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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 is Cool!

9 out of 10
May 06, 2024
Incentivized
We use Paylocity for onboarding, employee record management, and payroll. We use Paylocity on a daily basis, multiple times a day. We do …
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Paylocity, 4/5 Stars

9 out of 10
April 26, 2024
Incentivized
I use Paylocity for HR and Payroll. It makes it easy for me to keep track of all employees and their information as well as an easy and …
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Excellent Product!

8 out of 10
April 26, 2024
Incentivized
Our organization uses Paylocity for all our payroll processing needs. This includes everything from scheduling and time clock management …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Direct deposit files (823)
    8.9
    89%
  • Update personal information (851)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pay calculation (824)
    8.6
    86%
  • View and generate pay and benefit information (837)
    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 7.9

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 7.8

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 8.2

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 8.0

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

7.1
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 7.8
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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 8.9.

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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May 06, 2024

Paylocity is Cool!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Employee Record Management
  • Timekeeping Settings
  • Reports on Employee Demographics
  • Exception Reports for Payroll
  • Reports - Could be more customize-able
  • Editing benefit codes - cannot remove any codes previously used creating lots of back-work
  • Member services - creating less work tickets
  • EDI file transfers
Ken Hart | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Hourly tracking
  • Complex pay codes
  • Expense reimbursement module
  • Performance review can be difficult to use - too many back and forth between employee and supervisor
  • Reporting can always be improved - more intuitive
  • Adding a function where two managers can give input on an employee review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User friendly for Employees! Great phone app.
  • Timecard features, clock in using cell phone and property radius.
  • Customer Service for Administrator.
  • PTO request and available balance for employees, once approved uploads to manager's calendar.
  • Process to create Custom Reports.
  • Search method in Help.
  • Set up "cheat sheet" when need to change our set up, calculations, etc.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll Processing
  • Reporting
  • Onboarding
  • Recruiting
  • Flexible Spending Account and Health Reimbursement account administration. Pulls from the wrong account occasionally, allows use of HRA funds for spouses who are not on the plans.
  • Tax reporting - we have received several late notices and fees that needed to be rectified.
  • Multiple Worksite report is inaccurate
April 26, 2024

Affordable

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The GL interface it is good
  • The self service portal
  • The report writing
  • Accrued vacation days should be easier to find when looking at employee record
  • easier to find things- not new user friendly...you have to be in certain modules to find what you are looking for
  • should be more canned reports (census reports, 5500 reports etc.)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll
  • Employee data source
  • Taxes
  • Customer Service is number one
  • Availability
  • Customer attention
  • Journal entry import to Quickbooks
  • Help resources are very complex and hard to find answers to problems
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll
  • Report options
  • Organization of employee information
  • Make the same options available on the mobile version and computer version. The updates have taken some things away, such as employees being able to update their taxes.
April 26, 2024

Excellent Product!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User friendly software
  • Quick response from support
  • No downtime
  • More consistent features between app and online portal
  • Customer service for end users, not just administrators
April 18, 2024

Paylocity thoughts

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time and Labor
  • Journals on the Performance module
  • Policy acknowledgement
  • Payroll
  • Community
  • Mobile App
  • LMS does not cover required Safety Trainings for California
  • Performance evaluation once complete do not flow to the employee file they appear to be on another platform
  • Checklists for new hires cannot be assigned to other departments, for instance send a notification to IT for set up
April 17, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Records and tracks time
  • Document storage filing system
  • All in one reporting for multiple companies
  • Reports are the best in the industry
  • General ledger report is perfect and transfers to my different point of sale systems
  • Larger file storage per document
  • Would like to give access to everything in the employee area except salary information
  • An easier way for onboarding employees to add DL and SS docs
April 16, 2024

HRM system that works

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Time and attendance
  • Payroll processing
  • Staying up with technology for all generations
  • Performance management
  • Compensation management
  • Recruiting
  • Onboarding makes it easier
  • Sometimes hard to get in touch with a representative
  • Getting too big missing the small stuff
April 15, 2024

Paylocity experience

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Explaining to situation you contact about
  • Streamline the issue
  • Provide helpful resources to help you resolve your issue in the future
  • Nothing I can think of
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll
  • Customer service
  • Onboarding
  • Recruiting
  • Help articles are all over the place
  • Too many steps to set thing up
  • Get different answer depending on agent
  • Some features are too manual
  • Resolution is superficial- result in more error
  • System glitch in payroll resulting in pay error
April 15, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Able to enter payroll and have payroll be paid the next day
  • Able to track commissions well
  • Like the onboarding feature and processing of E-Verify
  • Like the online features for employees and the employer
  • Nice to get a person when you call into support, usually the wait is not long at all
  • Love the ability to process payroll even when out of the country
  • Submitting payroll with new process is not intuitive
  • Wish there was an area where notes could be kept on each employee if necessary
  • Front load vacation time is giving me a really hard time and can't seem to get fixed
  • Wish there were templates available to do reviews and have them kept online with the employees information
  • Would be nice if Paylocity did OSHA tracking
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Recruiting process.
  • Payroll process.
  • Reviews
  • When a candidate is autorejected, they "disappear" to the rejected section, but you don't notify them to send a rejection email. It would be nice if I could have a default autorejection sent.
  • Would be nice to have a tutorial for new hires ready to go.
  • The networking page where groups can post could be stronger.
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