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Paylocity

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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Recent Reviews

Paylocity experience

10 out of 10
April 15, 2024
Incentivized
We use Paylocity in our organization to run payroll, enter new hires, entered updated information such as deduction, garnishment, update …
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Paylocity Review

9 out of 10
April 15, 2024
Incentivized
We have 3 companies with Paylocity. We use HR, Time and Labor, HRA, COBRA and Onboarding. The new system in submitting payroll is a bit …
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Read Me

9 out of 10
April 15, 2024
Incentivized
Municipal Payroll-we have many different situations that arise during our payroll cycle, including union, non-union, military …
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Paylocity Since 2019

9 out of 10
April 12, 2024
Incentivized
We use Paylocity's suite of features including time & labor, payroll, performance, surveys, expenses, and more. This allows us to work …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Direct deposit files (809)
    8.9
    89%
  • Update personal information (837)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pay calculation (810)
    8.6
    86%
  • View and generate pay and benefit information (823)
    8.5
    85%

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Pricing

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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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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.

7.8
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.

7.6
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.3
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.

7.5
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

7
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.

8.2
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.

7.4
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.

7.4
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.

7.1
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.

7.7
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Paylocity?

Paylocity is a software platform designed to give HR pros a way to manage daily tasks in payroll, benefits, talent, and workforce management. The vendor states their technology is backed by a culture that cares about client success, and that they take the time to get to know customers and understand their needs. Paylocity works with users to identify the solutions that will benefit a business today, while paving the way to a better tomorrow.

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

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Paylocity Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Paycom, Paycor, and Paychex Flex are common alternatives for Paylocity.

Reviewers rate Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Paylocity are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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April 18, 2024

Paylocity thoughts

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Onboarding and Performance management have supported me to go paperless.... this is a10 However, there is room for improvement Onboarding once we start it I wish an email with a list be automatically sent to others like IT for set up Performance, the review do not flow to the employee file, if we need to review an employee file we have to go the module it is not part of the file.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Onboarding is really easy for my new hires. It isn't to difficult to program but there are a few pieces that could use some work. When I make fillable pieces for onboarding I have to redo every page vs. making changes to one page. This is cumbersome and requires a lot more time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Entering payroll and submitting payroll on Paylocity is very easy. Reconciling the time entered is simple. The product we used prior to Paylocity was expensive and not user-friendly. The timekeeping function works for us as we have many remote workers and makes it easy for our managers to manage those employees.
April 16, 2024

HRM system that works

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paylocity works well for our organization. Ease of use for our managers and employees is very important. Makes it easier for us in HR to manage. Time and attendance works very well. Efficient and effective. Payroll runs very smoothly. We appreciate the performance and compensation module for tracking employees performance, journals and getting feedback and annual compensation.
April 15, 2024

Paylocity experience

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my opinion, Paylocity in well suited in excellent customer service. Whenever I contact the company or select the help button to ask a question, the individual is very knowledgeable about the product offer and navigating you in the Paylocity system to help you find what it is that you need to accomplish to get the job done.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Good- Assist me with uploading the time sheet- was an amazing support.
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.
April 15, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our payroll is difficult. Paylocity was able to accommodate our unique timeframe for paying our employees, hourly and salary and then putting the two together into one payroll each time. It messes with the calendar, for sure. The time clocks are helpful as well. It is harder for one of our other companies in keeping track of the different pay levels for each shift. A lot of that has to be done manually. That part is not so great.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I like Paylocity for a lot of the organizational support. Customer service is okay but I have never spoken to my actual account representative. I think there's a lot of turnover here in addition to them never being available. I sometimes miss the customer service of a smaller company.
April 15, 2024

Read Me

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
After the most recent update, I was unable to submit payroll due to a hold on certain employees' records. I called Paylocity and was immediately transferred to someone who could help me resolve the issue. She was well versed in the issue I was having and walked me through it. She stayed with me until I completely fixed the problem.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For our company - we have staff that work at remote locations and the punching allows for them to use their phones when they do not have access to a computer to punch in/out. This works well for us. I am not sure where it would not be suited well - it seems to be a flexible platform that can cover a number of different business operations well.
April 12, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paylocity is very user-friendly on both the administrative and employee side. Payroll batches are easy to edit, if necessary. The customer service is outstanding; there is always someone knowledgeable available to assist - immediately. (unlike ADP where you could be on hold for hours.) I am happy to hear that as our organization grows, Paylocity can service more than 1,000 employees. As I mentioned previously, the cumbersome tasks are the ability to create custom reports with the data and in the format needed and the accuracy of time off balances.
April 12, 2024

Paylocity Since 2019

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Works wonderfully for time & labor and payroll processing. There is room to improve the intuitiveness of the system and to make some things easier to do than they are currently, or at least more customizable. For instance, we do not provide our managers with a department budget for employee wages. Currently, the compensation system does not provide an option to bypass managers setting the wages for their staff.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Having used similar software previously, Paylocity is the best option for our agency at this time. With that being said, there's room for improvement, particularly when it comes to customer service and specifically, labor law knowledge/built in controls for California. Paylocity is well suited for use by Payroll and HR teams as this software really integrates both. Certain payroll calculations may have to be completed in an outside system such as Excel.
March 30, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love data insights and the ability to easily customize dynamic reports. I do not like that when having to update something, it usually results in having to repeat the action 55 times because it is not available to update on a Company Set level. I also wish we could have access to update our own GLS. Also, Tax issues in onboarding have recently become a pain point for us.
March 30, 2024

I love Paylocity!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paylocity is a great HRIS solution for groups that have about 100 employees. They are very engaged and provide a thorough implementation process. I appreciate the process and getting to know the service team. I always know that if the process is not done correctly up front, there will be issues down the road, and Paylocity is committed to an excellent set-up so that we don't have a "garbage in garbage out" situation. I am very happy! It's hard to find hands on assistance when you only have 100 employees, but Paylocity did it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have had AWESOME customer service. If there is EVER anything that I cannot understand or anything that I haven't learned, etc. the service team is ALWAYS ready to help.

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!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would have no problem recommending Paylocity for all aspects of Time/Labor and payroll processing, taxing, on-boarding, etc. The reports are robust and easy to work with as well. I am not as familiar with the Performance Management or Rewards/ Recognition modules.
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