ChiefOnboarding vs Paylocity

ChiefOnboarding is an open-source onboarding platform for remote-first organizations, accessed through Slack or a web portal. Teams can create reusable blueprints for roles and groups, combining tasks, resources, introductions, and rewards. Before a new hire starts, preboarding pages can share information, files, lists, and custom forms. Timelines schedule tasks and messages, automate reminders, and trigger steps when work is completed. Learning resources can be presented as wiki-style pages or as courses with questionnaires. Organizations can customize colors, logos, email layouts, and their own domain. The integration catalog includes Teamtailor, BambooHR, Azure Active Directory, Asana, Zendesk, Google, and Slack, among others. Its API can create new hires programmatically when enabled and authenticated with a token. ChiefOnboarding can be self-hosted, keeping customer data under the customer's control. The free plan is self-hosted with community support. The Support plan costs €249 a month, billed annually, and includes priority email support.

Paylocity provides HR, payroll and spend management technology through a platform connecting Human Resources, Finance and IT tools. Payroll includes automated workflows, audits, tax services and global payroll support across 100+ countries. HR features include employee self-service, compliance resources, workforce analytics and automated workflows, alongside employee records, time-off management, onboarding, performance management and time tracking. Finance products cover expense management, corporate cards, accounts payable automation, guided procurement and headcount planning. IT tools tie access management to HR data and include employee device asset management. Paylocity says it connects with hundreds of HR, Finance and IT partners through prebuilt integrations and API, EDI and SFTP connections. Its mobile app supports time-off requests, timecards, schedules, onboarding, pay information and team communication; web access is also available. Mobile app features require an employer Paylocity account. The company offers solutions for small businesses with 1–99 employees, midsize businesses with 100–499 employees and enterprises with 500 or more employees. Pricing is paid and available by request; no free plan is listed.