Paychex Flex vs Employment Hero: Which is a better fit?

Marie: My name is Marie and I'm a sales tax manager for a company, a retail company that has around 50 employees and I give Paychex Flex five stars. They're awesome. So previously we were using ADP TotalSource, and their reporting features were pretty terrible. You actually couldn't go back in and recreate reports. So if I needed a report, I had to make sure that I got it within a specific time period, and I could not go back. With Paychex Flex, you can go out any time, anytime during the year, reprint any reports, W-2's, payroll detail, payroll summary. So that's why we changed. So we started using Paychex Flex because I had previously used it in other jobs for about 20 years, and they had always been super consistent, the best customer service that I'd ever experienced. Anything you needed, they would get it done immediately. They were very responsive. And so that was one of the main reasons. And again, with ADP, customer service was just not there. So that was probably the main reason that we switched over. Yeah. So moving over to Paychex Flex was very easy. We had a team of people in different departments that helped us move all the data over, and we have a payroll person, an HR person, training people, just someone in every department to help us out. So when we have questions, we know who to contact. And they have been very, very helpful. But it was a very easy transition, no issues at all. For anyone that would be thinking about moving to Paychex Flex, I would say do not hesitate, especially if you're with another payroll company that is not meeting your needs. Paychex Flex is very flexible. They have HR, they have payroll, they have timesheets, just so many different options, 401(k) options, and everything is very user-friendly. You just go right in and if you do happen to have any issues, you always have your point of contact. You have a main person and then an umbrella underneath them of people that can help you out. So I love it. I love it. And they have a lot of different resources as well. So I would say don't hesitate and move Paychex Flex.

William W.: Hey, my name is William. I'm an account executive. I would give Employment Hero a rating of three out of five. For more reviews, click the link below. So I use Employment Hero as a user to access my payroll. I use the benefits program, the discounts program as well, as well as managing all my HR information. So things like address, phone number, email address and the like for our HR department at work. So I've used, I mean, a number of different types of HR software over my career. In the past, it's been quite limited, right? You access your payroll. You get told how much you're getting paid and you get told when you're getting paid and you tell them where they're paying it to and that's fine. The thing I really like about in Employment Hero is it gives the user a lot more kind of benefits, for lack of a better term, in that you get your discounts, you get actual benefits. They've got the hero awards program and the like. So whereas my experience is most HR software is very driven towards the administrator and the company, Employment Hero feels like they build products for the user. So the thing that kind of makes Employment Hero so good is all of its utility. But unfortunately, I think that's also the reason it is challenging to use, which is you log into your dashboard and there's a lot of tools, a lot of areas you can access. There's a lot of utility to it. So if you want to go in and do something really basic, like you change bank account, want to update your bank details for your HR team, it can feel like it's actually really difficult to find where to put that information. So some of the things that are highlighted in that UX are areas like the hero awards program, their benefits program, which is wonderful, but it can feel like the basics of what you need from a payroll HR program are actually really difficult to find.