Paylocity is a great cross-department system
Updated May 12, 2023

Paylocity is a great cross-department system

Madi Roberts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

We use Paylocity as our HRIS, LMS, Performance Management, and Benefits system.
  • We really enjoy the automation between onboarding and automatically assigned trainings to reduce manual efforts.
  • We are able to customize many things between all modules to suit our needs. For example, the different event packets in onboarding based on employee type and which client they will be working for that have extra onboarding requirements.
  • I really appreciate that Paylocity is ever-evolving and takes customer feedback to better enhance their platforms. I submit feedback on a weekly basis on their products and sometimes I even receive a response regarding my feedback.
  • Paylocity could improve on the functionality of the Instructor-Led trainings. Their integration with Microsoft Outlook has some bugs. It doesn't automatically remove a rescinded training and it adds a new training and doesn't remove the old training when it has been edited. The integration also doesn't have a 15-minute reminder on the training session, so often we see employees missing their training sessions.
  • Paylocity added a feature to add files to their Community groups. However, every time you upload a file to a group, it automatically sends a notification to everyone in that group. It would be helpful to turn this notification off.
  • Paylocity workflows are great, but I wish they had a few more capabilities. It would be helpful to launch workflows similarly to trainings and surveys, i.e. open assignment, automatic assignment, assigned to specific participants.
  • Paylocity has allowed our company to reduce a lot of manual efforts and have a centralized location for many of our processes. As time goes on we have moved multiple manual processes over to Paylocity. This reduces manual labor for our employees and a centralized location for employees to complete tasks and retrieve data.
Paylocity's automation tools have reduce manual efforts and reduced room for errors. I have seen immense improvement in our onboarding and orientation experience.
We started using Impressions and Community this year. This has definitely been a new experience that our employees had to adapt to. We moved our communication and employee recognition from Teams to Paylocity. As we change our process and adjust to employee feedback we have seen an increase in engagement within the Paylocity system.
We used UltiPro before we used Paylocity. Paylocity is much more user friendly. They didn't have an LMS system, we had to use a different system for benefits, and we didn't have any capabilities for employee engagement. With Paylocity, we're able to do all of that in one system.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Paylocity go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Paylocity again?

Yes

Paylocity is a system that can have multiple functions for many departments in a company. Rather than using several systems, we are able to work in one system together and see the flow of an employee lifecycle throughout one system.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

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

Using Paylocity

10 - There are about 10 people that use Paylocity every day within our organization. They use HR, Payroll, Benefits, and Community. These are the products that are used the most but we use almost every other product that Paylocity offers.
5 - Previous knowledge of hot to use and set up an HRIS system
  • Use workflows for client requirements.
  • Using feedback forms after a project has been completed.
  • Waiting for some features to be released but I’m really excited about their updates to the skills/certification tracking.