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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.

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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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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 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Not fixing issues
  • Taking the hire date and automatically linking it to recurring quarterly and annual reviews
  • Making the review section more user friendly. If it’s a review leave that separate from a 1on1.
  • Timesheets is CONSTANTLY timing out on our employees making it look like they haven’t clocked time.
June 22, 2023

Net neutral

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It provides a one stop shop for the employee experience from application to hire.
  • Paycor seems to be a bit behind in terms of technical aptitude. Their performance management section is very clunky.
June 20, 2023

HR Generalist

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • ACA - the ACA support was phenomenal. It was SO easy.
  • Payroll - Easy to use and easy to edit.
  • Performance Reviews - Customizable and has some AI features incorporated
  • Benefits - User Friendly with so many options for administrative reports.
  • Recruiting - intuitive design, easy to read and get a snapshot of information. Can add non-manager to review applications which is very helpful when team interviewing.
  • Reporting - The reporting is slow and cumbersome. There have been improvements in their new reporting platform and it looks promising. We are patiently waiting for the new platform to be out of Beta testing because it seems to work much better.
  • Timesheet - there is lag time from clock in widget on the homepage to timesheets. Our employees log into their computer to clock in. The clocking in/out works, but the lag time for the timesheet to update does not inspire confidence in our employees.
  • The homepage needs more shortcuts to the different modules. There should be a shortcut to the benefits page and talent and development page. It would be valuable to allow admins to customize the homepage as well.
June 20, 2023

Not very happy

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll processing
  • Reporting
  • Onboarding
  • Customer service
  • Customer service
  • Not selling constantly
  • Bringing back a dedicated representative
  • Hold Times
  • Implementation specialists actually making sure things are implemented
  • Not charging people for services they don’t use and don’t have access to
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Very user friendly system
  • Payroll
  • Ease in reporting
  • Training
  • Live person n on phone for help
  • Help line could use some work
  • Too many segregated experts
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Implementation was a breeze with our team.
  • Customizable and offers all the tools we need in one place.
  • User friendly for all.
  • Constantly improving and updating their products.
  • We are highly regulated and need performance review templates for each position at our organization. While we were able to make this happen, the process was a bit cumbersome.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Super easy to maneuver ATS system, with checklist and onboarding dashboard.
  • Love, love their reporting and analytics. Great data and all in one place. Great data and reporting tools.
  • Need to make LMS a little easier to build and learn. Maybe a LMS administrator to teach L&D administrators. Super convoluted.
April 24, 2023

Easy Breezy Payroll

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Accurately tracks time punches.
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Simplifies the payroll process.
  • Make the missed time punch feature easier to understand.
  • Make webinars easier to search and find.
  • Make the calendar feature easier to use.
April 21, 2023

Easy Peasy!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tax filing
  • Payroll management
  • benefit integration
  • customer service
  • designated service team
  • multi client id assistance
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Benefits integration upon open enrollment
  • Pictoral organizational charts; manager access
  • App for employees for punch in/approvals
  • Extensive LMS
  • international payroll
  • easier management of employee documents
  • position management
March 20, 2023

MyScore with PayCor

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tacking new hire onboarding progress
  • Wage garnishments
  • Tracking employee time and attendance
  • The new navigation has taken some getting used to; particularly the categories
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Paycor has a great feedback forum in which you can see what other users are requesting and complaining about. You can also view the status of those complaints, such as "working on it," "planned," "being considered," etc.
  • Paycor is a one-stop solution for most of what HR practitioners need to do.
  • Paycor's customer support is very impersonal, and it's often hard to find an actual person to take ownership of your problem. Until recently, we had a dedicated account rep whose feet we could hold to the fire when problem resolution was stalled, but even that has been eliminated in favor of a "Shared Success Team."
  • The navigation is cumbersome. Accessing specific areas of an employee's profile now requires multiple clicks, each of which requires a screen reload. This doesn't sound like a major problem, but when you're working through dozens of employees to make changes, it can really slow down your day.
  • Paycor assured us at time of purchase that their product was cohesive throughout all its components: payroll, benefits, recruiting, etc. Our experience has been to the contrary. There are many areas in the product where the seams show through and the interface style changes as third-party software takes over. Benefits enrollments don't always communicate cleanly to payroll, for example, and it's not uncommon for us to find enrolled employees with no payroll deductions for their insurance.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Paycor listens to their customers needs very well and addresses concerns immediately.
  • Paycor is continuously looking for Innovative ways to improve their platforms. For example the new tracking system for Paycor Support.
  • Paycor communicates and updates customers on upcoming updates often.
  • The Time Accrual platform has lots of room for improvement. Employees should be able to accurately track their time off and it should not be confusing as to how their time is calculated. The submitted upcoming Time Off Requests should also be allowed to edit and make changes. They should not have to delete their requests and start over.
  • The "NEW" timecard view does not function appropriately with some errors. In particular with "punch out of bounds" errors. The managers cannot view these errors to correct them, they have to toggle back to the old view in order to acknowledge them.
  • The Benefit's platform could use some improvement with different fiscal years and calendar years. When our employees make an election for a retirement contribution the system cannot decipher between our fiscal year (July 1) and the calendar year calculations.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer Service
  • Adapting to new suggestions from clients
  • Recruiting is not super user friendly and could use some more clarity in the formatting of the pages and how to navigate between jobs/candidates.
  • Onboarding should include paperless opt-in and it would be nice to do benefits through there too
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