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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 experience

10 out of 10
April 15, 2024
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We use Paylocity in our organization to run payroll, enter new hires, entered updated information such as deduction, garnishment, update …
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Paylocity Review

9 out of 10
April 15, 2024
Incentivized
We have 3 companies with Paylocity. We use HR, Time and Labor, HRA, COBRA and Onboarding. The new system in submitting payroll is a bit …
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Read Me

9 out of 10
April 15, 2024
Incentivized
Municipal Payroll-we have many different situations that arise during our payroll cycle, including union, non-union, military …
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Paylocity Since 2019

9 out of 10
April 12, 2024
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We use Paylocity's suite of features including time & labor, payroll, performance, surveys, expenses, and more. This allows us to work …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Direct deposit files (810)
    8.9
    89%
  • Update personal information (838)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pay calculation (811)
    8.6
    86%
  • View and generate pay and benefit information (824)
    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 7.8

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.

7.1
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 7.7
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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 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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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.
April 15, 2024

Read Me

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reports are updated very fast
  • The website is well organized and the pages load very quickly
  • Information provided to employees is very thorough
  • tax set up is a little bit confusing
  • setting up new payroll codes is challenging
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Payroll processing for Salaried and Hourly employees is a straightforward and easy process. Makes processing the payroll less stressful.
  • Time punching is flexible and easy for employees - they can use their phones and also their computers to punch. This works well with employees who work both in an office or at an offsite location.
  • Benefits were previously process by paper forms and the addition of being able to do it online within Paylocity has made this process easier for both the employees and the administration of benefits. Employees can always see what their benefit costs are what choices they are enrolled.
  • Onboarding allows us to send forms to new employees for them to complete on their own prior to starting and gets them set up in the payroll system for the first day start. It makes the process of following up easier and faster and allows us to make sure the forms are clearly filled out.
  • Payroll processing has changed - I still like to look at the details when reviewing just to make sure everything is correct. The new way only shows a portion of the paycheck calculation, so I have been going back into Pay Entry to review some of the staff that have exceptions.
  • In correcting punches - it's good that you are not able to overwrite an existing punch but sometimes that is what you need to do to make a correction, so currently you need to delete the bad punch before correcting the punch. Just sometimes slows the process down or maybe allow to revise a punch but that would probably violate an audit feature.
  • When signing in to look up sensitive information, like Social Security numbers and W-4 tax withholding, it will have me sign in not once but twice to see the information - not sure why I need to sign in twice in a row to prove I have access.
April 12, 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
April 12, 2024

Paylocity Since 2019

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Improves efficiencies
  • User-friendly interface
  • Helps us remain compliant
  • More information on how system updates change things
  • Improve the performance feature - make it easier to set up
  • Ability to schedule a start and end date for job postings
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Relatively user friendly
  • Tax document integration
  • Single sign on (SSO) capability
  • Mobile app access + remote clock in/out option
  • User dashboard
  • Wait times to receive customer service
  • Lack of customer support knowledge regarding labor laws for California
  • Pricing
March 31, 2024

My review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer service on the phone provides very good service
  • Set up and tracking of HR employee data, leaves, work comp claims, company property and personnel documents
  • Timekeeping module and meal period penalties
  • Sick time accrual that is compliant with CA law. The muni policy is WRONG in my opinion
  • Automated processes for new employee set up of time and labor
  • Integration with Indeed and Recruitment module
March 30, 2024

Paylocity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting
  • Ease of Use
  • Onboarding
  • Recruiting
  • GL Management
  • Tax Management
  • Company Set Management
  • Company Set Auditing and Updating
March 30, 2024

I love Paylocity!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Great mobile app
  • easy to use employee interface
  • terrific HRIS enrollment solution
  • Sometimes service responses are slow in quarter 4
  • A bit difficult to find where I can update my tax withholdings
  • Not always intuitive to find PTO balances
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer Service
  • Ease of submitting payroll taxes
  • Supervisor Approval is clear and concise
  • Accrued time is difficult to track and understand
  • Sometimes the same information is different on different pages/modules
  • more one on one time especially during implementation
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.
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