ADP Workforce Now
Comprehensive HR and payroll platform for mid-sized businesses with integrated payroll, benefits, talent management, and compliance tools.
Website: www.paycom.com
Paycom at a glance
- Best for
- Mid-sized US employers wanting one HR database
- Pricing model
- Quote-based, per employee per month
- Deployment
- Cloud, with employee mobile app
- Regions
- United States
- Key integrations
- QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics 365
Last reviewed . Pricing and features change frequently — confirm current details with the vendor.
Paycom is an HR and payroll platform built on a single database, covering talent acquisition, time management, payroll, benefits administration, and talent management, with all workforce data held in one system rather than synced between modules.
How accounting firms use it
Firms encounter it as an existing client system at mid-sized businesses. The reporting is the main point of contact — payroll registers, tax filings, and benefits costs feeding financial statements, tax preparation, and audit support, with general ledger export posting journals by department or cost centre.
The employee-verification approach changes the firm’s workload more than it might seem. When employees confirm their own pay before submission, errors are caught before the run rather than corrected afterwards, and off-cycle corrections are what generate reconciliation problems, amended filings, and awkward conversations at year end.
Key features
The single-database architecture means a change to an employee record propagates across payroll, benefits, time, and HR at once, eliminating the sync failures that occur between separate systems.
Payroll handles multi-state employment, garnishments, and complex earnings structures with tax filing managed by the provider. Time and attendance, scheduling, recruiting, onboarding, performance, and learning management are all part of the same platform.
Employee self-service is delivered through a mobile app covering pay, benefits, time off, and personal details.
Who it’s best for
Mid-sized US businesses, roughly 50 to several thousand employees, that want a single system of record for the workforce and are prepared to commit to one vendor across HR and payroll.
Smaller businesses find the scope and cost well beyond their needs and are better served by Gusto, OnPay, or Patriot Payroll. Paylocity and ADP Workforce Now are the direct competitors and worth quoting alongside it.
Paycom FAQ
- What is Beti?
- A feature that has employees review and approve their own pay before the payroll is submitted, surfacing missing hours, wrong rates, or incorrect deductions while they can still be corrected. It shifts error-catching to the person best placed to notice, and materially reduces off-cycle corrections — which are the payroll events that create the most work for a client's accountant.
- What does single database mean in practice?
- HR, payroll, time, benefits, and recruiting all read and write the same employee record rather than syncing between modules. A pay rate change updates everywhere at once, so the sync failures and reconciliation differences that arise between separate HR and payroll systems do not occur.
- Does it integrate with accounting software?
- Yes. General ledger export posts payroll journals to QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and others, with configurable mapping by department, location, or cost centre.
- How does it compare to Paylocity and ADP?
- All three serve the mid-market. Paycom emphasises the single-database architecture and employee-driven payroll. Paylocity leans toward employee engagement, communication, and learning tools. ADP has the broadest module range and international reach. Pricing for all three is quote-based, so clients should obtain competing proposals rather than assume a list rate.
Paycom Alternatives
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Gusto
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