Novatime (discontinued) vs. Paylocity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Novatime (discontinued)
Score 4.5 out of 10
N/A
From Ascentis, NOVAtime was a set of workforce management solutions providing timekeeping, payroll, leave management, and employee scheduling needs. Ascentis was acquired by UKG in March of 2022, and along with NOVAtime, will be discontinued.N/A
Paylocity
Score 7.8 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.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Novatime (discontinued)
Paylocity
Chose Paylocity
Paylocity is by far more user-friendly for our staff as well as easier for our administrators to move between modules and applications. I wish I did have the option to "impersonate users" in Paylocity like I can in Bswift.
Chose Paylocity
ADP did not have the ease of use when it came to submittal of travel and expenses and tracking. Paylocity has been a game changer for me in this process allowing employees to enter the information and uploading the necessary paperwork, thus less room for errors. Employees are …
Chose Paylocity
At initial selection, Paylocity beat out Bamboo, ADP, and SuitePeople. Paylocity was the most robust and user-friendly platform, and it provided a lot of gains. I am currently evaluating Paylocity to UKG.
Chose Paylocity
Novatime is our time and attendance vendor. Its very user friendly and has great product support.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.8
814 Ratings
0% below category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.6766 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings8.2748 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings7.8685 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.6697 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings7.1640 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings7.8622 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.5535 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
8.1
802 Ratings
1% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.6778 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.3356 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.5554 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.3534 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.0779 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.2617 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings7.9380 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Novatime (discontinued)
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.6
670 Ratings
6% below category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings8.0593 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings7.5642 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings7.4496 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
8.4
814 Ratings
4% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.5794 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings8.6805 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings8.0637 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings8.3555 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.3670 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.5
227 Ratings
3% below category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings7.5227 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.0
742 Ratings
8% below category average
Report builder00 Ratings7.0710 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.4723 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings6.5427 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
8.2
691 Ratings
2% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings8.3687 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.0534 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.4
359 Ratings
10% below category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.5270 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.4331 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.4233 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings7.4333 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.4
461 Ratings
7% below category average
Performance plans00 Ratings7.2412 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.2339 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings7.5423 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings7.5426 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.6348 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.2
212 Ratings
9% below category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings6.8141 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.2174 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings7.4193 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings7.4157 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Paylocity
7.8
436 Ratings
1% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings7.8360 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.1381 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings7.7295 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings7.7359 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.0299 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.1402 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings7.9400 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
5.3
(8 ratings)
7.7
(848 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
2.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(80 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(56 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(4 ratings)
7.3
(77 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(8 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(33 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(6 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(7 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
We continue to remain the only professional baseball team that utilizes NOVAtime for our scheduling of staff, mostly because it was designed to schedule hospital workers. The lag time when updating the ASM is extremely time consuming and the inability to work in multiple internet tabs or windows makes it that much more inefficient. I am sure it is a fantastic system for other organizations but it continues to be a challenge for us.
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Paylocity
As mentioned, Paylocity is great as a payroll service for getting employees paid and also for them to get information using their self-service. Definitely could be improvements in the ATS/recruiting piece of the plaform. Paylocity is a payroll first platform and recruiting is an add-on, so the functionality is not as good as it is with stand-along ATS.
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Pros
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  • The report database is very extensive--there is a report for everything
  • Easy to use
  • Various ways for EEs and supervisors to access information
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Paylocity
  • Payroll Processing - Including all Tax Handling and Processing
  • Talent Acquisition Suite - Allows for the digital handling of candidate to onboarding. Fully integrated background, E-verify, drug screening
  • Established APIs with external vendors for Benefits and 401K
  • Survey Management - Customized surveys for Employee Engagement and Customer Satisfaction
  • Communities - Allows for online employee collaboration as well as site for employees to pull company documents such as policies and procedures.
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Cons
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  • There does need to be more support and knowledge when it comes to alternate workweek schedule types (9/80, etc.), as there have been a few unique challenges with those.
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Paylocity
  • As a super admin in Paylocity, I would like the ability to not just archive items, but delete them completely. We would like to clean-up the space and get rid of some of the default items we do not use.
  • Not necessarily an issue, but for those people who have ever created an event packet in the on-boarding module know my struggle. It is not completely user friendly. I would like to see a preview of what the employee would see before launching the packets to new hires.
  • Benefits. When I change a new hire in the system before they have elected their benefits, it takes at least 24 hours to show up and doesn't always allow them to launch their open enrollment.
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Likelihood to Renew
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The overall satisfaction within the organization has been luke warm, at best. The software may be more conducive for a hospital but I believe there is a reason why we are the lone baseball team utilizing it.
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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
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On the employee's side of things, Novatime is pretty intuitive and fairly easy to use. All they have to do is either press a button to punch in or punch out. If they are entering in their hours, all they have to do is type in the number of hours per day. On the manager's side of things, Novatime is also fairly easy to use. It highlights in red any missed punches and in green any OT that the employee has. There are links on the homepage of the manager's page that will lead them to a list of all their employees' missed punches for a pay period and they can fix them all before payroll is due. Novatime becomes a bit more complicated on the administrator's side. The issues I have run into with Novatime normally come after updates/upgrades to their system. They have been getting better, but the administrator's side is still a bit clunky and takes a while to find what you are looking for. It is not as intuitive as the other sides and takes a bit of computer knowledge to figure it out.
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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
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Paylocity
there are frequent issues with the recruiting module not fully working and there is no rush from paylocity to fix it
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Performance
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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
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The program itself can be customized in many different ways to meet the needs of the company/organization that it is working with. The charts/graphs on the new homepage are somewhat helpful and link to useful information. It has some really nice scheduling features that allow managers to see the difference between hours expected to work and actual hours worked as well as overtime, absences, and non-scheduled shifts. Processing payroll is quite simple. PTO request off is straightforward.
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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
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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
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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
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The product is easy to use, and everyone picks up on it quickly. It is less expensive, and has more to offer than any other product I’ve found.
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Paylocity
The reason we went with Paylocity over Paycom was we received better reviews on their customer support. I have used Paycom with other companies and found that it is decent software. Of course, any HRIS software is going to beat out QBs. QBs do not do well with groups of employees over 250.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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Paylocity
Include more services in the packages they offer.
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Scalability
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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
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Paylocity
Support is quick and proffessional
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Return on Investment
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  • We have had a few scenarios where the PTO accrual dropped off and it did take 3 attempts of reaching out to customer service to get it sorted.
  • The customer service team has collaborated with me in creating new PTO categories to automate certain needs to save me some time.
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Paylocity
  • Onboarding has reduced the paperwork that managers had previously had to take care of and payroll had to manually enter. This has significantly reduced hours of work and reduced errors.
  • Data insights creates reports that are very easy to view and give quick insights. This again reduces hours of work on management.
  • The ease of use for uploading payroll is minutes instead of hours at other companies. Overall, a huge time saver.
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