Item: Paylocity
Rating: 7
Author: Anne Schafroth

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Paylocity for HR, Payroll, Onboarding, and Benefits. With major growth, Paylocity onboarding makes it easy for us to set up our new hires and go thru the Everify process. Their I-9's are completed during onboarding as well. Once we bring them over into HR & Payroll, they are ready to go for the first payroll. We have automatic feeds with our benefit providers, including medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA accounts, and 401k.

Pros and Cons

Taxes - we rarely have an issue with tax payments and tax filings
Check calculator - employees can see how a change might affect their net pay
Benefits reporting is user friendly

It is difficult to get some reporting completed, and custom reports take a long time to create and modify.
There is no option to prevent W4 changes when a lock in letter is received.

Return on Investment

Consistent and accurate payroll and tax filings
Payroll is easy to run and reports are returned quickly

Paylocity Automated Processes

Payroll is almost completed automated for Origami Risk. We do not use time tracking but if we did, that would make payroll even more automated.

Paylocity Employee Engagement

We do use surveys frequently, especially with new hires and voluntary terminations. We use Slack for instant messaging, and our users do not log into Community frequently.

Alternatives Considered

ADP Workforce Now, Ceridian Dayforce and Oracle PeopleSoft HCM

Paylocity is easier to navigate than Ceridian, but some things are not available to the user. It is reliable for payroll processing and accuracy. PeopleSoft is much easier to make adjustments to wages and taxes, but that is also an area where errors and/or fraud could be an issue. ADP is quite accurate and reliable, but offers less flexibility.

Key Insights

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?

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?

Yes

Other Software Used

Navisite Productivity and Collaboration (Microsoft Office 365 and MDM), Zoom, Slack

Likelihood to Recommend

Paylocity's payroll features are accurate and easy to use. They could be better with a little more updating and functionality. The benefits module is very user friendly, but sometimes benefit calculations need to be adjusted when changes occur at the end of a pay period. It would be great if Paylocity set up users as supervisors when they became supervisors - in other words, when you get a direct report, it would be great if Paylocity automatically updated your access to a supervisor level.

Accurate payroll with Paylocity

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity