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Diane R.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 2017/11/02
"Our experience with Day force has been great from Implementation on. We never felt alone."
Comments: 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.
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- Reviewed on 2017/11/02
Chiquitta H.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support3 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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- Reviewed on 2019/10/23
"Dayforce User"
Comments: 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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- Reviewed on 2019/10/23
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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- Reviewed on 2021/02/09
"The best workforce management software"
Comments: Overall Dayforce is the best workforce management software in the industry. If you have to do anything HR related, Dayforce will definitely help you get the job done.
Pros: What I love most about Dayforce is its ability to integrate payroll, benefits, talent management and other HR related features into a single easy to use software.
Cons: The software is excellent. I wish there was a bit more documentation on new features since there are always new features coming out.
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- Reviewed on 2021/02/09
Helen D.
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money3 /5
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- Reviewed on 2019/10/23
"Dayforce - Implementation Beware"
Comments: 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.
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- Reviewed on 2019/10/23
Kelli M.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer Support2 /5
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Value for Money2 /5
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- Reviewed on 2020/11/16
"Managing your own settings means lots of potential for success and mess"
Comments: Honestly, I am pretty neutral at this point. For each thing that has changed for the positive, there is something else that has changed for the negative. I am still optimistic this will work out for the better in the long run but as in my previous comment, implementation has been extremely difficult and we are in a severe situation with our clients and investors on the 401K funding situation.
Pros:
-Ability to control the majority of your settings
-Real time gross to net calculations
-Great payroll auditing tools
-Many standard reports and ability to tweak them to your needs
-Auto setup of a lot of policy assignments based on data management criteria - eliminates human error
Cons: THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS - We went through at least 3 weeks worth of work to gather all our settings, decide on how we would like it built, did research on the best way to put our data in the system, even received guidance from one of their recommended consultant groups, THEN went through 16 hours of Discovery calls to talk through how we wanted the system setup. In the end though, all the job codes and mapping we requested at implementation went out the window and they setup the system based on the data from our old provider, which was a mess and part of the reason we moved in the first place. We are now a year into this project and 6 months post-live and are STILL trying to cleanup the mess caused during implementation. My time and my team's time is dominated by this cleanup process. Lastly - we are currently have a major struggle with funding our 401K. Apparently, 401K funding is currently only done via check and NOT ACH. We have 3000+ team members and 90+ locations - we cannot have that many 401K checks being cut bi-weekly. In order to setup as an automatic feed, there would have to be a separate file feed for each location, based on software limitations - which means 90+ file feeds - all associated with a cost to build and to maintain should there be a change required. I truly believe (and hope) that once it's all cleaned up and all settings are the way we need them to be - we will be in a much better place but this process has been extremely difficult.
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- Reviewed on 2020/11/16