Dayforce Reviews & Product Details

What I like best about Dayforce is that it brings key HR functions like attendance, leave management, payroll, and employee information into a single platform. The self-service features make it easy to manage routine tasks, and the centralized system helps save time while improving accuracy and transparency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface can feel a bit complex at times, and it may take a few clicks to find certain features or information. Performance can also be slower during peak usage, and a more intuitive navigation experience would ma Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The back office modules - comp, payroll across multiple jurisdictions seem to work well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Where to start?

First, I read the first 20 5* reviews and all of them start with the most generic statements. "This has payroll, recruiting, etc. all in one!" That's on the website.

Second - Reporting! This feels like 1990s style logic on reporting and needing a master's course in the Dayforce database logic to generate a report. So, while reporting and data is "self-service" a majority are not going to be able to. Unlike Workday, report-generated CSVs go to a Dayforce inbox, not your Outlook/Gmail inbox. It's Q4 2026, there's no natural-language overlay to be had here; this seems like a logical add, but there's little innovation happening here.

Third - Inter and Intra-module data flow. Everyone at a certain level has a specific bonus amount in our company. However, the job setup does not flow to the offer letter which then does not flow to Onboarding. There are three separate and disjointed inputs for the same data point. Lots of room for human error and lots of redundant key clicks inside the same modules and across modules. There are many other examples of this.

Fourth - Candidate Information Capture. Do you know the specific date you started your college journey? Do you know the specific date you started your first job? I don't. But, Dayforce is going to make you enter the date, not month for all jobs and events (schools, certs, etc.). This is one of the death-by-a-thousand paper cuts across Dayforce. Ticky tacky things that lead up to a critical mass of frustration.

Fifth - Lag, lag, lag. This system is so slow. We have a lot of duplicate information across other systems (outside of Dayforce) and every time we need info that's just housed in Dayforce there is a collective sigh because we know it's going to take ten minutes and ten clicks to get what we want.

Sixth - change is hard. The system seems to be set best with a fixed organization, but organizations change all the time - teams shift, acquisitions happen, leaders change. Every time one of these events happen, it seems like such a monumental lift. Similar changes in similar tools are not as painful. Organizations are changing every day, the response from an HR team should not be a collective groan because it's going to be one week of admin work for the systems team.

Seventh - Support...we have open tickets from January. It feels like tickets are thrown into the ether and its like playing the lottery to see if there is a coherent fix/response.

Overall, this system has features and checks boxes, but the performance and highly complex and consequential set up make it a difficult tool to deal with. Our entire People team spends a significant part of the day figuring out workarounds, talking with our systems team, etc. In 2026, there are plenty of systems that facilitate the work - Dayforce is not one of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really appreciate Dayforce being a single unified system that combines HR, payroll, benefits, talent management, time, and attendance. This reduces the need for multiple disconnected tools, and it serves as a really strong workforce management tool. I like the smart scheduling feature that uses availability and skills to help our managers reduce overtime and maintain compliance. The built-in rules for overtime, breaks, and tax regulations are great for helping us avoid costly compliance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are definitely things that the system doesn't do that we'd like it to be a bit more bespoke in terms of what it can do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

i love the ease of being able to clock in from my phone, see my schedule, request time off, review my pay, and look at my health benefits. it is a very easy to use app! requesting time off and reviewing the schedule is very easy. as far as being able to specify any issues or changes when need to for direct deposits/changing banks, payment allocation , i can change it and not have to bother my manger about it! i love that ease of access. also, i love being able to access my pay early and when i need to! its wonderful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

having to log in/get text to verify pretty much every single time, unless i stay on a certain page in the app, when i clock in, otherwise, having to clock in and wait for a text to get verification, is redundant, but better than having to change my password a million times! i would rather do the 3rd factor log in then reset my password every time! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dayforce is easy to use and makes it straightforward for end users to do what they need to do. I also appreciate that there’s a mobile application available. The time off module, profile, performance reviews, and forms are all very user-friendly. Everything loads quickly and I don’t experience delays. I also like that my paystubs show up in the mobile app, so I don’t have to log in to the web version all the time.

I do not handle contract renewals myself directly but the pricing for the system is comparable to most other HRMS products on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From my experience, the Dayforce mobile app could definitely offer more functionality. It covers some of the basics, but you can’t do things like fill out forms or download pay stubs, which makes it really inconvenient to use. In the web version, while it's easy to use, I have preferred other systems that have built in tools like pay calculators and other things like that where I can run scenarios which Dayforce does not have currently.

I have not dealt with the customer support directly since the system typically doesn't have many issues. Our company is still trying to rollout workflows in the system that we purchased Dayforce to solve which means the onboarding could have been better or they overpromised on system functionality.

We also have issues when trying to integrate dayforce with some of our other systems. We have had success with some but still run into roadblocks fairly often when trying to use the api. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like that Dayforce operates in real time, which means there is no waiting when I post a position for it to go live. This feature is valuable because it allows us to get our jobs out there ASAP and share those jobs with different team members and various job boards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The NEW platform is not user-friendly at all and there is no place to keep documents that are attached to a specific requisition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Great user group run by Evan from Trident Seafood.

-System is easy to navigate

-Has all the modules you would need

-mobile app is alright

-support people are friendly

-lots of 'out of box' reports

-automatic connection to Indeed for job reqs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-AHA portal for user suggestions for system improvements: some ideas (a lot) have been there for 5+ years and not actioned.

-can't proxy as someone else in order to troubleshoot

-have to pay a monthly fee for each account that needs sftp access for imports/exports

-help articles on the support portal are not kept up to date

-price

-report creator doesn't allow you to write your own code

-annual conference guest speakers are a waste of time/money. Have someone who actually has experience using Dayforce speak. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manages / "outsources" necessary HR tasks and takes away administrative burden. Especially appreciate the Payroll, Time card/PTO and Benefits features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup time and cost involved were significant. It was not as easy to customize for a smaller business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can see what what time I have requested as PTO and what is approved and what is still pending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that some of the features are hard to find at time. For example if I am given a task to complete I have go through several steps to find the correct screen needed to complete. Some are easy to find, others not so much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything is in one system, including payroll, HR, benefits, and time tracking, so it really cuts down on duplicate work. It makes processing payroll a lot smoother compared to using separate systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

occasional system slowdowns, particularly during peak payroll processing times, which can be frustrating when you are working with tight deadlines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.