Paylocity Pros and Cons
March 12, 2026

Paylocity Pros and Cons

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

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

We switched to Paylocity due to our business growing and we outgrew our old HRIS. Paylocity has allowed for easier onboarding, better ATS for recruiting and tracking, companywide surveys to be sent out, companywide trainings, and more efficient HR functions. It is also nice having the hierarchy feature and being able to assign supervisors. The performance tab is nice to be able to document conversations and create forms to ensure employees are held accountable to their job duties.

Pros

  • Performance tab- document one on ones. document corrective actions, set PIPs, employee receives the feedback
  • Survey- employee insight to know how our employees are feeling about their position, leader and department
  • Time and Labor - being able to have multiple cost center tiers for easier time allocation tracking

Cons

  • Reporting feature - need better reporting when it comes to recruiting. We still manually track recruiting efforts
  • better visibility
we have not been able to automate our payroll yet. we use a crm that does not communicate with Paylocity. we are switching crms and hoping to get this API link working.
we have not used these features quite yet. We communicate heavily on teams but looking to transition.
It is nice that Paylocity sends out birthday alerts and anniversary alerts
we still need to explore all of Paylocity's capabilities

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?

No

Would you buy Paylocity again?

Yes

easy self service options for employees to update direct deposit, tax forms, address, phone number, etc
ton of trainings to send employees with the ability to send company wide or to specific users or specific positions
ability to easily create onboarding packets surveys and data insights
wish reporting were an easier function and better recruiting reporting or ability to link our indeed to auto upload into Paylocity versus manually entering the applicants

Paylocity Feature Ratings

8.1
Employee demographic data
8
Employment history
8
Job profiles and administration
8
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
8
Organizational charting
9
Organization and location management
8
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
8
7.4
Pay calculation
7
Support for external payroll vendors
7
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
7
Benefit plan administration
8
Direct deposit files
8
Salary revision and increment management
7
Reimbursement management
8
8.0
Approval workflow
8
Balance details
8
Annual carry-forward and encashment
8
8.0
View and generate pay and benefit information
8
Update personal information
8
View job history
8
View company policy documentation
8
Employee recognition
8
8.0
Tracking of all physical assets
8
5.7
Report builder
6
Pre-built reports
6
Ability to combine HR data with external data
5
Integration with other HR capabilities ()
Not Rated
7.8
Performance plans
8
Performance improvement plans
8
Review status tracking
8
Review reminders
8
Multiple review frequency
7
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
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
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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