What is Paycom?
Paycom helps businesses streamline their employment processes from recruiting to retirement and everything in between. Paycom's Talent Acquisition, Time and Labor Management, Payroll, Talent Management and HR Management systems operate from a single database, eliminating redundant data entry and the integration of multiple systems.
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84 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
65 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+79 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Paycom?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Efficient Service
- Respectful
- Friendly Negotiation
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Employee Self-Service Portal
Claims Management
Archiving and Reporting
Benefits Enrollment and Eligibility
HRIS and Payroll Integration
Benefits Plan Administration
Compliance & Governance
Carrier and Provider Management
Contributions and Deduction Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Quality of Features
Breadth of Features
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
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Paycom Reviews
Kristy H.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2026
Honest Paycom Review
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Paycom from other similar products?
The platform - it is one complete platform. The reporting is also ver easy to use.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ease of the employee experience and usage of ESS.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The individual fees in payroll. Specifically, the mailing fees. should be more transparent about those fees and how it is billed. Should enhance that billing and only charge when actually used.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Before purchasing Paycom, make sure you understand how the system will work with your actual HR and payroll processes, not just how it performs during a demo. Ask detailed questions, test real-life scenarios, and involve your payroll, HR, benefits, and managers in the evaluation. Understand the level of configuration, support, training, and ongoing administration that will be required before making your decision. Paycom is very user friendly for employees and managers.
Pros
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Baylor B.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2026
Paycom is a MUST have for any business
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Paycom from other similar products?
I feel like Paycom is constantly growing and improving. Other products I have used fall out of date, but Paycom seems to always be ahead of the changes and implement them well, with lots of opportunity to learn about the new features.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The talent management and onboarding are what I use the most. I also am a big fan of the checklists. This makes it super easy for all our employees to get the items needed done in a quick and easy manner.
What do you dislike most about this product?
As of now, I am not sure what I "dislike". I have not found anything that makes me unhappy with my usage with Paycom.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Use the learnings and training. Those guides and workbooks are so helpful to learning anything you need to learn within Paycom
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
John R.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Agriculture
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2026
Moving to Paycom was a great decision.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Paycom from other similar products?
The fact that Paycom builds all of its programs in-house instead of buying other companies and trying to integrate them makes all the difference in the world. All parts of the program speak to each other seamlessly.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Its ease of use and intuitive, integrated platform. .
What do you dislike most about this product?
Setting up courses in learning could be easier and more friendly to use.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Do it. Don't think about it, do it. You will not regret your choice!
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing