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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
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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.

7.2
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

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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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Reviews and Ratings

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March 22, 2024

Paylocity review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the entire HRIS Paylocity suite of products, from on-boarding, benefits administration to time and payroll processing. By using the full suite of products, on-boarding, payroll processing, benefit management and open enrollment is nearly seamless.
Daniela Tejeda Kroboth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am the only Administrator for Paylocity in my organization, so I manage everything that lives on the platform. The modules we use the most:
  • Payroll - Fast and easy process, it's really made our payroll process simple and efficient. We all also get to track employer contributions to benefits, which I think is critical data to show our employees their total compensation.
  • New hire onboarding - The onboarding events have been great for capturing all the new hire information and compliance-related documents in a timely and efficient way. Being able to process e-verify on the platform as part of the process is very helpful and allows us to always be compliant
  • Performance - Goal setting, journals for ongoing feedback, feedback requests, and performance reviews have allowed us to have an agile and thorough process
  • Learning - L&D has been a priority for us and Paylicty has a great module to track employee's learning efforts
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Paylocity for HR and Payroll as well as Time and Labor. For the most part, I am very happy with Paylocity. The problem comes when you need help through customer support. If you call their helpline, they do well, but if you try to use the chat option, they do not always help. Also, if you try to add a module or new feature, the team that helps in this area is not very attentive. You would think they would be interested in more business. When I first signed up for Paylocity several years ago, they were much more attentive the first couple of years, but as time has gone on, they are losing good customer support.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started with most, if not all, of our paper-based processes. The main areas in which Paylocity has improved have been onboarding, payroll, recruiting, and data insights. The efficiency of these processes has greatly improved. The data insights are an amazing tool to help us make data-driven decisions. We are also a rapidly expanding company, so we believe the system has the capabilities to keep up with continuous recruiting and onboarding. Although the system hasn't completely met our requirements, we appreciate how Paylocity consistently updates its platforms and requests feedback. As a paper-based organization, having employee records in one area is also not refreshing. The records are fairly easy to navigate and accurate, and they help keep us organized. We have also been able to improve our connection with employees. Although it continues to be a long transition in breaking and building habits, the community platform provides a lot of potential to connect our team and promote our culture.
March 21, 2024

I'm not a fan.

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paylocity is used for Timekeeping and Payroll Processing. It is very difficult to get help with a question from my experience. I am new to Paylocity administration and I am not able to get questions answered. If I call to talk to someone, they just tell me to read an article or fill out a form (that doesn't usually fit my situation very well.) I am not at all impressed with this service.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am using it as an Administrator. I am the one who processes the payroll every other week. It helps me a lot, especially handling payroll for around 500-1000 employees. I can easily access their information and adjust it if necessary. Paylocity customer support is very convenient and super friendly. They really help me in times of difficulty when I don't know where to navigate a certain report.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Paylocity is used as an HRIS in our organization. I personally use the ATS and found it to be a sufficient product that is constantly evolving. I also use the HR module and onboarding. As a company we use most of the other modules including Benefits, Payroll, Community, LMS and will soon use Time Keeping. We've also found that the community function is very engaging with our employees. Another highlight is the Data Insights and reporting.
March 15, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Paylocity for onboarding and to process payroll. Paylocity has replaced our onboarding paperwork making our onboarding so much easier. Paylocity has also replaced our PTO form and has made requesting time off an easy process for all the employees. I have been told by the employees that they like punching in and out through Paylocity instead of doing manual timecards.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paylocity for payroll processing. We joined Paylocity because our organization has over 200 people, and it is a better fit for a company our size than our previous payroll vendor. It was hard to figure out how to use it, and the reporting is not the best, but we have learned it with the support of the Paylocity team.
March 15, 2024

Game Changer

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paylocity as our HRIS platform. The system has an easy integration process with other platforms such as in our situation when it came to sharing information on employee benefits. The support team were able to understand what was needed and follow up accordingly.
CORA ORTEGA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Since we transitioned to Paylocity starting January 1st, 2023, our HR Department can act smoothly. We have everything in one place, and we can even save money on Recruiting.

The only situation that we would love to improve from them is the Customer Service experience through email, or in general, they take a little longer to help you with your matter. It would be perfect if they implement a system where we can open a ticket and get a response immediately without calling them.

The recruiting, onboarding, and hiring process is incredible, you can play with the system around to move your candidates from status, or from Recruiting to Onboarding if you extend a job offer. This makes you save time and money since your new hire will be able to fill out all the information electronically, and that account will be created for them during the onboarding process. Once they start, they will be in your system.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paylocity as our main HRIS, payroll processing, and time & attendance platform. The time & attendance system is user-friendly for our manager, has helpful reports for me to verify accuracy, and in just a few clicks, the hours are added to the checks. Most importantly, it can account for multi-state wage & hour laws and transfers between cost centers, positions, & rates. We have hourly employees in 5 states, and many of the work between different stores and positions within those stores. Having the transfers set up for them to easily allocate where they are and what they are doing makes it much easier to process their payroll accurately on my end. The payroll policies are flexible with different OT laws and quirky state rules like NY, Spread of Hours, CA break premiums, and Call In pay in the 3 states we operate in.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To begin, Paylocity proved its value after all the consequences of the COVID lockdown. Like many businesses, we had to downsize, which led to many finance teams across many industries to do more with less -- a lot less! In our case, I had to take on the end to end process of payroll. You will always have a live Paylocity partner! Our AM at the time was exceptional in providing clear guidance on how to execute payroll, learning on the fly, and took it further by sharing all the best practices to optimize and evolve our process. As a controller, this is invaluable, and that level of service continues today.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Paylocity for electronic personnel files, HR reports, payroll processing and tax filing, recruiting, onboarding, benefits administration, compensation management, LMS capability, timesheets, surveys, employee self-service, and business intelligence related to HR metrics. It is the main system that our HR, payroll, and training teams use for an end-to-end human capital management solution.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paylocity for employee management, time and labor, payroll processing and paid time off management. It solves the problem of having several different software to manage these areas of HR. We use it on a regular basis, with 90% of employees logging in weekly to the website or mobile application. It is good to know that we can easily expand and add additional modules as our organizational needs expand.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Paylocity daily. I continually audit our information to ensure there are no inaccuracies. I utilize the payroll function every two weeks. I use the reporting database to pull information for many projects. When we recruit, I use the Recruiting module for our complete recruiting and onboarding workflow. Paylocity has saved me a ton of time and hassle with the integrations into Vanguard for 401k and Employee Navigator for benefits administration.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implemented Paylocity for our HRIS for our growing organization. Our previous provider was great but too small for us as we grew. We also had very limited access to reporting, and that was one of the biggest selling features to be able to make stronger data-driven decisions.
February 29, 2024

Paylocity

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paylocity for a Human Resource system for our company. We use it for processing payroll, tracking time cards, tracking employees' paid time off usage, recruiting, onboarding, training and development, and much more.
February 26, 2024

Great solution

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Paylocity daily for all HR and payroll functions. We switched over in 2013 and have always enjoyed the new and exciting updates that Paylocity offers. From recruiting to Onboarding to employee management, Paylocity provides customized solutions for what our company needs. They offer great support should we ever need any help or have questions.
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