Paylocity's Possibilities
March 11, 2025
Paylocity's Possibilities
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Paylocity
We use Paylocity to process weekly payroll for about 130 employees. It's a fairly easy payroll platform and we're looking now to implement the Expense Module. However, we have a couple of items preventing us from moving forward.
1. We want to see a threshhold where if an employee sends in an expense reimbursement under $500 their Supervisor can approve but if it's over $500 a Super Approver would need to approve.
2. Under "Payment Method" there's a option to select "None" which we don't want to include (to avoid confusion). Currently these options are not available to us. I have a few more items we'd like to see addressed and I'm working with our service rep to get these handled.
1. We want to see a threshhold where if an employee sends in an expense reimbursement under $500 their Supervisor can approve but if it's over $500 a Super Approver would need to approve.
2. Under "Payment Method" there's a option to select "None" which we don't want to include (to avoid confusion). Currently these options are not available to us. I have a few more items we'd like to see addressed and I'm working with our service rep to get these handled.
Pros
- Payroll processing is easy
- PEAK Articles can be helpful
- Reports are customizable
Cons
- The Prenote feature auto populates the prenote date on a new hire back to ONE year prior to the hire date, which disables the feature. I have to manually go into the employee's profile and change the date.
- We're unable to use the Request Time Off feature because we need 2 approvers (the employee's manager and the owner of the company). However, Paylocity only allows for one approver.
- We'd also like to have a 2nd lever approver on Performance Reviews.
- We'd like to have the capability of assigning a permanent password to an employee's self service login.
- In Performance Reviews the system would remain in a loading or thinking stage after an employee would save during the review process. This caused the employee to lose their changes and they'd have to reinput their information.
- We had our union mechanics added during implementation and later found out that Paylocity couldn't accommodate our needs (adding mechanic qualifications) and had to shut down that piece/payroll.
Our staff is salary so we don't use the Time & Labor module. We don't use the Time Off Request function because the platform doesn't offer a 2nd approver.
As we are a small family owned company with strict guidelines, we're not using the Peer Recognition.
All programs have their pros and cons. I really like Paylocity but sometimes I feel I know the product better than the service reps. Paylocity is so close to greatness that if they can really listen and implement suggestions from the end user I'd be thrilled!
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?
No
Did implementation of Paylocity go as expected?
No
Would you buy Paylocity again?
Yes
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