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.
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Dayforce HCM Reviews
Feature rating

- Industry: Veterinary
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Easy to use payroll system
I've had a very good experience with Dayforce. The system is robust and has a lot of capabilities that we aren't even utilizing. I love that there are options and it is still very easy to use.
Pros
I enter in timesheets for my team on a weekly basis and Dayforce makes it super easy to do. I can see my entire team in one spot and go through and enter all of their hours easily.
Cons
From my perspective as a manager, I would prefer an easier way to get to information regarding my team's overall pay and performance. It would be nice to have more reporting and dashboards.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Dayforce User
Dayforce allows our organization to house all of our employee records and performance reviews. Previously we had ADP and we had issues with retaining employee records with accurate information.
Pros
Very easy to maneuver through screens once you get the hang of what you want to see.
Cons
Terminated employees were not included in the search feature but this has recently changed and a box has been added to show those employees.
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UKG ProReasons for Choosing Dayforce HCM
WE ran into alot of issues and we were needing a system that could help us sreamline our processes more efficiently.Switched From
ADP Workforce NowReasons for Switching to Dayforce HCM
Dayforce seemed to have alot of the features that we were needing to be more efficient with our processes. We are excited to utilize the dashboard so that we can see where we can make improvements.- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Worst Ever - AVOID
Horrific. They are just awful to work with. Wasted six months of my payroll team's time, getting nowhere.
Pros
Nothing. We did and RFP and reviewed several different options for managing HR and payroll. Unfortunately, we went with Ceridian Dayforce due to price. It was the worst mistake ever. This is horrible software, matched only by the ridiculously incompetent deployment team. I would never work with them again.
Cons
The deployment was horrific. Multiple people, who obviously didn't talk to each other, with ever worse data templates that they requested we complete. The templates are indecipherable. I haven't seen a payroll system yet that people love, but I would avoid using this at all costs. The software is not good, and the implementation was even worse. Worst mistake ever choosing them.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Issues with employee onboarding
Overall experience with Ceridian dayforce has been average. I have had many employees comment to me that going through the onboarding process on the site is quite a headache.
Pros
Dayforce HCM was the first payroll software that I worked with and still work with daily. It is easy to get acclimated to the software, and it is quite straightforward in terms of onboarding employees. It is easy to have integrations with Dayforce into our other time-tracking software's, and we have had no issues with customer support.
Cons
We used Dayforce for employee onboarding. Unfortunately, it seems as if this feature is not very functional on a cellphone or a mobile device. Many of our employees did not own laptops, so there were frequent difficulties in trying to get them to complete the onboarding, as they could not open the software.
Dates in dayforce are also very stringent .If there is any errors with any dates, it is a headache to attempt to fix and frequently will take a team of us to try and see what is going on. It can feel like a picky/finicky software to use.
The main issue for our company, is really the onboarding piece as it should work and be accessible for everyone to use, despite the device.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Ceridian
My overall experience is great. I so rarely have an issue I cannot solve on my own. The software is easy to use and the customer support is friendly and super helpful. Not 1 complaint on my end.
Pros
EVERYTHING!!!!! I love how simple it is to use, straight-forward, I so rarely have to call for issues and when I do need customer support they have all the answers quickly and efficiently.
Cons
Nothing I absolutely love this software for Payroll.