ADP DataCloud vs. Paylocity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ADP DataCloud
Score 4.5 out of 10
N/A
ADP® DataCloud is the company's workforce analytics tool, presented as an intelligent set of data analysis tools designed to help HR professionals measure, compare, predict and apply insights uncovered in ADP workforce data.N/A
Paylocity
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Paylocity provides 24/7 access to your online payroll and human resource data management. Paylocity offers highly customizable payroll functionality, as well as HR, benefits administration, and time and talent management programs.N/A
Pricing
ADP DataCloudPaylocity
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ADP DataCloudPaylocity
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ADP DataCloudPaylocity
Considered Both Products
ADP DataCloud

No answer on this topic

Paylocity
Chose Paylocity
We used a focus group and voted on the favorite option amongst the group. The group was comprised of leadership and staff across multiple departments and they drove a great deal of insight into how choosing a product was to occur.
Chose Paylocity
More user friendly, sales team understands needs and is not in a hurry to rush you through the system. Sales team does not call you repeatedly and press for answers.
Chose Paylocity
I used ADP for 20 plus years and became a certified user. I used UKG for two years and now Paylocity. Being an ADP user for so many years I tend to compare its features with others. ADP is by far a superior product but with that comes a superior price tag.
Chose Paylocity
I can not answer as I was not part of the selection.
Chose Paylocity
I've used ADP and Paychex, and although those systems can be simpler to use, they're not nearly as robust as Paylocity. For what our company needs in a software, Paylocity is the best option that we've found.
Chose Paylocity
Its much more in-house for us which I think helps us understand our costs, wages, and fix any problems quicker than waiting for a rep from the company to look at the complaint.
Chose Paylocity
Paylocity has, hands down, the best customer service out of anyone I've used in the past. I've also noticed that there aren't any technical difficulties I've experienced since using Paylocity, which is a little over a year now. Several of the other software programs I used in …
Features
ADP DataCloudPaylocity
Workforce Analytics
Comparison of Workforce Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
9.0
3 Ratings
6% above category average
Paylocity
-
Ratings
Automated data collection8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Data analysis9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Data integration8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive analytics9.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Benchmarking8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Report designer8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built content9.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Data management9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service insights9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.9
1477 Ratings
3% below category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.41407 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings8.21360 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings7.91267 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.71279 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings7.51179 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings8.01159 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.5988 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.3
1415 Ratings
2% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.71382 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.9699 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.71079 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.6957 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.91376 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.21113 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings7.8703 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.6
1197 Ratings
7% below category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings7.71065 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings7.41144 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings7.7914 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.4
1423 Ratings
2% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.61387 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings8.71411 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings8.11151 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings8.21047 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.51239 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.4
459 Ratings
8% below category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings7.4459 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.3
1317 Ratings
3% below category average
Report builder00 Ratings7.31264 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.51283 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.2841 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.2
1235 Ratings
3% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings8.31225 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.1995 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.7
701 Ratings
4% below category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.6561 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.8647 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.7501 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings7.9656 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.6
877 Ratings
4% below category average
Performance plans00 Ratings7.4800 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.4694 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings7.7807 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings7.8814 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.7689 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.6
471 Ratings
3% below category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings7.3323 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.5381 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings8.0427 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings7.6350 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
ADP DataCloud
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.0
829 Ratings
4% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings8.1712 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.2741 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings8.0577 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.1709 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.6610 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.2768 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings7.9766 Ratings
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User Ratings
ADP DataCloudPaylocity
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(3 ratings)
8.4
(1475 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(166 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(281 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(35 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(34 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(148 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(29 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(92 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(25 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(24 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(28 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(34 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(18 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(34 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(31 ratings)
User Testimonials
ADP DataCloudPaylocity
Likelihood to Recommend
ADP
It is highly suited in managing all programs that takes place using data that is integrated into our company. It offers insights that helps our team members to solve challenges that arise to our workforce teams. It easily monitors all activities that takes place within an organization and ensures that there is effective management of time.
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Paylocity
Paylocity makes record keeping and payroll so simple. The times are able to be imported from time keeping saving tons of time and frustration. Going from manual entries to a more automated system has saved so much time. Whether a company is small or large or there are multiple companies that you take care of the system will work for you.
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Pros
ADP
  • Monitoring human resources available in our company.
  • Checking employee attendance and time of reporting to duty.
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Paylocity
  • Payroll is made pretty easy. I love that we have the ability to log into payroll, we just upload the information from commissions, things like that where there are exceptions to a regular payroll run. It may make it very easy to do that, just a quick upload. Additionally, when we're in the payroll grid, it gives us the ability to just make quick changes to people's pay or their tax schedule, tax withholdings, things like that without having to go through a lot of different screens. It's just very easy to access just for the click of a button. Love that.
  • We talked about performance reviews, talked about payroll with benefits administration, it allows us to utilize EDI feeds with our benefit vendors so it creates a seamless, but we just enter the information into Paylocity and then it seamlessly provides that information to our vendors. That's been really helpful. And adjusting benefits is also very easy within Paylocity. I love the recent edition of compensation analysis information, so I'm able to go into the compensation module and look for jobs that are similar to a job title at our company. I can enter the job description, I give them what state that the person or the job is in, and it pops out compensation data. It gives me different options, so titles that might be similar. So if there's not something that's an exact fit, I'm able to find something really, really close. It's been a huge upgrade because before that I was having to use a different vendor and paying $400 per job and now it's significantly less expensive to Paylocity and I'm still getting great quality data. It's been very helpful.
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Cons
ADP
  • Better and easier implementation of the system
  • Initial set up can be cumbersome, afterwards easy to use
  • Configuring various features is a bit difficult
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Paylocity
  • I'd like to see a forum in which users could discuss the platform, raise both questions and concerns. I feel that changes are done without enough input from users.
  • Improving hold time recently with customer service.
  • Accuracy of new 'graphic' payroll report - the new report is not complete when payroll is done, so it is unusable from my perspective. I rely on the preprocess payroll register. This is one of those 'improvements' that have not been positive in my experience.
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Likelihood to Renew
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
There are several technical issues we have experienced this past year with the employee onboarding process that we are still waiting to have resolved. Overall our experience with Paylocity has been positive, and we love how user-friendly and easy to navigate the system is. It has made all of our HR processes much more streamlined and efficient.
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Usability
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
I love Paylocity. As I have stated before I love the user friendliness of the system. I have used more than four different payroll systems during my career, and I have found Paylocity to be the most user friendly of all the systems I have used. I was able to catch on within two days of my training. The system has a lot of features I use on a daily basis and over the years I have not had a desire to change systems.
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Reliability and Availability
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
Over the last 3 years, we've only had one major service issue that rendered Airbase unusable for us for about 24 hours. That said, they navigated the SVB bank crisis very well and made sure funds were available during that time.
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Performance
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
We had some minor hiccups throughout the year but they have all been fixable. Paylocity integrates well with our 401k provider, Principal, and our benefits, OneDigital. It makes it simple to house everything and have it all connected. It doesn't slow anything down to have Principal integrated. It makes it more efficient
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Support Rating
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
It is very hard to get answers to your questions, you cannot speak to someone without days of requesting assistance or answers and then eventually can get a call back and then it is usually resolved fairly quickly. But NOT easy to get that help.
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In-Person Training
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
I didn't have in-person training, but I'm sure it was just as great as any other training/assistance Paylocity provides. Paylocity customer service is always available. You never have to be on hold and their answers are always accurate and timely. Documents in the help section are helpful as well. My in-person training was conducted y one of our employees who was involved in the initial set-up and training of all employees. She was excellent.
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Online Training
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
Our rep was very thorough and made sure we fully understood the software before turning us loose alone. Paylocity was very good to do periodic check ins to ensure we understood the features and answered any questions we had. The training reps are very well trained and are very patient with clients.
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Implementation Rating
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
Implementation was a bit bumpy and Paylocity team not always available for next steps and/or questions. I feel like Paylocity could have done a better job in their fact finding as far as what we were currently doing, our payroll policies and needs, etc. so that we would have run into less issues as we moved forward.
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Alternatives Considered
ADP
ADP DataCloud has been more powerful as compared to other data management platform system that I have worked with. It has great and well developed dashboards that gives clear information on how the workflow processes are taking place. It is equipped with automated data services that gives us insights on time and controls any volume of data that enters into our company.
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Paylocity
There is no comparison. Paylocity offers so much more to its clients. Their pricing is unbeatable and they provide a much bigger variety of features and customization. I had to use 6 different platforms to cover all necessary areas for our business, when I am now solely using Paylocity for everything.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
Everyone wants a good deal of course. We thought we did ok and felt you still made your money also
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Scalability
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
We have gone from a medium sized company to a larger company with no issues whatsoever with Paylocity being able to keep up or do what we need it to do for the size of our needs. In fact, it does more than we even use at this juncture
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Professional Services
ADP
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
Some are knowledgable others not as much and sometimes instead of helping you fix the issue will just give you some directions and expect you to try to figure it out yourself. Also, when your Account Manager needs to escliate the issue to another group, it can take a long time for them to get to your issue and there's no commuication.
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Return on Investment
ADP
  • It has highly achieved most of our objectives contributing to faster ROI.
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Paylocity
  • Paylocity has helped us with recruitment by streamlining the process and making it efficient. It is saving me time.
  • Paylocity has also helped us with compensation so we can create a fair and robust compensation plan.
  • I also like using the data insights feature, which helps me keep track of over time, payroll and benefits costs, and retention numbers. This also saves me time as it is all in one place.
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ScreenShots

Paylocity Screenshots

Screenshot of a view of real-time employee data and performance metrics used to uncover and analyze trends. This creates an impactful understanding of the business, increase retention, understand labor costs, and plan for changes.Screenshot of where to automate manual processes with Paylocity's self-serve automation engine, Workflows. Users can implement routines for time-consuming manual tasks.Screenshot of where to manage and comply with employment law. Paylocity's HR Compliance solution helps users to stay on track and view important employee compliance items, from Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), healthcare, and compensation.Screenshot of how Paylocity Recruiting can automate hiring processes. amplify outreach, showcase a company's culture, and build stronger candidate connections to swiftly fill positions.Screenshot of recognition and rewards in Paylocity.