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SurePayroll vs Workday HCM: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 16th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 18,792 reviews from Payroll users.
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Tax Calculation
NA
Payroll Management
4.3
Direct Deposit
4.9
Tax Compliance
4.2
W-2 Preparation
4.7
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Tax Calculation
NA
Payroll Management
4.5
Direct Deposit
4.6
Tax Compliance
4.5
W-2 Preparation
4.6
User satisfaction
4.2
User reviews294
Ease of use
4.2
Functionality
4.1
Value for money
4.2
Customer support
4.0
4.5
User reviews1,569
Ease of use
4.3
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
4.3
Price starts from
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
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Free trial
Best for

Whether a business has 1, 10, or 100 employees, Small Business Payroll by SurePayroll delivers peace of mind by combining award-winning U.S.-based customer care and industry-leading technology.

Workday HCM is designed for businesses of all sizes to help their organization's people practices in the rapidly changing world of HR. Workday serves more than 10,500 customers globally.

User reviews
pros & cons
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Video reviews
Jeremy F
Product Manager
5.0

Jeremy F.: Hi, my name is Jeremy. I am the owner of 5127 Rosewater LLC, and I give SurePayroll a five out of five. So SurePayroll for me was an easy out-of-the-box way to turn payroll on. For the business, we have a nanny that we're paying and I was able to get it up and running in a day and get payroll ran so that we could pay everyone on time. I like the ease of use that we have with SurePayroll. It's easy to run payroll, automate running it every couple of weeks, and the ability to just quickly go see data and reporting around how much we've paid out over the course of the year or the quarter. It's really easy to use in that way. So the one thing I would change about SurePayroll is the transparency on when they're actually paying the government, both federal and state. I see what they're taking out of the regular paychecks, but it would be nice to know when they're making those payments just so I can ensure they're doing it correctly and that I can keep my books up to date as well.

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Christos L
Senior Compensation Analyst
4.0

Christos: My name is Christos. I am a senior compensation analyst, and I work for Braze Incorporated. And the headcount, I can give as well, which is 1,500 employees. Workday HCM, I would give a four out of five. Workday HCM is used for our payroll services within the company as just a generality. We use it to keep track of leave of absence, time off, bonus requests, just various different HR systems, things that we need. However, now we are using it to store salary bands, and that's more of where I come into play, where we're building out bands and storing them within job descriptions and job profiles within each individual employee and department. I just really enjoy the user-friendliness of the platform. It's really easy to navigate between the landing pages. Even for the compensation team, we have our comp dashboard, which allows us to pull this various reports that we're looking for, so that's very helpful and intuitive. But even as a user of just even being an employee of the company, it's very easy to go through my compensation, my pay history, my pay stubs, my bonus cycles, even just my managerial tree. It's an easy to navigate system, which I can appreciate. Especially if someone hasn't seen it before, it's easy to teach. I'm not necessarily the systems expert when it comes to loading in data and whatnot, but we do use a separate system for our comp cycles, which I understand can happen in Workday. However, from my experience, the reason why it wasn't a five out of five is just the way that the two systems read off each other. For me, Workday, even though it's intuitive when it comes to loading data, it's very fickle in certain circumstances since I've used it for the last three years, and I would just like to see a little bit more improvement in being able to be more modified towards these new systems that we're using, like the AQMS and the Oracles. I just found it rather difficult to... It's been the same for a while. I'd like to see a little bit more uplift when it comes to the loading of data. However, with that being said, I know there's room for improvement just from the platform's perspective on that, from a system side.

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1099 Preparation
207
Important
401(k) Tracking
388
Important

SurePayroll

22/39
  • 1099 Preparation
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Approval Process Control
  • Audit Management
  • Auto Update
  • Calendar Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Country
  • Payroll Outsourcing
  • Reimbursement Management
  • Tax Calculation
  • 401(k) Tracking
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting Integration
  • Benefits Management
  • Check Printing
  • Compensation Management
  • Direct Deposit
  • Employee Database
  • Employee Onboarding
  • Employee Profiles
  • Multi-State
  • Payroll Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Self Service Portal
  • Tax Compliance
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time & Attendance
  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • W-2 Preparation
  • Wage Garnishment
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Workday HCM

Top Features
31/39
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SurePayroll
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Workday HCM
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
SurePayroll
  • By Paychex
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1971
Workday HCM
  • By Workday
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2005
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