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Paylocity - A Comprehensive Solution and Review
February 22, 2024

Paylocity - A Comprehensive Solution and Review

John Morone, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

We are using Paylocity as our HRIS system of record, LMS, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, and Employee Survey database. Paylocity truly provides a fully integrated and comprehensive suite of HR solutions.
  • Payroll Processing - Including all Tax Handling and Processing
  • Talent Acquisition Suite - Allows for the digital handling of candidate to onboarding. Fully integrated background, E-verify, drug screening
  • Established APIs with external vendors for Benefits and 401K
  • Survey Management - Customized surveys for Employee Engagement and Customer Satisfaction
  • Communities - Allows for online employee collaboration as well as site for employees to pull company documents such as policies and procedures.
  • Functionality of the Mobile App needs to match web portal. i.e. Employees unable to access self-appraisals for annual performance reviews on the app. Employees will have to use their browsers on the phone to access. Also, Employees are unable to adjust their State and Federal Tax withholdings via the App. They need to log into via their browsers.
  • Would like to see easier accessibility to establishing APIs (Application Programming Interface) from Paylocity to my own IT department. Attempted to do this and there was a PEPM (per employee per month) charge for this integration. Don't mind paying an initial set up but after that a PEPM seems a little steep. Be a better value-added partner with your clients in solving business problems. Huge area of opportunity and more than willing to discuss further with you.
  • Auto Assignment of Expense Management Rules. Currently have to refresh the Expense Management rules to ensure that all employees are part of it. This should be able to be automated much in the same way Attendance policies are managed for various employee populations.
  • Better Data Driven Decision Making
  • Efficient Time to Process Payroll
  • Efficient Time for Expense Reimbursement
  • Great platform for Employee Communication
Paylocity does what it achieves to do in this area. It is a comprehensive HR solution for small to medium size companies.
This has been something that we are actively trying to build upon for our employee population. We are using the video plug in to allow our principal of the company to speak directly to our employees and give regular company updates.
I have been with my current employer for less than a year. Coming into a Paylocity environment for the 1st time I am impressed with what Paylocity has to offer.
I would like to see Paylocity offer an in person "Meeting of the Minds" style meeting for networking and learning on items that are coming up.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Paylocity again?

Yes

Paylocity is great for small to medium size businesses that are looking to have a fully integrated HRIS system. Paylocity offers businesses the capability to greatly automate and help their HR function in the management of the entire employee life cycle.

One area that I am looking to better utilize Paylocity and where ADP or UKG has an advantage on them is the integration of time clock data with your own IT information systems for productivity management. We are in the Wholesale Distribution sector so one thing we would like to track and manage is the number of picks per hour for our employees. Our measurement of productivity. The integration has been difficult and only recently discovered a SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) solution that will avoid an API integration for this data.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

9.4
Employee demographic data
10
Employment history
7
Job profiles and administration
10
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
9
Organizational charting
10
Organization and location management
10
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
10
10.0
Pay calculation
10
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
10
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
10
9.0
Approval workflow
9
Balance details
9
Annual carry-forward and encashment
9
10.0
View and generate pay and benefit information
10
Update personal information
10
View job history
10
View company policy documentation
10
Employee recognition
10
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
9.0
Report builder
9
Pre-built reports
9
Ability to combine HR data with external data
9
Integration with other HR capabilities ()
Not Rated
8.0
Performance plans
8
Performance improvement plans
8
Review status tracking
8
Review reminders
8
Multiple review frequency
8
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
10.0
New hire portal
10
Manager tracking tools
10
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
10.0
Job Requisition Management
10
Company Website Posting
10
Publish to Social Media
10
Job Search Site Posting
10
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
10
Applicant Tracking
10
Notifications and Alerts
10