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Paylocity offers a lot for a company looking to upgrade from a basic HRIS/Payroll system
Updated February 06, 2023

Paylocity offers a lot for a company looking to upgrade from a basic HRIS/Payroll system

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

We use Paylocity for recruiting, onboarding, HRIS, performance reviews, benefits, and payroll. It is great to manage employee data all in one system. There are areas of Paylocity that we have not even tapped into yet but we hope to in time.
  • Paylocity reports are great. There are standard reports and you can create your own reports as well.
  • Paylocity payroll is very simple to use.
  • Paylocity benefits is user friendly for our employees.
  • Paylocity customer service has had some quirks through COVID like many companies. It is more difficult to get an answer on the first call that it used to be. Perhaps training and time will help.
  • Paylocity has a few outside partner vendors such as background screening but it would be great to see more with partner discounts.
  • Paylocity has made benefits enrollment much more efficient
  • Paylocity has simplified our payroll processing
  • Paylocity has saved us a lot of time in processing the 1095 forms
Paylocity benefits has saved HR a great deal of time with automatic file feeds to our insurance carriers. Paylocity has saved HR a lot of time with creating documentation for our affirmative action plan. Paylocity has saved HR a lot of time on posting jobs manually to job boards.
We use Community to announce new hires to the rest of the company. We have not used surveys, video or peer recognition at this point. We hope to grow into using these features soon.
We used Sage HRMS prior to Paylocity. It served our needs at the time. We didn't really know what was missing until we started using Paylocity and learned of the other features that were available to us. Paylocity was definitely an improvement over Sage.

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 offers many product solutions within HR and payroll. It is great for a company with greater than 100 employees but probably offers more than a smaller company needs. Paylocity's ACA/1095 platform is easy to navigate. Paylocity's payroll is straightforward to use.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

9.0
Employee demographic data
9
Employment history
9
Job profiles and administration
9
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
Not Rated
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
9
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
9
9.0
Pay calculation
9
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
9
Benefit plan administration
9
Direct deposit files
9
Salary revision and increment management
9
Reimbursement management
9
9.0
Approval workflow
9
Balance details
9
Annual carry-forward and encashment
9
9.0
View and generate pay and benefit information
9
Update personal information
9
View job history
9
View company policy documentation
9
Employee recognition
9
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
9.0
Report builder
9
Pre-built reports
9
Ability to combine HR data with external data
9
Integration with other HR capabilities ()
Not Rated
9.0
Performance plans
9
Performance improvement plans
9
Review status tracking
9
Review reminders
9
Multiple review frequency
9
9.0
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
9
Candidate development
Not Rated
9.0
New hire portal
9
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
9.0
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
9
Line-of sight-visibility
9
Performance tracking
9
9.0
Job Requisition Management
9
Company Website Posting
9
Publish to Social Media
9
Job Search Site Posting
9
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
9
Notifications and Alerts
9

Using Paylocity

3 - HR and Payroll
We do not have in-house support for Paylocity.
  • Payroll processing
  • HRIS
  • Recruiting
  • Customizable reporting
  • 1095 Forms
  • Performance review management
  • Attendance tracking
Paylocity is a great system with features that we have yet to tap into.

Evaluating Paylocity and Competitors

Yes - Sage Abra
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Product features that suit our size business that would make us more efficient.
We would meet with other vendors.

Paylocity Implementation

Our implementation specialist was great. It was hard to let go of communication with her.
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
  • Running the first payroll

Paylocity Support

Over the last several years Paylocity's support has declined. It is not terrible but it has been better.
ProsCons
Problems get solved
Difficult to get immediate help
Need to explain problems multiple times
No, we didn't feel it was necessary.
We have had odd situations with our 1095 forms. Paylocity was able to help me resolve the issues.

Using Paylocity

Paylocity is user friendly.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Payroll
  • Placing job ads
  • 1095 forms
  • Open enrollment
Yes - It does not support all areas of Paylocity, mostly focused on payroll.