Cornerstone OnDemand vs. EPAY Systems

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cornerstone OnDemand
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Cornerstone OnDemand is a cloud-based application for talent management. Cornerstone offers suites for recruiting, training, performance monitoring and planning, learning, and HR data management. It is scaled for enterprises.N/A
EPAY Systems
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
EPAY Systems, a PrismHR Company, is a SaaS provider of human capital management technology and services designed to help medium to large businesses better manage their workforce. Their solutions include recruiting and applicant tracking, new hire onboarding, benefits administration, HR management, time tracking, workforce management, payroll processing, tax management, performance management, ACA reporting, and COBRA administration.N/A
Pricing
Cornerstone OnDemandEPAY Systems
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cornerstone OnDemandEPAY Systems
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredRequired
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Features
Cornerstone OnDemandEPAY Systems
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.9
131 Ratings
8% above category average
EPAY Systems
2.1
2 Ratings
117% below category average
New hire portal8.168 Ratings2.12 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.9113 Ratings2.12 Ratings
Compliance tracking and reporting7.7124 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.2
113 Ratings
14% above category average
EPAY Systems
2.2
2 Ratings
114% below category average
Corporate goal setting7.994 Ratings00 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting8.297 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.7105 Ratings2.12 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.093 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.9108 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.6
118 Ratings
14% above category average
EPAY Systems
1.9
2 Ratings
123% below category average
Performance plans7.992 Ratings2.52 Ratings
Plan weighting7.279 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager note taking7.768 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.480 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Review status tracking8.295 Ratings2.52 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow7.463 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.092 Ratings2.52 Ratings
Workflow restrictions7.284 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency6.981 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Reporting7.8112 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.6
57 Ratings
21% above category average
EPAY Systems
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Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.948 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking8.948 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search8.851 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development8.948 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
8.2
65 Ratings
12% above category average
EPAY Systems
1.9
2 Ratings
122% below category average
Job Requisition Management8.444 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.540 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.937 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.937 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Customized Application Form8.539 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management7.942 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention8.139 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Candidate Search7.940 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.440 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Collaboration8.535 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation8.237 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates8.058 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions8.159 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.054 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Reporting8.062 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
7.2
186 Ratings
2% above category average
EPAY Systems
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Ratings
Course authoring4.9137 Ratings00 Ratings
Course catalog or library8.1184 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal7.6171 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content7.9146 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly8.4134 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications7.3167 Ratings00 Ratings
Assignments7.6180 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance management6.9161 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning administration6.7183 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics6.5182 Ratings00 Ratings
Social learning7.0115 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
EPAY Systems
2.2
2 Ratings
113% below category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings2.12 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings2.12 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
EPAY Systems
2.9
5 Ratings
94% below category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings6.55 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings2.52 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
EPAY Systems
2.5
3 Ratings
106% below category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings2.32 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings3.23 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings2.12 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
EPAY Systems
3.0
3 Ratings
93% below category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings3.23 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings3.43 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings2.32 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Cornerstone OnDemand
-
Ratings
EPAY Systems
3.1
3 Ratings
85% below category average
Report builder00 Ratings3.13 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings2.93 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings3.13 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cornerstone OnDemandEPAY Systems
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(256 ratings)
6.4
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(37 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(37 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.6
(36 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.2
(114 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.5
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.5
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cornerstone OnDemandEPAY Systems
Likelihood to Recommend
Cornerstone OnDemand
I feel Cornerstone OnDemand is a great solution for companies that have a large amount of compliance training that needs to be assigned and closely tracked. The features of dynamic groups (based on specific user criteria) allows you to target very specific audiences. The assignment functionality gives you great flexibility on when the assignment runs and how often, and also provides many options for due dates (static date or dynamic date - x days from hire date, date assigned, etc.). This has allowed us to have a clear and consistent user experience for both our newly hired employees and our seasoned employees.
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EPAY Systems
I am able to track which of my clients have paid their invoices and which have not. The number of days that the EPAY invoice is outstanding is easily accessible. The date the original invoice was sent is displayed. The initial form to complete in order to send the EPAY is so simple a caveman can do it. Just need the client's name, email, and the amount of the invoice. The automated follow-up emails to the clients who have not paid are helpful.
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Pros
Cornerstone OnDemand
  • Automatic recurring assignments are easy to get that refresher training out without needing to assign it fresh each time.
  • Reporting 2.0 makes it easy to write and share your reports with just selected filters. Making it easy for people receiving it to just change what they need to see.
  • Learning Admin Console makes it easy to peek at what is going on in your portal and open up connected reporting when needed.
  • Success Center is a great resource for getting peer answers to questions and learning about the releases and suggesting changes that should be added to the roadmap.
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EPAY Systems
  • EPAY team is responsive to our needs. Excellent team who understands our challenges and helps us come up with solutions.
  • System functionality is configurable so that we minimize custom programming.
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Cons
Cornerstone OnDemand
  • Sometimes finding the right answer to your support question can be a bit more difficult than it should be.
  • I would like to see more OSHA related courses.
  • At times, the administrative interface seems to need to be updated, but the tradeoff honestly might be the absolute rock-solid stability of the platform.
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EPAY Systems
  • All-time punches are rounded to 15-minute intervals which can skew accurate break times.
  • Slow lading or occasional lags due to server overload.
  • Sync errors cause occasional overlapping punches.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cornerstone OnDemand
As long as pricing stays reasonable, we will likely stay with Cornerstone for at least one more contract renewal. It would be a large task to migrate all of our content to a new system. However, the LMS landscape is diversifying with new startups that are showing some real innovation.
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EPAY Systems
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Usability
Cornerstone OnDemand
Easy to use, easy to learn, lots of support during the learning process. There are a few parts of the system we don't use and I'm hesitant to begin using because other clients have said they're difficult and cumbersome (certifications) or outdated (libraries)
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EPAY Systems
Because I can't give it a Zero, I believe EPAY Systems is the most senseless system I have ever used. I worked on systems over 25 years ago that were better. In my opinion, there is no logic to the programming; the system is unbelievably SLOW, and there and hundreds of problems every week. And major ones that they will not or can not correct. For example, we can not file or access employee records in the system as it can take longer than 10 minutes to view or load one document for one employee - IF the system allows you to get that far, which it usually doesn't.
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Reliability and Availability
Cornerstone OnDemand
I haven't really had any major availability problems. The service is practically impeccable but it is true that at times, due to server and latency problems, the application has been slower. But these have been specific issues that have resolved themselves.
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EPAY Systems
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Performance
Cornerstone OnDemand
Pages do not load quickly. Often times any action or selection of a box, drop down, check, pretty much ANY Javascript interaction causes the whole entire page to load/reload/start doing something in the background. This makes a nightmare for having to mass edit courses or upload ILT sessions. It's the one of the archaic web designs they use that really bugs me as an admin and makes working in the portal at times intolerable and insufferable
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EPAY Systems
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Support Rating
Cornerstone OnDemand
Its always important to have support when you are facing problems and when you are the main admin of the organization. Cornerstone Support is very supporting when you have not found the answer in the help guide. its very useful to have a team support to guide you.
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EPAY Systems
I feel the support is terrible. We have an outsourced support purpose who doesn't understand the EPAY Systems or our company, [removed], will only answer the first thing mentioned even if there is an entire list. Then the answer does not solve the 1st problem on the list or any other and has no idea how to help us. We have requested a replacement and were told we would get one, then told later we would not. I believe while the support person is nice, I believe they were not trained or supported on their end, and effectiveness is probably 1% or less, takes forever, and is only on the minor issues.
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In-Person Training
Cornerstone OnDemand
we use also to admin all our training in person events and sessions. Its easy to admin this kind of trainings and automatize some processes we have. Also de user experience and the integration with other systems helps to the employees to use more. All modules integrated oriented to develop people is the principal reason to have CSOD. The training administration is very complete and allows to automate many processes.
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EPAY Systems
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Online Training
Cornerstone OnDemand
The online modules are pretty good. You can access them at any time, which we have done. You learn a lot in the beginning, but having the ability to retake short lessons when you are working on those items was very helpful.
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EPAY Systems
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Implementation Rating
Cornerstone OnDemand
The implementation was pretty difficult. We felt they (Cornerstone) didn’t properly allocate the resources to complete our implementation in the timetable we wanted.

For example, we worked on Workday and SSO integrations - work that we had specifically contracted for in advance. When we were ready to work on that project, they didn’t have the people ready to help us, so it took a lot longer than necessary. That was my biggest pain point.

The implementation approach we went with was a self-led implementation. We would speak to the implementation manager once per week, and self-trained. We met with implementation manager to discuss issues, review things that we’d learned for 1 hour. We found that wasn’t enough. Other things would come up outside that one hour window that we couldn’t get answers to. We didn’t have anyone to ask about those things and we had to wait to ask during our weekly meeting.

The advantage of the self-led implementation approach was that it was really inexpensive – significantly less than the implementation cost for the other systems that we looked at. I also liked that we could pace ourselves. There were however big roadblocks. We would have to make sure the right resources were available. We had an implementation/project manager with a lot of experience and felt that the person was knowledgeable but missed on a few things.

In hindsight, I would still go with the self-led implementation, but knowing what I know now, I would ask for the integration person to be available more. I would work that into the contract. With single sign-on, we needed deep linking to build direct links through a Single Sign-On tool, e.g. when someone gets an email, it directs them to training. But it has to go through SSO to get them to the correct link. Deep linking wasn’t turned on in our system and they had to activate it. We encountered little things like that – sequencing pre-requisites which were problematic. We tried to troubleshoot ourselves.

I recommend you consider contracting for some extra implementation hours and determine when they are going to be available. Work it into the contract that you have the ability to call tech support during implementation. In addition to weekly implementation meetings, they have technical webexes – 4 every week, but 2 didn’t apply to us – one as we were using SSO. The challenge is they were not always relevant – we had specific questions that didn’t fall into those categories
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EPAY Systems
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Alternatives Considered
Cornerstone OnDemand
The user experience is a lot better than using SumTotal as an admin CSOD makes working easy. Without having workarounds. Reporting is a lot better than both platforms. Reporting in CSOD is complex however easy to manage and create when you understand the data points collected
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EPAY Systems
Our main reason for switching to Blueforce is
that we found the platform to be pretty promising and interactive than other
alternatives. With other alternatives, there was one issue or another which just
used to not give us a very smooth and subtle experience. Thankfully, this tool
has solved all our problems and has been a godsend gift that does its job
quietly and lets the final results make the noise.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Cornerstone OnDemand
It is important to be familiar with the terms and annual increases in licenses and other aspects of the contract. I recommend analyzing this from the beginning and the permanence is relevant because Cornerstone updates its modules and brings out new features that may allow you to leave a module to acquire another
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EPAY Systems
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Scalability
Cornerstone OnDemand
It's a great product with some pieces that are set but many things that can be customized as needed for individual needs
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EPAY Systems
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Professional Services
Cornerstone OnDemand
As I have said before, I have no doubt that the services of the Cornerstone sales people were very good. In particular, our salesperson spent a lot of time in contact with us to make the process go smoothly. Perhaps being a large company in some cases the times were slowed down but it is something normal to take into account.
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EPAY Systems
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Return on Investment
Cornerstone OnDemand
  • We are in the process of trying to increase employee engagement through content expansion. We are in the early stages of this.
  • The Edge Import Tool, in conjunction with Reporting 2.0, has done a great job of helping to automate/semi-automate tasks for huge time savings.
  • Maintaining compliance. Achieved through dynamic/automated groups, assignments, communication, and reporting.
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EPAY Systems
  • Decreased the Risk of lawsuits due to paying incorrectly
  • Allows for accurate Payroll process
  • Employees are paid correctly per the law- Employee Happiness
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Screenshot of A personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee dataScreenshot of With Cornerstone Learning, go beyond compliance and training - truly develop an engaged and collaborative workforce.Screenshot of Cornerstone Recruiting takes care of all talent acquisition needs and provides candidates with an amazing experience.Screenshot of With Cornerstone Performance, benchmark your people's performance, align them with your strategy, and provide feedback that matters.Screenshot of Cornerstone HR offers a personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee data.Screenshot of With Content Anytime, quickly deliver hundreds of eLearning courses covering key soft-skills such as communication, time management, leadership, teamwork, and emotional intelligence.

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