About Paylocity
Paylocity is a commercial human capital management (HCM) product for mid-sized employers in the United States. It combines payroll with HR administration in a hosted platform so that employee data is entered once and reused across processes.
Suites of this type typically include time and labor tracking, benefits administration, talent management and employee communication or engagement tools. The vendor website returned no readable content when this entry was prepared, so confirm the current module list on the Paylocity site.
Paylocity is proprietary software delivered as a cloud service and sold through a sales process. It is relevant to HR and finance teams at growing companies that have outgrown basic payroll tools and want a broader HR system.
Key features
- Payroll processing
- HR administration
- Time and labor tracking
- Benefits administration
- Talent management
Good fit for
- →Mid-sized US companies running payroll and HR together
- →Replacing separate payroll and HR tools
- Tags
- payroll
- hr
- hcm
- benefits
- time-and-labor
- talent-management
- mid-market
Paylocity: questions and answers
- What is Paylocity used for?
- Paylocity is a cloud payroll and human capital management suite for mid-sized US companies, covering HR, time, talent and benefits. It is a good fit for mid-sized US companies running payroll and HR together, and replacing separate payroll and HR tools.
- How much does Paylocity cost?
- Paylocity doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
- Is Paylocity open source?
- No. Paylocity is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Paylocity include Frappe HR, Horilla and OrangeHRM.
- What are some alternatives to Paylocity?
- Paylocity competes with Paycom, ADP and Paychex. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Paylocity alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Paylocity
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Frappe HR
HR & Recruiting
Open Source HR and Payroll Software
GPL-3.0vs BambooHR★ 8.9k
Horilla
HR & Recruiting
Horilla is a free and open source HR software.
LGPL-2.1vs BambooHR★ 1.4k
OrangeHRM
HR & Recruiting
OrangeHRM is a comprehensive Human Resource Management (HRM) System that captures all the
GPL-3.0vs BambooHR★ 1.1k
Reactive Resume
HR & Recruiting
Free, open-source resume builder. Create, update, and share a professional resume in minut
MIT★ 44k
Resume Matcher
HR & Recruiting
The #1 AI Harness for Building Resumes, PDFs, Cover Letters & more, locally with 100+ LLMs
Apache-2.0★ 29k
JobOps
HR & Recruiting
job-ops: DevOps principles applied to job hunting. A self-hosted pipeline to track, analyz
OSS★ 4k
SaaS alternatives to Paylocity
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Paycom
HR & Recruiting
Single-database payroll and HR software for US employers
SaaS
ADP
HR & Recruiting
Payroll, HR and workforce management for businesses of all sizes
SaaS
Paychex
HR & Recruiting
Payroll, benefits and HR services for small and mid-size US businesses
SaaS
UKG
HR & Recruiting
Workforce management, payroll and HR for large employers
SaaS
Paycor
HR & Recruiting
Payroll, HR and workforce management software for midsize businesses
SaaS
Dayforce
HR & Recruiting
Cloud HCM and payroll platform, formerly Ceridian
SaaS

