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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The onboarding module is easy to use and modify as needed. I really like the availability to use different Event Packets for the various types of employees.
  • We recently added additional work states and Paylocity has been easy to work with to add the various different taxing requirements based on work location.
  • The availability of the system to hold various onboarding documents to include training, certifications, etc. is great for our organization to track renewal of credentials, etc.
  • I feel like the quality of the service reps at Paylocity is varied, some are highly qualified and some not as much.
  • At times the new product enhancements are not communicated clearly. It seems that sometimes I login to the system and changes have been made to the product that I was not aware of.
March 29, 2024

Great HRIS Software!

Amy Cornwell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll is very user friendly
  • Switching between modules is easy
  • The recruiting module is great
  • I would like to be able to create expense reports in administrator mode
  • I also wish I could easily map my own expense codes for the exporting into our accounting system.
  • Implementation team should also be more hands on, not just a guide to read
March 29, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer Service is always helpful with little wait time.
  • Always improving; for example, the recent change to processing payroll. So much easier.
  • Onboarding makes it simple and the fact that the company can personalize the messaging to new hires allows us to make it more personalized.
  • Having an assigned account manager regardless of company size is definitely a plus.
  • The Knowledge based articles are sometimes frustrating because they have so many other links embedded in them, it can be challenging to just figure out the specific issue needing to be addressed.
  • Finding specific reports can be difficult because they don't always seem user friendly and customer service have the same challenges.
  • Paylocity is so robust it can be overwhelming, and I don't feel like we maximize everything available to us.
  • I have received complaints from managers about the time off request approval process. They say the approval request could be much easier if it linked directly to the place where they need to approve instead of being a two-step process and they find it confusing.
March 29, 2024

Paylocity

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • [...] provides excellent administrative, configuring and consultation support
  • [...] return time on answers is within reasonable limits (24-48 hours in 95% of cases)
  • Great EEO report
  • VERY fast integration with NAVIGATOR
  • Good recruiting module to allow applicants to be saved...and application to be customized ++.
  • Historically (with other employers and a different service team) would receive inaccurate answers, vague answers or had customer service consultants who were not timely - would not get back - and were very hard to trust answers and follow through.
  • Differences between the employee user interface on the App and desktop (browser) applications is confusing to me and to employees.
  • There was a substantial phone app change in about September/October 2023 that I was unaware was happening. (Maybe I missed something, but we were all surprised).
  • I would like there to be capacity for two supervisors to be able to proof and approve certain timesheets when the employee works for more than one cost center. We have to muck around behind the scenes due to only one supervisor approving timesheets for multiple cost centers
  • Would love the supervisor AND the "alternate supervisor email person" to BOTH receive an email when someone requests time off
  • Separately, would like the alternate supervisor email to be notified if requested time off is not approved. (we use this feature to have the alternate supervisor email go to the person who arranges substitute teachers for our school, and when PDO or vacation is rejected/not approved/ cancelled, we may already have a sub for the day unless we are sure to close the loop.)
March 29, 2024

Excellent Resource

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Impressions
  • Notifications
  • Updates to existing product
  • UX updates
  • The recent "My Calendar" feature was almost a bad experience. We have multiple admins, so when it's called "My" anything, it made folks think it was personal. This resulted in all employees receiving emails for an event only 2 employees were a part of
March 29, 2024

I love Paylocity

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Always updating and adding features
  • Payroll process is simple and user friendly
  • Wide variety of reports is very helpful
  • The community module could use some updating. It would be nice to post multiple photos in an announcement
  • Have the system automatically select the time zone in the employee payroll file under time & labor
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Streamlines the payroll process in an accurate and efficient way.
  • Gives the employer easy access to lots of information in an organized way.
  • The new layout of HR and payroll, specifically how we keep track of employee skills and certifications, has become less convenient. We have spoken with a representative about how the new setup is challenging for us in terms of how we have been accustomed to using it.
March 29, 2024

A+ for Paylocity

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Expense management
  • Flow of information from Recruiting platform to the Onboarding platform
  • Payroll
  • Customer Service Assistance using Chat or the 1-800 number
  • Learning Management System could be more robust
  • New rollout of Rewards and Recognition isn't as user friendly
  • Journaling/Documentation of EE performance
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of Use
  • User Friendly, Simple Navigation
  • Central Location for HR information
  • The UX is outdated and makes it a dread to use.
  • Custom Service wasn't great when we need things updated or changed on the platform
  • Confusing at first, took awhile to learn
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.
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