ADP is too big to adapt well
Updated February 28, 2020

ADP is too big to adapt well

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ADP Workforce Now

We use WorkForceNow, iReports, and Smart Compliance. We use it mostly for paying our employees, benefits, and managing taxes involved with payroll. We also use WFN as a database for global employees not paid with ADP.
  • Batch imports of pay data and employee changes.
  • Custom access security and ESS profiles.
  • Their tax department, Smart Compliance, is terrible. They are very slow, do not have a way to communicate, and do not take notices seriously enough.
  • The reporting module is inconstant and not very user-friendly.
  • The cost is extremely high, per person, for our basic needs.
  • ADP cannot support our time sheet requirements or employee records needs.
For larger corps, it's really easy to scale up or down. Below a certain point (1000?) any other payroll provider would be better suited.
  • Cornerstone
We used Cornerstone for employee evaluations. It took forever to get integrated and when it was finally achieved, most of the features were unusable.
Proliant was far superior. The Onboarding module was a huge benefit and the reporting software was powerful and easy to use. ADP was able to handle more levels of security and made those levels customizable. Manual checks are also better with ADP.
ADP may be good for large corporations that basic business rules or simple pay models and that can afford to have ADP do all their custom reporting for them. Having ADP respond to tax notices is not recommended.

ADP Workforce Now Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
7
Employment history
10
Job profiles and administration
8
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
Not Rated
Organizational charting
2
Organization and location management
3
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
8
Pay calculation
10
Benefit plan administration
7
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
View and generate pay and benefit information
9
Update personal information
8
Report builder
2
Pre-built reports
3
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated