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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is our Human Resources partner for our entire company. It allows our employees to have 24/7 access to their earnings statements, medical benefits, time off, tax information, etc., through the website or phone app. As an employee, it helps me stay organized. As part of the human resources support staff, it helps me guide employees to the information they need quickly and easily.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TriNet across our whole organization for payroll and expense processing services as well as benefits management. Onboarding new employees is an intuitive and efficient process. The ability to download all payroll and expense data helps to streamline the recording of the information into the accounting records of our organization. Employees can easily manage their own withholding elections and benefits selections online. In short, TriNet has made these HR processes easier for smaller companies that currently do not have the expertise to handle these tasks in-house.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TriNet as an HRIS system for payroll, benefits, HR questions, etc. We had an old-school way of all paperwork and TriNet has been incredibly helpful with onboarding, departures, running payroll, tricky HR questions, and more. Having everything all in one location for the Company to access and all employees to access has really lessened the headache.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for payroll services, medical benefits (med, eye and dental), 401k, STD, LTD & workmen's comp. It is used for all of our 9 employees.
October 05, 2021

TriNet Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is used by the entire company to track time off, pay our employees, and manage our Benefits. Trinet helps us immensely in our payroll procedures and paying all our employees via direct deposits. They also make it easier to be a completely remote company by being able to pay through the states correctly and comply with all the different state regulations.
Patrick Taiwo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Powers the business's success and promotes its growth and innovation with the help of an extraordinary HR. Ports time tracking data directly into the system to cut down on time importing data. Provides an easy way to calculate hours, benefits, payroll, taxes and more to give employees greater visibility into each paycheck.
Amy Johannesen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I cannot overstate how much I regret engaging TriNet. As a solo practitioner/S-corp, I used them for payroll and for healthcare benefits. Initially, they charged abt $70/person/payroll, in line with industry standards. Their reporting formats are mediocre, but it was fine for the price. Without proper notice, TriNet increased fees for all companies under 5 people by assessing a minimum $750 fee - the rate for 5-person companies. Rather than being above-board and advising small companies that they no longer wished to service them, there was no outreach to companies or warning, only an email discussing a payroll rate increase to just under $75/person with a small notice elsewhere of a new minimum rate, which you'd have to know to look for. They violated the trust placed in them as a fiduciary with direct access to corporate bank accounts and dipped into company's accounts to pay themselves more for no material change in services. Any company under 25 people should avoid TriNet. Should TriNet decide such companies are insufficiently profitable, at any time they might make large unauthorized withdrawals to scale up their fees without notice. Time for AG action.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
TriNet is beneficial for small companies like ourselves, we use it for our payroll process and benefits. Our team is happy and satisfied using it across the company. It also manages employee in and out time, along with the actual productive hours. Attendance can be taken care. It also has an interface wherein we can run reports to check with our managers and superiors.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We implemented Trinet in early 2020 for our benefits and payroll. It has been an unmitigated disaster from Day 1 with a flawed implementation, clunky software, and non-existent customers service. It addresses no business solutions other than cost-effective benefits. We have had to hire an HR consultant solely to deal with Trinet, wait on hold for hours and send numerous e-mails for the most simple issues.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet offers a combination of payroll management, tax documentation and benefits administration for the APS marketing team. Their approach delivers a turn key, hands off solution to functions that typically require separate staffing resources.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize TriNet for all of our part-time and full-time employees across the entire organization. We engage them for the majority of our human resource needs such as employee surveys, benefits management, payroll, employee handbook, manager training, employee training, COVID-19 resources, and new government labor law updates for federal and local alike.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize TriNet for HR Solutions - they provide our company with benefits, HR/employee relations support, payroll services, worker's compensation, etc. We utilize the HR Passport solution and love it. Every employee is able to access HR Passport for earnings statements, benefit information, leave requests, time card entry - single sign on, easy to use, mostly paper free. HR and Accounting utilize it for payroll, reporting, etc.
Steve Humphries | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a small business and so TriNet's offerings of large employer benefits was appealing to us. We ended up saving money by switching to them. I also like the fact that when we have a situation in the workplace that needs counsel, I have been able to reach out to TriNet and they take the time to research and get back to me in a reasonable time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use TriNet as our HR resource. We utilize it for our HRIS system as well as payroll. We have also utilized services from TriNet such as dealing with separations and other HR related requests. The company utilizes the platform to pick and manage their benefits as well as internally to track any HR related activity for employees such and promotions and pay changes.
June 05, 2021

The best of PEO's

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TriNet is our PEO. Belonging to TriNet allows us to offer superior products/benefits to our employees at a reasonable cost. These products would otherwise be impossible or totally unaffordable to offer our employees.
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