Expensify vs. Paylocity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Expensify
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Expensify automates the entire spend management process. Scan receipts, track mileage, submit and approve expenses, manage corporate cards, reimburse employees, pay bills, send invoices, and book travel. Built for individuals and companies of all sizes, anywhere in the world.
$5
per month per user
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
ExpensifyPaylocity
Editions & Modules
Collect
$5
per month per user
Control
$9
per month per user
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ExpensifyPaylocity
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ExpensifyPaylocity
Considered Both Products
Expensify

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Paylocity
Chose Paylocity
I have not used another product.
Features
ExpensifyPaylocity
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
9.7
149 Ratings
16% above category average
Paylocity
-
Ratings
Employee Expense Reporting9.8148 Ratings00 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation9.563 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
9.3
136 Ratings
15% above category average
Paylocity
-
Ratings
Customizable Approval Policies9.295 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Document Management9.299 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking9.7110 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail9.888 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection8.9112 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced OCR8.991 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer9.577 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.9
1476 Ratings
2% below category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.41406 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings8.21359 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings7.91266 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.71279 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings7.41178 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings8.01158 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.5987 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.3
1414 Ratings
2% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.71381 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.8698 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.71078 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.6956 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.91375 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.21112 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings7.9702 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.6
1196 Ratings
7% below category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings7.71064 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings7.41143 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings7.7913 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.4
1422 Ratings
2% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.61386 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings8.71410 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings8.11150 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings8.21046 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.51238 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.4
458 Ratings
7% below category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings7.4458 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.3
1316 Ratings
3% below category average
Report builder00 Ratings7.31263 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.51282 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.2840 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.2
1234 Ratings
3% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings8.31224 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.1994 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.8
700 Ratings
3% below category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.6560 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.8646 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.7500 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings7.9655 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.6
876 Ratings
4% below category average
Performance plans00 Ratings7.4799 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.4693 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings7.7806 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings7.8813 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.7688 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.6
470 Ratings
3% below category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings7.3323 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.5380 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings8.0426 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings7.6349 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.0
828 Ratings
4% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings8.1711 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.2740 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings8.0576 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.1708 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.6609 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.2767 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings7.9765 Ratings
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User Ratings
ExpensifyPaylocity
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(239 ratings)
8.4
(1475 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(14 ratings)
8.8
(166 ratings)
Usability
9.6
(140 ratings)
8.3
(281 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(35 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(34 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(45 ratings)
7.1
(148 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(29 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.5
(2 ratings)
7.1
(92 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(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)
8.6
(18 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(34 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(31 ratings)
User Testimonials
ExpensifyPaylocity
Likelihood to Recommend
Expensify
I think it's really good for small businesses. At least in the way we use it. It's very good for keeping an eye on employee spending in nearly real time. I'm not sure how it works for larger companies when there is a larger number of people to keep track of.
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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
Expensify
  • Easy to access online portal whether using a mobile device or desktop app
  • Receipts can be uploaded in a breeze and automatically categorized
  • Expense Reports are submitted monthly on autopilot
  • Expenses for gas is calculated on the app by entering the starting/ending destinations.
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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
Expensify
  • I wish that I could sync accounts on the back end kind of like with banking software, so that Expensify would automatically port over receipts for recurring expenses as soon as they're available
  • It would be nice to one-click submit an expense all the way through instead of having to attach it to a report
  • Wackier profile icons? :) Not a big deal. This software is pretty much amazing as it is now, and typically the urge to update and modify very good software leads to poor outcomes!
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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
Expensify
We like using the tool and we receive positive feedback from employees and management who use the tool. It saves time and helps us concentrate on the value adding activities so we are very likely to keep using Expensify in the future
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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
Expensify
My rating of 8 out of 10 for Expensify's overall usability reflects its strong performance in empowering individual users and streamlining core expense processes, while acknowledging that there are specific areas, particularly on the administrative or enterprise side, where the user experience could be further refined. Exceptional End-User Experience (for basic tasks).Automation & Time-Saving Features.Clear Workflow for Approvers. Why it's not a perfect 10 (areas for improvement that dock points): Limited corporate bank to choose from, limited multi-currency to pay to ( for instance, as a foreign corporatio,n i cannot pay with my US account to Israeli employees, or pay to our UK employees)
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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
Expensify
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
Expensify
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
Expensify
Our rep has been amazing. He has built custom reports for us that have been very time consuming and difficult. Our reps are also currently looking into new submission solutions for us that we are excited about. They came up with this and recommended it on their own without me complaining about an issue. They are about our success and are very excited about the product they offer.
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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
Expensify
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
Expensify
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
Expensify
The implementation process went rather smoothly, linking it to the bank and cards was handled easily. without too many unnecessary steps. Getting the accounts setup did take some time, but that would be true with any organization. All in all things went smoothly and I was very pleased with the setup and implementation process
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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
Expensify
It is definitely 10 times better than using an Excel spreadsheet. We are talking a digitized with AI type capabilities to do the work for you. It’s honestly a lifesaver. This beats manual calculations and data entry any day. Scanning 100 receipts and saving them to pdf files not only takes space on your storage but it is an extra unnecessary step
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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
Expensify
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
Expensify
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
Expensify
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
Expensify
  • We went from paying credit card fees with no approval process to a no fees and complex approval processes.
  • I personally save time in not having to develop a spend report I just have my admin assistent fill in the details of the auto generated report and it is done. Went from an hour long process to 5- 10 minutes max to prepare a high quality audit ready report.
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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

Expensify Screenshots

Screenshot of the dashboard used to manage expenses, book travel, reimburse employees, and create expense reports.Screenshot of corporate cards. The Expensify Card offers cash back on every US purchase.

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.