Good product, poor support and implementation services
July 08, 2022

Good product, poor support and implementation services

Alex Westad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

Our organization uses many of Paylocity's features, including payroll, time-tracking/approvals, benefits administration, HR, PTO/sick leave, etc.
  • Easy to use for users and administrators
  • Well designed and executed product
  • Stable service
  • Poor support
  • Poor implementation and consultation services
  • Lack of support and integrity from account managers
  • Payroll
  • Time tracking
  • Ease of use
  • Efficient platform
  • Product has increased our team's efficiency once the product was implemented
  • Implementation was handled poorly, our organization had to pay out significant amounts of over-time to clean up the poor implementation completed by Paylocity

Do you think Paylocity delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Paylocity's feature set?

Yes

Did Paylocity live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Paylocity go as expected?

No

Would you buy Paylocity again?

No

Unfortunately, our organization had an extremely poor
implementation experience. Like many, our industry has some unique payroll
tracking and reporting requirements; however, through numerous meetings,
Paylocity's salespeople and implementation specialists ensured the product
could handle these requirements out of the box. With consultation from
Paylocity's team, we scheduled over three months to implement and test the
product before going live for a stress-free experience. Unfortunately, our
experience was the opposite of what was promised. In addition to breaking
numerous commitments and being misadvised by our implementation specialist on
multiple occasions, we were not re-assigned an implementation specialist for
over a month, which pushed us past our "go-live" date.

Ultimately, we had to self-implement the product to a large
degree. After seven months with the product, we are still waiting on promised
fixes to multiple issues. We have tried for months to address these experiences
and concerns with Paylocity's Director of Implementation Services and other
higher-ups. Unfortunately, our e-mails go unanswered for weeks, and the short
responses we receive don't address the topics we have raised.

Our team has lots of experience migrating large systems from
one software provider to another; while these projects are always nuanced and
challenging, we've never experienced the lack of support and integrity that we
experienced with Paylocity.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
Not Rated
Employment history
8
Job profiles and administration
Not Rated
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
7
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
10
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
10
Benefit plan administration
10
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
8
Approval workflow
7
Balance details
9
Annual carry-forward and encashment
8
View and generate pay and benefit information
10
Update personal information
10
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
Not Rated
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
8
Report builder
5
Pre-built reports
6
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated
Performance plans
Not Rated
Performance improvement plans
Not Rated
Review status tracking
Not Rated
Review reminders
Not Rated
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
Not Rated
New hire portal
Not Rated
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
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