Paylocity

Name: Paylocity
Rating: 4.8 (498375 reviews)
Author: Paylocity

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Free · Designed for iPad

498K Ratings
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Business
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Paylocity
Language

EN
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292
MB

The Paylocity Mobile App gives you the tools you need to stay connected and access HR and payroll information, all in one intuitive experience. Easily view paychecks, clock in and out, check schedules, update personal information, access messages, and complete tasks, all from a personalized home screen. Submit receipts, reconcile expenses, and use company cards with built-in controls. It’s just another way Paylocity helps you handle it all with one unified platform. Why employees love it: - Secure access to everything you need — with just one login - Edit personal info, search the company directory, or view current and historical pay info - Receive push notifications for activities like time-off request approvals, checks becoming available, chats, and more - Access Community, Paylocity’s social collaboration hub, to get important updates from leaders and connect with peers - Request access to a portion of earned wages before payday - Track expenses and card use - Review schedules and timesheets - Clock in and out - View an interactive org chart to check organizational structure and reach out to colleagues Why supervisors love it: - Experience one, unified platform - Submit, view, and approve time-off requests with real-time push notifications - Review and approve expense reports and timecards - Manage Journal entries for direct reports - Create, view, and edit schedules and shifts Security features: - Biometric functions are available for secure quick logins - All activities are encrypted and routed safely to secure Paylocity servers - Sessions will time out if inactive to prevent unauthorized access - Excessive failed login attempts will lock a user account App usage: To use the Paylocity Mobile App, your employer must be a Paylocity client, and you must be an authorized user with Paylocity credentials. Security role rights, specific access to the Paylocity mobile application, and functionality listed below may vary from company to company.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

498K Ratings

Works well within its functionality
03/31/2021

someguy1891
4 stars for a really solid app in terms of reliability and user interfaceThe average employee will likely find this app useful in terms of clocking in and out. I’m sure managers find other features much more handy, but most of the time, you won’t ever find yourself having to access the rest of the app at all.Considering that fact, the development team could add some features that would likely increase adoption and improve user experience. Please consider these enhancements:** Create a Home Screen widget or Siri command **A widget for clocking in and out would be so useful. If your app’s primary function is to quickly do one task, there’s no reason that function shouldn’t be turned into a widget. Even better if it could be voice activated:“Hey Siri, clock out for lunch on Paylocity”** Add custom scheduling and notifications **My employer does not give me a set schedule. It would be nice if the employee could input their own schedule (for purely personal purposes). This could be the basis for adding notifications to remind you when it’s time to punch in or out (based on your custom schedule, or your employer-defined one). Tapping the notification could take you straight to the punch in screen or punch widget. It’s easy to lose track of time when working, and having to manually set alarms is annoying and easy to forget.Overall nice work. It’s tough to build a reliable, feature-rich application but your devs did a nice job.
Works well within its functionality
03/31/2021

someguy1891

4 stars for a really solid app in terms of reliability and user interfaceThe average employee will likely find this app useful in terms of clocking in and out. I’m sure managers find other features much more handy, but most of the time, you won’t ever find yourself having to access the rest of the app at all.Considering that fact, the development team could add some features that would likely increase adoption and improve user experience. Please consider these enhancements:** Create a Home Screen widget or Siri command **A widget for clocking in and out would be so useful. If your app’s primary function is to quickly do one task, there’s no reason that function shouldn’t be turned into a widget. Even better if it could be voice activated:“Hey Siri, clock out for lunch on Paylocity”** Add custom scheduling and notifications **My employer does not give me a set schedule. It would be nice if the employee could input their own schedule (for purely personal purposes). This could be the basis for adding notifications to remind you when it’s time to punch in or out (based on your custom schedule, or your employer-defined one). Tapping the notification could take you straight to the punch in screen or punch widget. It’s easy to lose track of time when working, and having to manually set alarms is annoying and easy to forget.Overall nice work. It’s tough to build a reliable, feature-rich application but your devs did a nice job.
Has Good Functionality, User Interface Has Some Serious Drawbacks
07/29/2022

Kitty Kat The Enforcer
I realize that I am an old school User Interface critic - that’s because it was my job as a Business Systems Analyst to try to give my users the best experience back in the day when companies wrote their own systems. What prompted this review was the fact that I opened the app today and was presented with a complete login screen. Which wouldn’t be remarkable except for the fact that this happened two days after I ‘opted in’ to the screen that said I would stay logged in for 3 months unless I accessed sensitive information. Which I did not. And the fact that this was at least the third time it happened in the past two months. OK, that’s hideously annoying thing number one, because you don’t access this app for fun but to clock in and start getting paid. But, even more annoying is the fact that the ‘“Submit” button for the “Punch” function is at the bottom of the screen, which, on an iPhone 12, is where you swipe up to close the App. The “Submit” button on the “Punch” screen often gets ‘pressed’ inadvertently when you just want to close the App , leaving you clocked in or out by accident. Why not put the “Submiit” button at the top of the screen, safely out of harm’s way? Also, it’s hard to imagine that there is no functionality to export schedules to external calendars! Fixing these things would greatly enhance the user experience. Thanks.
Has Good Functionality, User Interface Has Some Serious Drawbacks
07/29/2022

Kitty Kat The Enforcer

I realize that I am an old school User Interface critic - that’s because it was my job as a Business Systems Analyst to try to give my users the best experience back in the day when companies wrote their own systems. What prompted this review was the fact that I opened the app today and was presented with a complete login screen. Which wouldn’t be remarkable except for the fact that this happened two days after I ‘opted in’ to the screen that said I would stay logged in for 3 months unless I accessed sensitive information. Which I did not. And the fact that this was at least the third time it happened in the past two months. OK, that’s hideously annoying thing number one, because you don’t access this app for fun but to clock in and start getting paid. But, even more annoying is the fact that the ‘“Submit” button for the “Punch” function is at the bottom of the screen, which, on an iPhone 12, is where you swipe up to close the App. The “Submit” button on the “Punch” screen often gets ‘pressed’ inadvertently when you just want to close the App , leaving you clocked in or out by accident. Why not put the “Submiit” button at the top of the screen, safely out of harm’s way? Also, it’s hard to imagine that there is no functionality to export schedules to external calendars! Fixing these things would greatly enhance the user experience. Thanks.
Latest update caused a bug - 6/12 update
06/12/2021

Ictgrit
* added this 6/12 - apparently this company does not read the reviews because they have no way to submit technical bug problems in their app. It’s still has problems on iOS when trying to submit to clock in as they submit is grayed out but it’s actually a valid button if you want to call it that. Several of us are all experiencing the same problems the last few days when you try to look at the schedule it will show nothing, or it will take you to a month prior and you have to scroll until today, or it will show your today’s only and nothing else for the week or it will show you no one else that’s working at the same time. Having to close and open and refresh over and over to try to get any data is truly frustrating. What’s even worse is the fact that there is absolutely no way to submit anything to this company when their app isn’t working correctly.I even went to APP support but it just takes you to the companies homepage and if you go to contact they won’t discuss issues with their software with users of it. So here I am leaving a review about a bug because they don’t give you any other way to do it. After the last update when you go to punch in or clock in or out or any status the submit option stays grayed out but ho ho ho! it’s actually valid you just have to click on it anyways. Normally the submit option in the upper right corner stays grayed out until the GPS has located you. Have a nice day.
Latest update caused a bug - 6/12 update
06/12/2021

Ictgrit

* added this 6/12 - apparently this company does not read the reviews because they have no way to submit technical bug problems in their app. It’s still has problems on iOS when trying to submit to clock in as they submit is grayed out but it’s actually a valid button if you want to call it that. Several of us are all experiencing the same problems the last few days when you try to look at the schedule it will show nothing, or it will take you to a month prior and you have to scroll until today, or it will show your today’s only and nothing else for the week or it will show you no one else that’s working at the same time. Having to close and open and refresh over and over to try to get any data is truly frustrating. What’s even worse is the fact that there is absolutely no way to submit anything to this company when their app isn’t working correctly.I even went to APP support but it just takes you to the companies homepage and if you go to contact they won’t discuss issues with their software with users of it. So here I am leaving a review about a bug because they don’t give you any other way to do it. After the last update when you go to punch in or clock in or out or any status the submit option stays grayed out but ho ho ho! it’s actually valid you just have to click on it anyways. Normally the submit option in the upper right corner stays grayed out until the GPS has located you. Have a nice day.
Paylocity needs a desktop timeclock app.
11/02/2018

Shane's House
I downgraded my rating since the developers are complacent and haven’t changed anything in five years. Paylocity is likely bilking America’s working class millions of lost minutes due to superfluous security questions and offline issues preventing instant login. The solution would be a timeclock-only desktop app for Mac and Windows, which could stay open all day without access to personal info. I used to keep the website open on my computer so I could easily clock in or out, because logging in each time is such a multi-step hassle. It times-out for security reasons, so this doesn't always work. Leaving the page open is a risk because if you're away anyone can then browse and see things like your pay rate and other personal information. For whatever reason, my employer has chosen to disable the timeclock feature on the mobile app, thus defeating the only useful feature of the app. This option shouldn't be available to employers. Paylocity needs to make improvements before another provider beats them at their own game. Again, a desktop app that's timeclock-only would solve a lot of problems. The manual punch is also ill-conceived. If you forget to clock in, or a bug prevents it, you have to punch whatever time it is and type a note with the correct time so your manager can be inconvenienced with fixing it. Would make more sense to honor the employee's entered time and flag the actual time as a missed punch.

Developer Response
Hello, Thank you for your review. I am sorry that you are not having a positive experience with the app. We have initiatives planned over the next year to enhance our time collection capabilities. That being said, we would appreciate additional feedback you may have which you can email directly to mobilefeedback@paylocity.com.
Paylocity needs a desktop timeclock app.
11/02/2018

Shane's House

I downgraded my rating since the developers are complacent and haven’t changed anything in five years. Paylocity is likely bilking America’s working class millions of lost minutes due to superfluous security questions and offline issues preventing instant login. The solution would be a timeclock-only desktop app for Mac and Windows, which could stay open all day without access to personal info. I used to keep the website open on my computer so I could easily clock in or out, because logging in each time is such a multi-step hassle. It times-out for security reasons, so this doesn't always work. Leaving the page open is a risk because if you're away anyone can then browse and see things like your pay rate and other personal information. For whatever reason, my employer has chosen to disable the timeclock feature on the mobile app, thus defeating the only useful feature of the app. This option shouldn't be available to employers. Paylocity needs to make improvements before another provider beats them at their own game. Again, a desktop app that's timeclock-only would solve a lot of problems. The manual punch is also ill-conceived. If you forget to clock in, or a bug prevents it, you have to punch whatever time it is and type a note with the correct time so your manager can be inconvenienced with fixing it. Would make more sense to honor the employee's entered time and flag the actual time as a missed punch.
Developer Response 11/20/2018
Hello, Thank you for your review. I am sorry that you are not having a positive experience with the app. We have initiatives planned over the next year to enhance our time collection capabilities. That being said, we would appreciate additional feedback you may have which you can email directly to mobilefeedback@paylocity.com.

We’ve built an employee-centric native mobile app so you’ll have access to everything you want and need in the palm of your hand. Like the apps you use in your personal life, the login, navigation, and notification experiences are fast, reliable, and intuitive. The home screen unifies all the information most relevant to you—new messages, tasks to complete, and more. Access your most-used features, like clocking in and out, timesheets, schedules, or On Demand Payment with one tap.

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