Item: Paylocity
Rating: 4
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Paylocity is used in all regards of the employee experience including: Onboarding, HR, Benefits, and Time-Keeping. Having paylocity allows HR to manage all aspects of an employees record in one platform and easily allows changes from one area to the other.

Pros and Cons

Employee Acknowledgements
Time Tracking

Company specific account reps usually never answer the phone
Benefits Module has a lot of problems
No capability to track certifications or licenses
Cobra Module isn't integrated with Benefits - 2 completely different systems

Return on Investment

Cost the company money with screw ups from EDI files to Benefit Carriers - not setup properly for retro active changes

Paylocity Automated Processes

Not really sure what processes mentioned are really automated besides the EDI files for benefits which we continually have had problems with. All other aspects used must be manually entered or approved to work.

Paylocity Employee Engagement

We personally do not use this feature because just getting employees to use the application is hard enough because there isn't a lot of feature they have capabilities to do with it.

Alternatives Considered

Paychex Accounting Online

I was not involved in the changeover from Paychex to Paylocity but was told Paylocity had capabilities of piece work that the company may want to use in the future.

Key Insights

Do you think Paylocity delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Paylocity's feature set?

Did Paylocity live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Paylocity go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Paylocity again?

Likelihood to Recommend

If you just need a basic payroll suite Paylocity is perfect for that it does the basic necessities for any company with ease. When you get into more specifics Paylocity usually doesn't have the best capabilities to make the system specific to your company. For instance when trying to setup new hires for their new hire benefits Paylocity isn't capable of letting them be eligible from date of hire to effective date they force you to pick a time frame they have to make their elections. So, either 60 days from their hire date or 60 days prior to the effective date. Which pro-active employees would want 60 days from hire and employees that wait until the last minute would want to make their elections right up until the date its effective.

Paylocity - Recommended for companies who want basic one size fits all software

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity