Works Well But Could Be Better
October 09, 2023

Works Well But Could Be Better

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

As the People Operations Manager, I use Paylcity as an HR hubb. I refer to it as my HR BFF. Paylocity is my built in personnel files, my onboarding work flow, my systems manager on benefits enrollment and management, and a training hub.
The biggest business problems that we have faced are the small attention to detail steps on certain functions. For example, an employee can enter a QLE and make changes to their benefits; however, Paylocity does not allow them to do so for future dates even though their elections still have to be approved by an admin. Doing it this way forces the employee to wait until the first of the month to enter it. Depending on the day of the week, it could take several days for it to feed over to the carriers and then several more days to get into their systems. As an admin, I can enter a future date to ensure all the information is fed over to the carriers in a timely manner, but its an extra step that I have to take and a waste of the employee's time.

Pros

  • Onboarding work flow
  • Benefit Elections
  • Reports

Cons

  • Employee retention
  • in person conferences
  • smarter functions
  • live networking trainings on different functions/products
  • Better work flow
  • reduced time
  • demographic reporting
Time saver and space saver. We do not have to keep physical copies or personnel files in our office. Its is also a self serve system that empowers employees to be proactive and work for themselves when it comes to HR functions/ benefits. Paylocity makes Open Enrollment and new hire election super easy.
We use a different system to capture this but it is integrated with Paylocity.

Do you think Paylocity delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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?

No

Would you buy Paylocity again?

No

Strong system for onboarding, reporting, benefit management, time card management, and payroll. Paylocity is not user friendly. As an administrator, I am constantly having to walk employees through processes or having to correct their work based off of lack if clarity on certain functions. Also, it has been frustrating to have several account reps in one year. They have ranged from brand nee employees to seasoned employees and it seems like when we finally feel like everything is working well, our manager switches.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
8
Employment history
9
Job profiles and administration
7
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
9
Organizational charting
8
Organization and location management
8
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Salary revision and increment management
Not Rated
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
7
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
View and generate pay and benefit information
5
Update personal information
9
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
Not Rated
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
8
Report builder
9
Pre-built reports
8
Ability to combine HR data with external data
8
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
New hire portal
9
Manager tracking tools
10
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

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