Dayforce vs HBHR

Single secure record for every employee: personal data, contracts, history.

See how HBHR keeps every employee record in one connected, secure place.

Visual, auto updating org chart and reporting lines.

Map your whole organisation in one live org chart.

Staff and managers action requests, data and approvals themselves.

Give managers and staff self service that actually gets used.

Store, share, version and e sign HR documents and contracts.

Store, send and e sign every HR document in one place.

Central, acknowledged company policies and staff handbook.

Keep policies current and prove staff have read them.

Configurable automated workflows for HR processes and approvals.

Automate the HR admin that eats your team's week.

All cases logged, managed and tracked in one place

Provides secure API access so HBHR can connect with other systems

Book, approve and track annual leave with accurate entitlements.

Take the guesswork out of holiday and entitlements.

Log, monitor and report on sickness and unplanned absence.

Spot absence patterns before they become a problem.

Automatic Bradford Factor scoring to flag persistent short term absence.

Flag persistent absence automatically with Bradford scoring.

Track time off in lieu and overtime accurately.

Track overtime and TOIL without spreadsheets.

Digital clock in/out with accurate worked hours capture.

Capture every hour worked, accurately, in real time.

Build, publish and manage staff rotas and shifts.

Build rotas around real demand, not guesswork.

Digital timesheets feeding straight into pay.

Timesheets that flow straight into payroll.

Live view of labour cost against budget as shifts run.

See labour cost against budget as the shift happens.

Location verified clock in for mobile, remote and multi site teams.

Verify who clocked in, and where, across every site.

Guardrails for breaks, rest and working time rules built into rotas.

Keep every rota inside working time rules automatically.

Native UK payroll inside the platform, no third party bridge.

Run payroll inside the same platform as your HR.

Care and shift pay: sleep ins, on call, unsocial hours enhancements, multi cost centre and rolled up holiday.

Sleep ins, on call and multi post pay, calculated automatically.

HBHR's team runs payroll end to end on your behalf.

Lost your payroll person? Our team runs payroll end to end.

RTI submissions, statutory pay and year end handled correctly.

Stay on the right side of HMRC, automatically.

SSP, SMP and occupational sick pay schemes calculated automatically, not by hand.

Statutory and occupational pay worked out for you, not by hand.

Automatic pension assessment, enrolment and re enrolment.

Auto enrolment handled without the headache.

Tiered/banded, multi post public sector schemes: NHS Pension, Teachers' Pension, LGPS.

NHS Pension and public sector schemes handled, not bolted on.

Submit, approve and reimburse employee expenses.

Cut expense admin and reimburse people faster.

Native Irish payroll and Revenue compliance for IE employers.

One platform that runs UK and Irish payroll properly.

Payroll across multiple countries from one system.

Growing into Europe? See where HBHR is heading.

Calculates holiday pay based on an employee’s average earnings over the relevant reference period.

Allows pension settings and contribution rules to be applied by job role.

Post roles, manage candidates and hire in one flow.

Run hiring end to end without leaving HBHR.

Safer recruitment workflows: DBS/PVG checks, Ofsted Schedule 2, automated reference chasing.

Safer recruitment and reference chasing without the admin.

Structured digital onboarding for new starters.

Give every new starter a great first day.

Generate offers and issue e signed contracts.

Get contracts signed on day zero, not week two.

Structured appraisals, review cycles and sign off.

Run review cycles people actually complete.

Set, cascade and track objectives and key results.

Connect everyday work to the goals that matter.

Ongoing check ins and feedback, not just annual reviews.

Keep feedback flowing all year, not once a year.

Peer recognition, rewards and staff perks.

Recognise great work and make it stick.

Pulse surveys and engagement measurement.

Hear what your people really think, and act on it.

Dedicated wellbeing support and mental health tools.

Support your team's wellbeing inside the platform they use daily.

Assign, deliver and track training and compliance learning.

Assign and track compliance training in HBHR Learn.

Create and structure training courses using AI, reducing manual content creation.

Turn learning data into actionable insights using AI, highlighting engagement, progress and training needs.

Out of the box dashboards for the metrics that matter.

Get the HR numbers you need without a data team.

Build bespoke reports across HR, pay and time data.

Answer any people question with a custom report.

AI surfaced trends, risks and forecasts across your workforce.

Let AI spot the workforce risks before they cost you.

Ask HR and payroll questions in plain language and get answers.

Ask HBHR anything and get an answer in seconds.

AI executes routine HR and payroll actions, not just suggests them.

AI that does the work, not just points at it.

Generate reports by asking a question, no report building.

Type a question, get the report. No spreadsheets.

Proactive AI alerts on risks, deadlines and data anomalies.

Get warned about the problem before it lands.

AI agents complete HR and payroll tasks automatically in the background without manual intervention.

Let AI handle repetitive HR work for you.

Auto clock in device for rota time and attendance

Bring HR into the flow of work. Ask questions, get answers and complete HR actions directly from Slack.

Put HR in everyone’s pocket. Employees can ask questions, get support and complete HR tasks directly through WhatsApp.

Independently certified information security management.

Your people data, protected to ISO 27001.

Built for UK/EU data protection compliance.

GDPR ready from day one.

UK Cyber Essentials security certification.

Certified to UK Cyber Essentials.

UK and Ireland home market, data and support, not a US bolt on.

Built for UK and Irish employers, not adapted from the US.

H and S, risk assessments and incident reporting.

Managing H and S risk? Let's talk about what HBHR covers.

Access to employment law guidance and support.

Maintain a compliant Single Central Record with automated checks, staff records and safeguarding information in one place.

Simplify SCR compliance and keep safeguarding records always up to date.

Prepare, validate and submit School Workforce Census (SWC) data accurately with automated workforce reporting.

Simplify School Workforce Census submissions and reduce manual reporting.

Prepare, validate and submit Further Education Workforce (FEW) data accurately with automated workforce reporting.

Simplify FEW returns and reduce manual workforce reporting.

Calculate, analyse and generate compliant gender pay gap reports with automated workforce data.

Produce accurate gender pay gap reports without manual spreadsheets.

Full featured mobile app for staff and managers.

Everything your team needs, in their pocket.

Built in messaging and internal communications.

Reach your whole team without another app.

Connect to your finance, ATS and productivity stack.

Plug HBHR into the tools you already run.

Real people onboarding and ongoing support, not just a chatbot.

Get set up by real people who know your sector.

One platform for HR, payroll and workforce, not stitched together integrations.

One platform, one data model. Stop running on disparate systems.