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Overview

What is Paycor?

Paycor provides core HR functions scaled towards small and mid-sized businesses. Paycor offers an integrated benefits platform for interfacing directly with insurance carriers and an adaptable time management platform.

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Recent Reviews

Paycor Review

1 out of 10
March 31, 2024
We have used them twice a month since 2018. It was great until 2023, when I believe all of these extra charges came about. IN my …
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New Paycor user

7 out of 10
March 06, 2024
Incentivized
We use Paycor for payroll and benefits management. It is a useful tool for managing employees, but we continue to look for ways to better …
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Left a lot to be desired

1 out of 10
February 20, 2024
Incentivized
Paycor has been our payroll processor and employee hub for onboarding, employee data storage, and access to paystubs or other documents.
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Great HR System!

9 out of 10
February 19, 2024
Incentivized
Paycor is used as our HR hub for our employees and data records for our subcontractors. The program has been pretty easy to use with just …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Direct deposit files (293)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pay calculation (296)
    8.5
    85%
  • Update personal information (274)
    8.4
    84%
  • View and generate pay and benefit information (269)
    8.1
    81%

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Pricing

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What is Paycor?

Paycor provides core HR functions scaled towards small and mid-sized businesses. Paycor offers an integrated benefits platform for interfacing directly with insurance carriers and an adaptable time management platform.

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  • Setup fee optional
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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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.

7.9
Avg 7.8

Payroll Management

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

8.2
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.

7.8
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

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

8.1
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.

8.2
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

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

6.8
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.

8
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.

7.8
Avg 8.1

Performance Management

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

7.3
Avg 7.9

Succession Planning

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

8.1
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.

8.3
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Paycor?

Paycor's Human Capital Management (HCM) platform aims to modernize every aspect of people management, from recruitment, onboarding and development, to payment and retention. Operating for 30 years, Paycor HR technology helps users to save time, analytics that provide actionable insights and dedicated support from HR experts. The vendor boasts more than 29,000 medium & small businesses using Paycor to help them solve problems and achieve their goals.

Paycor states they build HR software for leaders who want to:

Focus on Strategic Goals

A core HR solution for all employee data, so users never have to switch platforms, log-in to multiple systems, re-key information or open multiple spreadsheets.

Understand Their Business at a Deeper Level

Paycor Analytics brings enterprise-level insights to medium and small business.

See Around Corners

Paycor delivers expert advice at every stage of the process, from the consultative sales approach that seeks to understand the user's business before recommending solutions to ongoing guidance from a dedicated customer success team.

Paycor 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: 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

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

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

Succession Planning Features

  • Supported: Candidate ranking
  • Supported: Candidate search

Onboarding Features

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

Performance and Goals Features

  • Supported: Corporate goal setting
  • 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

Paycor Screenshots

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Paycor Technical Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Paycor provides core HR functions scaled towards small and mid-sized businesses. Paycor offers an integrated benefits platform for interfacing directly with insurance carriers and an adaptable time management platform.

ADP Workforce Now, Paycom, and Paylocity are common alternatives for Paycor.

Reviewers rate Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Paycor are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Maren Kurtz, MBA, PHR, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My number one complaint is the decline in customer service in recent years. I have had several examples of needing support and had to wait on hold for hours before talking to someone. When you have an open case and need an update you are put through the same call center process again and often the new respondent will only refer your case back to the original respondent. It that person isn’t available you are at their mercy to respond on their time as they will not provide any direct contact information. This is extremely frustrating with time sensitive issues.
June 22, 2023

Net neutral

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my experience, there are often crashes of the platform which cause inconvenience for me as a team of one. When it’s working, it houses many of our needs in one place and manages our benefits portal.
June 20, 2023

HR Generalist

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Implementation was above average but not spectacular, we felt well informed but at times modules of implementation overlapped and that caused frustration. Due to open enrollment, benefit implementation was behind our company's schedule.

Any HRIS implementation is hard, but we felt supported throughout the process. My recommendation rating would be higher if reporting was improved and timesheet improvements were made.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I took over 6 months to select Paycor as our new HRIS system, and they’ve met all of our criteria: user experience, ease of use, accuracy, one database, integration with benefits and 401k, accounting reports and custom reports, and customer support.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have used many other payroll software systems. By far Paycor is the easiest and most user friendly to manipulate with ease. So extremely user friendly and clean easy to follow screens as well as strong customer service
June 05, 2023

One year in..

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The only feature that our company does not use from Paycor is their scheduling feature, because we do not require it for our business model. We have implemented a paperless onboarding process and a paperless benefit enrollment in the last year utilizing Paycor. Many of our new team members are happy with the ease of the onboarding process with Paycor.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our old company was going out of the payroll business so we only had 2 months to move to a new system. Paycor made sure we were able to make that happen. The implementation team was incredible and we were able to build a customized system that met our needs. The ATS has brought in a higher level of candidates and has made the pre-employment process tracking much easier. We are able to build reports and track time to meet the requirements of our different funders. Employees are very happy with how user friendly Paycor is as well as the management team. Paycor has helped us communicate more timely and effectively with staff.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is very easy to use and functional. I was not expecting it to be so robust based on the reasonable pricing in comparison to other HRISs. Our employees also enjoy using it. Paycor has made it very easy for payroll to be processed quickly. It functions well with the time tracking/scheduling system and syncs automatically. They are continuing to add new features (such as expense management) that have continued to save our team time when processing payroll. The only issue we have every come across is with the schedule API. We have set up an API for our schedule through Paycor and our phone system for our sales team to be "available" to take calls based on when they are scheduled through Paycor. This has had syncing issues a few times but Paycor is quick to resolve the issue, just frustrating when the integration breaks and we have to do the process manual until the fix is implemented. Paycor was not really purchased to address that specific need though so it was not a deal breaker for us that the integration might not be the perfect solution.
April 24, 2023

Easy Breezy Payroll

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is an amazing tool for keeping track of attendance, it has helped us gain more accuracy on time punches and address issues as they occur. We have seen a dramatic decrease in time punch errors and because they are stored it makes it easier for management to keep an accurate record for possible disciplinary action.
April 21, 2023

Easy Peasy!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Great for employee use- time clock management, time off approvals/accruals, ease of use for managers when approving time cards

Less suited- reporting for multiple client ids
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited for hourly employee timekeeping and payroll; proficient in state and federal taxes. Less appropriate for city taxes. Not applicable for payroll outside of US unless using a TPA. LMS has good functionality on mobile phones which is very helpful for hourly employees without access to computers. Easy manager workflows for approvals/ recommendations. Paycor recruiting is very intuitive for applicants.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my opinion, support at Paycor is embarrassingly bad. Several times in my experience, I have called support and been passed back and forth between payroll and time and attendance support while they try to decide which department can help. In my opinion, tickets feel like they are regularly open for several months with very little movement or communication. In our experience, we have to have weekly calls with our CSM to get updates on tickets and push tickets to completion. I believe in situations like this, the client has to drive all communication with support. I believe most support staff just direct you back to the support center even if you have already reviewed it instead of assisting with the issue. I believe it is also very difficult to customize user access. After spending a lot of time customizing our access, we, now, in our experience, have support sometimes update the user access without the approval of an admin. When we push Paycor on this issue, I believe they said it was a one-off issue with a support agent who no longer works there. However, this has occurred 3 times in less than a year during our experience with them.
April 21, 2023

BEST ATS!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is awesome for higher education. You can set up different hiring processes for different employee types (faculty vs staff vs athletic employees). It is so helpful to personalize those hiring processes in addition to personalizing applications for different employee types.
March 20, 2023

MyScore with PayCor

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When new applicants apply and I send them the Onboarding invite works well; however sometimes (particularly if they have worked for a company that used PayCor in the past I have to call tech support to get them entered into our system.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is probably pretty good for small businesses, but the larger you grow, the more difficult it is to use. Their analytics tool provides inconsistent data as compared to our payroll journals, probably as a result of the multiple payrolls we have to maintain as a larger organization. The system doesn't properly allow for the use of "contingent" labor as a separate population of non-employees, meaning you have to make up phony social security numbers and other details in order to get them into the system for time card tracking. In our case, Paycor has set up different "payrolls" for each staffing agency that we use, and we have to maintain separate cost centers for them in every part the business where they work. This is resulting in a very cluttered system, and accurate reporting is difficult.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is a very effective software for a small businesses. It makes a lot of basic HR processes much simpler and easier. However, I am unsure how well it would fit a larger organization. I think it suits a small business very well and makes things easier, but may not be as effective in a larger situation. the applicant tracking system is less effective for hiring remote jobs. Because the jobs are posted on online job boards like Indeed, there is an overload of applications, many coming from unqualified candidates, making it difficult to weed out good candidates and wasting time reading through candidates without relevant experience.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor has greatly increased the productivity of our HR staff, taking us from processing paper timesheets to having employees clocking their hours on the mobile app which then automatically import into the Paygrid portion of Paycor. Paycor has also reduced and aleviated the burden of our Open Enrollment process, advancing us decades ahead of how we were processing Open Enrollment. This has truly been a great experience. All programs are going to have features that may not be the best or may have glitches and hiccups along the way, but really matters is how the company handles those issues and Paycor is top notch to jump in and fix anything as it comes along.
March 02, 2023

Paycor Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love the chat feature on Paycor where you can speak to a rep right away but at time they redirect you to an email address, for example, their learning platform. It would be helpful if all departments were available via chat, for a quicker response time.
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