GoCo vs. UKG Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoCo
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
GoCo is an HR platform designed for small and mid-sized businesses to simplify HR tasks and enhance productivity. GoCo empowers HR teams to streamline workflows and focus on building happier, more efficient teams.N/A
UKG Pro
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
UKG delivers cloud-based HCM solutions including UKG Pro that help businesses simplify payroll computations, accelerate talent acquisition, manage time and attendance, and support proactive, strategic talent management on a global level.N/A
Pricing
GoCoUKG Pro
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoCoUKG Pro
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsWe are an all-in-one solution, without being one-size fits all. Improve your entire employee lifecycle with our comprehensive platform options. Whether you are upgrading from paper-based processes or looking for a more modern solution with better support — we have the package you need.
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GoCoUKG Pro
Features
GoCoUKG Pro
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
7.1
10 Ratings
14% below category average
UKG Pro
7.8
946 Ratings
5% below category average
Employee demographic data7.410 Ratings8.5857 Ratings
Employment history7.910 Ratings8.2882 Ratings
Job profiles and administration8.27 Ratings7.9852 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.29 Ratings7.5835 Ratings
Organizational charting7.49 Ratings7.2748 Ratings
Organization and location management6.67 Ratings8.0761 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)4.96 Ratings7.3602 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
6.0
8 Ratings
31% below category average
UKG Pro
7.9
862 Ratings
4% below category average
Pay calculation6.64 Ratings8.0816 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors5.52 Ratings7.6410 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment6.33 Ratings8.1322 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.27 Ratings7.5735 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.45 Ratings8.3803 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management6.14 Ratings8.1662 Ratings
Reimbursement management2.72 Ratings8.057 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
6.4
4 Ratings
25% below category average
UKG Pro
7.6
669 Ratings
8% below category average
Approval workflow7.34 Ratings7.5595 Ratings
Balance details6.83 Ratings7.6625 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment5.03 Ratings7.6517 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
7.7
10 Ratings
7% below category average
UKG Pro
7.8
914 Ratings
6% below category average
View and generate pay and benefit information8.18 Ratings8.0882 Ratings
Update personal information8.210 Ratings8.2887 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.28 Ratings7.7655 Ratings
Employee recognition6.55 Ratings7.2343 Ratings
View job history7.79 Ratings8.0868 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
7.0
1 Ratings
14% below category average
UKG Pro
7.5
231 Ratings
7% below category average
Tracking of all physical assets7.01 Ratings7.5231 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
5.7
8 Ratings
28% below category average
UKG Pro
7.0
849 Ratings
8% below category average
Report builder6.57 Ratings7.2824 Ratings
Pre-built reports6.78 Ratings7.1838 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data4.05 Ratings6.6585 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
7.7
8 Ratings
4% below category average
UKG Pro
7.8
646 Ratings
3% below category average
New hire portal8.08 Ratings8.0639 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.38 Ratings7.5518 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
3.8
3 Ratings
72% below category average
UKG Pro
7.5
439 Ratings
8% below category average
Corporate goal setting3.62 Ratings7.3346 Ratings
Individual goal setting1.82 Ratings7.4418 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility3.61 Ratings7.6299 Ratings
Performance tracking5.92 Ratings7.6388 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
5.0
2 Ratings
46% below category average
UKG Pro
7.4
544 Ratings
8% below category average
Performance plans5.52 Ratings7.5486 Ratings
Performance improvement plans4.52 Ratings6.9383 Ratings
Review status tracking5.51 Ratings7.5500 Ratings
Review reminders4.51 Ratings7.4470 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.5395 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
4.5
1 Ratings
55% below category average
UKG Pro
7.4
532 Ratings
7% below category average
Job Requisition Management4.51 Ratings7.4501 Ratings
Company Website Posting4.51 Ratings7.5491 Ratings
Publish to Social Media4.51 Ratings7.1389 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting4.51 Ratings7.3453 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.1383 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings7.6488 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings7.5453 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
GoCo
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
7.1
237 Ratings
11% below category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings6.7190 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.2204 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings7.5208 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings6.9188 Ratings
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GoCoUKG Pro
Small Businesses
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Score 9.4 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.1 out of 10
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 10.0 out of 10
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
GoCoUKG Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(10 ratings)
8.0
(1088 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(197 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(8 ratings)
7.9
(325 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(76 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(333 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.4
(496 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(88 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(206 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(87 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(78 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(68 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(95 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(57 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(50 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoCoUKG Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
GoCo.io. Inc.
It's great for a small company who needs an easy way to save employee data. It's harder to use if you have complex needs or compliance. I often find I know more about HR-related things than our customer support representative, and they're unable to share how GoCo will comply with legal changes.
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UKG
I feel UKG Pro has been so horribly rolled out at the City of Houston. I'm amazed that, as a system administrator, it even works at all. In my opinion, the greatest expense the city has budgeted is managed by a shoe-string, janky, bug-ridden mess. I truly hope UKG is bought out for 2 cents and scattered to dust. In my opinion, terrible maintenance and support, the worst consultants money can buy, the sleaziest sales accountants. This system tries my patience as a lead system administrator and I would caution anyone considering bringing in this mess to their business. It's been a year now, and we still have workarounds and bugs daily.
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Pros
GoCo.io. Inc.
  • Support staff is ready to respond with any questions I have.
  • Communication about new offerings and ways to make things easier is great.
  • Site is very user friendly and easy to find what I'm/staff is looking for.
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UKG
  • UKG has an amazing support team to reach out to if assistance is needed
  • All add-ons of UKG Pro integrate seamlessly making it a powerful software program
  • UKG Pro is very configurable to meet the specific needs of companies
  • It is easy to use and navigate
  • The mobile app is loved by all employees and provides on-demand access
  • The Ultimate Community is amazing!! On-demand information on all products and how they are used. Connect with other companies that use UKG Pro and learn from each other.
  • The Learning Centre is also amazing!! Learning right at your fingertips anytime, anywhere.
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Cons
GoCo.io. Inc.
  • Handling exceptions for staff PTO requests for employees in their 90 day probationary period
  • Ease of managing different hourly work week exceptions
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UKG
  • Teachers that are hard functionality. Okay. I would say the most issues that we've had is the admins or the HR department losing their access and it throws us for a loop. It's like, what happened? What's going on? So that's the main thing. And then some of our employees struggle with the hourly employees try to struggle with timekeeping as in clocking in and clocking out. But we got that resolved. Thank you UKG Pro. And our employees are happy again. I would recommend UKG Pro.
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Likelihood to Renew
GoCo.io. Inc.
No answers on this topic
UKG
We have been a customer since 2015, we have gone to market and find that UKG Pro product is both user friendly for administrators as well as the employee. The qualify of support and service of UKG team is valued and we trust the product.
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Usability
GoCo.io. Inc.
We are very pleased with the product and the support we receive when we have a question or a request. We have been assigned specific support members who know our business and our expectations. Our employees find the platform to be user-friendly and self-explanatory which reduces the number of questions that our HR team has to field.
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UKG
It gets the job done, but not with a few deep sighs. Once you know where stuff lives, it's manageable, but the first learning curve is steep, some menus feel buried. However, it's consistent, reliable and doesn't crash on me, which counts for a lot. With a little UI glow up it could push into a 9 zone.
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Reliability and Availability
GoCo.io. Inc.
No answers on this topic
UKG
For the most part UltiPro has been reliable, but it could definitely be better. There have been several notable server issues where we were unable to access the product or unable to utilize some of the features. Customer support is usually quick to respond to questions about these issues, but they do not proactively reach out to customers whose environments have been effected by outages
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Performance
GoCo.io. Inc.
No answers on this topic
UKG
Normally UKG Pro loads quickly. We had been having major issues with reports running in a timely manner but recently they broke out our virtual server to another instance where is wasn't sharing resources and that seems to have helped reporting run more efficiently.
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Support Rating
GoCo.io. Inc.
GoCo has done a great job of being responsive to us in working through issues in the system.
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UKG
The quality of UKG Support is related directly to the UKG rep. who handles the issue. In some cases you get someone who really is good at supporting the product and others may not have as much experience and it shows
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In-Person Training
GoCo.io. Inc.
No answers on this topic
UKG
I've been to a few in-person (hands on) training sessions and it is very similar to the online classes. You have the same reference material to look back on after the training. So regardless of in person training or online you really get the same thing.
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Online Training
GoCo.io. Inc.
No answers on this topic
UKG
Most of the online training was very generic (to be expected) but we had specific requirements for configuration that could have been better addressed with more individual sessions earlier on from our project team. However, we did finally begin booking training sessions with our implementation team which were recorded, and so provided additional information for how to correctly configure and test the system.
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Implementation Rating
GoCo.io. Inc.
No answers on this topic
UKG
Make sure you have all of your tax account information with all the states you are registered in available and that you are knowledgeable about the filing status, frequency, etc. We had some unique challenges with our state unemployment tax set up that I was not aware of and needed to be addressed prior to going live. Working with the state unemployment office can be a challenge.
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Alternatives Considered
GoCo.io. Inc.
GoCo was my first choice during the selection process. It was the most user friendly. It has the cleaned appearance. The staff was easy to communicate with. And as a small non-profit, the pricing was good.
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UKG
We used ADP WFN prior to switching to UKG. We interviewed three different payroll companies to see what our options were. UKG stood out and aligned with our company values. The sales team was very helpful and asked questions about what we were currently doing and how they could assist with simplifying things. I personally had a side meeting with them to see if there were options for a process that we manually process and if UKG could actually eliminate the process. We came to the conclusion that we weren't able to get it 100%, but we could pull 80% of what we needed from UKG, and then we would only need to manipulate 20% of the information. It was also determined from that meeting that we wouldn't need to pay extra to have a special report built. The customer service is what we were sold on. The other companies that we looked at didn't give us the confidence that their customer service would be any better than what we previously had.
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Scalability
GoCo.io. Inc.
No answers on this topic
UKG
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Return on Investment
GoCo.io. Inc.
  • We save so much time when onboarding new employees
  • We look much more organized and professional in the new hire process (because we are, thanks to GoCo)
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UKG
  • My company acquired another company, and with a UKG partner, we were able to bring them online in UKG within two months of the acquisition date.
  • When COVID sent us remote, we could configure custom fields to track vaccination status.
  • The C-suite can get custom reports done in minutes, or ours, where our previous HRIS would have taken days to accomplish, as data would have had to have been exported to Excel and then manipulated inside Excel.
  • UKG has allowed to go virtual paper free as both a candidate and employee.
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ScreenShots

UKG Pro Screenshots

Screenshot of included workforce analytics.Screenshot of the payroll gateway.