Paylocity Review
July 11, 2025

Paylocity Review

Rachel Thompson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

So we use Paylocity for most things. We've been fortunate enough to use the training bundles to stay in compliance there, especially the safety portion has saved me with OSHA a couple of times. We also, we use payroll. Payroll only takes us like 15 minutes, so it's quick and saves me a lot of time and frustration. I really love how workflows customizes the software for me. So when I terminate an employee immediately goes out a termination letter and if it's voluntary then my exit survey goes out there. Saves me a lot of time.

Pros

  • I like how it contains everything within the product that kind of follows the employee. So I can look up the employee's documents, I can look up how much time they have in their time banks or how much leave they've taken. I like that everything's contained right there. And it's quick reference for me to look at.

Cons

  • Currently the service team's working on the fact that when they're finished with their training, it is, if they do it on the mobile app, it won't go to completion. It needs to go to completion. So they need to open up a web browser or get on a computer to actually complete the training. So that is one shortcoming, but I do believe they're working on it.
  • Well it's definitely saved me in the compliance arena. I could have been charged OSHA fees if I hadn't been signing those trainings within Paylocity, especially the safety trainings. It is also saving me in, like I was saying with a DP, there was the tax implementations, so there's IRX fees and stuff that it's definitely saved me time. Saved the employee's frustration, being able to geofence and clock in now, not having to wait at a time clock.
Well, it's made my business, for me, starting off as an HR is one, and now I'm building a department behind me. We already have a lot of workflows set up, so it saved me a lot of time. So for instance, I had mentioned earlier within terminating, when I terminate someone, it automatically sets up, sends out the exit survey. We also have some other surveys that send out a 30 day review, a 90 day review. It also reminds my managers to stay on top of our performance reviews. So all of those are nice features.
So before we went with Paylocity, we have 13 plus locations and they kind of all felt like they were siloed out or different on different islands. There was no communication amongst the company, it was within the location only. So after we added Paylocity in the community forum, it's been a really nice feature because someone in North Carolina can ask a question and someone in Michigan can answer it and say something like, we've been through this, we've seen this, do this. So the collaborating from the community forum awesome. And also to just give people some recognition for staying late the day before or whatever it is. It shows that somebody paid attention and that was relayed because of the community app.
It's definitely very simple to use. User-friendly.

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

I mean the product's well suited for everything that I do. I even down to tracking my OSHA 300, how many injuries it has. What it's not suited for, I suppose would be previously I had ADP. And ADP they got their hands in, for instance, retirement services. Obviously there's no retirement platform and I don't think it's well suited for that. And that was one of the downfalls of ADP.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
Not Rated
Employment history
Not Rated
Job profiles and administration
Not Rated
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
Not Rated
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
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
Not Rated
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
View and generate pay and benefit information
Not Rated
Update personal information
Not Rated
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
Not Rated
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
Not Rated
Report builder
Not Rated
Pre-built reports
Not Rated
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
Not Rated
New hire portal
Not Rated
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
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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