CenterPoint Payroll vs Hubstaff

Likelihood to Recommend

CenterPoint Payroll has been excellent for our company, with approximately 150 employees. I can certainly see it being excellent for smaller companies and larger companies. I don't know if there is a size of company at which it would become difficult or limiting to use - I can't foresee any of the functions or features becoming limiting factors as company size increases. To a certain extent, I could see the robustness of CenterPoint being a bit more than what is necessary for a tiny company of less than 5 employees, but it would certainly be able to do what is required for them.

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Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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In my opinion, Hubstaff is the best choice for your business.
It is equipped with all essential features that will help you in giving exact
direction to your business. Moreover, it offers excellent tech support. It is the most suitable tool for every size of company whether it is small or large and
equally proves helpful for freelancers as well.

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Emily Fasano

Director Of Finance And Operations

PrologisReal Estate, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

CenterPoint Payroll

Hubstaff

Pay calculation

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

Salary revision and increment management

Reimbursement management

Pros

Customization options to meet your company's payroll needs.
Excellent customer service and tech support.
Logical and easy-to-use user interface.
Ability to customize reports and exports.

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Verified User

Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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[Hubstaff] has reduced my workload and now I have got rid of the manual keeping of the data.
This tool is my everyday necessity to complete my daily tasks.
Through this tool, I am capable of saving my time and now I do more work in a short span of time.

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Jonathan Turner

Finance Manager

DiageoWine and Spirits, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Perhaps include a pop-up description of an button, or a link to the help section details, when you hover over the button for more than 3 seconds.

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Verified User

Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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I wish it had some sort of way to denote "away from desk" work. It drops your activity to zero, it tells you you're idle if you're using the desktop agent and tries to take that time away, it would be helpful for those times where you're maybe in a meeting or on a call or something without a computer.
The reporting isn't real time. There's about a 15 minute lag between the reports and the desktop app. The desktop app and phone app don't really talk to each other so if you clock time on the phone app for a wihle and then move to the desktop app, the desktop app really doesn't sync, so you're forced to check time in a report
I wish there was a little more role based permission customization. Like, I'd love for someone to be able to manage a client and run that client's time, but not see my screenshot activity when billing to that client.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Online Media Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

CenterPoint Payroll 10.0

Based on 2 answers

CenterPoint support is excellent! While I have not had to use them frequently, as the program is consistently stable and has few, if any, bugs, the times I have had to reach out to tech support, they have been excellent and have solved our issues quickly. They listen to our explanation of the problems, can dial into our system to see exactly what we're seeing in real time, and have always been able to quickly determine the issue, work out a solution, and help us through the process until we've got everything back in line. They are friendly, courteous, professional, kind and very knowledgeable of their products. This is absolutely one of the best things about CenterPoint - even though we seldom need it, when we do, they are always quick to get us through the issue.

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Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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Hubstaff 9.3

Based on 6 answers

We haven't needed support too much, but any time we've reached out with a question, they've been very prompt to answer and very helpful in their responses.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

We selected CenterPoint Payroll because of our dissatisfaction with ADP (and Paychex prior). We wanted a solution that we controlled internally, instead of having to be at the mercy of some huge company that saw us as a tiny fish in a big ocean. We set our company's configuration, add/define all of our own specific settings, profiles, etc. and simply process payroll. We print and sign our own checks, process our own direct deposits directly with our bank, and can handle our own business needs. When we were with ADP and Paychex before, both companies made promises to us that they simply were either unwilling or unable to fulfill. We have saved both time and money by doing our payrolls ourselves with CenterPoint.

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Verified User

Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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Upwork is just for people working in their platform. Anyone can joing Hubstaff, it even comes with several plans that allow you to track time. Once you choose the upgraded system, more benefits are added to your plan. Even though we don't use the upgraded plan at our company, Hubstaff does its job wonderfully

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Eligreg Lopez

Desarrollo de contenidos

Living Group LLCFurniture, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

CenterPoint Payroll has saved us tens of thousands of dollars from our prior arrangement with ADP, while providing either similar or superior support.
Having payroll completely in our control has simplified a LOT of our daily routines - if something needs to be updated or adjusted, we do it ourselves instead of contacting someone at ADP and hoping that they can do it for us, then getting frustrated when they haven't.

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Verified User

Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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Within 12 months of using Hubstaff, we saved $22,000 per annum vs. our previous provider
Doing the sums on where we are today, we are saving $170,000 per annum vs. our previous provider.

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David Judge

Co Founder

Affordable StaffOutsourcing/Offshoring, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

CenterPoint Payroll

Hubstaff

CenterPoint Payroll

Hubstaff

CenterPoint Payroll vs Hubstaff