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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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What is Paylocity?
Paylocity offers a scalable and customizable HR and Payroll software solution designed to fit the specific needs and budgets across organizations of various sizes. Designed with employees in mind, teams can access and navigate the platform, whether on desktop or mobile app. And with more active users, HR teams can create custom dashboards, dig into employee trend data, and make more informed business decisions.
While some HR systems work to create walled gardens around their client’s data, Paylocity aims to deliver a complete, single platform solution with flexibility and choice built in. Paylocity’s offerings are fully integrated, ensuring operation across 350+ service providers. Open, developer-friendly APIs are also available to connect Paylocity to any system.
Payroll, Scheduling, and Time Tracking Management
Paylocity helps users to navigate the complexities of time and attendance with automated policy enforcement, real-time communication, and in-depth analytics. Employees get self-service options to reduce administrative overhead. Users can build staffing plans by combining smart-forecasting, AI-powered scheduling, and tools that ensure the right people are in the right place at the right time. Adaptable time capture options help to meet the evolving needs of a workforce. Paylocity offers badge or biometric time clocks, mobile app, tablet kiosks, or the web app to record accurate timekeeping data.
Simplifying the Management of Employees, Documents, and Compliance
Workflows can implement routines for time-consuming manual tasks spanning the platform. A catalog of out-of-the-box compliance forms and templates for common tasks like offboarding or position/pay changes are also available. Employee documents are stored in one location – from offer letters and tax forms to exit documents. Paylocity offers quick access to work authorizations, EEO, FLSA compliance data, and industry news through a dashboard. Employees have 24/7 access to payroll and HR data via desktop and the Mobile App; empowering them to access their paystubs and tax forms, update personal information, request time off, and to collaborate with their teammates.
Finding and Retaining Top Talent
Market Pay data is included to help define compensation and stay compliant with pay-related regulations. AI is included to help write job descriptions and text or QR promotions are available to extend candidate reach. New hires can be introduced to the company with video messages from leadership that highlight organizational culture and values. They can also complete pre-boarding tasks from anywhere with the Paylocity Mobile App. Collaborative goal setting helps to boost performance reviews and text or video journals help drive engaging conversations between employees and supervisors.
Driving Communication, Collaboration, and Connection
Workforce connections and motivation with recognition of milestones and achievements help to improve workforce morale. A community function is available to improve communication and foster a culture of engagement. Paylocity also offers insights into a team’s engagement via automated surveys. These help teams to stay informed by integrating video throughout the platform: in job postings, leadership announcements, and product updates.
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 Integrations
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- SAP Concur
- Expensify
- Checkr
- Square POS
- 390+ integrations via the Paylocity Marketplace. API & developer resources available.
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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, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | United States |
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Quicker turn around time for Tax Team
- Customer Service Team
- Simplicty
Cons
- Tax team turn around time
- Tax team. The low review is specifically due to how many times I have to follow up to get answers back from the tax team. The turn around time is honestly ridiculous, and then add on the lack of communication.
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- Onboarding
- User friendly
- Customer service
Cons
- More customization
- Better communication to clients
- Make it easier to navigate checks and paystubs for admins
Paylocity pays off! Worth it, in most ways...
- Responsive to emailed questions
- One stop shop for all HR and Payroll functions
- Enjoy the import/upload function for hourly staff hours, quick and easy
Cons
- When there is an ongoing issue, such as we have with a state tax problem; I feel Paylocity should assign this issue to one service rep that we can stay in contact with throughout the process; rather than having to continue to email the general Service@ email address and re-explain everything over and over each time, because you do not know who you will get each time. Plus I feel any tax issue that is leading to penalties should be addressed much quicker than we have seen with our issue. I just feel Paylocity has not taken our state tax issue seriously at all, and that worries me. Service other than that has normally been helpful and knowledgeable.
- I feel there should be a place to find blank HR forms for newer customers to Paylocity. Such as direct deposit forms, Instructions for employees on how to set up Paylocity account, etc. Just quick forms/templates we can print and hand out that are someplace easy to find on Paylocity.
Paylocity A Must-Have Tool
- It is very easy to punch in and out of work.
- The paycheck updates / notifications are convenient.
- Tax form information is easily accessible and user friendly.
Cons
- Sometimes, it logs me out of my account, and I have to get a new password from my boss.
Great system, needs improvement for contractors
- Interface is easy to use for administrators
- Paylocity continually works toward upgrading their system and providing additional options for employees and administrators. You receive the benefit of these upgrades without additional charges.
Cons
- In my experience, tax amendments take a painfully long time and often times require follow-up
- Support staff don't have a lot of depth of knowledge in payroll and benefit concepts, and following their advice can lead you down the wrong path from time to time.
- In my opinion, tax deadlines are completely unreasonable for administrative staff. As an example, year end tax forms sometimes have to be reviewed and approved by the first business day of the new tax year (depending on what day of the week the year ends) and if you don't have changes in, you incur amendment fees and have to issue corrected tax forms. It's great that they publish tax forms early for employees, but it creates an unnecessary burden on the administrative staff of Paylocity clients.