Powerful, scalable, yet approachable
May 17, 2023
Powerful, scalable, yet approachable
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity
Paylocity was initially only implemented for payroll/withholdings and reporting. Since I joined we have increased the utilization to cover time clocks, 360-integration with 401k, onboarding, training, compliance, and more.
Part of our complexity is several tiers of staff (part time, FTE hourly, seasonal, exempt, non-exempt salary) with different rules for each covering benefits, OT, bonusing, etc.
Paylocity has made these processes auditable, semi-automated, and generally compliant.
- Depth of integration of various HR automation tasks
- Flexible to meet unique-to-us HR / pay rules
- Auditability. This is huge.
- Off-boarding and unemployment support.
- Some functions are non-obvious, like timecard approvals. A tasklist with hyperlinks for managers could make implementation smoother.
- Purging bad history: A dismissed employee who has accrued benefits balances will stay in the system in perpetuity. Equally if you change benefits (in our case from VAC to PTO), unless you purge the VAC balance before you switch, the VAC balance is stuck there forever. This is a database issue so is a pain to fix. Hopefully it will get address (generally it is just messy; doesn't create actual problems unless you're not careful when running reports).
- Reporting is a bit messy. CSV, XLS, XLSX, PDF....but inconsistent. Additionally it can be hard to find the right filters, and when you find them to apply them correctly. It is powerful, but hasn't been cleanly productized (triumph of engineering over product)
- Reduced time: there are lots of calculations and separate types of employees here. This is the big win.
- Data: you can pull tons of ad-hoc data out of the system.
- Audit: You can see and fix errors. There is no "black box" hiding why something happened.
Right now it is just pay and time tracking, but at an advanced level. This allows better reporting, controls, audits with less time expended.
Currently acquiring and retaining talent is difficult. This frees up time to spend there.
So far the ROI is limited by the "I"...there are still many areas where investment will pay off.
Side note: it scales well. Entry level implementation is easy, and you can go from there and increase implementation over time. You don't need to "rip of the band-aid(tm)" and completely shift over. Paylocity plays well with others.
Limited: we're just getting started here. We need to "tune" the landing page, and then start implementing features.
Allowing for that, it is quite powerful.
Paylocity is generally very flexible and scalable.
It does require investment (it isn't just flipping a switch).
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