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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 (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%

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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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Offerings

  • 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.

7.9
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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Paycor has allowed us to improve employee experience from the use of ESS to the manager's use of Performance and Time and Attendance. Employees and managers used to struggle with the data they had access to, getting logged in, and updating information. With Paycor the UI is entirely user friendly and easy to locate the information they need.
  • Processing payroll has much simpler and quicker with Paycor. What used to take us an entire day to process, takes us on average 2hrs to process since switching.
  • One negative impact is that I feel as if our organization's HR is moving faster than Paycor on trends and HR needs, and I feel as if I have to wait on them to catch up or use a sub-system to handle our needs, such as the succession planning and performance management.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Analytics of what the recruiting team is doing
  • Having to train all new managers on the system as they have to be added to use the system
  • Ease of moving candidates to different positions or managers
November 27, 2019

Good Product!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The use of the ATS system has drastically reduced the amount of time our HR staff spends in recruiting and tracking candidates. It makes having multiple positions open at the same time manageable and we are not bogged down in spreadsheets. Plus candidates get more timely communication back from us.
  • Our payroll processing is more accurate and less time consuming because we have more control over our own data than in our previous system.
November 26, 2019

Review of Paycor

Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The website crashing causes extra time to be used for payroll.
  • The reports not useful for certain instances, especially for gross wages. Have to specify which wages , vac, sick, OT. It should just let you report on all wages automatically.
  • Vacation accrual should be on payroll period, not check date. Have to manually go in each year and update each employee's accrual to match our records.
  • Salaried employees do not automatically have an hourly rate in paycor. This causes issues when running vacation accrual reports which are based on hourly rates.
November 25, 2019

Pay less with Paycor

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Improved employee experience verses the last payroll service. They were not able to get their paystubs until a few weeks after pay.
  • The ability to have the software work with our reporting software for hours has freed up many hours of data entry and has allowed our department to become more efficient.
  • The data for payroll to put in information is easy to update if necessary and requires little effort to maintain.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We had had a huge increase in efficiency in our software development job costing, which has helped us to close our books in record time.
  • I believe that we have had minimized compliance risks with the ability to see an audit log for everything that is done within Paycor.
  • From what I can see, we have had improved employee experience since we had moved from Paychex and ADP prior to our transition to Paycor, which Paycor has allowed us a lot more visibility and functionality that the other providers didn't have.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Prior to our conversion to Paycor, we did all of our annual open enrollment changes manually. Paycor assisted us with setting up our Open Enrollment event the first year, but our Benefits Administrator has been able to make the necessary changes and updates each year afterward. We also set up file feeds to our medical insurance provider which has allowed the BA to free up time and focus on other tasks.
November 20, 2019

Paycor Review

Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Biggest gain for the employees is direct deposit rather than receiving a physical paycheck.
  • Reminders are regularly sent about upcoming payroll deadlilnes.
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