Mobile tools that deliver the data and information employees need are no longer revolutionary—they’re necessary. Modern employees work from more places than just their desks. Laptops, smartphones, tablets, and ubiquitous Internet access have created a workforce that wants and expects to access important work functionality and data from anywhere.
To use Paylocity Mobile, your company must be a Paylocity customer and you must be an authorized user with Paylocity credentials. Company Code, User Name and Password are required to access the application. Security Role Rights, specific access to the Paylocity Mobile application and content listed below may vary from company to company.
What can employees do in the app?
– Edit your personal info, search the company Directory, or view current and historical Pay info on-the-go
– Punch in and out from anywhere in the field or from designated areas with geo-fencing support and historical map views
– Access Company Links and acknowledge documents
– Stay current on Company News and announcements
– Recognize employee achievements with Impressions
– Review your Schedules and Timesheets
– Receive push notifications when Time Off requests have been approved or checks are available to view
– Create and submit expense reports
– Create Journal entries
– Plus, first-time users see a series of welcome screens to highlight key features
What can managers do in the app?
– Approve Timesheets Time Off requests instantly
– Submit, view, and approve Time Off requests with real-time push notifications
– View and approve Impressions badges for direct reports
– Review and approve Time Cards
– Review and Approve Expense reports
– Manage Journal entries for direct reports
– Team Schedules option to view their employee schedules
-Managers can now quickly add, edit, delete, and reassign shifts from their Team Schedule
Security features:
– Biometric functions are available for secure quick logins
– All activities performed will be 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
– Paylocity Mobile will not use or transmit any sensitive personal data
Just sub-par. Features available on the desktop site are not available in-app. No one wants to have to switch between mobile and desktop apps just to get one thing checked. The app is also extremely poorly optimized. Not only does it run slowly, it’s location services never shut off and drain your battery. Not great for a simple HR app.
This app is a nightmare! I don’t understand how this company is one of the top payroll companies in the US. The access on the app compared to the website is extremely different. As soon as I submit a time off request it disappears. You can’t see it anywhere. Sometimes I receive notification that it was approved and sometimes I don’t. Cannot see all types of time off buckets and their balances. It is a lot of unnecessary stress. If I had the choice, I would be switching to a much better app.
This app is very frustrating to use. It frequently crashes, is difficult to navigate, and not very user friendly in general. Logging in to view my pay brings up a login screen that disappears before you can get anything done and if the biometric login fails there are no other options, you are just locked out.
I am finding this app terribly frustrating. To begin with, it does not allow me to use autofill to fill in my password. Which defeats the use of a password manager. Which discourages to use of unique and hard to remember passwords. This is a terrible idea. I finally gave up on using the app and instead used the website. At least there I got some feedback messages when things were awaiting approval, though it still didn’t tell me who needed to approve changes.
Slow, Overcomplicated, and Restrictive This app seems to think a lot of itself with a lot of features, but each feature is extremely shallow. The app is quite slow to load, and there are several annoying issues. The main things that are daily annoyances are the following: You cannot edit the punch time, but instead must leave a note. Punch history is a redundant and inferior version of Timesheet, which opens months behind, causing you to have to press the forward button 100 times.
Accessibility needs some work. I work with a lot of employees that have vision loss, and we are finding that the app is very difficult to see because of the very low contrast. It is also really menu-driven, and buttons don’t always show up where you think they would. For example, the submit button in clocking in is up in the top right corner unlike the web, and as soon as you punch in, instead of just returning to the clock it goes to a different screen and then you have to manually go back.
The app in and of itself is a great idea, but I have nonstop bugs and errors. 95% of what I do with this app is clock in and out and I get errors almost every time. It may say that im in an “unauthorized location” while I’m in the center of my company’s geo fence, or it may crash and not work at all. Fix the bugs and optimize the app and they will have a good product.
When trying to punch in or out, the app automatically logs you out and takes you back to log in screen. Can click on other tasks, but as soon as you click on “Punch”, you’re logged out and taken back to log in screen. Every. Single. Time. For multiple times. Really really unusable for the purposes of clocking in and out remotely away from my desktop.
Extremely easy to use and if there is something you need to dispute your boss/supervisor has immediate access they can go in and change or help you if you made a mistake. I had to edit my review after about 2 months of using the app because of time input and constantly having to type it in 2 or 3 times. When i try to submit it, it wont load in to my timesheet and i have to re-do it all over again 1 or 2 more times! Other than that issue, ive had no other problems and still like like this APP!
This is by far one of the worst apps I have ever used. Horrific interface with no intuitive way of getting into or changing settings. Clock in options (in/out/lunch) are pre-set and unchangeable, and you cannot clock back in for at least half an hour if you hit ‘lunch’ by mistake. GPS and fingerprint login are some of the worst features, even with a phone with hardware easily able to deal with these features. Please do yourself and your employees a favor, stay away from this at all costs.
The app looks nothing like the picture, it’s super hard to find simple and basic info, and it’s all disorganized. I have to use it for work, but I hate it. I can’t even find my schedule without it sending a notification and sending me there automatically. It’s ridiculously weird that it offers to show you your pay and vacation hours but not you schedule. It need serious fixing.
I have tried multiple times to get full functionality from this app. I get everything except for the primary reason for downloading it in the first place: the Log In function. It simply does not give me this ability. My phone has updated, and I’ve installed the app 7x in six months and no change. Very frustrating.
This is for the phone app. Needs improvement for split shifts/24 hr shifts. PAYLOCITY doesn’t keep track of your total daily time. I don’t want to do math at the end of a 16+ hour shift. Otherwise it works, still it’s missing a vital part that all other payroll apps can do very easily. Total up your time at the end of the day.
It works fine as long as you are not in a hurry, it takes a while to get the location pulled up, It will fail to get the location if you turn on location just before you open this app. There is no way to edit or cancel time off requests, this option would be better than having to have your manager go in and deny it just so you can change it.
I think Paylocity has been an extremely useful app. It is nice to have a secure login verification when accessing sensitive personal information and I have found the menu to be very simple to navigate considering the funtionality it offers if you fully utilize it. For those who have had bad experiences, try closing the app and login again, or choose to stay logged in, because I think it times out after inactivity too long, the same way a banking app would for example.
Second week using it, and most everything has worked fine so far, but it locks my location every time I get on Google maps, which has made me miss my exits or turns on multiple occasions. It made my trip 20 minutes longer today because I didn’t realize my location was stationary 3 times! I have to shut off my location then turn it back on. Interacting with my phone while driving is criminal in Oregon, so it would be nice if it didn’t interfere with the location after I close the app.
This app has simplified our process for submitting time off requests, so thank you for that. However, the most used function is way less streamlined. It takes 8 taps to clock in. Our previous app took only 1. Unbelievable. It could be fixed with just a few adjustments: 1 Make the landing screen the Punch screen instead of the Menu screen 2 Make the Cost Center default to the last used setting instead of making Clock In & Transfer necessary every time 3 Add a button to start/end break with 1 tap
It either wont register even if you’re well withing range. I tested it by standing right next to a physical clock in machine. The app failed at reading me in the area but the machine next to it worked just fine. Also it crashes easily. I’ve been late due to the app not working several times. I’m just not going to try using it anymore.
After using this app for close to 6 months I am changing my review, app is only consistent for a week or so. Always searching for my location even though I am at the same location every day, I’ve already lost a considerable amount of time as it won’t let me punch in which in turn takes time from the manager as they have to punch me in and out. This is the worst app I have ever experienced. Even with constant issues company won’t switch. I’d rather punch and old fashioned time clock.
Unfriendly and fussy. Defaults to the wrong things for my use case. Makes things multiple steps that should just be one. Doesn’t allow corrections. Doesn’t provide useful data for people who do more than shift work. I have to run a second app to track my time and give me things like elapsed time and accumulated hours.
This site is trash and the app is trash. I’ve tried to log into the account that I was forced to make with my company and was successful 1 time. Since, I’ve had issues with password resets, invalid info, “not having an account”, and being locked out of the account. I’ve requested my password reset at least 40 times now and have not received the emails or text messages with the codes for it. If it was not needed for my work, I would ban this app and website from even showing up on searches!!
Schedule view always defaults to the latest posted date which could be a month forward from today. Other scheduling apps I have used provide an ICS file that can be imported into the calendar – this one does not, requiring me to check in the app for my schedule instead of having it on my phone calendar. Documents that are posted in the announcement section are not resizeable or downloadable and often too small to read. All in all, the app is a Jack of many trades, master of none…
I probably would have given this app a 4 but just tonight I read that the App can delete things from an SD card, and that those permissions can be changed in the App Settings. Do you think I could find that setting? Nope! What’s on my SD card should have NOTHING to do with my Paylocity payroll! Not even my device location being on bothers me as much as knowing it can change things on an SD card. I’d like to be able to turn that permission off!!
Just garbage. Constantly forgets my password, so I need to redo it almost every time I use it. Then, when I do reset and click to send me an email with a reset link, 90% of the time it doesn’t send the email, and I have do it 10 times before it does. Awful.
Wow, amazing. Every time I need to take care of something on Paylocity or look up information, Paylocity will not let me log into my home computer. However, it will log me in using my phone. I need to print things and change something. I can’t get access to it until I get back in the office to use my desk computer. So not user friendly, this app is terrible.
The app is difficult to use, slow, and unresponsive. The punch in/out feature is terrible and has so many bugs. I also cannot submit a punch correction for anything later than 12:59pm. This app is garbage
With Respect, User friendly is questionable. I can not seem to find a way to change my personal settings. Settings to change passwords, w2’s, financial Account info, to put STOP! on automatic Benefits or 401k. It is possible that I may be over looking the accessories or the tools but I doubt it. “Pay” key word. It appears it has less to do with pay information than it dose about Socializing With others. Again please forgive me I just want to deal with MY files, MY pay.
Annoying af to constantly have to keep entering my password to literally do anything in the app. Give us a choice whether not we need to use the password for sensitive info and just leave it on by default. There’s literally nothing in there that I need to hide from anybody or anything anyone can do anything with, you already send several emails when anything is changed. Stop the security theatrics
Horrible app and system! As finance Manager our company just started with them, and it’s an absolute nightmare of a company to get the payroll correct and booked, and the app is ridiculous. I’ve had the same PTO for a month now, though I haven’t used any. They aren’t doing the proper accruals, and We haven’t been able to even record payroll since it began first of year. They record earnings benefits as deductions…and vice verse. I wish my company had stayed with PayEntry.
Too many problems clocking in and out. Changing passwords more often than needed, not needed unless user wants to change password. The app is way too time consuming. I just want to be able to clock in and clock out.
No problem to download, install, log into the app, or turn on location services, however the app menu does not have an option called “Punch” which the instructions say is necessary to clock in. Actually, it was necessary for me to logout of the app, restart my phone, login before I was able to do hiring test punches.
Terrible, elitist way to pay and track employees. Paylocity and other such apps assume that even entry level employees have technological savvy and money enough to own a smartphone. So ridiculous that one needs money eg, smartphones or computers, language skills etc… in order to access basic employment for vital necessities. Shame on every company that thinks this is progress and relies on such third- party greed – motivated systems.
This is a frustrating app to use. As others have mentioned, the website shows different information than the app. I have set up an HSA account with Paylocity. While Paylocity deducts money from my paycheck every pay period, I cannot see a total of the amount contributed. I cannot receive a card to access this money. I cannot even recieve an account number from them.
Not sure what happened to the app, but I no longer get any notifications. I have no problems with any other app on my phone. I’ve already uninstalled and reinstalled and still nothing. I’m using a Galaxy S10+. Please fix the app.
Good Lord I hate this freakin’ app! If you have to change phones you’re in for a world irritation. It won’t accept my login info and when I try the ” forgot info ” option it just constantly reloads. I can’t get online to do a damned thing. I answered all my security questions as well as the last four of my social. What’s the point of asking them if they won’t be accepted? I rue the day my company decided to do business with these useless SOB’S!
Total junk. Change your password… it’s wrong…I did… nope, it wrong…. screw you. How many breaches have you had to make it worse than Microsoft?? Can’t change password. It won’t save all fields. Biometric is non-existent… and broken. Sucks worse than no heater in a blizzard in the winter in Idaho.
The idea is great but they failed to accomplish that in the end. The timesheet is inferior and useless when you cant edit your time or add any time at all. The time off reuqest is a joke you cant the status if its approved or denied or what days are being asked off. Also alot of bugs and issues with this app, this isnt good at all use another payroll.
Not user friendly. Even clocking in and out is a hassle and half the time it doesn’t work. Navigation is difficult, even on a computer it’s super confusing. It actually posts your personal information for everyone to see which has got to violate some privacy laws!
It is getting worse. Awful. Can not open important files. Need to pay for Adobe to be told file is corrupted and will not open. Many options simply do not function.
You get notifications of new alerts or something needing attention and when you go to the app there can be nothing to address. Its fine if your company only uses the learning or payroll modules – those are good.