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.
Paylocity Review
An easy HRIS system that works
Paylocity Is worth checking into!
HRM system that works
Paylocity experience
Great tool - Amazing customer Service
Paylocity Review
Great Program for Automating HR.
Executive Director's review.
Paylocity has been our partner for 9 years.
Read Me
Long Term Paylocity Customer
Paylocity Review
Paylocity Since 2019
How Paylocity Differs From Its Competitors
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Recruiting - from doing PDF files to send all documents and retaining document in Paylocity.
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Payroll automation good.
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Paylocity Employee Engagement
Paylocity Automated Processes
Awards
Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards
Popular Features
- Direct deposit files (809)8.989%
- Update personal information (837)8.686%
- Pay calculation (810)8.686%
- View and generate pay and benefit information (823)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
Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?
Alternatives Pricing
What is Bitrix24?
Bitrix24 is a local-hosted or cloud-based social intranet and project management platform that also contains core HR (HRMS) and CRM features. Bitrix24 also provides time management services and employee self-service.
What is BrightHR?
British company BrightHR offers a human resources platform which helps replace paper documents with edocuments and contains features for managing employee scheduling and ROTA, sick leave and tardiness, vacation and holiday shift planning, as well as providing employment law legal advice.
Features
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
- 8.5Employee demographic data(797) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 8.2Employment history(778) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 7.8Job profiles and administration(715) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 7.6Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(727) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 7.1Organizational charting(667) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 7.8Organization and location management(649) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 7.5Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(555) 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(810) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 7.3Support for external payroll vendors(381) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 8.5Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(580) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 7.2Benefit plan administration(554) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 8.9Direct deposit files(809) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 8.2Salary revision and increment management(641) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 7.9Reimbursement management(395) 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.
- 7.9Approval workflow(618) Ratings
Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.
- 7.4Balance details(667) Ratings
Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.
- 7.4Annual carry-forward and encashment(517) 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(823) Ratings
Employees can view pay and benefit data and print pay stubs.
- 8.6Update personal information(837) Ratings
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
- 8View company policy documentation(664) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 8.3Employee recognition(580) Ratings
thank a team member
- 8.3View job history(702) 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(237) 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(738) Ratings
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
- 7.4Pre-built reports(752) 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(448) 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(716) 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(558) 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.
- 7.4Corporate goal setting(282) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 7.4Individual goal setting(344) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 7.3Line-of sight-visibility(244) 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(347) 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(428) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 7.2Performance improvement plans(354) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 7.4Review status tracking(440) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 7.5Review reminders(442) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 7.6Multiple review frequency(362) 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.
- 6.7Create succession plans/pools(147) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 7.1Candidate ranking(180) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 7.4Candidate search(200) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 7.4Candidate development(161) 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(371) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 8.1Company Website Posting(395) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 7.7Publish to Social Media(304) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 7.7Job Search Site Posting(370) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 7Duplicate Candidate Prevention(310) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 8Applicant Tracking(415) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 7.9Notifications and Alerts(413) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
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
Paylocity Videos
Paylocity Integrations
Paylocity Competitors
Paylocity Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
---|---|
Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
Frequently Asked Questions
Comparisons
Compare with
Reviews and Ratings
(1502)Attribute Ratings
- 8.9Likelihood to Renew82 ratings
- 8.8Availability9 ratings
- 9.4Performance9 ratings
- 8.5Usability58 ratings
- 7.2Support Rating79 ratings
- 8.3Online Training10 ratings
- 8.2Implementation Rating33 ratings
- 8.3Configurability7 ratings
- 8.8Product Scalability8 ratings
- 6.6Ease of integration7 ratings
- 9Vendor pre-sale6 ratings
- 7.3Vendor post-sale7 ratings
- 9.1Professional Services4 ratings
- 8.1Contract Terms and Pricing Model4 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 624)Paylocity Is worth checking into!
- Payroll
- Timekeeping
- Time off tracking
- Reporting
Paylocity experience
- Explaining to situation you contact about
- Streamline the issue
- Provide helpful resources to help you resolve your issue in the future
- Nothing I can think of
Great tool - Amazing customer Service
- Payroll
- Customer service
- Onboarding
- Recruiting
- Help articles are all over the place
- Too many steps to set thing up
- Get different answer depending on agent
- Some features are too manual
- Resolution is superficial- result in more error
- System glitch in payroll resulting in pay error
Bad- The update of the time off policy took several weeks on the back end. It was not set up properly, resulting in employee duplicate pay of benefits.
Good- Reload all my Time off balance - agent took it upon herself to do it manually for me.
Great Program for Automating HR.
- Recruiting process.
- Payroll process.
- Reviews
- When a candidate is autorejected, they "disappear" to the rejected section, but you don't notify them to send a rejection email. It would be nice if I could have a default autorejection sent.
- Would be nice to have a tutorial for new hires ready to go.
- The networking page where groups can post could be stronger.
Paylocity has been our partner for 9 years.
- Quick response to questions.
- Updated state taxes.
- Keeps us informed of changes/enhancements.
- Floating holidays and vacation time does not always move over to payroll and to update the balance.
- Mobile app does not always record punches.
Long Term Paylocity Customer
- Payroll processing for Salaried and Hourly employees is a straightforward and easy process. Makes processing the payroll less stressful.
- Time punching is flexible and easy for employees - they can use their phones and also their computers to punch. This works well with employees who work both in an office or at an offsite location.
- Benefits were previously process by paper forms and the addition of being able to do it online within Paylocity has made this process easier for both the employees and the administration of benefits. Employees can always see what their benefit costs are what choices they are enrolled.
- Onboarding allows us to send forms to new employees for them to complete on their own prior to starting and gets them set up in the payroll system for the first day start. It makes the process of following up easier and faster and allows us to make sure the forms are clearly filled out.
- Payroll processing has changed - I still like to look at the details when reviewing just to make sure everything is correct. The new way only shows a portion of the paycheck calculation, so I have been going back into Pay Entry to review some of the staff that have exceptions.
- In correcting punches - it's good that you are not able to overwrite an existing punch but sometimes that is what you need to do to make a correction, so currently you need to delete the bad punch before correcting the punch. Just sometimes slows the process down or maybe allow to revise a punch but that would probably violate an audit feature.
- When signing in to look up sensitive information, like Social Security numbers and W-4 tax withholding, it will have me sign in not once but twice to see the information - not sure why I need to sign in twice in a row to prove I have access.
Paylocity Review
- processes payroll easily and accurately
- accurate data maintenance
- outstanding customer service
- state tax registration
- It is difficult to customize reports
- time & labor balances require manual intervention
Paylocity Since 2019
- Improves efficiencies
- User-friendly interface
- Helps us remain compliant
- More information on how system updates change things
- Improve the performance feature - make it easier to set up
- Ability to schedule a start and end date for job postings
Review of Paylocity for a Nonprofit Organization
- Relatively user friendly
- Tax document integration
- Single sign on (SSO) capability
- Mobile app access + remote clock in/out option
- User dashboard
- Wait times to receive customer service
- Lack of customer support knowledge regarding labor laws for California
- Pricing
Paylocity Rocks
My review
- Customer service on the phone provides very good service
- Set up and tracking of HR employee data, leaves, work comp claims, company property and personnel documents
- Timekeeping module and meal period penalties
- Sick time accrual that is compliant with CA law. The muni policy is WRONG in my opinion
- Automated processes for new employee set up of time and labor
- Integration with Indeed and Recruitment module
Paylocity Review
- Reporting
- Ease of Use
- Onboarding
- Recruiting
- GL Management
- Tax Management
- Company Set Management
- Company Set Auditing and Updating
I love Paylocity!
- Great mobile app
- easy to use employee interface
- terrific HRIS enrollment solution
- Sometimes service responses are slow in quarter 4
- A bit difficult to find where I can update my tax withholdings
- Not always intuitive to find PTO balances
Paylocity Product review
- Onboarding
- Payroll
- HR
- Customer Service
- Account Reps
- Time to complete an issue
Great but still learning!
- Customer Service
- Ease of submitting payroll taxes
- Supervisor Approval is clear and concise
- Accrued time is difficult to track and understand
- Sometimes the same information is different on different pages/modules
- more one on one time especially during implementation
I think that there are SO many hands in each account and set up that a person doesn't know about at implementation that it would be nice to know if there is a way for all of us to meet at one time or warm hand offs instead of just emails that come to the Administration individual(s) saying this is who I am and this is what I need!
Paylocity Feedback from a Current User
- The onboarding module is easy to use and modify as needed. I really like the availability to use different Event Packets for the various types of employees.
- We recently added additional work states and Paylocity has been easy to work with to add the various different taxing requirements based on work location.
- The availability of the system to hold various onboarding documents to include training, certifications, etc. is great for our organization to track renewal of credentials, etc.
- I feel like the quality of the service reps at Paylocity is varied, some are highly qualified and some not as much.
- At times the new product enhancements are not communicated clearly. It seems that sometimes I login to the system and changes have been made to the product that I was not aware of.
Paylocity review
- Time keeping audits
- Onboarding
- East of submitting FSA claims
- Tracking PTO
- Faster implementation of PTO for next year
I cannot think of any scenarios where it is less appropriate.
Paylocity Review
- Customer Service is always helpful with little wait time.
- Always improving; for example, the recent change to processing payroll. So much easier.
- Onboarding makes it simple and the fact that the company can personalize the messaging to new hires allows us to make it more personalized.
- Having an assigned account manager regardless of company size is definitely a plus.
- The Knowledge based articles are sometimes frustrating because they have so many other links embedded in them, it can be challenging to just figure out the specific issue needing to be addressed.
- Finding specific reports can be difficult because they don't always seem user friendly and customer service have the same challenges.
- Paylocity is so robust it can be overwhelming, and I don't feel like we maximize everything available to us.
- I have received complaints from managers about the time off request approval process. They say the approval request could be much easier if it linked directly to the place where they need to approve instead of being a two-step process and they find it confusing.
I can't think of any scenario where it isn't appropriate.
Paylocity
Integrated with Employee Navigator for benefits and deductions.
272 W-2s per year, 175-193 paid each payroll.
You produce our W-2s and 1095 forms annually and we use your reports for retirement plan compliance and our EEO data.
We use electronic onboarding, recruiting (connects to indeed) and communications in the recruiting process. We attach forms and use onboarding saving of forms as electronic personnel files.
- [...] provides excellent administrative, configuring and consultation support
- [...] return time on answers is within reasonable limits (24-48 hours in 95% of cases)
- Great EEO report
- VERY fast integration with NAVIGATOR
- Good recruiting module to allow applicants to be saved...and application to be customized ++.
- Historically (with other employers and a different service team) would receive inaccurate answers, vague answers or had customer service consultants who were not timely - would not get back - and were very hard to trust answers and follow through.
- Differences between the employee user interface on the App and desktop (browser) applications is confusing to me and to employees.
- There was a substantial phone app change in about September/October 2023 that I was unaware was happening. (Maybe I missed something, but we were all surprised).
- I would like there to be capacity for two supervisors to be able to proof and approve certain timesheets when the employee works for more than one cost center. We have to muck around behind the scenes due to only one supervisor approving timesheets for multiple cost centers
- Would love the supervisor AND the "alternate supervisor email person" to BOTH receive an email when someone requests time off
- Separately, would like the alternate supervisor email to be notified if requested time off is not approved. (we use this feature to have the alternate supervisor email go to the person who arranges substitute teachers for our school, and when PDO or vacation is rejected/not approved/ cancelled, we may already have a sub for the day unless we are sure to close the loop.)
Excellent Resource
- Impressions
- Notifications
- Updates to existing product
- UX updates
- The recent "My Calendar" feature was almost a bad experience. We have multiple admins, so when it's called "My" anything, it made folks think it was personal. This resulted in all employees receiving emails for an event only 2 employees were a part of
Paylocity Review
- Timecard Management
- Document Management
- Performance Management
- Reporting Flexibility & Field Access
- Service Team
A+ for Paylocity
- Expense management
- Flow of information from Recruiting platform to the Onboarding platform
- Payroll
- Customer Service Assistance using Chat or the 1-800 number
- Learning Management System could be more robust
- New rollout of Rewards and Recognition isn't as user friendly
- Journaling/Documentation of EE performance
Paylocity Review
- Payroll Processing
- Benefits Administration
- Recruiting Module
- Reporting
- Customer Service
- Innovation
Cheap Option if you don't have the funds
- Ease of Use
- User Friendly, Simple Navigation
- Central Location for HR information
- The UX is outdated and makes it a dread to use.
- Custom Service wasn't great when we need things updated or changed on the platform
- Confusing at first, took awhile to learn