Paylocity vs. Relias Learning Management System

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Paylocity
Score 8.2 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
Relias Learning Management System
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
The Relias Learning Management System is a corporate e-learning platform for healthcare, insurance, and education industries. Features include: automated training enrollment, a library of over 3,000 pre-built courses as well as customizable courses, live training management, and tracking and reporting.N/A
Pricing
PaylocityRelias Learning Management System
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
PaylocityRelias Learning Management System
Considered Both Products
Paylocity
Chose Paylocity
Workday is a beast and very complicated for admin users. Paylocity is much easier. But Workday has more functionality,
Chose Paylocity
I have been satisfied with the ease of use and navigation. I appreciate the accuracy of information on the HR side. I cannot speak to the payroll side. I have heard feedback regarding Paycom and ADP specifically what payroll was completely messed up and had to be corrected …
Chose Paylocity
I find Paylocity to be much more user friendly than any of the other systems I have used. It is intuitive and easily customizable. I like that I can envision something new for it and easily add it myself without the help of customer service. It is simple for me to pull reports …
Chose Paylocity
Much improved and customer service is much better, we used to wait 2-3 days for a call back from SAGE
Chose Paylocity
We thought about leaving Paylocity for Paycom due to some severe reporting issues and the constant need to have to pay more and more to get what we want out of the system.
Chose Paylocity
More robust and easier to use
Chose Paylocity
At the time, PayNW was smaller and as we grew, we outgrew the capabilities with the Legacy Platform we had been using. Paylocity also matched the cost and was able to get us implemented below the cost of PayNW, and as a non-profit, that was huge!
Chose Paylocity
I will say that Paylocity is easier to navigate than the two products mentioned above. There appears to be more customization. However, the workflow is terrible compared to PeopleSoft and SuccessFactors.
Chose Paylocity
Paycom is #1 and Paylocity is #2 for ease of use and functionality, in my opinion. Paylocity was in place for this organization when I joined. I was not involved in the decision process. ADP is the worst unless you have thousands of employees and even then, it's not great. …
Chose Paylocity
Hands down, Paylocity has many features and the ease of using them is better than the other platforms I have used. Also, the customer service is responsive! I like that when I have a question, I am not lost in the wind. I receive acknowledgment shortly after submission. Just …
Relias Learning Management System

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Features
PaylocityRelias Learning Management System
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.8
1445 Ratings
4% below category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.51377 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.21327 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.91241 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.61253 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.41153 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management7.91134 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.5968 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.3
1383 Ratings
2% above category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.61351 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.8683 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.71050 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.6938 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.91345 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.21086 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.9684 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.6
1172 Ratings
7% below category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Approval workflow7.71044 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details7.41120 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.7889 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.4
1391 Ratings
2% above category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.61355 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.71379 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.11126 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.31021 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.51210 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.4
451 Ratings
7% below category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets7.4451 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.3
1287 Ratings
3% below category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Report builder7.31235 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.51253 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data7.2823 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.2
1209 Ratings
3% above category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
New hire portal8.41199 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools8.1973 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.8
687 Ratings
3% below category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.7551 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.8634 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility7.7491 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.9643 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.6
861 Ratings
4% below category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.5785 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.4680 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking7.7791 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.8798 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.7675 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.6
462 Ratings
3% below category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.2318 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.5373 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search8.0418 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.6343 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.0
815 Ratings
4% above category average
Relias Learning Management System
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management8.1700 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.2728 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media8.0568 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.1695 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.6598 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.2755 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.9752 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
-
Ratings
Relias Learning Management System
8.1
12 Ratings
1% below category average
Course authoring00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
Course catalog or library00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
Player/Portal00 Ratings8.49 Ratings
Learning content00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
Mobile friendly00 Ratings6.210 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings9.412 Ratings
Assignments00 Ratings9.412 Ratings
Compliance management00 Ratings8.711 Ratings
Learning administration00 Ratings9.411 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings7.712 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings6.68 Ratings
Gamification00 Ratings4.92 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
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User Ratings
PaylocityRelias Learning Management System
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(1524 ratings)
7.1
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(166 ratings)
2.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(332 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
8.9
(36 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.5
(35 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(148 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.9
(29 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(92 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.1
(26 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.4
(25 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(28 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.3
(34 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.5
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.5
(34 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.5
(31 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PaylocityRelias Learning Management System
Likelihood to Recommend
Paylocity
Paylocity is a very user-friendly system. It is very easy to learn and use. They offer features like Time and Labor, Payroll, integrations with other software and Human Resources benefits. They have an excellent onboarding process and feature recruitment right at your fingertips, so you do not have to go on so many job boards. I like their self-service portal because it allows our staff independence on clocking in and out as well as requesting paid time off and our staff can make their own corrections when they miss a punch on their time sheet or forget to clock in and out for lunch or during the day.
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Relias LLC
Good for an organization who are in health care and in ABA. Not so good everyone else. There are courses specific to the industry, however, the glitches and the lack of support from the customer service staff makes it hard to recommend the product.
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Pros
Paylocity
  • Payroll is made pretty easy. I love that we have the ability to log into payroll, we just upload the information from commissions, things like that where there are exceptions to a regular payroll run. It may make it very easy to do that, just a quick upload. Additionally, when we're in the payroll grid, it gives us the ability to just make quick changes to people's pay or their tax schedule, tax withholdings, things like that without having to go through a lot of different screens. It's just very easy to access just for the click of a button. Love that.
  • We talked about performance reviews, talked about payroll with benefits administration, it allows us to utilize EDI feeds with our benefit vendors so it creates a seamless, but we just enter the information into Paylocity and then it seamlessly provides that information to our vendors. That's been really helpful. And adjusting benefits is also very easy within Paylocity. I love the recent edition of compensation analysis information, so I'm able to go into the compensation module and look for jobs that are similar to a job title at our company. I can enter the job description, I give them what state that the person or the job is in, and it pops out compensation data. It gives me different options, so titles that might be similar. So if there's not something that's an exact fit, I'm able to find something really, really close. It's been a huge upgrade because before that I was having to use a different vendor and paying $400 per job and now it's significantly less expensive to Paylocity and I'm still getting great quality data. It's been very helpful.
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Relias LLC
  • Relias Learning Management System has a massive catalog of pre-built trainings available for employees to take at their leisure
  • Relias Learning Management System has many compliance & hr related trainings based in the system already based on laws and regulations
  • Relias Learning Management System makes it easy to record & build your own trainings to add into their system for specific employees in your company to take as you require
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Cons
Paylocity
  • Develop a full AP/AR process that integrates with the other financial tools like payroll, expenses, etc.
  • Have the platform DCAA compliant and have it audited so that companies can use it as a definitive government contracting platform.
  • Develop an improvement that would allow for Time and Labor integration and reporting to Medicaid for service providers so they don't need multiple systems.
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Relias LLC
  • Reporting is abominable, hasn't been updated in over 4 years.
  • Organization of courses, modules, training plans, skills checklists, manuals, and tests— a lot of options and very challenging to differentiate
  • Their mobile application is not user-friendly, it crashes, doesn't load certain courses, doesn't play audio on other ones, and has very poor performance.
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Likelihood to Renew
Paylocity
There are several technical issues we have experienced this past year with the employee onboarding process that we are still waiting to have resolved. Overall our experience with Paylocity has been positive, and we love how user-friendly and easy to navigate the system is. It has made all of our HR processes much more streamlined and efficient.
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Relias LLC
RMLS have become an important component of our agency's support systems. It provides consistent context for education and trainings as well as being flexible to allow staff to access it on their time. We have found many of the content sessions to be very useful for staff development and supportive of our overall agency goals and strategies.
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Usability
Paylocity
I would give it that overall rating because we implemented in 2023 and so although that may feel like a lot of time, it still is, we still have a lot to learn and so I'm optimistic that as we learn more that rating will increase.
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Relias LLC
I enjoy the ease of setup. It has a large course library and selection filter to choose by
profession and/or module type. Even though it has a generic user
interface and navigating tools, but it gets the job done. It offers the
basic and simple delivery, tracking, and reporting.
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Reliability and Availability
Paylocity
Over the last 3 years, we've only had one major service issue that rendered Airbase unusable for us for about 24 hours. That said, they navigated the SVB bank crisis very well and made sure funds were available during that time.
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Relias LLC
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Performance
Paylocity
We had some minor hiccups throughout the year but they have all been fixable. Paylocity integrates well with our 401k provider, Principal, and our benefits, OneDigital. It makes it simple to house everything and have it all connected. It doesn't slow anything down to have Principal integrated. It makes it more efficient
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Relias LLC
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Support Rating
Paylocity
It is very hard to get answers to your questions, you cannot speak to someone without days of requesting assistance or answers and then eventually can get a call back and then it is usually resolved fairly quickly. But NOT easy to get that help.
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Relias LLC
Our implementation specialist was second-to-none, and upon 'graduating' from implementation, we were underwhelmed by the support after that. Due to the thoroughness of our implementation, we have had few occasions to contact support. We've been passed among several different contact persons, but have always received answers to our questions.
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In-Person Training
Paylocity
I didn't have in-person training, but I'm sure it was just as great as any other training/assistance Paylocity provides. Paylocity customer service is always available. You never have to be on hold and their answers are always accurate and timely. Documents in the help section are helpful as well. My in-person training was conducted y one of our employees who was involved in the initial set-up and training of all employees. She was excellent.
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Relias LLC
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Online Training
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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Relias LLC
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Implementation Rating
Paylocity
Implementation was a bit bumpy and Paylocity team not always available for next steps and/or questions. I feel like Paylocity could have done a better job in their fact finding as far as what we were currently doing, our payroll policies and needs, etc. so that we would have run into less issues as we moved forward.
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Relias LLC
It was very easy to implement. It's cloud based, so the most difficult part was getting users loaded.
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Alternatives Considered
Paylocity
We went through demos five years ago and we evaluated ADP and UKG in the past, and we used Paycor previously. In the past, I've used ADP and Kronos when it was still Kronos at other companies. So several different ones. One of the main reasons was that it was all one platform and you didn't have to log into other platforms for it to communicate with each other. Payroll talks to time that talks back to payroll and you don't have to log into anything separate. The reporting was also really easy and you didn't have to have a master's degree to do it.
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Relias LLC
Relias has significantly more and higher quality training courses and video offerings than any competitor in the space. At the end of the day, it's about the caregivers receiving as much information they can to be successful.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Paylocity
I didn't help but I like the pricing
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Relias LLC
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Scalability
Paylocity
We have gone from a medium sized company to a larger company with no issues whatsoever with Paylocity being able to keep up or do what we need it to do for the size of our needs. In fact, it does more than we even use at this juncture
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Relias LLC
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Professional Services
Paylocity
They are thorough, care about quality and success, take the time needed to implement properly, answer questions, build data feeds. A professional, caring, very skilled team there.
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Relias LLC
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Return on Investment
Paylocity
  • So when I first found Paylocity back in 2013 and was pitching it to the senior leadership company, my PowerPoint presentation, our return on investment was reducing errors in time and labor. We did paper time sheets back in the day back in 2007, 2008. So we were always running paper time sheets, Microsoft Excel or other standalone products, printing them out and hand keying them into a payroll system. So my ROI to our company was to save money and time on data entry and also to better manage the taxes. So we pay for the tax service, we're in 27 states having to manage that. Previously we were responsible for knowing what every state tax codes were, what every state tax compliance rules were. So with Paylocity we signed up for a tax service and that has been a huge return on investment.
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Relias LLC
  • We have been able to manage a large amount of training for a diverse work force more efficiently.
  • We are adding functionality to be able to use the system to circulate materials to our workforce where documentation of knowledge/understanding is needed,
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ScreenShots

Paylocity Screenshots

Screenshot of a view of real-time employee data and performance metrics used to uncover and analyze trends. This creates an impactful understanding of the business, increase retention, understand labor costs, and plan for changes.Screenshot of where to automate manual processes with Paylocity's self-serve automation engine, Workflows. Users can implement routines for time-consuming manual tasks.Screenshot of where to manage and comply with employment law. Paylocity's HR Compliance solution helps users to stay on track and view important employee compliance items, from Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), healthcare, and compensation.Screenshot of how Paylocity Recruiting can automate hiring processes. amplify outreach, showcase a company's culture, and build stronger candidate connections to swiftly fill positions.Screenshot of recognition and rewards in Paylocity.