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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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  • 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 7.9

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 7.8

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 8.2

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 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.

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 7.8
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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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Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We mainly use Paycor for time reporting, accrual management, tax reporting and payroll processing. We recently implemented the onboarding platform which has tremendously streamlined the onboarding process. We have approximately 65 full time employees and up to 40 part time/seasonal employees on an annual basis. We also have a handful of employees who work remotely and out of state.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Paycor on a daily basis. I run daily payroll and time reports, work on timesheets, and time-off. I also utilize performance management on a daily basis by either initializing reviews or updating them. When needed I update employee information like pay rates, manager changes, position changes, and terminations. In my experience, I have daily problems with timesheets. About 3/4 of critical errors everyday are because Paycor "could not process the punch" when the employee makes it. In my experience, I spend hours fixing issues that are ultimately due to Paycor not performing well. In addition, it does not function well with the way we complete reviews. There is no way to automatically set up reviews to occur. We have to manually enter these into Outlook and then manually enter the performance review questions to drop. I feel many of these things should be done by the system.
June 20, 2023

HR Generalist

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We were looking for an all inclusive platform that can house all of our employee data sources, from onboarding to off boarding.

We use modules including performance reviews, time, payroll, benefits, ACA, FMLA, recruitment, talent and development. As we transition from another HRIS, there were significant improvements in items like ACA, FMLA, Payroll, Recruitment, and performance reviews. Time cards have some positives and some negatives that we hope to see improved. There is also a bit more of a lag time in reporting than expected. That is also in the process of being upgraded and the new Report Builder option looks promising.

I would like to see improvement in the dashboard as well to have more "shortcuts" available linking the modules to the first page.

June 05, 2023

One year in..

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paycor from recruiting to termination including: Recruiting, Payroll, Benefit Administration, and Performance. We have had issues with support and communication but are currently implementing their advanced support features in the next month and this will help to mitigate many of the issues we are currently facing with support.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a non-profit, highly regulated organization that utilizes detailed reports to get reimbursement from various funders. We are able to track time and obtain labor allocation reports that allows us to get full reimbursement. We are highly regulated and the onboarding tool and certification tracking has allowed us to maintain compliance. The applicant tracking system has helped us reach out to great candidates and easily track the pre-employment process for new hires.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is mostly easily used for the employee and admin. However I think reporting function is lacking and it is very difficult to narrow down to specific information. In addition we recently added Expense Management but the installation was awful! We still have problems and cannot use it and from my experience I do not get response from the installer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I was a company administrator and user of Paycor, all products at this time other than new Sourcing and their performance management. They have a very streamlined and user friendly platform. Customer service has gotten better and they are quick to help out when needed. I love their support system. The LMS system, well, not so much, but I might need to be able to utilize as it was purposed. Just can't find anyone that has been able to help me out yet. Implementation was super easy breezy and the sales team was amazing. Other than LMS, Paycor has really helped streamline many of our processes, they are administrator and user friendly and I would highly recommend them!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We needed an all-in one system that could handle employee engagement as well as other traditional HR functions (payroll, ben admin, scheduling, etc.). We were previously using a payroll vendor that did not offer ben admin, time keeping, performance, engagement, etc. so everything was done in separate systems and spreadsheets. Getting Paycor allowed our team to have a 1 stop shop for all things people related. It has helped our employees stay engaged with their performance and their peers through the Perform feature and has allowed our HR team to save time because we don't have to switch between systems and doing manual calculations.
April 24, 2023

Easy Breezy Payroll

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paycor to ensure accurate time punches and scheduling for all of our employees. Paycor has helped us simplify and streamline our payroll process. The user interface is easy to use and understand for all our employees, making errors fewer and further in between. It also makes it easier for management to identify and address any attendance issues.
April 21, 2023

Easy Peasy!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paycor on a daily basis to house all of our HR employee information as well as all processing of payroll. We also have integration with our Benefit portal and Paycor to manage our benefits administration.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paycor for our US payroll, Benefits Advisor, Paycor Recruiting, Talent Management, and most recently Compensation Planning Tool. The Comp planning tool helped us eliminate manual spreadsheets and duplicate input; also allows for manager input. Paycor Recruiting allows us to feed applicant information directly to payroll upon hire eliminating duplication. The Benefit Advisory module interacts with our benefit carrier and eases the open enrollment process. Talent Management keeps all 1:1, career planning, and disciplinary actions captured in the system in one place.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Paycor as a full HRIS suite for onboarding, time and attendance, payroll, employee management, benefits administration, and reporting. I use Paycor daily in my role where I develop and maintain our Admin P&P and training as well as manage and train our office managers at our locations. Paycor payroll is pretty good. But, in my opinion, many of the products cannot be customized to our needs (such as being able to make some fields required as part of onboarding). From this experience, we also feel like we are having a lot of headaches as some settings have to be changed per client ID/entity. This means if we decide to update a setting (or if Paycor adds a new setting that has to be configured in order for the platform to work correctly), we have to dedicate a resource to make this change in 20+ client IDs. In our experience, we have also had a terrible time with our onboarding with Paycor and many of our original setup was done incorrectly. We have requested many times for Paycor to do an audit of all of our settings to make sure they are the same across all client IDs and they have not been able to dedicate this resource for us.
April 21, 2023

BEST ATS!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We LOVE Paycor at CSP! It is extremely organized on the home dashboard. You can see exactly where candidates are in the process and the email function embedded within the platform is out of this world helpful! Paycor is so organized and is extremely pleasing to the eye. As someone who likes a quick snapshot of all our open positions, Paycor follows through with exactly where we are at.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paycor for all HRIS-related functions, including payroll, benefits administration, onboarding, performance reviews, reporting, analytics, etc. Time and attendance represent our heaviest use of the product.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Paycor to view my paystubs and update my benefit elections. This enables each employee at my firm to track their paystubs easily, and eliminate the burden of emailing out each individual paystub to every employee every single month. A ton of time is saved as a firm using Paycor, and is much simpler to track paystubs as an employee.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is used to run payroll and automate HR operations. Employee information is stored here, and payroll is processed. It is also utilized for recruiting, using the applicant tracking system. Paycor is used to simplify many steps in these processes, making it easier to recruit, onboard new hires, run payroll, and keep track of employee equipment and certifications, birthdays, performance reviews, and more.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our business uses Paycor on a daily ongoing basis from employees clocking in and out via the app and the web portal. We also utilize the Time Accrual system for PTO procesing, Benefits Administration platform as well as the Scheduling platform. Our business is in Higher Education, so we also employee approximatley 500 students, Paycor allows the timekeeping process to be as smooth and minimal as possibly. Prior to Paycor, we use to process over 600 paper timesheets manually. Our business also struggled with our Open Enrollment process and administrating our benefits. The Benefits platform has really advanced that process and has taken it to a whole new level.
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