Give employees secure, 24/7 access to Paylocity via a single, convenient HR portal. Keep them connected to the tools they need — and to each other — while powering the automation you’ve been looking for.
Employee Self-Service Software
The automation you and your employees deserve.
Empower Your Employees to Do More
As the central hub for employee self-service, Home makes tasks like clocking in and requesting time off effortless. It brings everything employees need for a seamless workday into one place while reducing the administrative burden on HR.
- Pay
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Offer Financial Flexibility
With a simple click, pay information and details are instantly accessible. And, On Demand Payment offers financial flexibility with same- day pay, calculated by Paylocity, at no cost to you and without changes to your payroll process.
- Learning
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Learn on the Go
Employees can easily access assigned training and explore the full course catalog all in one place, whether they’re at a desk or on the go.
- Community
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Communicate, Collaborate, Create
Community serves as a central hub where employees can collaborate, share files, chat in real time, and stay informed with company-wide announcements — all in one place.
- Recognition & Rewards
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Celebrate Success with Recognition & Rewards
Boost productivity and retention with a culture of recognition where everyone can celebrate milestones and, achievements. With meaningful rewards, employees feel appreciated, keeping them motivated and engaged.
- Time & Labor
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Manage Time with Ease
Employees can request time off, submit timecards, and request corrections anytime from anywhere via their mobile device. Supervisors can quickly review, adjust, and approve time entries — keeping processes efficient and payroll accurate.
- Benefits
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Access Benefits with Ease
Employees can easily enroll in benefits, check plan details, view spending account balances, and submit claims. Plus, with Decision Support, they get personalized guidance to make the best benefit selections for their needs.
- AI Assistant
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Get Instant Answers
Employees can quickly find the information they need — whether it’s leave balances or company policies. AI Assistant also helps navigate Paylocity, making it easy to access comprehensive product training.
- Resources
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Quick Access to Essential Resources
The Resources hub puts important documents, links, videos, and more at employees’ fingertips. With the search bar in Home, employees can easily find what they need—right when they need it.
Offer Financial Flexibility
With a simple click, pay information and details are instantly accessible. And, On Demand Payment offers financial flexibility with same- day pay, calculated by Paylocity, at no cost to you and without changes to your payroll process.
Learn on the Go
Employees can easily access assigned training and explore the full course catalog all in one place, whether they’re at a desk or on the go.
Communicate, Collaborate, Create
Community serves as a central hub where employees can collaborate, share files, chat in real time, and stay informed with company-wide announcements — all in one place.
Celebrate Success with Recognition & Rewards
Boost productivity and retention with a culture of recognition where everyone can celebrate milestones and, achievements. With meaningful rewards, employees feel appreciated, keeping them motivated and engaged.
Manage Time with Ease
Employees can request time off, submit timecards, and request corrections anytime from anywhere via their mobile device. Supervisors can quickly review, adjust, and approve time entries — keeping processes efficient and payroll accurate.
Access Benefits with Ease
Employees can easily enroll in benefits, check plan details, view spending account balances, and submit claims. Plus, with Decision Support, they get personalized guidance to make the best benefit selections for their needs.
Get Instant Answers
Employees can quickly find the information they need — whether it’s leave balances or company policies. AI Assistant also helps navigate Paylocity, making it easy to access comprehensive product training.
Quick Access to Essential Resources
The Resources hub puts important documents, links, videos, and more at employees’ fingertips. With the search bar in Home, employees can easily find what they need—right when they need it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Employee Self-Service is an online portal where employees can access all their HR and payroll needs through a single platform. Beyond just reviewing their paycheck or checking PTO accruals, Paylocity’s ESS portal also offers employee experience tools, like a social collaboration hub and file sharing capabilities, allowing your workforce to stay connected. Take a deep dive on employee self-service
How much time are you burning on tedious administrative HR tasks every week? Employee self-service leverages automation to eliminate many of these tasks for HR, freeing up time to focus on employee retention, or other high-level initiatives. And ESS enhances the employee experience, so you can attract and retain top talent.
- Improve accuracy of employee information: Employees are empowered to change and update their own information as needed right in the ESS, alleviating administrative burden for your team and increasing data accuracy.
- Increase employee engagement: Teams can communicate in a social network setting with social collaboration tools such as community forums, chat, and peer recognition.
- Increase data security: ESS provides essential security by digitizing document storage and helping ensure compliance.
- Streamline scheduling requests: Cut time from the scheduling process by allowing employees to make all scheduling requests through an ESS portal.
Employee self-service software comes in various technological forms. Some models have basic features, while others offer more premium capabilities. These are the basic ESS portal services Paylocity offers:
- 24/7 access
- Personal information management
- Schedule change and time off requests
- Payroll and tax statements
- Benefits enrollment and cards
Organizations can also opt for premium features that make them further stand out from the competition:
- Career development courses in a learning management system (LMS)
- On-demand pay
- Social collaboration in a social media-style hub
An employee self-service portal works by giving each employee a unique login, which they can use to sign into the system. Employee self-service portals are secure and available 24/7, wherever and whenever an employee has an internet connection, so connection to their organization is never broken. Once inside, employees can utilize various tools to address HR and payroll-related needs.