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What is APS Payroll?

APS is a national workforce management and cloud-based HR solution provider. The platform includes core HR, payroll, time and attendance (including manager and employee self-service), compliance tools, and onboarding.

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9 out of 10
August 22, 2016
Incentivized
APS OnLine is being used across the whole organization. All of our employees have embraced the new system increasing the number of direct …
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Popular Features

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  • View and generate pay and benefit information (33)
    10.0
    100%
  • Pay calculation (32)
    10.0
    100%
  • Direct deposit files (32)
    10.0
    100%
  • Report builder (33)
    5.1
    51%

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What is APS Payroll?

APS is a national workforce management and cloud-based HR solution provider. The platform includes core HR, payroll, time and attendance (including manager and employee self-service), compliance tools, and onboarding.

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

7.6
Avg 7.9

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

9.1
Avg 8.0

Leave and Attendance Management

Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.

9.9
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8
Avg 8.1

Asset Management

Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.

5.8
Avg 7.8

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

5.6
Avg 7.6

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

9.7
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

7.4
Avg 8.2

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

6.8
Avg 8.0

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

5
Avg 7.9

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

8.1
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

What is APS Payroll?

APS Payroll aims to make payroll and HR easier, by providing their clients and partners with technology delivered with personalized service and support. Their unified solution is designed to simplify workforce management tasks and process payroll, and to automate HR workflows to be more strategic.

APS Payroll Features

Human Resource Management Features

  • Supported: Employee demographic data
  • Supported: Employment history
  • Supported: Job profiles and administration
  • Supported: Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
  • Supported: Benefits information
  • Supported: Organizational charting
  • Supported: Organization and location management
  • Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

Payroll Management Features

  • Supported: Pay calculation
  • Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
  • Supported: Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
  • Supported: Payroll history for each employee
  • Supported: Benefit plan administration
  • Supported: Direct deposit files
  • Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
  • Supported: Salary revision and increment management
  • Supported: Reimbursement management
  • Supported: Statutory form management

Leave and Attendance Management Features

  • Supported: Approval workflow
  • Supported: Email notifications
  • Supported: Balance details
  • Supported: Travel absence management
  • Supported: Annual carry-forward and encashment

Employee Self Service Features

  • Supported: Employee login
  • Supported: View and generate pay and benefit information
  • Supported: Update personal information
  • Supported: Request time off
  • Supported: View job history
  • Supported: View company policy documentation
  • Supported: View company news and information
  • Supported: Employee recognition

Asset Management Features

  • Supported: Tracking of all physical assets
  • Supported: Asset issue and transfer management
  • Supported: Asset return
  • Supported: Warranty and after-sales status maintenance contract tracking

HR Reporting Features

  • Supported: Report builder
  • Supported: Pre-built reports
  • Supported: Ability to combine HR data with external data

Integration with other HR capabilities Features

  • Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by same vendor

Performance Management Features

  • Supported: Performance plans
  • Supported: Performance improvement plans
  • Supported: Review status tracking
  • Supported: Review reminders
  • Supported: Multiple review frequency

Onboarding Features

  • Supported: New hire portal
  • Supported: Manager tracking tools

Performance and Goals Features

  • Supported: Individual goal setting
  • Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
  • Supported: Performance tracking

Recruiting / ATS Features

  • Supported: Job Requisition Management
  • Supported: Company Website Posting
  • Supported: Publish to Social Media
  • Supported: Job Search Site Posting
  • Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
  • Supported: Applicant Tracking
  • Supported: Notifications and Alerts

Additional Features

  • Supported: Scheduling
  • Supported: Benefits Administration
  • Supported: Carrier Connections
  • Supported: Performance Reviews
  • Supported: ACA Compliance and Reporting
  • Supported: Talent Management

APS Payroll Screenshots

Screenshot of Benefits Administration Dashboard

APS Payroll Video

At APS, we believe the best way to manage your workforce is in a truly unified solution. Don’t be fooled by providers who say they offer a “connected system” that really fits together more like a complex puzzle. All your important data lives together in our single-system platf...
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APS Payroll Integrations

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APS Payroll Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUSA
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

APS is a national workforce management and cloud-based HR solution provider. The platform includes core HR, payroll, time and attendance (including manager and employee self-service), compliance tools, and onboarding.

Paycom, Paycor, and Namely are common alternatives for APS Payroll.

Reviewers rate Pay calculation and Off-cycle/On-Demand payment and Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of APS Payroll are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

APS Payroll Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)25%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)25%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Mary Donovan Pope | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have APS Online for HRIS/Payroll as well as APS Hire for recruiting and onboarding. And, we have also elected to use CypherWorx as our Learning Management System as an 'add-on' to APS, but it works directly with the APS database to enroll all new hires into APS for learning-based training information to be released to them upon hire.
  • The integrated database for all aspects of the system helps to eliminate having to enter and exit multiple sites and keeps administrative efforts more streamlined.
  • The dedicated support help at both APS Online and also APS Hire is fantastic!
  • I appreciate having a dedicated project manager with all new locations added because that allows me to be sure that the creation and implementation of a new payroll [are] done consistently and also gave me a contact with questions/concerns outside of simply reaching out to the dedicated helpdesk support group with questions that are more specifically related to organizational growth.
  • My sales representative is always 'checking in' with me and that lets me know that our business is important to APS!
  • I have had some issues with emails not populating on the user end for applicants which creates some 'glitches' in smooth applicant hire to onboarding to export.
  • It did not seem that in being introduced to the APS Hire product that enough was stated in clear enough terms to understand that unless my organization paid job boards outside of APS that our postings would not have [the] opportunity to 'headline' and our job openings were not always easily found by our prospective employees.
  • We've worked with part of the customer service and engineering group to help the system to support employees working at multiple locations (under separate EIN) than what the system was initially built to support. However, there are still some parts of the employee record that do not naturally transfer when a new record is built for the employee in a new payroll that could use some additional 'tweaking'.
For an organization like mine that is not terribly vertical in its management infrastructure, the APS system is just right because it is not as complex as an Ultimate Software/Kronos/PeopleSoft product. So, there isn't a huge learning curve in bringing non-HR managers and end-users up to speed on the best practice use of the system. However, there may be organizations with much thicker layers and internal specialization that may find this product to lack some of the sophistication required to really address some of the 'real time' concerns of a large and complex organization.
  • Ease of use.
  • Integrated ATS system.
  • Ability to capitalize on an LMS that was practically built to serve this HRIS/payroll system.
  • Ability to set up multiple businesses under separate EIN.
Human Resource Management (7)
61.42857142857143%
6.1
Employee demographic data
90%
9.0
Employment history
60%
6.0
Job profiles and administration
30%
3.0
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
90%
9.0
Organizational charting
N/A
N/A
Organization and location management
90%
9.0
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
70%
7.0
Payroll Management (6)
98.33333333333334%
9.8
Pay calculation
100%
10.0
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
100%
10.0
Benefit plan administration
90%
9.0
Direct deposit files
100%
10.0
Salary revision and increment management
100%
10.0
Reimbursement management
100%
10.0
Leave and Attendance Management (2)
75%
7.5
Approval workflow
90%
9.0
Balance details
60%
6.0
Employee Self Service (4)
75%
7.5
View and generate pay and benefit information
100%
10.0
Update personal information
90%
9.0
View job history
70%
7.0
View company policy documentation
40%
4.0
Asset Management (1)
30%
3.0
Tracking of all physical assets
30%
3.0
HR Reporting (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Report builder
100%
10.0
Pre-built reports
80%
8.0
Ability to combine HR data with external data
70%
7.0
Integration with other HR capabilities
N/A
N/A
Performance Management (5)
44%
4.4
Performance plans
60%
6.0
Performance improvement plans
30%
3.0
Review status tracking
60%
6.0
Review reminders
50%
5.0
Multiple review frequency
20%
2.0
Succession Planning
N/A
N/A
Onboarding (2)
100%
10.0
New hire portal
100%
10.0
Manager tracking tools
100%
10.0
Performance and Goals (3)
60%
6.0
Individual goal setting
60%
6.0
Line-of sight-visibility
40%
4.0
Performance tracking
80%
8.0
Recruiting / ATS (7)
67.14285714285714%
6.7
Job Requisition Management
100%
10.0
Company Website Posting
100%
10.0
Publish to Social Media
30%
3.0
Job Search Site Posting
80%
8.0
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
40%
4.0
Applicant Tracking
100%
10.0
Notifications and Alerts
20%
2.0
  • We were able to transition quickly and continue to successfully hire and onboard new hires for several Clubs that opened within weeks of moving to APS.
  • We do struggle a bit with the ease of reporting simply because our locations are all under separate EIN and that can make it difficult to easily combine data queried under custom reports, so the volume of reporting that I might wish to be able to push through weekly in order to help address 'real time' trends is not always available.
  • The lack of effective dating for position and wage changes does mean that HR and available APS data is not 'real time' accurate and that HR does need to return to the system to update changes well after-the-fact, which is not ideal.
I have used ADP for many years and always found the system to be restrictive in ADP's resistance to building rules that matched the organization's needs rather than asking the organization to modify its policies to match 'canned' rules already built within ADP. Bamboo and several other newer systems really cannot support the many separate EINs under the corporate umbrella. And, finally, the other products are simply too costly for this organization.
NetSuite SuiteBilling, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)
November 02, 2021

APS Rocks

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use APS Payroll for payroll and HR management, benefits, recruiting and onboarding.
  • Client Service
  • Ease of use-software
  • Well thought-out software design
  • Simple, but powerful
  • Some custom reporting is difficult
  • When you hire a candidate some of the documents like the resume and offer letter do not move into the employee record.
The software is easier to use than Paylocity, ADP, or Paychex. The payroll is very quick to do. Onboarding is super simple as well.
  • Recruiting and onboarding modules
  • Easy payroll
  • Good customer service
  • You get a dedicated service team
Human Resource Management (6)
75%
7.5
Employee demographic data
90%
9.0
Employment history
90%
9.0
Job profiles and administration
90%
9.0
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
90%
9.0
Organization and location management
N/A
N/A
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
90%
9.0
Payroll Management (7)
64.28571428571429%
6.4
Pay calculation
90%
9.0
Support for external payroll vendors
N/A
N/A
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
90%
9.0
Benefit plan administration
90%
9.0
Direct deposit files
90%
9.0
Salary revision and increment management
90%
9.0
Reimbursement management
N/A
N/A
Leave and Attendance Management (3)
80%
8.0
Approval workflow
80%
8.0
Balance details
80%
8.0
Annual carry-forward and encashment
80%
8.0
Employee Self Service (5)
72%
7.2
View and generate pay and benefit information
90%
9.0
Update personal information
90%
9.0
View job history
90%
9.0
View company policy documentation
90%
9.0
Employee recognition
N/A
N/A
Asset Management (1)
90%
9.0
Tracking of all physical assets
90%
9.0
HR Reporting (3)
46.66666666666667%
4.7
Report builder
70%
7.0
Pre-built reports
70%
7.0
Ability to combine HR data with external data
N/A
N/A
Integration with other HR capabilities
N/A
N/A
Performance Management (5)
90%
9.0
Performance plans
90%
9.0
Performance improvement plans
90%
9.0
Review status tracking
90%
9.0
Review reminders
90%
9.0
Multiple review frequency
90%
9.0
Succession Planning
N/A
N/A
Onboarding (2)
100%
10.0
New hire portal
100%
10.0
Manager tracking tools
100%
10.0
Performance and Goals (3)
60%
6.0
Individual goal setting
90%
9.0
Line-of sight-visibility
N/A
N/A
Performance tracking
90%
9.0
Recruiting / ATS (7)
100%
10.0
Job Requisition Management
100%
10.0
Company Website Posting
100%
10.0
Publish to Social Media
100%
10.0
Job Search Site Posting
100%
10.0
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
100%
10.0
Applicant Tracking
100%
10.0
Notifications and Alerts
100%
10.0
APS is much easier to use; it's laid out better you have access to all of the employee data without having to switch screens.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize APS Payroll & APS Hire. It is our HRIS, ATS, Payroll & eSelfServe system. My HR team utilizes the payroll system to process payroll and benefits on a weekly basis. My recruiting team utilizes the APS Hire system on a daily basis. All of our employees utilize eSelfServe to manage their time clocks, submit time-off requests and enroll in benefits. Overall APS Payroll I would rate as a 7 out of 10 for a payroll system. It is fairly user friendly and does most payroll tasks. The system is limited on what it can do. You can't pro rate pay automatically and its reporting is somewhat limited. Setting up a benefits file feed can be tough for the system, but their team is very helpful.

APS Hire I would rate as a 5 out of 10. It is a very glitchy system and has very limited options. eSelfServe is a good system that I would rate 9 out of 10. It has all of the necessary options, but it is also very easy to navigate. Overall I feel that APS is good system for a small to medium size company, but can be outgrown due to the lack of depth and efficiency it needs for a larger company. The cost is affordable which is also a factor in why you may choose it versus other options that are better quality.
  • Navigation of the program is simple and easy.
  • Affordability
  • eSelfServe is easy for employees to operate and for managers to track employees time.
  • Modern aesthetic and look.
  • Onboarding is fully customizable.
  • More robust HR reporting options and better customized report building.
  • Be able to have multiple recruiting pipelines that are tracked.
  • Less glitches in APS Hire. Especially with sending onboarding emails and applicants not being able to open them.
  • Better file feed communications and auto-updating to save time and add efficiency to processes.
I think APS is best suited for small to medium size companies. I believe larger companies who need a more robust program that has more processes needing managing through their HRIS/ATS will be better off going with a different program.
  • The onboarding tasks and its customization.
  • The APS Payroll employee records section and the ability to make edits and updates quickly.
  • The APS Payroll Benefits Administration section.
Human Resource Management (7)
67.14285714285714%
6.7
Employee demographic data
60%
6.0
Employment history
70%
7.0
Job profiles and administration
80%
8.0
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
60%
6.0
Organizational charting
40%
4.0
Organization and location management
80%
8.0
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
80%
8.0
Payroll Management (7)
74.28571428571429%
7.4
Pay calculation
80%
8.0
Support for external payroll vendors
80%
8.0
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
80%
8.0
Benefit plan administration
80%
8.0
Direct deposit files
70%
7.0
Salary revision and increment management
60%
6.0
Reimbursement management
70%
7.0
Leave and Attendance Management (3)
70%
7.0
Approval workflow
70%
7.0
Balance details
70%
7.0
Annual carry-forward and encashment
70%
7.0
Employee Self Service (5)
80%
8.0
View and generate pay and benefit information
90%
9.0
Update personal information
100%
10.0
View job history
80%
8.0
View company policy documentation
80%
8.0
Employee recognition
50%
5.0
Asset Management (1)
50%
5.0
Tracking of all physical assets
50%
5.0
HR Reporting (3)
60%
6.0
Report builder
60%
6.0
Pre-built reports
60%
6.0
Ability to combine HR data with external data
60%
6.0
Integration with other HR capabilities
N/A
N/A
Performance Management (5)
72%
7.2
Performance plans
80%
8.0
Performance improvement plans
60%
6.0
Review status tracking
80%
8.0
Review reminders
80%
8.0
Multiple review frequency
60%
6.0
Succession Planning
N/A
N/A
Onboarding (2)
85%
8.5
New hire portal
80%
8.0
Manager tracking tools
90%
9.0
Performance and Goals (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Individual goal setting
90%
9.0
Line-of sight-visibility
70%
7.0
Performance tracking
90%
9.0
Recruiting / ATS (7)
71.42857142857143%
7.1
Job Requisition Management
80%
8.0
Company Website Posting
80%
8.0
Publish to Social Media
50%
5.0
Job Search Site Posting
80%
8.0
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
50%
5.0
Applicant Tracking
60%
6.0
Notifications and Alerts
100%
10.0
  • We have been able to onboard our employees fast enough, but not always efficiently or accurately.
  • We have a fair cost savings for how the program performs.
I believe APS is better than Paychex as mid-tier provider. I believe Paycor is not as good due to the cost and functioning drastically different. ADP is terrible in comparison to anything due to it lacking customizability and support for smaller and mid-tier clients. APS is truly the best option from what I have utilized in the past.
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