What do you dislike about Paychex?
We started using Paychex in January 2024. From the beginning, response times have been consistently slow and unreliable. In some cases, we were told upfront that requests could take up to 15 business days to process. In others, we were quoted 1–3 business days, only for the issue to drag on for more than a week. Multiple times, after waiting, we were then told that the request had been sent to the wrong department and needed to be rerouted...and the clock starts over.
We have experienced multiple payroll issues. On several occasions, payroll has been completely stopped because a new employee was coded incorrectly in their system. It took three full payroll cycles to resolve one issue, and each time payroll was halted until it was addressed.
In one particularly serious incident, all of our employees’ direct deposit information was wiped out without notice, and payroll was converted to paper checks. We caught the issue before processing, but it required every employee to reenter their banking information, and payroll ended up being delayed.
Nearly 60 days later, those same checks were mailed out to employees. We reported it and were told that the paper checks generated during that error had been voided and that no further action was needed.
Then about 30 days after that, we received notice that Paychex intended to debit our bank account because some of those supposedly voided checks had been cashed. We were told that we would be responsible for collecting those funds back from employees, despite having reported the issue immediately and being assured the checks were void.
There have also been compliance and structural issues with how services are handled. Although we have a contract for PEO services, we discovered that Paychex had not registered as a PEO in our home state. Instead, they filed under a power of attorney, meaning filings were made under our EIN rather than theirs, which created additional complications. In other situations, they sent notices to other states indicating they were no longer our PEO while still under contract with us.
This only scratches the surface of the issues we’ve had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
