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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 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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Great Choice

10 out of 10
March 27, 2024
Incentivized
We use Paylocity for Payroll, expense reports, and recruiting. We are considering putting our performance evaluations into the portal …
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Paylocity review

8 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Incentivized
We use the entire HRIS Paylocity suite of products, from on-boarding, benefits administration to time and payroll processing. By using the …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Direct deposit files (779)
    9.0
    90%
  • Pay calculation (778)
    8.6
    86%
  • Update personal information (805)
    8.6
    86%
  • View and generate pay and benefit information (794)
    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.

8.4
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.

7.8
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 9.

The most common users of Paylocity are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 27, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would like to see how we can get more modules to make this is a more robust HR platform not just payroll platform. I would love to use this for job postings, looking at candidates, Benefit tracking, recognition tools as I believe we are not using this product to it full capacity.
David Olthoff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paylocity has made payroll better. We use Costpoint to actually do the timekeeping and then that goes to Paylocity. As mentioned, the self-service automation system is great and is pretty easy to use. Also, accessing pay stubs and W2 and tax information is good.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's great to have promotions, levels, and pay updated in one place. Updates to the Org chart are, however, slow; sometimes terminated employees remain on the chart for weeks, which has been a continual problem. Reporting of data-driven statistics like PTO, SICK time, etc., and use of said time, etc., helps to track usage and provide good data for ways to improve benefits to employees. It's nice to be able to run any report you like in Excel and then create pivot tables, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have significantly decreased response time and increased productivity. There has been an increase in security and compliance and, in the case of payroll, a reduction in errors. We have improved the recruitment and onboarding processes and made offboarding simpler. There is consistency across business units. Overall, we Save time, and this results in reducing the cost and fuss of legal compliance.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The most straightforward example is payroll review. It is simple and obvious. I like having the tabs at the bottom of each timesheet to see activity from different viewpoints. Scheduling is still challenging, especially now that we have started using a points system. Every scheduling change throughout the week is complex, requiring multiple edits within the scheduling module that take up time. I want better practice for scheduling adjustments.
March 22, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ConnectOne Bank separated HR functions from Benefits and Payroll. HR utilizes talent acquisition and onboarding which has streamlined the new hire process from background checks and offer letters to the data entry process. On the benefits and payroll side, automation has streamlined new hire benefit enrollments and the entire open enrollment process.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The area where Paylocity has the best-provided automation is the onboarding process. The time spent on collecting paperwork and getting new hires ready is significantly decreased. We can focus more on the employee experience through personal touches because we're not worrying about forgetting to file paperwork or getting specific information on the first day. The HR actions are also beneficial because if someone changes their position or salary, we can update it all in one place in a few minutes. Paylocity offers workflows, but they are confusing and not very advanced. Paylocity can improve workflows and automation for things like checklists, reminders, notifications, integrations with Outlook, payroll approval, etc. They also need to make workflows much more customizable.
March 21, 2024

I'm not a fan.

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I wish this were the case. I have found that they have not succeeded in this in any way from my experience. I have wasted so much time tracking work hours and PTO because the automated system does not work correctly. I believe that it would work correctly if set up in the right way and I wanted to set it up the right way but I could get no one to help me.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The automation has been a great time saver for us. We use them in all modules and I personally use them in the ATS. I enjoy being able to email scheduling requests to multiple candidates at once using template emails that are automatically triggered when a candidate is put into a specific disposition status.
March 15, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With using Paylocity for time tracking, PTO, payroll and onboarding, I am able to focus on my other job responsibilities and have less paperwork to deal with. Any one of these tasks could've taken half a days work to complete but now I can complete with in 20 minutes or less.
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