Paylocity - the all-in-one HRIS/Payroll system
March 17, 2025

Paylocity - the all-in-one HRIS/Payroll system

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

Paylocity is our HRIS, timekeeping, and payroll system. Benefits, spending accounts, and COBRA are integrated, as is recruiting and onboarding. Having everything in one place is easier for employees to navigate. It's also a few less websites/partners for HR to manage. Another benefit is HR can report on a variety of functions with the ease of one platform.

Pros

  • Employee records
  • Recruiting process
  • Bidirectional EDI feeds with benefits providers

Cons

  • Payroll is more time consuming for HR I experienced with other platforms
  • General ledger reporting must be updated by Paylocity. They're working on a revision that would allow the client to re-map their general ledger reports but there's no release date yet.
  • Onboarding has all the digital options but it's not very intuitive or welcoming. The company has to enhance the experience in other ways.
  • Integration of the benefits reduced daily benefits administration by 80%.
  • Schedule templates improved the accuracy of payroll accruals and monthly reporting.
  • We continue to invest more money in Paylocity modules to improve our employee experience.
Updating the schedule templates is easy. Employees have the option of clocking in/out via timeclocks or the app. My experience is about 70% of our employees prefer the app. The integration of Time & Labor with Payroll makes the hourly employee payroll easier than using an external timekeeping system. As stated before, the payroll process has too many steps and I need to review each employee to ensure payroll is correct. How much of this relates to the timekeeping process rather than the payroll process? That's a good question. I had upwards of 225 employees at my last job and spent about 15 minutes on payroll processing. I have less than 50 here and spend 3-4 hours from start to finish.
We're not using the employee engagement tools in a consistent manner. Employees are not highly responsive to the Community. We've had moderate success with Surveys. We use an external provider for recognition & rewards so Impressions is not used at all. Premium video is on the future list we understand there are multiple ways to post content - recruiting, onboarding, open enrollment, training, and internal communications.

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

Our employees like Paylocity, which is a huge part of the rating. Those who responded to a survey have no wish to change platforms. They can clock in, see their paycheck, get their tax forms, and update information on the app.
HR likes having as many functions as possible in one software package. It makes life easier.
The support team at Paylocity is generally prompt and experts in their field.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
9
Employment history
9
Job profiles and administration
8
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
4
Organizational charting
6
Organization and location management
9
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
8
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
10
Benefit plan administration
8
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
7
Balance details
6
Annual carry-forward and encashment
10
View and generate pay and benefit information
10
Update personal information
10
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
10
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
Report builder
7
Pre-built reports
8
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated
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
7
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
8
Company Website Posting
8
Publish to Social Media
Not Rated
Job Search Site Posting
8
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
8
Notifications and Alerts
8

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