Paylocity: Better than what we had but still has some issues
December 02, 2022

Paylocity: Better than what we had but still has some issues

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

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

We use HR & Payroll, Time and Attendance and Self-Service Portal. It addressed our need to have time clocks to track time and attendance, allows us to automate time off requests, and is our vendor for payroll processing.
  • The App is generally easy for employees to use.
  • Garnishments/Child Support payment services makes HR processes much simpler.
  • Turn around time on payroll processing is usually very good.
  • Changes that are made are not always for the better and things change without warning.
  • Having to enter basic information in order to create a user to send a New Hire a task in Onboarding defeats our main purpose for wanting to use Onboarding.
  • When entering the name of an employee in Time and Attendance Time Cards to go to that employee's card, the system frequently pulls up a random employee's card instead of the correct person (usually, this happens when trying to go to an employee card in the very beginning of the alphabet).
  • Much of the time, employees are not knowledgeable about how to fix the problems I call about. Sometimes, they are surprised by a change that has been made as well.
  • The Time and Attendance feature allowed us to save time and expense of manually adding up time cards every week.
  • The Payroll process is more convoluted than our prior vendor's, but it is less labor intensive.
  • Employees like the App and how it enables them to see their time punches and time off accruals.
No longer having to manually add work hours from physical punch cards allowed us to eliminate a position and save money in the long run. It is easier to have supervisors be able to enter attendance notes directly onto the electronic time card instead of sending HR an email for each one. HR no longer has to keep manual track of attendance.
We are not currently using the employee engagement tools. We feared that it would cause more problems and hurt morale and community more than it would help.
We used to use Paychex for Payroll only. We had to enter all time and pay manually, so it wasn't really helpful. We also did not utilize all of the functions that we paid for. The reports function was more user-friendly than Paylocity, though.

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

Paylocity would be well-suited in an industry/company where pay is not particularly complicated - when pay groups are all hourly or salary. It is less well-suited in our industry - where pay plans are complicated and the set up was less than great.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
9
Employment history
10
Job profiles and administration
Not Rated
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
5
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
8
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
10
Balance details
4
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
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
Not Rated
Report builder
1
Pre-built reports
3
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