Payroll and HR
Canadian alternatives to Dayforce
Dayforce: Whether Dayforce stores data in Canada was not confirmed on its own pages. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Canadian-owned, data in Canada
Canadian-owned and data stored in Canada, but the servers belong to AWS, Microsoft or Google, or the vendor does not say whose servers they are.
Payroll, HR, time and attendance for mid-size Canadian employers
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Avanti Software, Inc. (Calgary, AB), privately held
- Servers run by
- Not named · Owner not stated
Online payroll service
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- CGI Payroll Services Centre Inc. (Montréal, QC)
- Servers run by
- Nethris infrastructure in Canada · Owner not stated
Certified by the Commission de la construction du Québec for construction payroll. 22,000+ clients.
Payroll, HR and time management
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Payworks (Winnipeg, MB), co-founded 2000; a Canada's Best Managed "Canadian owned and managed" company
- Servers run by
- Two Canadian data centres (operator not named) · Owner not stated
National Bank of Canada partner. Bilingual support.
Not US-owned, data in Canada
Owned outside Canada and the United States, with data stored in Canada.
Humi by Employment Hero; Employment Operating System
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Employment Hero (Australia); acquired Humi (Toronto) in 2025
- Servers run by
- Amazon Web Services · US company
Humi by Employment Hero remains the product for Québec.
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