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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

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Direct deposit files (291)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pay calculation (294)
    8.5
    85%
  • Update personal information (272)
    8.4
    84%
  • View and generate pay and benefit information (267)
    8.1
    81%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

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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.

8.1
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.

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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February 25, 2023

Paycor rocks

Catherine Haener CPA, PHR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I can't think of a scenario where PayCor would not be the right decision. If you have to manage payroll, it is a great platform. Customer service is great, the platform is customizable, and it is user friendly. The add-ons are icing on the cake. Recruiting is a great module and implementing Benefits was a great experience. The employees are engaged in the use of the software and the [supervisors] find it easy to use too.
Blake Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I currently promote Paycor in my Bay Area Networking Groups and feel that it is a perfect fit for my industry. Because we span multiple business models under one house we require the ability for our payroll system to be adaptable and flexible, and find that Paycor is the most suitable for this.
February 16, 2023

Easy to Use Product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is an excellent option for a small business looking to create a singular resource for many elements of HR and payroll administration. For larger companies, it may be difficult to scale, as some navigation tools lag tremendously, and frequent updates change the functionality of some resources - fine if only a few users are depending upon the resource, but could be burdensome if training multiple managers were required frequently.
February 07, 2023

Paycor

Chuck Dunn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our users are able to quickly access team member details related to hire date, current and previous roles, time and attendance, reports for daily and monthly operation reviews as well as wage studies. All of the above are an integral part of running the operations of our facilities on a daily basis.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It seems to work pretty well for medium sized companies that are not significantly complex. I'm not sure it would work well for a really large organization. It has had trouble dealing with some of our more complex shift premiums/etc. I think it would work well for small organizations.
February 06, 2023

Paycor to the Core

Bob Bentz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Payroll is a competitively priced payroll provider. It is especially beneficial if you have employees in different states and need to know the unique taxing jurisdiction. Reporting makes it easier to complete end of year taxes.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my experierience, implementation is horrific with little assistance and project management ownership. Customer service is lacking and there is no real ability to track the progress of open cases, questions, etc. This product is not appropriate for a company who does not have a fully staffed HR/Payroll department.
February 03, 2023

Paycor Reviews!!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Paycor in the past jobs and in my current position. We are not currently using Paycor to it's full potential but we are working in that direction. We are in the process of establishing better workflows and reporting functions.
Theresa A Rahman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my experience, Paycor is suitable for the Human Resources area, this platform helps to cover different needs such as; payroll control, adequate administration of employee information, access to professional profiles, recruitment, schedules and much more.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
support both on phone and online portal is horrible. if you call you will wait minimum of one hour but most times two hours. When a support person answers they will be very inexperienced and only be able to answer the most basic of questions ( that you would not really need help for, so having that type of support person answer a support call is really a waste of your time and resources ), then they will need to transfer you to the next level of support which will leave you on hold for another one to two hours.
If you just do basic payroll and have no need for ANY help...ever then their portal is just ok. I would suggest trying another company. When i first signed up with this company support was good, but they have grown and are now implementing a BIG corporate strategy of maximizing revenue at the cost of horrible service to their customers. They reskinned their portal to be needlessly and overly complex. And their support both online and by phone is terrible!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is very helpful to standardize processes. We have been able to integrate from hire to off-boarding and it really allows our employees to be supported throughout their lifecycle. With the help of Paycor, we have been able to move from multiple systems and different software to one system, which has been fantastic. We have struggled to get notifications set up since the system doesn't allow you to set notifications for certain groups (i.e. you can't send timesheet reminders to only hourly employees). We are also unable to add blackout dates or custom holidays for certain groups in our organization.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor maybe was a decent software back in the day, but for 2021, it seems outdated and stodgy. Also, my main issue with them is the fact that I've been fined by multiple states because Paycor remitted our payroll taxes late. It's very difficult to see who is off on PTO if they are not on your team. Also, it's difficult to create reports unless explicitly trained on it (not intuitive).
December 10, 2022

Paycor-- Really good

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Paycor is great for processing payrolls and submitting payments, Benefits advisor is good with communicating to vendors. Time and attendance is awful. We cannot use the scheduling tool and we need to be able to manage employees/supervisors on a more customizable basis. Plus needing to merge accounts to get the single sign-on between Paycor and Time is cumbersome. We've been promised an upgrade to Perform Time but it is always halted right before release.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor stood out as an HRIS when compare to others in the area. In fact, it has been a reliable and easy-to-adopt system for our HR team. With a diverse set of people having a wide disparity between computer use, we have had no trouble getting people to interact with the system. As in from our most tech-savvy to those that prefer to not use a computer, we have been able to utilize Paycor to digitize their HR lives. This was not possible in other places we tried. We have also appreciated the ability of the payroll process to be tailored to our unique needs. The integration process was thorough and helped us not miss a payroll when getting started and has kept us going since.
December 07, 2022

Paycor

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Paycor is great for smaller sized businesses that handles only one client/company payroll. We have two companies in Paycor, and to switch from one to another is cumbersome.
Ali Aguilar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Maybe this is suited for a larger company with more standardized processes, or it excels in a feature that we aren't using. I was impressed with the benefits module, we just didn't have the budget for it. For smaller Ops teams with evolving processes, this may be clunky and not customizable for your needs, or even *too* robust. If employee experience is not a focus and you just need a system to run payroll, store data, etc this is better suited for you.
December 06, 2022

Paycor Pays Off For Us!

James Baca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had ADP for a while and were frustrated by it. When we switched to Paycor, we noticed a marked improvement in the little things. Applicant tracking and onboarding can be tall tasks for any company, but it seemed like the software helped us succeed at this a lot more efficiently than what we had going on. I feel that hiring is a tough thing to do already, but allowing easy applicant tracking and onboarding when everything is complete in the hiring process, made our work a lot easier!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is an intuitive product that delivers on multiple fronts. The software is quite modern and handles recruiting, onboarding and payroll administration, including benefits. It's great to have all of these features under one roof, so to speak. We found the support to be great and timely. This has been a big time saver.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you want a live person to talk to about issues or getting help this isn't the company for you. This is the one aspect of Paycor that I'm disappointed with. However, they do have a live chat feature that has been very helpful for me. There is very little waiting and they can normally answer all my questions quickly or send links to help me figure things out. Paycor does do a nice job of providing tools that really help simplify and improve tracking data and being consistent with many HR aspects. The systems are easy to use and pretty self-explanatory. The learning library is very helpful for many types of issues and topics.
December 01, 2022

Paycor In Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is user friendly if you know where to find what you want to do. Some aspects of the design could be better. I tried the new website and do not like it's navigation so far. I find myself going back to the old version so that I can find what I need and view things. The new timecards are not as easy to follow as the old. Where does it show the PTO days? Paycor for payroll is the best I have used.
December 01, 2022

Paycor is a great tool

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor has been a great place to streamline a lot of our previous documentation; I would really like to see it integrate with Microsoft Teams and PowerAutomate. We implemented the recognition tool from Paycor for our "Champion Awards" two years ago, and while I like the general idea of it, managers are only notified of people on their own team receiving awards and most users do not log in to Paycor everyday, so the average employee does not see their collogues being recognized regularly. We are heavy users of Teams and being able to utilize a PowerAutomate to notify our company in Teams that someone received a Chamption Award would be really cool.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a small company, the use of Paycor gives us an edge and allows us to compete with bigger companies without the need to hire someone additional to handle payroll operations. I don't know how efficient it would be with a large company.
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