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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
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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
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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
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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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Reviews and Ratings

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March 27, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll
  • Time and Attendance
  • Reporting
  • Human Resources
  • Being able to run longer then 2 years of historical data
  • Having and HR Dashboard like Bamboo does
March 27, 2024

Great Choice

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integration with Employee Navigator - a big plus for us
  • Expense Reporting
  • Ease of use for employees and supervisors
  • Housing important documents; W4, W2, Handbook, etc.
  • Sales Rep Responsiveness
  • HR portal and the Payroll Portal don't talk with each other very well requiring, in some instances, double entry
David Olthoff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll
  • Self-service for employees
  • Recruiting piece/ATS could be improved.
  • A candidate being able to save progress on their application is really a must as they can't leave and come back to their application without having to restart, i.e. if they need to get a phone number for a reference for example.
  • Could use more room in entering the job for internal notes.
  • Quirky when doing cut and paste of job details that leaves spaces that aren't in the document being pasted.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll process.
  • Performance Management.
  • Onboarding new employees.
  • Benefits Management.
  • Recruiting platform - not user friendly.
  • Errors and glitches with the software and the time it takes to resolve problems.
  • Benefits interface - issues w/ launching new hire benefits are ongoing.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll Processing.
  • Compensation Management.
  • Offers a great overall package of add on features.
  • Odd glitches here and there that no one can explain the "why".
  • Customer Service is erratic with people being knowledgeable with the system.
  • Sometimes, making custom changes, such as performance management (performance review) is hard.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll process is very user friendly.
  • Reporting options work well.
  • Support staff are very helpful.
  • Implementation assistance is subpar. I did not receive a notification or any assistance when implementing Expenses, and have had it for 21 days and have not used it.
  • Assistance with the set up of benefit parameters for open enrollment needs to improve. I received no emails initially, and the spreadsheet was not user-friendly or easy to follow.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Onboarding
  • Payroll
  • Reviews
  • I have never spoken to my dedicated customer service rep. One person who knows our company will be able to answer questions quickly and efficiently.
  • It seems like there has been a high turnover in customer service. I noticed different service reps often.
  • Training customer service representatives will allow them to gain more knowledge of all products available.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer service support.
  • Stays compliant with new laws.
  • Easy to understand system.
  • Report availability.
  • Provide a glossary of what reports will do what.
  • Expand on the compensation tool to detail the product to your customer's markets.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Journal retrieval for reviews.
  • Payroll
  • Mobile access.
  • The functionality between reviewer and supervisor in the review process.
  • Reorganization of the scheduling tool. We want to schedule it not in alphabetical order but by department.
  • Reporting is wonky.
March 22, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • processes payroll easily and accurately
  • accurate data maintenance
  • outstanding customer service
  • state tax registration
  • It is difficult to customize reports
  • time & labor balances require manual intervention
March 22, 2024

Paylocity review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integration between benefits and payroll
  • User interface
  • Payroll processing
  • Response time and availability from the tax team
  • Implementation
Daniela Tejeda Kroboth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll
  • Integrations with 401K provider
  • Ongoing performance tracking with journals
  • Recruiting - the ability to add candidates manually in a fast and easy way and we approach a lot of passive candidates
  • Recruiting - I would like to be able to add candidates to folders to build a pipeline.
  • Recruiting - It would be very helpful if we could add tags to candidates ie. experience in x field, bilingual, etc. to be able to search for candidates in the future based on the tags assigned
  • Onboarding - I would like for the onboarding process to go beyond the hire date i.e. Tasks the new hire was to complete in their first 90 days in order for us to keep track
March 22, 2024

Very Satisfied

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time card approvals
  • Processing payroll
  • Employee tracking
  • Entering new employees
  • Dealing with self-employed ministers
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User-friendly
  • Staff can understand it
  • Like it
  • Their chat online needs to have better customer support and relation
  • When adding new modules/features the customer should be attended to quickly
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Continuously updates products to meet client needs, modernize the platform, and improve processes.
  • Provides a straight-forward and accurate payroll process.
  • Make it easier to update employee records with hr actions.
  • Provides a knowledge base so we can troubleshoot on our own and learn the system.
  • The knowledge base needs to be much more comprehensive. Many features are not explained, making it difficult to understand why something is happening or find solutions to improve automation.
  • The implementation process is a headache. It's a very fragmented, disorganized experience. The specialists don't communicate with each other, they don't seem to always be up to date on changes, and they seem overworked and burnt out. The company should have a consistent and structured training and implementation process.
  • We were next explained many features in detail, and there is no training for them. This includes the expense module, the modern workforce index, templates and checklists, position management, events vs. HR actions, and security roles.
  • The amount of automation and customization was a little disappointing. The workflows are confusing to understand and not very robust.
  • The time off policy system can be greatly improved. It took weeks to get ours fixed and we eventually had to involve a supervisor to start from scratch. It can't handle even slightly complex policies.
  • Although it's in the knowledge base, they don't have a digital handbook feature, which is something we were looking forward to.
  • I wish the compliance dashboard included updates on changes to local/federal regulations.
  • It's a pain that we can't customize the notifications or add any.
  • As a company with fewer than 100 employees, we felt we didn't receive the attention larger companies would.
  • They don't update the system all at once. Some parts are modern, and some are outdated. This is even true within the same single module.
  • The different modules are very fragmented. For example, why are time and labor and HR/payroll separate systems? There's a lot of jumping between different modules when you need to see something, making it confusing for employees.
  • There aren't many resources to assist employees with the transition to a new system, and the adoption kits are not comprehensive enough.
  • The self-service portal should have more customization options for both employees and admins.
  • Admins must be very tech savvy and good at troubleshooting to learn this system because the way to know it is by experimenting and exploring because the training is insufficient.
March 21, 2024

I'm not a fan.

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I wish I could think of 3
  • With all the problems we have, it's hard to see the good in my opinion
  • Someone usually answers the phone for support
  • Reports are difficult to customize
  • Needs a more simple set up when all features are not being used
  • PTO balances aren't calculated correctly I feel
March 15, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Keeping track of PTO
  • Provides learning through the app or on the website
  • Helps keep employees informed on the Community page
  • Easy clock in and clock out
  • provide a manual to help with learning the software
  • Have the app and the website link when using one or the other
  • Explain when employees select paperless that they will not receive a W2 through the mail
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