayforce handles various HR tasks in one place
We've been able to cut down on the time it takes to onboard new employees by using Dayforce Onboarding to handle the corresponding decrease in paper forms.
Pros
One of Dayforce's strongest points is its ability to automatically calculate payroll. Payroll has been greatly simplified and accelerated by this new functionality. On top of that, they provide a holistic HR solution covering everything from applicant tracking to benefits administration.
Cons
Ceridian Dayforce's customer care is the worst part of the product. They are continually working to make improvements, but frontline employees typically lack the expertise required to provide prompt, effective assistance to more advanced users.
- Industry: Wholesale
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Dayforce - Implementation Beware
Bumpy at best. Some days I actually say I miss ADP.
Pros
I like the 'one' database aspect the best.
Cons
Implementation was very lacking. Nearly a disaster. I am over 2 years in and still have not been able to get everything we originally intended to do up and running.
Reasons for Choosing Dayforce HCM
ADP was unable to accommodate some things we needed and they were not flexible to find other ways to help us.Switched From
ADP Workforce NowReasons for Switching to Dayforce HCM
Recruiting module was most robust (the one module we do NOT have running and will probably abandon at this point). We also liked the GL feature - which does work well and was implemented by the one rockstar of our implementation team.- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Dayforce HCM - 2023 (Walett)
Overall, my experience with Dayforce is pleasing. We have implemented workflows and added logics to streamline many daily functions.
Pros
Dayforce HCM offers features which are in high demand for an efficient HR division. The various modules ensure essential data is reportable and readily available for compliance testing.
Cons
The reporting module is complex and requires a high degree of IT knowledge. Topics are not aligned in statndard forms which creates frustrating events when building new reports.
