Bullhorn ATS & CRM vs. Paylocity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
Score 6.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Bullhorn Recruitment CRM is a SaaS based solution that offers a suite of features typical of applicant tracking systems: a mobile app, batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels, instantaneous posting to multiple job boards, resume parsing, and data and document uploading.
$99
per month per user
Paylocity
Score 7.8 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
Bullhorn ATS & CRMPaylocity
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bullhorn ATS & CRMPaylocity
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Bullhorn ATS & CRMPaylocity
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Paylocity
Chose Paylocity
Paylocity just fits better with us. I think it's more user-friendly for our size of an organization.
Chose Paylocity
Paylocity works best for our organization because of the way to lumps all HR tools into one software. It makes daily work so much easier for our on-site employees. Having one login for all HR needs is a huge plus. Paylocity's knowledge base helps employees utilize and learn all …
Chose Paylocity
We chose Paylocity because one of our VPs had a good experience with them at their last company. Sadly, even they have been disappointed by the lack of customer service and usability of the system. I believe all past products we have used have much more robust systems and …
Chose Paylocity
Paylocity is the most basic but better than workday
Chose Paylocity
Paylocity is much easier to navigate. The workflow is self explanatory and it shows more visibility about candidates regarding notes, tags, etc.
Chose Paylocity
Jobvite has some more ATS functionality, but is far too large and expensive for my current company.
Chose Paylocity
Highly would recommend Paylocity over ADP portal because it is best for a smaller company when we are only using it to for pay stubs purposes and keeping track of the days that employees are requesting time off, using sick days, bereavement days, etc. It also shows how many …
Top Pros
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Features
Bullhorn ATS & CRMPaylocity
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
5.5
57 Ratings
37% below category average
Paylocity
7.7
453 Ratings
1% below category average
Job Requisition Management5.856 Ratings7.8372 Ratings
Company Website Posting5.348 Ratings8.1396 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.222 Ratings7.7304 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting6.027 Ratings7.7371 Ratings
Customized Application Form4.739 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management5.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention4.954 Ratings7.0310 Ratings
Candidate Search5.657 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking5.757 Ratings8.0416 Ratings
Collaboration5.152 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation5.351 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates5.554 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions5.148 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts5.151 Ratings7.9414 Ratings
Reporting5.451 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.8
848 Ratings
0% below category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.5799 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings8.2780 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings7.8717 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.6728 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings7.1669 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings7.8651 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.5557 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.1
836 Ratings
1% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.6812 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.3382 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.5582 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.2555 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.9811 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.2642 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings7.9396 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.6
699 Ratings
6% below category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings7.9620 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings7.4669 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings7.4519 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.3
848 Ratings
2% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.5825 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings8.6839 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings8.0666 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings8.3582 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.3704 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.5
238 Ratings
3% below category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings7.5238 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.0
774 Ratings
8% below category average
Report builder00 Ratings7.0740 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.4754 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings6.5450 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
8.2
722 Ratings
2% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings8.3718 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.0560 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.4
375 Ratings
10% below category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.4283 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.4346 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.3245 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings7.4349 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.4
481 Ratings
7% below category average
Performance plans00 Ratings7.2430 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.2356 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings7.4442 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings7.5444 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.6363 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Paylocity
7.1
221 Ratings
10% below category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings6.7147 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.1181 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings7.4201 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings7.4162 Ratings
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Bullhorn ATS & CRMPaylocity
Likelihood to Recommend
5.7
(79 ratings)
7.7
(883 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
2.1
(13 ratings)
8.9
(82 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(6 ratings)
8.5
(58 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(10 ratings)
7.2
(79 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(33 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(7 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.6
(7 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(8 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bullhorn ATS & CRMPaylocity
Likelihood to Recommend
Bullhorn
Bullhorn served as a very reliable and thorough tracking system for contacts, discovering prospects, and maintaining track of all relevant data. There are many customization options, strong search results, and sensible workflows. Excellent reporting tool. When we needed to find new resumes but all we could find were talents who had previously been discovered, it was less appropriate. Job Boards outperformed Bull Horn in terms of speed and quality.
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Paylocity
Paylocity works well for our organization. Ease of use for our managers and employees is very important. Makes it easier for us in HR to manage. Time and attendance works very well. Efficient and effective. Payroll runs very smoothly. We appreciate the performance and compensation module for tracking employees performance, journals and getting feedback and annual compensation.
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Pros
Bullhorn
  • It provides the contact details of a candidate relevant to the job. All details are with a user-friendly interface that anyone can use the application.
  • The specific details given by Bullhorn ATS & CRM are unbelievable. One place and you can make a decision about hiring or not hiring.
  • The messaging automation feature again helps to save our time.
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Paylocity
  • Customer Service is always helpful with little wait time.
  • Always improving; for example, the recent change to processing payroll. So much easier.
  • Onboarding makes it simple and the fact that the company can personalize the messaging to new hires allows us to make it more personalized.
  • Having an assigned account manager regardless of company size is definitely a plus.
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Cons
Bullhorn
  • Reporting: out of the box reporting is not very detailed or easy to navigate. In order to get better detailed and specific reports, you either need their Canvas product or pay for a 3rd party vendor.
  • Customization: will get better with NOVO Experience update, but many users still don't have it. Right now many fields and order are not customizable
  • Many features Bullhorn can do are not apparent to the user, often times you have to call in the figure things out.
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Paylocity
  • Recruiting piece/ATS could be improved.
  • A candidate being able to save progress on their application is really a must as they can't leave and come back to their application without having to restart, i.e. if they need to get a phone number for a reference for example.
  • Could use more room in entering the job for internal notes.
  • Quirky when doing cut and paste of job details that leaves spaces that aren't in the document being pasted.
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Likelihood to Renew
Bullhorn
We have about 2 years left on our current contract; It would take a major change in the ATS marketplace for us to strongly consider opting out of renewal given the time and effort we have dedicated to building our our Bullhorn system. I will take the time to revisit with some of the competition down the road, but Bullhorn acquired our runner up, MaxHire, about a year back and continues to offer a solid product suite for our current and future needs.
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Paylocity
We have had many issues with the way our platform was set up at implementation that still continue to plague us. In addition, our benefits, in particular our FSA, have been mis-managed causing a balance due from an employee (and also a lot of work for our accounting and HR team, as well as stress for the employee). Our service rep continues to answer incorrectly on many fronts (original response is usually check out this paylocity article, vs. helping) and recently our COBRA management was mishandled (not adding Dental to a person on Cobra who had requested it). So- all in all...we are not particularly happy w/ Paylocity
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Usability
Bullhorn
It isn't the best ATS out there. It lacks on both the recruitment and sales side. There is no way to differentiate between prospects, candidates, and clients. There isn't a way to merge accounts and names, so there are many duplicates. Too may paid add ons. I had a much longer review written up and the page just deleted it, but I wouldn't recommend Bullhorn first or even third. It feels like it hasn't been fully realized yet. There are certainly some good things about the product, but more areas where they can improve.
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Paylocity
Overall, in my experience, Paylocity has been easy to use for both staff and administrators. First, the staff has an application and inputting Paid Time Off is easy to do. I then get an alert on my app and I am able to approve it on the spot from my app that gives me access as an employee and an administrator without having to use multiple apps or logins. As an administrator I think the portal is easy to use, Paylocity did a great job showing me tools and rolling out training classes before rollout.
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Reliability and Availability
Bullhorn
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Paylocity
Paylocity support is always available and I never have to wait endlessly on hold. If our dedicated account manage is not available, there is an entire team assigned to our account. Every one of them is knowledgeable about our organization and Paylocity's process.
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Performance
Bullhorn
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
pages load in an acceptable amount of time, reports come back quickly, but integration is very complicated and hasn't been possible
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Support Rating
Bullhorn
It's been a nightmare experience. The initial sales team were brilliant, and the customer service is great from the tech team - they get in touch with you quickly. However; I was often finding workarounds myself, or being advised workarounds instead of having issues resolved (example - The DPA/Non DPA issue - an Excel spreadsheet can do this, yet a CRM cannot?). I was debited on the incorrect date & then when I requested they refund until the due date, I was re-debited again on the correct date. The communication was poor - their billing team are based in the US and there was no acknowledgement of the mistake. My initial consultant chased them down for me, and advised me of their error. Lucky. The product was oversold. For example; I was advised their 'merge docs' feature would allow me to pull data directly from the 'Overview,' 'Work Histories' which later proved to be false. Finally, when I requested to end my contract & transfer my data (I advised a specific date I needed it, when my CRM would be ready) they advised it would take 15 business days & I was to put no further data in my system during that 15 days, and then gave me my data after 3. I now have no CRM for 4 weeks
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Paylocity
Everyone wants immediate assistance. Awaiting a response from an email only to ask 2-3 more questions is time consuming. Within the first six months of setup, I would rather respond back to the instructors who provided me the training in each category of my contract.
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Online Training
Bullhorn
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
The training was live online, but was with a group of other companies. We did not receive any personalized training with our team. Whenever we would ask for training, we would be sent a peak article link or a video. It felt like the reps we dealt with didn't know the answer to the questions.
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Implementation Rating
Bullhorn
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
I had gone through an implementation process of another HR platform (Paycom) in my previous job and was traumatized, it was painful. I was surprised how easy and fast it was with Paylocity, the team was very helpful and set us up for success
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Alternatives Considered
Bullhorn
Breathe is a great tool for smaller internal recruitment teams and I have previously used an in-house built system similar however Bullhorn is something you can use across larger businesses and growing SME's it works well for international businesses as everything is updated in real-time. The support function is excellent and the training tools for new starters are super helpful for our L&D team. Your account manager is also great for assisting in personalising sections to make them more business specific.
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Paylocity
We honestly had a program that only kept track of our Demographics, salaries, etc. then all of our Payroll was done on paper with paper leave slips etc. When I saw Paylocity, I was very excited about how easy it is/would be to use. [...] Our Paylocity rep that I spoke to was super GREAT in the explanation of Paylocity and I didn't even shop around much.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Bullhorn
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
I wasn't involved in the sales process. I joined the organization after Paylocity was implemented.
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Scalability
Bullhorn
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
You have an account manager assigned to you on a daily basis but that person is barely available to you
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Professional Services
Bullhorn
No answers on this topic
Paylocity
Support is quick and proffessional
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Return on Investment
Bullhorn
  • Bullhorn has helped with the standardization of data which allows us to track our high, low and in between individuals. It allows for corporate bench marks to be tracked. It also allows for a closer look at all of the data points to make decisions versus making decisions based on perceptions. The data has definitely helped us make better business decisions because of the reporting capabilities.
  • Bullhorn has some great marketplace partners and additional products like VMS Access that help with your VMS clients. This is a real time saver.
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Paylocity
  • Definitely more consistent processes. Everything is very user friendly and it reduces the amount of time it has taken us in the past before we started using Paylocity. Everything flows super smoothly.
  • We have an improved retention since we have used Paylocity. Before hand, many employees thought it was difficult to find anything like tax forms, pay stubs, benefit elections, etc. when we used other platforms before we implemented our data into Paylocity.
  • Costs have been reduced and the decision-making process has improved and got quicker. Before Paylocity, it would take at least a week to get a salary increase approved, or a job title change approved. Now, it take less than a day and is super easy.
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