Paylocity vs. Visier People

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Paylocity
Score 7.8 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
Visier
Score 6.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
An aspirant leader in Workforce Planning and Analytics, Visier offers technology built to deliver fast, clear people insight, starting with the right questions. With best-practice expertise built-in, users can take action and understand gaps in the data. By connecting all the right people and business data to reveal correlations, connections, and root causes, Visier aims to bring clarity to business leaders. Visier invites users to gain insight between employee experience and organizational…N/A
Pricing
PaylocityVisier People
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PaylocityVisier
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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Features
PaylocityVisier People
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.8
860 Ratings
1% below category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.5811 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.2791 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.8727 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.6740 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.1678 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management7.8660 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.5566 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.1
848 Ratings
1% above category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.6824 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.3391 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.5594 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.2565 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.9823 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.2651 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.9404 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.6
711 Ratings
6% below category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Approval workflow7.9632 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details7.4679 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.4529 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.3
860 Ratings
2% above category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.5837 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.6851 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.0677 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.3593 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.3715 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.5
241 Ratings
3% below category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets7.5241 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.0
786 Ratings
8% below category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Report builder7.0752 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.4765 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.5460 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
8.2
732 Ratings
2% above category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
New hire portal8.3728 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools8.0569 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.4
382 Ratings
10% below category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.4289 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.4353 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility7.3251 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.4355 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.4
491 Ratings
7% below category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.2440 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.2365 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking7.4452 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.5454 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.6371 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.1
226 Ratings
11% below category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools6.7148 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.1183 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search7.4206 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.4165 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
7.7
463 Ratings
1% below category average
Visier People
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.8380 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.1405 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.7312 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.7380 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.0318 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.0425 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.9423 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Analytics
Comparison of Workforce Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Paylocity
-
Ratings
Visier People
8.0
44 Ratings
4% below category average
Automated data collection00 Ratings8.444 Ratings
Data analysis00 Ratings8.144 Ratings
Data integration00 Ratings7.944 Ratings
Predictive analytics00 Ratings7.837 Ratings
Benchmarking00 Ratings7.643 Ratings
Report designer00 Ratings8.144 Ratings
Pre-built content00 Ratings8.144 Ratings
Data management00 Ratings8.342 Ratings
Self-service insights00 Ratings7.742 Ratings
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User Ratings
PaylocityVisier People
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(895 ratings)
7.9
(45 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(86 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(60 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.4
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.2
(81 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.3
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(35 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.3
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.6
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.8
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PaylocityVisier People
Likelihood to Recommend
Paylocity
Paylocity works well for our organization. Ease of use for our managers and employees is very important. Makes it easier for us in HR to manage. Time and attendance works very well. Efficient and effective. Payroll runs very smoothly. We appreciate the performance and compensation module for tracking employees performance, journals and getting feedback and annual compensation.
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Visier
Visier People is well-suited for organizations that require the ability to record thorough information on analytics of the company, and to have the change of measuring training's productivity impact. The software isn't well-suited for those who tend to feature a lot of models into the software as the platform doesn't record/support most models, so some data isn't able to be recorded.
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Pros
Paylocity
  • Customer Service is always helpful with little wait time.
  • Always improving; for example, the recent change to processing payroll. So much easier.
  • Onboarding makes it simple and the fact that the company can personalize the messaging to new hires allows us to make it more personalized.
  • Having an assigned account manager regardless of company size is definitely a plus.
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Visier
  • The database is very complete and detailed, thus being able to enhance a deep analysis of each user.
  • The Visier dashboard is extremely attractive and friendly, helping staff understand every detail of the analyzes conducted on the company's workforce.
  • Despite not being a great and complete solution to work with HR within this platform, however, data can be shared to exchange information between the head of each department of the company and HR staff and to speed up the analysis process and determine what to do with a low-performing employee.
  • It excellently determines the productivity of each employee and also determines risk by monitoring patterns and behavior.
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Cons
Paylocity
  • Recruiting piece/ATS could be improved.
  • A candidate being able to save progress on their application is really a must as they can't leave and come back to their application without having to restart, i.e. if they need to get a phone number for a reference for example.
  • Could use more room in entering the job for internal notes.
  • Quirky when doing cut and paste of job details that leaves spaces that aren't in the document being pasted.
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Visier
  • Visier is a people analytics tool, so all data points are tied to employees. It can be difficult to analyze data points that aren't tied to employees (e.g., certain job data) since the data is driven by people metrics.
  • Visier releases updates quarterly. While this cadence does provide room for updates and enhances to be implemented in the tool throughout the year, other software providers operate on a more continuous update schedule.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Visier
It is a software with great resources, it increases the possibility that the entire workforce is productive, it gives us quick answers, it is the most powerful workforce analysis software that exists so far.
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Usability
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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Visier
It is a high quality software to use, it is easy to use, it drives our needs to improve our workforce, the analyzes are in real time and directly benefit us when we require specific personnel for our labor departments. It has an intuitive interface that is also very simple for new users.
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Reliability and Availability
Paylocity
Paylocity support is always available and I never have to wait endlessly on hold. If our dedicated account manage is not available, there is an entire team assigned to our account. Every one of them is knowledgeable about our organization and Paylocity's process.
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Visier
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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Visier
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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Visier
No answers on this topic
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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Visier
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Implementation Rating
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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Visier
Visier can move as quickly or as slowly as the client needs. The topic-by-topic approach separates the project in clear phases and allows for focus on specific data. Depending on the size of the implementation team, implementation could move more rapidly if the subject matter experts are responsible for the individual topic data sets.
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Alternatives Considered
Paylocity
We honestly had a program that only kept track of our Demographics, salaries, etc. then all of our Payroll was done on paper with paper leave slips etc. When I saw Paylocity, I was very excited about how easy it is/would be to use. [...] Our Paylocity rep that I spoke to was super GREAT in the explanation of Paylocity and I didn't even shop around much.
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Visier
Visier People has a user-friendly interface and easy-to-use virtualization as compared to other similar tools available in the market. It also provides multiple prebuild templates for HR and workforce analytics which reduces the time and effort required for manual implementation. It can seamlessly be integrated with other ranges of HR and business systems to make it easier for organizations to centralize the workforce and HR data for analysis.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Paylocity
I wasn't involved in the sales process. I joined the organization after Paylocity was implemented.
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Visier
No answers on this topic
Scalability
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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Visier
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Paylocity
Support is quick and proffessional
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Visier
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Paylocity
  • Definitely more consistent processes. Everything is very user friendly and it reduces the amount of time it has taken us in the past before we started using Paylocity. Everything flows super smoothly.
  • We have an improved retention since we have used Paylocity. Before hand, many employees thought it was difficult to find anything like tax forms, pay stubs, benefit elections, etc. when we used other platforms before we implemented our data into Paylocity.
  • Costs have been reduced and the decision-making process has improved and got quicker. Before Paylocity, it would take at least a week to get a salary increase approved, or a job title change approved. Now, it take less than a day and is super easy.
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Visier
  • In one case, we were able to realize a 25% reduction in turnover in a key job group by leveraging the insights we derived from Visier workforce analytics.
  • In one case, we were able to identify key turnover trends that would place a business' strategy at risk (due to the fact that turnover was in revenue-generating roles).
  • In both businesses I've used Visier, we were able to significantly reduce manual reporting (by more than 80%), enabling our data analysts to do more consultative work (vs. query generating work) with HR business partners.
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Screenshot of Visier People: Learning helps you make sense of the complex learning landscape. Learning is happening everywhere, tracked and managed in multiple solutions. Bring it all together so that you can understand the impact. Spot trends in the sea of records from micro-learning and self-sourced learning activities being pursued by your workforce, and give shape to the thousands of xAPI statements from your LRS. Centralize all learning records and identify which sources are producing the most compelling training to understand the full impact of all your learning activity.Screenshot of Visier People: Organization provides foundational insights for your organization around employee demographics, diversity, organizational structure, starts, and exits - as well as benchmarking against other Visier organizations with Visier Benchmark’s 10 million+ employee records.Screenshot of Visier People: Workforce helps you find the optimal balance when your organization is powered by the hourly worker. Unifying your labor data - time, pay, safety, productivity - discover how hours worked, productivity, and your employees’ well-being connect together. Take action on insights into absenteeism, case management, overtime, worker safety and more so you can fine tune your management for big impact.