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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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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.paycor.com/plans-pricing

Offerings

  • 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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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use
  • Constantly trying to update the product
  • HR support module is very nice.
  • Trying to find how-to’s within its resource area is not intuitive at all. If you type “how to set up….. anything”, I never get the right answer the first time I go looking for the answer. 9.9% of the time I end up calling the help desk. There should be a simple “how-to’s” section that I can drill into, to find my answer.
  • Report building is still cumbersome. Running a simple report like list all my full time, part time employees by their title and then by salary, so I can verify that all my people are in the correct pay band, is still not easy to run. If it is available, then, I haven’t learned how to get that out of the system. Sometimes the simplest ask is the hardest to find the answer to.
  • I wish how they charged us was different. Just seems like we are being “nickeled and dimed” for every little thing. There are some functionalities that I would like but because 3/4 of the staff have to do things one way, it’s not cost effective for the other 1/4 to be able to use a section, like performance management, when we are going to be charged by the total number of active employees - rather than total number of active employees in this department…. Therefore we are not using some of your products that would be very helpful and needed by 1/4th of our organization.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Scheduling for management is well organized and easily visualized to ensure proper coverage while avoiding overtime or being over staffed.
  • Scheduling for the employees is user friendly. Employees can easily request and view their time off. They can also view their schedule along with their team's at any time.
  • Payroll is very streamlined. With scheduling and Payroll in the same system, everything can be quickly verified for accuracy. All time sheets are kept within the system and then easily processed for Payroll.
  • Some of the reporting can be difficult to navigate.
  • Time off remaining for employees can be a bit confusing in the beginning. The way Paycor calculates time off remaining, it deducts any approved upcoming time off, which can be misleading for employees trying to determine how much time they truly have remaining in the moment.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Collecting and saving HR documents
  • Accessing demographic information on your employees with ease
  • Processing payroll
  • From my experience, modules are not communicating with each other, need a more seamless system.
  • In my opinion, the system is too slow, many times it kicks you out or you cannot use it during payroll weeks.
  • Have to input same data in several places due to system setup.
November 06, 2023

Paycor is a timesaver.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Use of the timekeeping module allows for accurate accounting of hours
  • Payroll is seamless and intuitive
  • Having all the HR in one database is helpful for managing our employees
  • Still getting used to the system but I would like to see more customization in the report building module.
  • Ability to add direct deposit information to the mobile app
  • Reduction of security questions to set up mobile accounts.
October 31, 2023

Paycor Growth Potential

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer Service is very attentive
  • Payroll management is great
  • Sales Representatives are very helpful
  • Client Interfacing, it would be nice to have a designated client assigned representative to reach out to. I've had that with other companies and it's a game changer!
  • More one on one system training options with a client representative
October 22, 2023

Paycor pays for itself!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll
  • FMLA leave and tracking
  • Recruiting and job management
  • Implementation follow through
  • Help with implementing additional features in my opinion- not just leaving it as - self implementation in my opinion- it’s a big system so I believe they should help us through it
  • The modules should be narrated/ not read only in my opinion.
  • Read and respond to your message biards
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting
  • Keeping up to date with regulations.
  • Support
  • In my experience, time and Attendance is hard for managers to navigate.
  • In my experience, often Customer Service does not return calls.
  • In my opinion, they want us to try to figure out things on our own.
September 07, 2023

Honest assessment

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allowing for customization
  • Customer account management to a degree...
  • Online training resources
  • Integration between platforms like Paycor recruiting
  • One on one customer support scheduling
  • Ease of Reporting
  • Some items seem like they could be useful, but not sure of the purpose - like job descriptions.
  • Process for promotions?
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll
  • Earning & deductions.
  • Time & attendance.
  • Good Support!
  • Benefits on the backend can be challenging, but it has improved some.
  • Custom reports can be a challenge if there are more criteria/filters.
August 28, 2023

Cost Savings!!!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Responsive
  • User Friendly
  • Continous Improvments
  • Communication
  • Chatting with cutomer service
  • Wait time when calling customer service
August 28, 2023

Paycor review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • customer service
  • reposting and analytics
  • user friendly for the employees
  • eliminating the manual transfer process from ID to ID
  • reporting with time off accruals and linking with pay checks
  • I-9 process and being able to completed
Shannon White | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Performance Review (7 geese)
  • Reporting - Allowing you to go back in time to pull prior salaries & prior titles for that given time.
  • Vacation/PTO Time - Not allowing managers to approve time off requests, when the team member has 0 time available.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Product offerings
  • Customer support
  • Legal compliance
  • Mobile capabilities
  • Knowledge Base - needs enhancements to the search function
  • Admin guides are sometimes hard to follow or don't provide all the necessary tools/details
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Performance management tools.
  • Easy to use benefits enrollment.
  • Recruiting platform.
  • More editing ability within performance management.
  • Easier way to pull reports and store results.
  • Employee Rewards programs.
Lindsay Merdzinski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to navigate, we came from Paycom and Paycor’s ease of use is superior to Paycom
  • 1:1 templates and overall employee performance management makes my life easier
  • HR loves this tool where as we heard constant complaints before
  • In the recruiting module I feel the layout could improve, time sink that you have to click around so much to get from one document to the next
  • Recruiting area is cumbersome and requires a lot of time for the user where other areas do not in my opinion
Maren Kurtz, MBA, PHR, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simple payroll processing
  • Good onboarding platform
  • Accrual management
  • Handling tax reporting
  • Customer service - it was much better with a designated person assigned
  • The time recording tool is not user friendly
  • The knowledge base has a lot of information, but it’s hard to find exactly what you’re looking for
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