Lumesse was a talent management suite. Its core functionality is in recruiting and applicant tracking. Lumesse also offers other recruiting features, as well as onboarding and analytics capabilities. It was acquired by Saba and is no longer available.
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Paylocity
Score 7.7 out of 10
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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.
Paylocity is great if you want an all in one type of system. You can literally use it for everything if you company is smaller or has more low key policies/reviews/etc. We've found the reviews to be very difficult to use based on the questions that we as a company use. We've also had some issues with Payroll and PTO accrues from time to time. If you have a larger company, I would verify that all of these items are more simple then hard
It has open text boxes to add notes, on the individual candidate home page. Which is helpful when making a quick look at an individual, these notes are very obvious.
It has a search function; however it lacks a wild card (*); so if a req or candidate are spelled differently or referred to differently, there is no way to find them
I have found the system to be very inconsistent and "buggy", for lack of a better term. Today I searched for an internal requisition number and the system could not find the data. I found it by scrolling through manually, and verified that I had entered the information precisely as it appeared. There seems to be no explanation as to why it could not locate this particular entry, but I have been able to use the function without a problem in other instances.
The navigation is not intuitive or user-friendly. It takes an exorbitant amount of clicks to accomplish a task. Each action is confusing and time-consuming.
The system requires a large amount of redundant information in order to enter a job and does not auto-populate. If I indicate a position is located in Chicago, it would logically follow that the state is "Illinois", the country is "United States", and the currency is "USD". I have to manually input these details in both the requisition as well as the separate job advertisement page.
Changes to the job requisition are not reflected in the job advertisement, as they are separate entities. If you need to make a change, you have to update the details twice.
Employee portal is not easy to navigate for employees. It's repetitive in fields and not clear on how to find what you need and update.
Customer service follows scripts rather than critically thinking. Even when the issue is clearly lined out. Causing a delay in solutions and multiple emails. The more difficult the problem, the more likely you are to get "lost" in the queue.
Their contract and onboarding was not clear on the package and products you receive. We thought our pricing included features that it didn't and then other features we thought we were getting were only free trials and we would have to pay additional costs to continue (which we didn't find out until we received a notice our trial was ending).
There are three different views (HR, Payroll, general search) that are confusing to understand. This is used I assume to be able to separate payroll and HR users. There is a lot of duplicate information across the different views and they are used on the employee level as well which is confusing for the employee. It would be nice if duplicate fields were under one umbrella and titled the same across.
User settings are hard to update and you have to fill out a form every time. Half the time the user setting updates aren't accurate and we have to submit another form. It's time consuming and not clear.
We gave an 8 rating because I believe there are simple improvements Paylocity could make that would make a world of difference in an admins every day work world. We will probably renew because we are already familiar with Paylocity and how it works. It would a huge change to bring in a different HR & Payroll system at this point
If you are attempting to do something unfamiliar, you can either use their Help button to access a large database of articles, including "how to" documents, or call their help desk. Their help desk is based in the U.S. and they are usually willing to spend however long it takes to get you the answers you are looking for. It was based on these two aspects of customer service that we decided to add them as our Time & Labor tracking provider, after considering other options. We had been using Paylocity HR & Payroll with a different provider for eight years before making the switch.
The timing is SLOW for response. I rarely if ever get a same day response any more, and there are times I have had to reach back out about a problem 3 days later in order to get a resolution. We never have the same customer service rep for any length of time. I feel I need to start from scratch with any person I speak with on the phone. It feels like Paylocity has gone to a tracked CS system- and my tickets are often closed out before a solution has been made. Significant decline in Paylocity CS over the last 3 years. No sign of an increase in CS either
I would make sure you have a dedicated team at Paylocity to complete the implementation. We had staff from Paylocity quit and things were not completed properly. They dropped the ball so to speak on that portion of it. we have encountered multiple issues since then and are still not using the Time off tracking to its full capabilities.
Lumesse is an average to abover average ATS in my opinion. We work with Lumesse because they came to us with our new client. I don't have an overall issue with Lumesse like I do with some other ATS's.
I was not involved in the selection process but have used both ADP and PeopleSoft in previous roles. PeopleSoft does allow for more customization and they both provide more comprehensive data, but both are also not as user friendly for employees as Paylocity
Decreased employee efficiency -- There are so many steps to create an entry that our recruiters use the system as little as possible. We had hoped to use Lumesse for centralizing information and reporting, but have not been able to do so. Instead, each recruiter keeps a separate Excel sheet, defeating the purpose of having an ATS in the first place. We only use Lumesse to post to our website now. We are very disappointed.
Missed punches, incorrect punches have went down considerably (from what I have seen).
More reliable source for handling payroll taxes than previously; which can save on errors and penalties (and time lost on dealing with them later).
More accurate and consistent processes, all completed in one place; rather than in multiple systems or ways (once I get everything up and running as I want).
