A Stroll Through Paylo*city.
September 23, 2022

A Stroll Through Paylo*city.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity

We use Paylocity to recruit, onboard, and complete payroll in our organization. We have three warehouses in Iowa with hours apart each warehouse. The ability to recruit and send onboarding for completion via email to employees who are miles away has been beneficial with onboarding. The necessity to call potential employees to the office to complete onboarding paperwork has been eliminated. There is also no time spent keeping paper records organized anymore! Paylocity keeps active files as well as terminated employee files. Paylocity is overall new to our company, so there are still some employees who leave who have to have their paper files moved from the active filing cabinet to the former employee filing cabinet. One year ago, I spent two working days moving employees who quit / were terminated from the active cabinet to the former cabinet.

Pros

  • Their support team is always willing to help resolve issues and find the answers needed.
  • User friendly platforms from recruiting to onboarding to HR & Payroll
  • Staying up to date with current trends and sharing those trends / information with companies that use Paylocity

Cons

  • Direct deposit for the mobile app
  • The agenda to my first seminar with Paylocity was wrong - no break scheduled in despite having a break / times were off - so verification of agendas before they're sent out to make planning the day around the Paylocity conference accurate.
  • Reduced time posting jobs - love the ability to use pre-created templates.
  • More free time for HR to be available for employees when needed with onboarding being straightforward and streamlined.
  • My use of Paylocity is really limited to recruiting and onboarding - I do plan to expand my insight on data analytics.
I'm new to this role, so I wish I had more insight on how the business has been affected. We also have a payroll administrator, so that task is also off my plate. Scheduling is handled by each manager or supervisor, but even that is pretty straight forward. There is some flexibility depending on the department, but with flexibility tends to come a salary. I can be confident saying there is significantly more time for me to complete other objectives with the ability to email onboarding to employees to have them complete on their own time rather than having me sit with the employees to complete these tasks.
I was sad getting into this role and seeing no one in our company with nearly 500 employees utilizes Community on a regular basis, and maybe 5 employees have used Community in the last year less than 5 times. I don't know how much the organization would engage with Paylocity's Community feature, but I do like the idea of creating a group with dad jokes, wellness information, maybe sharing recipes, and maybe a Share Your Family group so employees feel like they can share their personal lives. I think it's archaic thinking to expect people leave their home lives at home when they come to work - it's too difficult in such a busy world to put that "face" on and be different people at home vs at work.

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

I'm pretty new to HR, so I can't suggest an area where Paylocity is less appropriate. For our distribution center being in Eldridge, Iowa; Des Moines, Iowa; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Paylocity has been beneficial for recruiting. Some of the territories we cover are areas over an hour away from a warehouse, so it's helpful being able to recruit these employees via the internet as well as being able to onboard these employees without requesting them to drive an hour or more to the warehouse to complete these documents that are legally necessary to have complete 1-3 days within their new hire date.

Paylocity Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
10
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
10
Organizational charting
10
Organization and location management
10
Pay calculation
10
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
10
Approval workflow
10
Balance details
10
Annual carry-forward and encashment
10
View and generate pay and benefit information
10
Update personal information
10
View job history
10
View company policy documentation
10
Employee recognition
10
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

Comments

  • Hannah Elger | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback! We’re glad to hear that you’re enjoying your experience with Recruiting and Onboarding. We are continually making improvements to deliver the solutions you need, and we’re happy that our products are helping you achieve your goals. If you'd like to discuss your experience further, we'd love to hear from you at PCTYAdvocate@paylocity.com.

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