Overview
What is Paylocity?
Paylocity provides 24/7 access to your online payroll and human resource data management. Paylocity offers highly customizable payroll functionality, as well as HR, benefits administration, and time and talent management programs.
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In my opinion, Paylocity is not advanced enough
Great Choice
Paylocity is great for payroll, but recruiting piece has room for improvements.
Paylocity - HRIS automation software that works most of the time.
Paylocity - Worth the Investment.
Pay with Paylocity!
Full Cycle HRIS That Makes $en$e!
Efficient HRIS Platform.
Paylocity works for us.
Invaluable Help for HR Services.
An HR tool worth having.
Paylocity has been a wonderful addition.
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Popular Features
- Direct deposit files (779)9.090%
- Pay calculation (778)8.686%
- Update personal information (805)8.686%
- View and generate pay and benefit information (794)8.585%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
What is Paylocity?
Paylocity provides 24/7 access to your online payroll and human resource data management. Paylocity offers highly customizable payroll functionality, as well as HR, benefits administration, and time and talent management programs.
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- 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.
- 8.6Employee demographic data(766) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 8.2Employment history(748) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 7.8Job profiles and administration(685) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 7.6Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(697) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 7.1Organizational charting(640) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 7.8Organization and location management(622) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 7.5Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(535) Ratings
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 8.6Pay calculation(778) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 7.3Support for external payroll vendors(356) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 8.5Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(554) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 7.3Benefit plan administration(534) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 9Direct deposit files(779) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 8.2Salary revision and increment management(617) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 7.9Reimbursement management(380) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
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.
- 8Approval workflow(593) Ratings
Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.
- 7.5Balance details(642) Ratings
Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.
- 7.4Annual carry-forward and encashment(496) Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment enables unused paid time-off days to be carried forward to new year, or paid in cash.
Employee Self Service
Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.
- 8.5View and generate pay and benefit information(794) Ratings
Employees can view pay and benefit data and print pay stubs.
- 8.6Update personal information(805) Ratings
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
- 8View company policy documentation(637) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 8.3Employee recognition(555) Ratings
thank a team member
- 8.3View job history(670) Ratings
Employees can view all positions held at the company.
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.
- 7.5Tracking of all physical assets(227) Ratings
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
HR Reporting
Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.
- 7Report builder(710) Ratings
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
- 7.4Pre-built reports(723) Ratings
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
- 6.5Ability to combine HR data with external data(427) Ratings
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
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.
- 8.3New hire portal(687) Ratings
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
- 8Manager tracking tools(534) Ratings
Tracking tools allow hiring managers to check status on individual hires for all onboarding activities.
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 7.5Corporate goal setting(270) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 7.4Individual goal setting(331) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 7.4Line-of sight-visibility(233) Ratings
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
- 7.4Performance tracking(333) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 7.2Performance plans(412) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 7.2Performance improvement plans(339) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 7.5Review status tracking(423) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 7.5Review reminders(426) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 7.6Multiple review frequency(348) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.
- 6.8Create succession plans/pools(141) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 7.2Candidate ranking(174) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 7.4Candidate search(193) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 7.4Candidate development(157) Ratings
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
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.
- 7.8Job Requisition Management(360) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 8.1Company Website Posting(381) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 7.7Publish to Social Media(295) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 7.7Job Search Site Posting(359) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 7Duplicate Candidate Prevention(299) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 8.1Applicant Tracking(402) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 7.9Notifications and Alerts(400) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
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What is Paylocity?
Paylocity 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: Support for external payroll vendors
- 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
- Supported: Statutory form 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
- Supported: Warranty and after-sales status maintenance contract tracking
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
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by different 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: Create succession plans/pools
- Supported: Candidate ranking
- Supported: Candidate search
- Supported: Candidate development
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
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Paylocity Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
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(1467)Attribute Ratings
- 8.9Likelihood to Renew80 ratings
- 8.6Availability8 ratings
- 9.3Performance8 ratings
- 8.5Usability56 ratings
- 7.3Support Rating77 ratings
- 7.7Online Training8 ratings
- 8.2Implementation Rating33 ratings
- 7.9Configurability6 ratings
- 8.6Product Scalability7 ratings
- 6.1Ease of integration6 ratings
- 8.8Vendor pre-sale5 ratings
- 7.4Vendor post-sale6 ratings
- 9.1Professional Services4 ratings
- 8.1Contract Terms and Pricing Model4 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 390)- Payroll process.
- Performance Management.
- Onboarding new employees.
- Benefits Management.
- Recruiting platform - not user friendly.
- Errors and glitches with the software and the time it takes to resolve problems.
- Benefits interface - issues w/ launching new hire benefits are ongoing.
Paylocity - Worth the Investment.
- Payroll Processing.
- Compensation Management.
- Offers a great overall package of add on features.
- Odd glitches here and there that no one can explain the "why".
- Customer Service is erratic with people being knowledgeable with the system.
- Sometimes, making custom changes, such as performance management (performance review) is hard.
Full Cycle HRIS That Makes $en$e!
- Payroll process is very user friendly.
- Reporting options work well.
- Support staff are very helpful.
- Implementation assistance is subpar. I did not receive a notification or any assistance when implementing Expenses, and have had it for 21 days and have not used it.
- Assistance with the set up of benefit parameters for open enrollment needs to improve. I received no emails initially, and the spreadsheet was not user-friendly or easy to follow.
Paylocity has been a wonderful addition.
- Timesheet reporting.
- Recruiting
- HR information hub.
- Customer service.
- Direct account manager.
- Response time when emailed questions are sent.
Everything HR in one place!
- Payroll - Fast and easy process, it's really made our payroll process simple and efficient. We all also get to track employer contributions to benefits, which I think is critical data to show our employees their total compensation.
- New hire onboarding - The onboarding events have been great for capturing all the new hire information and compliance-related documents in a timely and efficient way. Being able to process e-verify on the platform as part of the process is very helpful and allows us to always be compliant
- Performance - Goal setting, journals for ongoing feedback, feedback requests, and performance reviews have allowed us to have an agile and thorough process
- Learning - L&D has been a priority for us and Paylicty has a great module to track employee's learning efforts
- Payroll
- Integrations with 401K provider
- Ongoing performance tracking with journals
- Recruiting - the ability to add candidates manually in a fast and easy way and we approach a lot of passive candidates
- Recruiting - I would like to be able to add candidates to folders to build a pipeline.
- Recruiting - It would be very helpful if we could add tags to candidates ie. experience in x field, bilingual, etc. to be able to search for candidates in the future based on the tags assigned
- Onboarding - I would like for the onboarding process to go beyond the hire date i.e. Tasks the new hire was to complete in their first 90 days in order for us to keep track
I would recommend it to anyone wanting to have all of their HR process and employee data in the same platform.
I would not recommend it to those wanting to go deep on the recruiting and onboarding process
Paylocity in Accounting
- On-boarding
- Storing data
- Reports
- Reports tend to be static
- Need to staff up support
Very Satisfied
- Time card approvals
- Processing payroll
- Employee tracking
- Entering new employees
- Dealing with self-employed ministers
- Data Insights
- Easy to use
- Can be integrated easily with other programs that we use
- Candidate self scheduling
- Phone app that allows for recruiting activities
- ability to make notes on job requisitions
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- Keeping track of PTO
- Provides learning through the app or on the website
- Helps keep employees informed on the Community page
- Easy clock in and clock out
- provide a manual to help with learning the software
- Have the app and the website link when using one or the other
- Explain when employees select paperless that they will not receive a W2 through the mail
Game Changer
- LMS systems
- HR & Payroll
- Walkthrough Guides
- Benefits essentials did not fully capture enrollments of employees causing some reporting errors. It has room for improvement.
- Helping new start-up companies with compliance issues and taxes.
- Having a single point of contact versus just a call-in number.
Paylocity as a Nice Option to Use
The only situation that we would love to improve from them is the Customer Service experience through email, or in general, they take a little longer to help you with your matter. It would be perfect if they implement a system where we can open a ticket and get a response immediately without calling them.
The recruiting, onboarding, and hiring process is incredible, you can play with the system around to move your candidates from status, or from Recruiting to Onboarding if you extend a job offer. This makes you save time and money since your new hire will be able to fill out all the information electronically, and that account will be created for them during the onboarding process. Once they start, they will be in your system.
- Recruiting, the connection we have between Indeed, and ZipRecruiter with extra charges.
- Payroll processing is easy and reliable.
- Employee administration is easy to use as well, as organized.
- Customer Service - Create an option to submit tickets for help.
- Reporting, it would be better with a better reporting system.
- Chat under community will be helpful for employee communication.
You can educate yourself or even your employees with the training/library/learning system they have integrated
Payroll Processing is easy to add, delete, or edit
- Payroll Process
- Time Keeping
- Everify with Onboarding
- Always have tax set up issues in Onboarding.
- Report Writer is great but could be more user-friendly.
- Setting up taxes in new states - we pay for the service, but there are often mistakes or issues with filing. I get so many notices from states with account issues.
Crisis-tested Partner for the Growth Minded Companies
- A live account manager is always reachable and ready to help. Always.
- Running payroll end to end is pretty easy with some guidance, UX is clear in guiding you through next steps.
- Ad hoc correction/amendment requests, e.g. lost check research, 941 amendments, etc., with live account manager support and guidance.
- Embedded AI that helps during configuration across all modules. E.g., we lost all the employees who were involved in the onboarding and implementation of Paylocity, when we had to add a new vacation code, we did not flag it as a 401K eligible earning code. Embedded AI would have flagged this to the editor as a reminder knowing that all vacation earning codes are flagged for 401k eligibility.
- Garnishment set up and calculation.
- Seeing Paylocity's growth since 2020, I'd like to seem an expansion of its Time & Labor features that contemplates remote employees or mobile employees (advance geo fencing).
- Payroll processing and tax filing
- Posting job openings to our own careers page and also to external websites
- Managing our annual merit pay process
- Custom report capability (access to data and the ability to combine different types of employee data into one report is limited)
- Configurable electronic forms (not enough flexibility and capabilities are provided)
- Position management functionality is severely lacking
- Unfixed system defects/bugs
- Lack of in-depth product knowledge among customer support staff
Paylocity Less Than A Year Review
- On-boarding
- Payroll processing including punching in/out
- Payroll adding pay types and pay codes
- Payroll reinstating employees
- Better response time with Service/assistance with problem solving
- Initial General Ledger setup requires more time
- More online help instructions made available
Paylocity Review
- Time & Labor
- Customer Service
- Community
- Workflows
- Compliance Tracking
- FMLA
- employee profile is easy to navigate
- accessing paystubs is easy
- some reports function well
- In my experience, time off accruals are complicated and cannot be managed by the company, Paylocity has to build and edit
- In my experience, lots of similar reports conflict with one another, the data is not consistent
- In my experience, timekeeping is glitchy and certain actions like entering overnight shifts consistently result in missed punches and errors
- In my experience, customer service is not helpful, they give different answers depending on which rep you get
- In my experience, our account manager ignores my emails or takes 3-4 weeks to solve a request for me
- In my experience, they are unwilling to rebuild our setup after many months of telling them it is not working
- Applicant Tracking
- Onboarding
- Time and Attendance
- Customer Service- dedicated rep
- Adding multiple managers for time sheets
- Org Charts
5+ year user of Paylocity
- Reporting
- Recruiting
- Customer service
- Integration of timesheets and payroll
- Expense module can be buggy
- PTO requests can be tricky for managers/employees
All-Encompassing HR Tool
- User-friendly interface
- All encompassing HR management
- Great mobile app that is easy to use with a lot of functionality
- Support - it used to be great but has done downhill in the past 12 months
- They focus more on adding new features and modules than making sure the current and core products work well without bugs
Why you shouldn't use Paylocity
- Availability for questions
- Mobile app access
- The system doesn't speak to each other and it is a lot of manual work to change things like titles
- There are a lot of system issues with a lot of work arounds but not streamlined solutions
- Time off benefit balance is very confusing because in HR and payroll it is not real time based on what is already used/requested it is based on paid out
- Limited automatic candidate matching
- When they make changes they don't update their own resource library in a timely manner
Paylocity good for small companies
- Easy to use interface for employees
- Always improving software to make it more user friendly
- It has all services under one umbrella to streamline productivity
- Needs to improve PTO accrual system and how vacation is displayed
- Needs to allow cross company feedback for performance reviews
- We need one contact who is knowledgeable about all products, especially those that are intertwined
- Reporting
- Employee updates
- Payroll processing
- Timecard correction
- Initial set up
- Open enrollment
Paylocity was what we needed!
It's a great community piece as well!
- Time and Labor
- Recruitment
- Onbaording
- Tax and Tax Service Department
- Getting back to you on service questions or issues in an email
- More community access to drive employees to engage on the platform
A Payroll company that is a pleasure to work with and use.
- Reports are easy access and can be customized with ease.
- HR Payroll has everything that is needed plus more.
- Pricing is not per modular but one price per employee.
- Live trainers need to slow down - some are way too fast in their training and need to realize coming from a different payroll company, we need to learn a completely different way of processing what we have been doing for many years.