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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 7.9

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 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Taxes.
  • We are able to customize each payroll.
  • It easily runs bonus payroll.
  • There's no one person of contact.
  • It can be difficult to get to a specialized department with questions when necessary.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Excellent customer service.
  • Easy to read reports.
  • Taxes are always paid on time.
  • When I call, the system asks for my client ID. When a representative comes on, I am asked for my ID again. It's a little thing, but why ask again?
  • My payroll runs monthly on the 29th. For June, the payroll should have run on the 28th because the 29th was a Saturday. If I hadn't called on the 28th to ask why the payroll wasn't automatically deposited in our accounts, the payroll never would have run because no one works on Saturday.
  • Enclosing a copy of all W2s in the end of the year packet would be easier for me, rather than going online to print them out.
Christopher Nieporte | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very responsive to questions and excels at offering training opportunities.
  • The system is intuitive.
  • There are a great number of data points that can be pulled for reporting purposes.
  • Their system could use a way to view data/analytics without having to pull a report for Excel.
  • Needs to be an easier way for companies to create new time designation on time cards.
  • The time off request functionality could use some finer tuning for people making requests over two weeks.
July 01, 2019

Paycor Does it All

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Onboarding: it automatically fills in forms with personal information and you can easily see how the process is progressing.
  • Task list: this is helpful in onboarding employees as several different people are involved in the process.
  • Reporting: it has more reports than you would ever need as well as the ability to create and customize your own.
  • The option to not display completed tasks. I feel I have to read them all to ensure they are complete
  • Easier navigation in changing a salary. It's not very intuitive.
  • Price of applicant tracking: it is high for a smaller company who may not use it much.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Perform has a very user-friendly interface
  • Time on Demand isn't user friendly for the employee or the administrator.
  • Benefits module is challenging to set up to our needs.
  • Perform and Time on Demand are not fully integrated which in turn requires double the work at times.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer Support: Customer support is very helpful when issues arise.
  • Benefits admin: We used the benefits module for our open enrollment last year and it was sooo much easier! Not having paper enrollments and manually entering the information has saved us tons of time.
  • Payroll
  • Reporting: The reporting has changed recently. Some very useful reports I used to use all the time are gone.
  • Total compensation statements that are canned in the reporting section do not pull accurate information. It's accurate in the employee's page, but when it goes into the report, the information is different.
  • Transferring employees to another company within the same organization is not efficient. We have to terminate them and rehire them. The transfer button (which is new) only transfers a little bit of information and there is a lot of manual entry that has to take place.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • They always make sure they ask if there are any new changes to the company to make sure you are the most current with all the information needed for payroll.
  • Paycor has many team members available so when you call in and your particular rep isn't available then you can always talk to someone else just as professional and kind.
  • They always operate with the most professionalism to make sure you feel like the most important client they have!
  • I have always had my concerns addressed and solved so there isn't much to say negatively about Paycor
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy online use
  • We have employees from several states. Having Paycor pay taxes in all states is very helpful.
  • Good response time from support if I have questions.
  • We used to have one person to contact instead of a team of people. I liked the one on one aspect of Paycor better than I do now.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Paycor is very responsive when we have questions
  • Paycor implementation was simple
  • Paycor has design a system that is easy to use
  • To be honest I can't think of a con against Paycor. We may be the only Con because the system offers a lort of bells and whistles that we don't use due to the size of our company.
June 26, 2019

Got Time!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Paycor provides comprehensive payroll reporting for deep dive analysis on all aspects of payroll. Paycor allows for standard reporting and is particularly adept as providing custom reporting to fit the needs of our operation.
  • Paycor provided an accurate time keeping mechanism through Time on Demand. This gives the user an isolated platform for which to review and enter time, schedules, and other information for each employee without the need to log into a separate platform.
  • Paycor's reporting system is efficient. Reports can be generated within seconds and saved for future use making it easy to access and revise as needed.
  • The functionality of the time clock could be improved as there are times when adjustments to time are difficult, especially when adjusting from one day to the next in the event an employee "rolls" over past midnight.
  • When using the dashboard in TOD and reviewing exceptions, it is difficult to maneuver from one day to the next with having to go back to dashboard. This functionality could be improved by allowing the user to simply select the next page which should show all exceptions.
  • The Transfer at time of day, period block transfer, and reallocate hours functions are confusing. This could be tightened up a bit and allowing multiple revisions within the same selection would be helpful.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • great customer support
  • allows me to input future payroll to be released the next week (vacations)
  • files ALL tax filings
  • creates W-2's, 1099's & year end reports
  • I honestly have no complaints or critisism for Paycor. This is the first Payroll processing company I have used & they have taken care of our needs in a very professional manner.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Paycor responds extremely fast after an email or call is submitted to resolve an issue.
  • Representatives are very knowledgeable and walk you through any process in question.
  • When speaking to a representative, they are professional and patient.
  • Since 2017, I've noticed some changes which resulted in improvement.
  • Previously, responses were somewhat slow, but that has changed in the last year.
  • During the end of the year, it's busy for Paycor. Perhaps they can hire more representatives during that time to help speed up the turn around time for responding back to questions, problems or concerns.
June 26, 2019

Paycor Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Excellent customer service within their Time & Attendance department.
  • Prompt Payroll tax filing for our small business.
  • Time Clock interfaces well with Paycor Time & Attendance system.
  • Improvement is needed is accessibility of Payroll Specialist. Typically when I call, I have to leave a message, which may or may not be returned. Usually, I have to follow up with an email, which is answered eventually.
  • I would like it if they could provide classroom training or 1-on-1 training. I typically learn better that way.
  • Additional training on ACA requirements and services that Paycor provides for ACA would be beneficial, especially when you are new to the system.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Highlighting employees that miss a punch
  • Online ability to check your punches and information
  • Online ability to check the status of your contributions to retirement
  • We have the time lock that is located in a central location, requires last four of SSN and password, sometimes it is hard to get a full punch if you are not pressing hard enough or in a hurry.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to communicate with and to get into contact with.
  • Friendly, and helpful with online stuff.
  • Keeping my business organized, which I had problems doing before (as small as it is).
  • Nothing I can think of.
  • Make it free? ;)
June 26, 2019

Easy to use.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Anyone can do payroll on Paycor, it is very simple, point, click, fill in the blank.
  • It is nice not to have to worry about submitting taxes.
  • It is not user friendly giving an employee access to see their pay stubs. The layout is very odd.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very easy to navigate! It is very easy to add a new employee. The system takes you through each step with lots of good information.
  • Customer support is awesome! When I was first learning, I called in several times and each time was a very pleasant experience.
  • Trustworthy! It is a big help having everything calculated and having all necessary tax paperwork prepared and filed for me.
  • I have not come across anything I don't understand or that should be fixed.
David Pustinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides a user friendly data entry platform for processing payroll
  • Accurately prepares payroll tax filings and remits withheld funds to the proper governmental entities
  • Accurately provides electronic payment of payroll to employees
  • Paycor should provide a quick access phone support number on the homepage
  • Paycor should make it easier to get to a live person
  • Generally live support is not needed but it seems that Paycor tries to make it difficult to connect to a live person
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll is easy to administer
  • Employees can manage paystubs and end of the year processing themselves
  • Reporting features are excellent
  • Customer service is top knotch!
  • Sometimes the search feature for help is difficult to navigate
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • All my documents for taxes are well organized and easy to get to.
  • The reminders and e-mails on current issues and changes are very helpful to keep me informed.
  • The system works easily.
  • The people who help manage the accounts are constantly changing so you cannot build a relationship with them.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time tracking - both online at retail stores and with hand scanner at warehouse location worked very well.
  • Time was accessed by Department Managers to verify their employees' times and paid time off.
  • Reporting was easy to use and great for analyzing data.
  • Custom Report Writing can be made a little more user-friendly.
  • Choice of fonts in reporting would be a big help.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Good time keeping system that helps us pay our employees accurately.
  • Simple payroll processing that allows us to pay all locations at once.
  • Reporting system to allow us to look at different facets of payroll.
  • Time on Demand is a little difficult to use and hard to get screen shots of some of the menus for documenting procedures.
  • More interaction of the online onboarding. Allow more than just signing off on documents but allowing check offs.
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