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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

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 (290)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pay calculation (293)
    8.5
    85%
  • Update personal information (271)
    8.4
    84%
  • View and generate pay and benefit information (266)
    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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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.

8.2
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.

8.3
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.

7.9
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.

8.2
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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Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we have time management and benefits as our main functions. We use the recruiting platform and the performance dashboard. We are working to get our group to use the product more - actually using the 1:1 features and goals/objectives. We are looking to build a little curriculum for leadership with some of the learning in Paycor.
March 06, 2024

New Paycor user

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 utilize Paycor products. I am new to human resources, so using Paycor in this capacity (rather than just as an employee) is still new to me.
February 19, 2024

Great HR System!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 a couple of hiccups along the way. One being their benefits end. There is a ton of work that is asked to be able to implement benefits that shouldn't be asked of us as the client. It should be the client providing the information and Paycor doing the building and other items requested, as most places don't know what they are looking for due to knowledge of what is being asked.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Rise is using Paycor as a holistic HRIS system. Before, we did not have any real/organized systems or processes in place for hiring, onboarding, paying out, or maintaining employee records. Now, we can easily hire people easily and create a seamless onboarding process, allowing us to communicate more effectively with new hires. With the organization scaling this year to more employees and contractors, this system is instrumental in keeping everything efficient.
February 19, 2024

Paycor Review.

Matthew Mithoefer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have a small company with typically about five employees. We use Paycor to administer our bi-weekly payroll. It addresses the problems of proper taxation and record keeping. This can be hard to do at a small company without a service like Paycors. I've always liked the ease with which you can view prior W2s and paystubs. Also, I often change my direct deposit information and find that process easy.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In my experience, overcharged for all companies for over a year. trusted them so I never checked my invoices. when I noticed back last November of all the extra charges, quickly called to see what was going on. they said they'll ask them to reimburse me but, in my opinion, they never did. when they setup my account, they said I didn't need anything else but was still charged an additional $100 a month for missing tax info but, in my experience, they said everything was ok.
I talked to 5 different people including a supervisor to get everything fixed but, in my experience, he told me I was wrong and didn't believe me. product is great but the customer service is what lost me. I have multiple stores that they're losing because of this. I wished for better customer service. In my opinion, they blamed me rather than listening to why I was being charged all of those extra fees. been there since 2018 and not sure what what has happened to Paycor in the past year. I would highly recommend another payroll company speaking from a long term client of theirs that, in my opinion, they just basically stole money from and then blamed me. I think that is very unprofessional. great before but not sure what happened.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paycor for our payroll input and tax preparation. It is very user friendly. I like that I don't have to worry about our tax preparation. It is easy to use and the support teams are readily available if needed. There are several ways to contact them. I input the payroll and send it to Paycor for processing. Download of reports is very easy as well.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The biggest use of it is for semi-annual reviews. Each half, the full team is required to write personal assessments and then their boss can also use the tool to write their reflections. They can then talk and discuss what they each said.<br><br>It's organization wide.<br><br>There are technically things like meetings scheduling functionality, entering of goals and cascading them, etc. - but these aren't used.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paycor for all of our HR needs and as an LMS learning and development community. In fulfilling our HR needs, employees can view their paychecks, time off, and progress toward competencies and objectives that have been assigned to them. They can also view any important tax data and career pathing informaton.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Paycor as our Payroll system. It helps to efficiently pay 120 employees their salary with no delays. Also we use Paycor for recruiting, HR and time keeping. Employees can use their phones to clock in and out and keep track of their timecards. Paycor is very friendly user.
December 20, 2023

Paycor Higher Ed Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paycor to hire, onboard, manage, track performance, learning management and to off board. Payroll is also a module along with Paycor Time to track and pay our hourly employees and track time off for our exempt employees. We have the Pulse survey tool and also utilize the recognition tool.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paycor is our primary HR Information System (HRIS) and used for all employees. We utilize it from hire to termination and everything in between including performance reviews, document storage and task management. It was originally designed to be just our payroll system and it continues to serve in that function. However, we also use it to streamline our on-boarding, complete our ACA filing and provide a comprehensive view into their web-based personnel file.
December 14, 2023

After launch, it's great!

Elizabeth Stevenson, MBA, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it for compensation management, Performance management, job costing, you name it. It is replacing many spreadsheets that took many hours to maintain. Spreadsheets replaced are the eval dates, PTO balances, attendance point balances, CompaRatios, etc.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This platform has brought many aspects of HR into one software. We were recruiting manually now we have the recruiting platform that helps track the applicants and takes them from application to onboarding. We have our new hire forms all online and within the software which is much more efficient with a new hire. We have time keeping and payroll so that is a smooth process. We are currently doing our performance evaluations so everything is online and can be accessed from anywhere. It's all in one place. It calculated the rating which we used in Compensation Management to figure out our merit raises. That will be taken straight into payroll for January 1. It takes some of the human element out which reduces error. The employees LOVE self service through the app and Paycor is continually enhancing the features.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Paycor for the scheduling, time & attendance, payroll, ATS and onboarding features. These address our needs to track and house employee data, pay employees timely and correctly, as well as recruit and onboard new employees. Our HR team, myself included, use Paycor daily.
December 13, 2023

Paycor Delivers

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Paycor on the dauly for all HR related items. I enter new employees - Onboarding, I help with the payroll, so all payroll items and we also use it to track our PTO - time. Paycor has met our growing Company needs. As our company grows this software will be able to support our growth with the different reporing that it allows.
December 13, 2023

Paycor is Excellent!

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have been using Paycor for over 5 years. The customer service has gone from great too horrible in that time frame. Paycor has went from a great product to a product that breaks all the time. Paycor does not notify their customers when problems occur. When you notify them, it is apology after apology with no communication from them after the initial call.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mainly use it as payroll tool/time tracking and recruiting. Want to do more with it but takes time to get things set up and you don’t provide the same type of support that you give when we first onboarded with the Paycor product, so it is hard to find the time to weed through and find all of the how-to’s to set things up - like onboarding new employees, after 2 years, I’m still hiring people manually.
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