Paylocity vs. SurveyMonkey

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Paylocity
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
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
SurveyMonkey
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
SurveyMonkey provides free, customizable surveys, and a suite of paid, back-end programs that include data analysis, sample selection, bias elimination, and data representation tools. SurveyMonkey also offers large-scale, enterprise options for companies interested in data analysis, brand management, and consumer focused marketing.
$99
per month
Pricing
PaylocitySurveyMonkey
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Team Advantage
$25
per month (billed annually) per user (starting at 3 users)
Team Premier
$75
per month (billed annually) per user (starting at 3 users)
Standard Monthly
$99
per month
Individual Plan - Advantage Annual
$468
per year
Individual Plan - Premier Annual
$1,428
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PaylocitySurveyMonkey
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
PaylocitySurveyMonkey
Considered Both Products
Paylocity

No answer on this topic

SurveyMonkey
Chose SurveyMonkey
I have only used SurveyMonkey, therefore I cannot compare it to any other tools that do the same function. Knowing that I've been using SurveyMonkey since college which was several years ago and seeing that it is still a common tool in the workplace today many years later, …
Features
PaylocitySurveyMonkey
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.9
1477 Ratings
2% below category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.41407 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.21360 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.91267 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.71279 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.51179 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.01159 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.5988 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.3
1415 Ratings
2% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.71382 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.8699 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.71079 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.6957 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.91376 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.21113 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.9703 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.6
1197 Ratings
7% below category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Approval workflow7.71065 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details7.41144 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.7914 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.4
1423 Ratings
2% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.61387 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.71411 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.11151 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.21047 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.51239 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.4
459 Ratings
7% below category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets7.4459 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.3
1317 Ratings
3% below category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Report builder7.31264 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.51283 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data7.2841 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.2
1235 Ratings
3% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
New hire portal8.31225 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools8.1995 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.8
701 Ratings
3% below category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.6561 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.8647 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility7.7501 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.9656 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.6
877 Ratings
4% below category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.4800 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.4694 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking7.7807 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.8814 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.7689 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.6
471 Ratings
3% below category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.3323 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.5381 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search8.0427 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.6350 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.0
829 Ratings
4% above category average
SurveyMonkey
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management8.1712 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.2741 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media8.0577 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.1709 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.6610 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.2768 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.9766 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.2
76 Ratings
10% below category average
Survey templates00 Ratings8.075 Ratings
Themes00 Ratings7.367 Ratings
Custom logo/branding00 Ratings6.367 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.6
78 Ratings
11% below category average
Changes to live survey00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
Question design help00 Ratings6.872 Ratings
Multiple question types00 Ratings9.078 Ratings
Survey Logic
Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.3
72 Ratings
12% below category average
Survey logic flexibility00 Ratings7.372 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.1
78 Ratings
13% below category average
Response tracking00 Ratings7.577 Ratings
Data export00 Ratings6.374 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.077 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings6.864 Ratings
Analytics00 Ratings7.065 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
8.3
67 Ratings
3% below category average
Access controls00 Ratings8.067 Ratings
Compliance00 Ratings8.558 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
-
Ratings
SurveyMonkey
7.6
48 Ratings
6% below category average
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing00 Ratings7.332 Ratings
Respondent restrictions00 Ratings7.846 Ratings
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User Ratings
PaylocitySurveyMonkey
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(1475 ratings)
8.7
(110 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(166 ratings)
9.0
(26 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(281 ratings)
9.0
(41 ratings)
Availability
8.9
(35 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.4
(34 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(148 ratings)
9.4
(35 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.1
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.9
(29 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(92 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
6.9
(25 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.3
(24 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.2
(28 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(34 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.6
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(34 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.4
(31 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PaylocitySurveyMonkey
Likelihood to Recommend
Paylocity
Paylocity makes record keeping and payroll so simple. The times are able to be imported from time keeping saving tons of time and frustration. Going from manual entries to a more automated system has saved so much time. Whether a company is small or large or there are multiple companies that you take care of the system will work for you.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
SurveyMonkey is well suited for external, professional, client-facing forms and complex question types. I've tried generating forms on HubSpot, and it's not nearly as intuitive or clean-looking, and not all question types are supported (e.g. Likert scales). For quick, internal forms that don't need to be as pretty or professional, I find that Google Forms is the quickest and easiest to pull together, especially since it has a single, universal respondent link. If I wanted to embed a link in a mass email, SurveyMonkey doesn't allow multiple respondents to use the same link on my plan.
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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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
  • Keeps identifiable information anonymous.
  • Being able to close the survey at a set time without having to remember to do so.
  • Takes the guess work out of response collecting.
  • Makes it easy to categorize responses within the same survey. Being able to add tags to open-ended questions makes it easy for us to identify patterns in responses.
  • An array of survey options and questions.
  • An all around great product that meets multiple needs.
  • Can have multiple collectors for the same survey to included manual input.
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Cons
Paylocity
  • I'd like to see a forum in which users could discuss the platform, raise both questions and concerns. I feel that changes are done without enough input from users.
  • Improving hold time recently with customer service.
  • Accuracy of new 'graphic' payroll report - the new report is not complete when payroll is done, so it is unusable from my perspective. I rely on the preprocess payroll register. This is one of those 'improvements' that have not been positive in my experience.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
  • I would like to have more customizable options for branding it to our hospital colors. Some survey options allow you to enter html color codes. SurveyMonkey allows you to change colors and you have to pick from selected options.
  • Embedding the surveys into a webpage, like WordPress is not as seamless as other services.
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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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
Compared to other competitors in the market (including a few I've used internally), if you're looking for a survey application, this one does the job and it's quite inexpensive too. Considering the fact that it comes with a handy mobile application too (on iOS and Android), you also get flexibility thrown in the deal too.
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Usability
Paylocity
I love Paylocity. As I have stated before I love the user friendliness of the system. I have used more than four different payroll systems during my career, and I have found Paylocity to be the most user friendly of all the systems I have used. I was able to catch on within two days of my training. The system has a lot of features I use on a daily basis and over the years I have not had a desire to change systems.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
It does everything a survey software should do, and it does it very well. I can't speak for how well it would work for a business that was surveying tens of thousands of people - but for a small business of 50 employees with a couple of thousand clients, it does everything it needs to do.
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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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
still to many limitations for more complex surveys --skips, filtered questions, etc.
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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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
I've never had to contact the SurveyMonkey customer care team directly, but they have a pretty good library of help articles on their website. Everything from designing and executing your survey to account and billing questions. I never had a need for further support from Survey Monkey.
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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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Paylocity
Our rep was very thorough and made sure we fully understood the software before turning us loose alone. Paylocity was very good to do periodic check ins to ensure we understood the features and answered any questions we had. The training reps are very well trained and are very patient with clients.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
Implementation not required.
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Alternatives Considered
Paylocity
There is no comparison. Paylocity offers so much more to its clients. Their pricing is unbeatable and they provide a much bigger variety of features and customization. I had to use 6 different platforms to cover all necessary areas for our business, when I am now solely using Paylocity for everything.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
SurveyMonkey is easier to customize and provides much more in depth analytics. SurveyMonkey also provides better templates providing us with a better presentation to our employees. SurveyMonkey also comes with a more trustworthy platform that ensures confidentiality, which is incredibly important to our employees and means we're getting more reliable results from the surveys.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Paylocity
Everyone wants a good deal of course. We thought we did ok and felt you still made your money also
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
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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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Paylocity
Some are knowledgable others not as much and sometimes instead of helping you fix the issue will just give you some directions and expect you to try to figure it out yourself. Also, when your Account Manager needs to escliate the issue to another group, it can take a long time for them to get to your issue and there's no commuication.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Paylocity
  • Paylocity has helped us with recruitment by streamlining the process and making it efficient. It is saving me time.
  • Paylocity has also helped us with compensation so we can create a fair and robust compensation plan.
  • I also like using the data insights feature, which helps me keep track of over time, payroll and benefits costs, and retention numbers. This also saves me time as it is all in one place.
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Momentive (SurveyMonkey, Inc)
  • The speed at which we can develop, program, execute and generate actual usable results provides significant value, particularly when we need fresh numbers to illustrate a point.
  • The fact that we can execute a research project so quickly means that new research is always a primary option when we're developing campaigns. That's a huge value proposition.
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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.