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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

Excellent Resource

9 out of 10
March 29, 2024
Incentivized
I use Paylocity to track payroll, PTO, and to keep our company as close to the digital age as possible. Previously, the company used the …
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A+ for Paylocity

9 out of 10
March 29, 2024
Incentivized
We use Paylocity for everything! Recruiting, onboarding, learning management, performance management and rewards and recognition!
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Paylocity Review

8 out of 10
March 29, 2024
Incentivized
We use Paylocity for recruiting, payroll, benefit administration, and employee record management. It has been most helpful in maintaining …
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Paylocity Review

8 out of 10
March 27, 2024
Incentivized
We use Paylocity for our HR and Payroll needs. It allows us to run reports that help us gauge our business needs, it also helps us with …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Direct deposit files (790)
    9.0
    90%
  • Update personal information (817)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pay calculation (790)
    8.6
    86%
  • View and generate pay and benefit information (806)
    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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.paylocity.com/our…

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.

7.2
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

Paylocity - Care at the Core
Ritch Price Operational Controller, New England Authentic Eats 2,200 Employees

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 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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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.
March 29, 2024

Great HRIS Software!

Amy Cornwell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paylocity is great for a medium-sized company and probably even a larger company. It is a complete HRIS system so everything can be streamlined instead of using different software or manually completing tasks. The onboarding feature is a great tool and I like how the employees are responsible for adding there own banking and tax information taking the responsibility off of HR.
March 29, 2024

Excellent Resource

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Customer service is a large, if not the largest factor in my critique on Paylocity. I have always found the hotline to be helpful, especially when it comes to payroll. Though, when you have employees working from home, its easy for an employee of Paylocity 's to be caught off guard. I have had one or two negative experiences because it seemed I was interrupting their day.
March 29, 2024

I love Paylocity

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Onboarding new hires is so simple. The payroll process is also great! We have 250 employees and I process payroll usually within 1.5 hours. The payroll reports are also great. They are clean and easy to review.
March 29, 2024

A+ for Paylocity

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall, Paylocity is an intuitive and easy to use platform. The one area that I would like to see improvement would be more capability to combine reporting if you have multiple company sets.
March 29, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Having worked in other HRIS systems before, Paylocity is very user friendly. It is very easy to learn and use the system to your advantage, especially if you have experience in a more complex system. I would recommend it to a smaller company with an employee count of around 500 or less.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would say Paylocity is good for smaller organizations or businesses that don't have excess of funds on hand. Paylocity is cheap compared to other platforms but there are reasons for that. It is straight up not as good as its competitors and needs a revamp. If you just need some simple solutions like payroll management, it is not a bad bet to use it.
March 27, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a little more cumbersome than Bamboo when it comes to some of the HR functionality around benefits, being able to utilize it more for an HR data center where I can go and get HR reports, see uploaded information into personnel files and functionality is ok but I see this more as a time and attendance portal and less of an overall system, it would be nice if it had some of the same features and competitors.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think Paylocity is relatively easy to use if you have under 100 employees. There were numerous times where we had to manually add changes to all employees as the upload tool was not uploading correctly. Imagine imputing data for a 1000 employees. In my experience, reporting is horrible and not flexible enough. We have to run a least 2 to 3 reports to combine records into 1 - very inconvenient and time consuming. In my experience, customer service is also a struggle. You find yourself getting different responses for the same question/inquiry.
David Olthoff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As mentioned, Paylocity is great as a payroll service for getting employees paid and also for them to get information using their self-service. Definitely could be improvements in the ATS/recruiting piece of the plaform. Paylocity is a payroll first platform and recruiting is an add-on, so the functionality is not as good as it is with stand-along ATS.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Employee onboarding is pretty seemless, new hires are able to login, upload all needed info, fill out documents and merge into our systems as a new hire employee. - some glitches with this are the first pay date is often listed inaccurately. I currently have a new hire starting 12/4, and her "first pay date" is listed as 11/22? why? did this even happen. And then it will not let you amend the first pay date. - very cumbersome to fix any errors. Time and Labor - we recently had a glitch where the used hours were not listed correctly in Self service portal and HR&PR, took over a week to get this glitch fixed. - the timing it takes to address some of the issues is a bit excessive and does not garner confidence in the product. Performance Management - we have had no issues with this system and appreciate that we can modify and create our own template to our desired needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The communication feature, where employees and management can send notes and recognition to and from each other, is awesome. Performance reviews can also be streamlined. Management can also share insights and analytics that come in handy to make wise decisions throughout the organization. Impressions in Self-Service can be used by our staff for annual awards and as a way to say good things about colleagues.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have already suggested Paylocity. One of its benefits is the accessible toggle between departments, so we can track actual sales per labor hour by department. However, for a start-up with fewer than 10 employees, Paylocity may be too much of a tool.
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