Dayforce Scheduling vs Paylocity

Dayforce Scheduling helps organizations plan staffing coverage, manage labor budgets, and provide employees with schedule flexibility. It forecasts labor demand using historical data, recent trends, and seasonal predictions, then can generate schedules based on preferences, business demand, pay rates, and other factors. Centralized scheduling allows workers to be shared across locations. Employees can set availability and preferences, swap or offer shifts, and request time off, subject to configuration and manager approval where applicable. Dashboards include attendance, absenteeism, and unplanned overtime metrics. The product also aligns time worked by salaried project-based employees to projects for labor allocation against general ledgers. Its iOS app supports schedule and shift viewing, coworker messaging, and shift trade decisions; trades between locations are unavailable in the mobile app. Dayforce says its regional predictive scheduling rule can help manage fair workweek requirements. Platforms listed are Android, API, iOS, and web. There is no free plan, and pricing is available by request. Dayforce Scheduling is made by Dayforce, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Paylocity provides HR, payroll and spend management technology through a platform connecting Human Resources, Finance and IT tools. Payroll includes automated workflows, audits, tax services and global payroll support across 100+ countries. HR features include employee self-service, compliance resources, workforce analytics and automated workflows, alongside employee records, time-off management, onboarding, performance management and time tracking. Finance products cover expense management, corporate cards, accounts payable automation, guided procurement and headcount planning. IT tools tie access management to HR data and include employee device asset management. Paylocity says it connects with hundreds of HR, Finance and IT partners through prebuilt integrations and API, EDI and SFTP connections. Its mobile app supports time-off requests, timecards, schedules, onboarding, pay information and team communication; web access is also available. Mobile app features require an employer Paylocity account. The company offers solutions for small businesses with 1–99 employees, midsize businesses with 100–499 employees and enterprises with 500 or more employees. Pricing is paid and available by request; no free plan is listed.