Highly disappointed in a sub-par product with little to no support throughout the process
May 03, 2022

Highly disappointed in a sub-par product with little to no support throughout the process

Shaun Marso | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • HR, Benefits Administration & ACA
  • Onboarding Software
  • Learning Management System
  • Scheduling
  • Time & Attendance
  • Payroll & Tax Software
  • Reporting & Analytics

Overall Satisfaction with Paycor

I was a former user of the Nimble Schedule, which then was bought out and became Ximble Schedule, which was then bought out by Paycor. I started my own business and decided to give Paycor a try as they operated Ximble. My first experience was the lack of communication with this company. They divide out your progression for onboarding with their company to several departments with numerous other people. Response time is slow at best and the ability to reach out to supervisors when the "specialist" fails to return calls or emails is impossible. Many employees here might be decent, but our experience was and still is a terrible one. Our system still does not function properly, yet we are still being billed for a full and working product. I have expressed my frustration numerous times only to be given lip service about how they are working on it, and thank you for being patient, but then it never gets fixed. Their phone number for assistance shuts down at 8 pm eastern time, so if you experience problems with their software, which you will, you will be left out on your own to try to fix the issue until they reopen the next day. Unfortunately, I have been met with more "I don't know" and "I'll send this to our team to review" when calling in with issues and problems. I have several unresolved problems and it seems absolutely no one knows what they are doing. It's very obvious they have no employee oversight, they have lazy or uninformed employees, and most management itself is as inept as the employee who has no idea how to do their job. I recommend HIGHLY you STAY AWAY from PAYCOR. Our company still has employees who cannot even use their system to clock in after starting the process to join their company almost 3 months ago! This is unacceptable and the problems keep coming up almost weekly. I am still waiting on an email response from a month ago, then gave up, and figured out how to fix the problem myself. The company still has not responded even after follow-up emails and has no idea how to fix the technical issue with their own software. There is no urgency to help you as a client and the employees are not very knowledgeable. You will be passed around to several different people when calling in until you reach that one person that seemingly does know a little, but they do not have the access or permission to fully work on your account, they then try to reach their "team", but they aren't answering the phone and your problem hits a dead end. This is because these employees appear to all be working from home, so when they don't feel like answering their calls, they just don't. This was my experience in numerous attempts to resolve problems. It took a month of requests before I even had a supervisor call me back. They do not provide contact information for anyone and most people do not know the other employees or their supervisors, so when you do have problems, most employees don't even know who to refer you to. We are leaving Paycor as soon as our new company sets up our account which will take 8-12 weeks. I have no problem admitting I am leaving for ADP. They have a much better onboarding system, payroll system, customer service, as well as actual help when you need it. Not to mention, they actually came down in price to beat Paycor and give us a better deal. You just have to ask and they can do that. Please do not use this company, it is a dumpster fire of problems with seemingly no one around to fix it.
  • Making simple tasks absolutely too complicated
  • Complicated system
  • Horrible customer service
  • lack of employee oversight
  • Making a functioning product
  • Answering phone calls and responding to emails
  • Providing access to supervisors when problems are not being addressed
  • expensive for a poorly run software program
  • Lack of training for employee's who seem to not be familiar with the product
  • Very user unfriendly with no explanation of how to use the product outside of basics
  • LONG response times from everyone at the company who usually do not respond back

Do you think Paycor delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Paycor's feature set?

No

Did Paycor live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Paycor go as expected?

No

Would you buy Paycor again?

No

  • Caused our company a $5,000 net loss per week for inability to use the product for 2 months during botched setup shutting down operations during this time
  • Increased timeline for what appear to be simple product implimentations
  • Created complicated scenarios to accomplish basic tasks
  • Created negative employee experiences with difficulty using software to track time I
  • The company does not verify banking information on direct deposits, if a mistake is made, you will be charged a return fee for the employee incorrectly entering banking info.
Our HR and/or payroll team is spending more time than we did previously due to Paycor. - No time savings has been realized as we are forced to manually create reports and documents to do what we used to do in minutes on our previous system. Their software is not capable of doing most tasks without you actually setting it up on a system that takes more time than to do it by hand.
Avoid this company and this product, you will regret wasting the time to find out they cannot actually deliver the product they sold you.
  • RUN Powered by ADP®
ADP by a long shot out preforms everything that Paycor attempts to do. Must better functionality with customer service and ease of use.
I honestly cannot say where they are well suited as they have not shown me any competence in any areas of their business other than the sales department. They promised every feature we requested and ensured me it was possible to do the tasks we discussed. We were then told the products we needed to have and agreed to terms. It then became apparent after a month of trying to set up our account and failing to be able to do the tasks we were sold, that they had us on the wrong product. This was eventually fixed after some very heated arguments with their company, but to the tune of an attempted $600 per month charge, which we refused to pay. They also attempted to blame the associate for being new, not knowing their job, etc. Regardless, we did not get what we were promised and then learned after another month of setup, that most of what we asked for was "kind of" available, but with workarounds. We were not actually sold a product that was capable of doing what we asked YET, but they were working on some updates and it might be available in the future. Instead, we were told how to use band-aid features that still do not offer what we needed. So, regardless of the sarcasm, the only part of the company that did their job was sales, which used false promises to get us to sign up. No one seems to actually know what their product does, or how to do it, so you are wasting your time on Paycor.

Paycor Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
3
Employment history
1
Job profiles and administration
1
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
3
Organizational charting
4
Organization and location management
1
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
5
Pay calculation
3
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
2
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
1
Salary revision and increment management
3
Approval workflow
3
Balance details
3
Annual carry-forward and encashment
5
View and generate pay and benefit information
3
Update personal information
4
View job history
3
View company policy documentation
1
Tracking of all physical assets
5
Report builder
1
Pre-built reports
1
Ability to combine HR data with external data
1
Performance plans
3
Performance improvement plans
2
Review status tracking
3
Review reminders
2
Multiple review frequency
5
Candidate ranking
1
Candidate search
1
New hire portal
3
Manager tracking tools
2
Corporate goal setting
1
Individual goal setting
1
Line-of sight-visibility
1
Performance tracking
1
Job Requisition Management
Not Rated
Company Website Posting
Not Rated
Publish to Social Media
Not Rated
Job Search Site Posting
Not Rated
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
Not Rated
Notifications and Alerts
Not Rated