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TriNet

Overview

What is TriNet?

TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR and payroll solutions tailored by industry. TriNet also offers specialized services through client access to HR representatives for advice and notifications on impactful regulatory changes.

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Recent Reviews

TriNet Review

9 out of 10
April 10, 2024
Incentivized
TriNet is our everyday HRIS, payroll and benefits platform. It addresses our issues by keeping everything in one place, making it a …
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TriNet

7 out of 10
March 12, 2024
Payroll, benefits, and compliance in multi-state environment. The product addresses our ability to offer strong benefits to employees and …
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TriNet User

8 out of 10
March 11, 2024
Incentivized
Human Resources - primarily payroll and benefits

Particularly helpful as we have a team comprised of both in-person and remote employees …
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TriNet is a great platform!

8 out of 10
March 06, 2024
We use TriNet for payroll, benefits, and 401k administration. TriNet has been very helpful in easily administering benefits to all …
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It's Been Challenging!

1 out of 10
February 26, 2024
TriNet is our PEO/HRIS system. We use TriNet in almost every aspect of our jobs. We have struggled with TriNet in almost every one of …
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TriNet

8 out of 10
February 22, 2024
Incentivized
PEO Partnership with TriNet. Payroll, HR, Workers Comp, Time & Attendance, benefits, Training, labor law compliance, etc, we are …
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Optimistic for some improvement.

5 out of 10
February 19, 2024
We use TriNet as our PEO with a scope that includes payroll, employee benefits, time-tracking, among other things. The major business …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • View and generate pay and benefit information (641)
    9.1
    91%
  • Update personal information (655)
    8.3
    83%
  • Pay calculation (654)
    8.2
    82%
  • Benefit plan administration (665)
    7.9
    79%

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Pricing

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What is TriNet?

TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR and payroll solutions tailored by industry. TriNet also offers specialized services through client access to HR representatives for advice and notifications on impactful regulatory changes.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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
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
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.1
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.

1
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

7.4
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
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.

6.5
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.

7.3
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.

6.5
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is TriNet?

TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. The vendor aims to free SMBs from HR complexities by offering access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll and real-time technology. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet's goal is to empower SMBs to focus on what matters most—growing their business.

TriNet 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: 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

Leave and Attendance Management Features

  • Supported: Approval workflow
  • Supported: Email notifications
  • Supported: Balance details
  • 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

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

Succession Planning Features

  • 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: Publish to Social Media
  • Supported: Job Search Site Posting
  • Supported: Applicant Tracking
  • Supported: Notifications and Alerts

TriNet Competitors

TriNet Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR and payroll solutions tailored by industry. TriNet also offers specialized services through client access to HR representatives for advice and notifications on impactful regulatory changes.

ADP TotalSource, OASIS, and Insperity are common alternatives for TriNet.

Reviewers rate View and generate pay and benefit information highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of TriNet are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 02, 2018

TriNet works!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think it's well-suited if you're a small business or startup and want to focus on core business strategies and not get bogged down stringing together multiple HR, Payroll, and Benefits systems. If you're an established well-matrixed organization, then this may not be the product/service for you.
March 01, 2018

Candid review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is well suited if you do not want to deal with payroll or a payroll service and you are looking for a good healthcare solution. It is not suited to a large company with more than 100 employees where HR infrastructure exists.
March 01, 2018

Very happy customer!

Victoria Henley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is great if you are a young or small business who cannot offer the benefits and expertise of a larger company, I would certainly recommend it for UK companies moving into the US. Once a company is established and grown it may become suitable to provide the service in-house as you would have more choices of HR software.
December 12, 2017

TriNet Evaluation

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is especially well suited to smaller companies who could not offer the great selection of benefits and HR support. Also processing of payroll and oversight of all taxes. Maybe not as applicable to much larger companies who could provide some of these things on their own for a lesser cost.
December 05, 2017

Got TriNet?

Linda Phillips | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe that TriNet is probably a great company for mid to large companies. The pricing scales based on number of employees.
We have two entities utilizing TriNet - one with 12 employees and one with 3 and sometime it seems we could save money by maybe using a more local payroll company. We do send our payroll person to seminars on payroll/hr and notice that most of TriNet's are held in Orange County - which makes it difficult to attend.
December 04, 2017

Trinet Review 2017

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For companies that are smaller TriNet is a great way to give their employees better benefits and 401K plans. For Larger companies, they take the stress from handling so many employees and their issues.
Milena Stefanova | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet offers a great service for businesses that want to hire employees working remotely from several different states. Formalities, compliance with the various states, paperwork, employee benefits programs - TriNet handles all this and lets us concentrate on our business.
November 30, 2017

TriNet review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is well suited for a company that wants everything on one platform - payroll, benefits administration, employee information, etc. I cannot think of a scenario where it is less appropriate - perhaps for very small companies without the budget for this type of platform.
November 30, 2017

Professional

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

As of now, we think TriNet is very good for our small start up company to get a good professional HR service and compliance with the laws.

If the the assistant is very experienced and knowledgable, that will be helpful. Also, sometimes the update payroll approval is sending after trinet office hours, even there is problem on it. Still can't resolve it because the TriNet assistant is off the duty. And if we ask the other helper, they don't have authority to solve the problem.


Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The companies I work with range from 2 to 36 employees. Some of them have employees in several states. They appreciate the resources TriNet brings to the table. Most have insurance and retirement plans through TriNet. These are not competitively priced in the open market, but are affordable through TriNet.
November 29, 2017

TriNet Review

Veronica Cavanagh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is great for startup companies that want to use a third party. From 0 - 150 employees it would make the expense worth it. Not having to worry about payroll taxes, or employer taxes, in general, is huge. When the company doesn't have enough revenue to have a big HR department Trinet is a great replacement. They really take care of a lot of background stuff that startup companies don't have the time to figure out in a short amount of time.
Cindy Ievers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Over the course of the 13 years I've been working with TriNet, I think I've had a dozen payroll/HR representatives. I am sure everyone finds it annoying to switch reps, but so many of my reps have moved up in the company, and they all knew what they knew, and what they needed to research, and were always responsive.

I think TriNet shines as the payroll/HR/benefits solution for small to medium sized companies. Particularly if you are an incubator, and in the habit of starting companies often!
November 29, 2017

TriNet makes it easy!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is suited for small companies that don't have the budget or bandwidth for an entire HR/Payroll dept. The new hire onboarding process is extremely intuitive and very easy. The automated email onboarding frees up the HR rep and puts the control in the hands of the new hire to make sure they comply with all required documentation. The instructions in the email are also well written. The reminders are also extremely helpful to keep the process on track.
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