{
  "id": "adp-workforce-now-vs-paylocity",
  "ids": [
    "adp-workforce-now",
    "paylocity"
  ],
  "title": "ADP Workforce Now vs Paylocity: payroll and HR",
  "kicker": "ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE DECISIONS",
  "heading": "ADP Workforce Now vs Paylocity:<br>Payroll operations and employee workflows.",
  "deck": "Compare ADP Workforce Now and Paylocity for payroll operations and employee workflows, with practical buying questions, implementation boundaries and proposed acceptance briefs.",
  "description": "ADP Workforce Now vs Paylocity: payroll and HR. Compare scope, country requirements, implementation and full operating cost before shortlisting.",
  "answerHeading": "Map the operating model.<br>Then compare proposals.",
  "answer": "Compare ADP Workforce Now and Paylocity with a real payroll calendar and a defined HR workflow. ADP’s published packages make the payroll, benefits and time boundary an early purchasing question. Paylocity also offers employee experience tools and global payroll services. For a UK buyer, country delivery and service ownership must be established before either US-led product presentation is treated as a complete local payroll proposal.",
  "researchTag": "ADP Workforce Now / Paylocity",
  "researchLimit": "Product research and proposed evaluation briefs; no hands-on benchmark, implementation timing or vendor performance score is claimed.",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-15",
  "type": "workflow-buying",
  "rows": [
    [
      "Core shortlist",
      "Connected payroll and HR",
      "Payroll, HR and employee workflows"
    ],
    [
      "Package check",
      "Select, Plus and Premium scope",
      "Named modules and contracted services"
    ],
    [
      "Benefits and time",
      "Scope differs by ADP package",
      "Confirm proposed benefits and time products"
    ],
    [
      "Employee experience",
      "Self-service and talent options",
      "Self-service, community and engagement tools"
    ],
    [
      "Overseas payroll",
      "Request country-specific delivery details",
      "Global payroll service needs country-specific scope"
    ],
    [
      "Pricing approach",
      "Sales-led package proposal",
      "Sales-led scoped proposal"
    ],
    [
      "Acceptance priority",
      "Payroll controls and service handoff",
      "Payroll controls and employee workflow fit"
    ]
  ],
  "scenarios": [
    {
      "name": "Complex pay run",
      "question": "How are unusual pay changes detected and resolved?",
      "left": "Show review controls in the proposed Workforce Now package.",
      "right": "Show review controls in the proposed Paylocity configuration.",
      "note": "Use identical fictional pay events without exposing employee data."
    },
    {
      "name": "New starter",
      "question": "Can a starter complete the required HR steps?",
      "left": "Trace onboarding through the contracted HR and pay scope.",
      "right": "Trace onboarding through the contracted HR and pay scope.",
      "note": "Count unresolved handoffs rather than comparing a polished welcome screen."
    },
    {
      "name": "Time correction",
      "question": "What happens when approved hours change?",
      "left": "Show whether the package includes the required time product.",
      "right": "Show the required time collection and correction workflow.",
      "note": "Include a correction after payroll cut-off."
    },
    {
      "name": "UK entity",
      "question": "Who operates and supports the local payroll?",
      "left": "Obtain the named ADP country product and service arrangement.",
      "right": "Obtain the named global payroll country arrangement.",
      "note": "Require local outputs and escalation responsibilities in writing."
    }
  ],
  "exampleTable": {
    "caption": "Proposed acceptance evidence to request from both suppliers",
    "headers": [
      "Evaluation task",
      "ADP Workforce Now",
      "Paylocity",
      "Acceptance evidence"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "Payroll exception",
        "Package-specific review",
        "Configuration-specific review",
        "Resolution owner and audit trace"
      ],
      [
        "Starter onboarding",
        "Proposed HR workflow",
        "Proposed HR workflow",
        "Completed tasks and failed-handoff handling"
      ],
      [
        "Amended hours",
        "Time product and payroll route",
        "Time product and payroll route",
        "Reconciliation after the change"
      ],
      [
        "Country service",
        "Named local service",
        "Named local service",
        "Written coverage and support matrix"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "pay-cycle",
      "navLabel": "Pay cycle",
      "title": "Build the demo around your payroll calendar",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Write a sample calendar with payroll cut-off, approval, funding and correction deadlines. Add an overtime adjustment, a benefits change and a leaver. The supplier should show how each event is handled in the package actually quoted.",
        "Record what an employee, payroll administrator and outsourced service operator each do. A successful payroll screen demonstration does not establish who is accountable for a rejected payment or a late employee change."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "country-contract",
      "navLabel": "Country scope",
      "title": "Read the country and service boundary before comparing price",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The ADP and Paylocity pages used here are primarily US-oriented. A UK employer needs confirmation of the proposed UK arrangement, including required reporting and service support; an international HR record alone does not answer that question.",
        "Compare recurring software, payroll service, implementation, year-end activities and integrations on the same assumptions. Ask how adding a new employing entity or moving an existing payroll changes both price and responsibilities."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "faqs": [
    {
      "question": "Are ADP Workforce Now and Paylocity UK payroll products by default?",
      "answer": "Do not assume that from US product pages. Obtain the specific UK or multinational delivery proposal and verify the required local outputs."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does every ADP package include the same time and benefits features?",
      "answer": "No. The current comparison distinguishes package scope, so map each required capability to the selected package."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does Paylocity offer international payroll?",
      "answer": "Paylocity markets a global payroll service. The proposed countries, local responsibilities and contract scope still need confirmation."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can either run a permanent free payroll plan?",
      "answer": "Neither product page establishes a permanent free production plan. Demonstrations and product tours are evaluation access."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/products/adp-workforce-now.aspx",
      "facts": "Product scope, edition or regional buying boundaries used in this comparison."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/products/adp-workforce-now/compare-options.aspx",
      "facts": "Product scope, edition or regional buying boundaries used in this comparison."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.paylocity.com/products/",
      "facts": "Product scope, edition or regional buying boundaries used in this comparison."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.paylocity.com/products/hr/payroll/global-payroll/",
      "facts": "Product scope, edition or regional buying boundaries used in this comparison."
    }
  ],
  "relatedLinks": [
    {
      "path": "/categories/hr/",
      "title": "Browse HR software"
    },
    {
      "path": "/guides/software-buying-checklist/",
      "title": "Build a software buying checklist"
    },
    {
      "path": "/guides/software-total-cost/",
      "title": "Compare the full software cost"
    }
  ],
  "datasetDescription": "Editorial decision criteria and hypothetical acceptance briefs for ADP Workforce Now and Paylocity; no measured benchmark or customer-review dataset."
}