Paylocity provides HR, payroll, finance, and IT software through one unified platform built around a shared employee record. The platform is designed to help organizations streamline administrative work, automate approvals and routine tasks, improve compliance, and give employees easier access to the tools and information they need throughout the workday.
Its portfolio spans core workforce management, talent, payroll, global payroll, spend management, and IT administration. Paylocity positions the platform as a way to connect teams that often work in separate systems, especially HR, payroll, finance, and IT, so data, workflows, and decisions stay aligned. That unified approach supports both operational efficiency and a stronger employee experience across hiring, scheduling, pay, spending, access, and device management.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Paylocity combines software modules with shared platform capabilities such as AI, configurable workflows, mobile access, analytics, and reporting. Its automation tools support routine tasks, approvals, document collection, and policy-driven processes, while embedded AI is used to assist with guidance, insights, content generation, and data extraction across HR and finance workflows.
Integration is a major part of the offering. Paylocity supports hundreds of integrations through its Marketplace and offers APIs for custom connections. The platform connects with HR and payroll systems such as applicant tracking, benefits, retirement, and background screening tools; finance systems such as ERPs and general ledgers; and IT and identity environments through directory sync, single sign-on, and multi-factor authentication. It also supports cross-functional connectivity with systems such as Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace, and Okta.
Products and Services
- Human Resources: Core HR capabilities for employee records, compliance, workflows, analytics, document management, and employee self-service.
- Time & Labor: Workforce management tools for time tracking, scheduling, attendance, labor compliance, and labor-cost visibility, with mobile access for employees and managers.
- Talent: Talent management software covering recruiting, onboarding, performance management, compensation, and learning.
- Payroll: Payroll software for processing pay, managing tax services and garnishments, and supporting employee self-service and on-demand pay.
- Global Payroll: International payroll capabilities that provide consolidated payroll data, global payroll technology, and support for paying employees across 100+ countries.
- Expense Management: Expense management software for receipt capture, policy enforcement, reimbursements, audit trails, and integration with travel and ERP workflows.
- AP Automation: Accounts payable automation for vendor onboarding, invoice capture, approval routing, PO matching, payments, and ERP synchronization.
- Guided Procurement: Procurement software that routes purchase requests through policy-based workflows and captures the information stakeholders need before purchases are approved.
- Asset Management: IT asset management for hardware request workflows, provisioning, fulfillment, lifecycle tracking, and device retrieval during offboarding.
- Access Management: Identity and access management for automated provisioning, directory sync, role-based access, single sign-on, and multi-factor authentication across workplace apps.
- Corporate Cards: Physical and virtual corporate card capabilities with spend controls, receipt compliance, automated reconciliation, and ERP synchronization.
- Headcount Planning: Workforce planning software that brings Finance, HR, recruiting, and hiring managers into centralized planning, approvals, and real-time headcount visibility.
Target Customers
Paylocity targets organizations that want to run HR, payroll, finance, and IT processes from a connected system instead of separate point tools. Its go-to-market coverage spans small businesses, midsize businesses, and enterprise organizations, including companies with multi-location, multi-state, and scaling workforce needs.
The platform is aimed at multiple buying centers inside the same customer, including executives, HR teams, payroll administrators, finance leaders, and IT leaders. Paylocity also promotes solutions by industry, with dedicated positioning for education, financial services, government services, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit, religious organizations, restaurants and hospitality, retail and wholesale, technology, and transportation and logistics.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Microsoft Marketplace: Paylocity has a Microsoft Marketplace presence tied to its Microsoft Azure integration, supporting secure single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, centralized identity controls, and HR-driven onboarding and offboarding access workflows.
Key People
- Toby Williams: President & Chief Executive Officer
- Steve Beauchamp: Executive Chairman of the Board
- Ryan Glenn: Chief Financial Officer
- Holly Fulp: Deputy CFO & Chief Strategy Officer
- Jill Morrison: Chief Human Resources Officer
- Melissa King: Senior Vice President of Product & Technology
- Josh Scutt: Senior Vice President of Sales
- Andy Cappotelli: Senior Vice President of Operations
- Nick Rost: Chief Accounting Officer & Treasurer
- Art Chaisiriwatanasai: Chief Information Security Officer
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Schaumburg, Illinois, United States
- Employees: 6,700
- Annual Revenue: $1.595 billion
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Approximately 13 subsidiaries, including Paylocity Corporation, Airbase Inc., Blue Marble Payroll, LLC, VidGrid Inc., Samepage Labs Inc., Cloudsnap, Inc., and Paylocity Canada ULC.
- Publicly Listed: NASDAQ: PCTY
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Accounts Payable Applications — Visionary (Airbase by Paylocity).
