Paychex® HR Online
Paychex® HR Online is a secure, Web-based Human Resource Management System (HRMS) that can empower your organization. Its convenient self-service portals allow employees, managers, and HR administrators to access vital payroll and HR information, processes, and reports at their convenience.
Your company's employees will appreciate the convenience of using HR Online's employee self-service portal to:
- View online pay stubs, W-2s and 1099s.
- Select their benefits options through open enrollment.
- Request time off.
- Manage their contact information.
- Select their Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) race and ethnicity classifications.
- Apply for open positions within the company.
- Access company documents.
- Sign up for training.
- View your company's handbook.
Managers can save time by using HR Online's self-service portal to complete the following activities:
- Access employee records.
- View and approve employee PTO requests through a convenient scheduling calendar.
- Create employee performance reviews.
- Receive notifications of various events that impact employees.
- Create, run, and access various employee and departmental reports.
- Determine whether an employee should be included in EEO reporting, update their information manually, and track how and when the information was gathered.
- Change the EEO classification associated with a job title to update all relevant employees.
Boost productivity with automated reminders that notify you of employee performance appraisals, vacation and sick hours, and other important events.
Your company's HR data is shared between Paychex payroll and HR Online, allowing faster access to vital information, and reducing time spent re-keying redundant data. For added convenience, your company's existing HR data can be automatically imported into HR Online once your company begins using the service.
HR Online allows supervisors and administrators to easily manage, update, and report valuable employee benefit information. Employees themselves can also view and manage their own benefit information, especially during qualifying events and open enrollment periods.
HR Online simplifies day to day tasks so administrators can have more time to focus on their company's needs by completing the following online:
- Administering employee benefits and conducting open enrollment.
- Monitoring key information for compliance reporting, such as EEO-1, workers' compensation, workplace accidents, and OSHA forms.
- Tracking new hires, terminations, leaves, promotions, transfers and more.
- Viewing and reprinting employee pay stubs, W-2s and 1099s.
- Tracking employee salary and status changes over time.
- Managing security and user access to your company’s critical HR data.
HRO includes a customizable new hire task list that can help standardize the onboarding process based on company procedures, and allows managers to easily make important task adjustments as those procedures change.
HR Online makes it easy to schedule and manage training and new hire orientation, as well as keep track of the participants. With one user-friendly screen, you can set up training programs while employees can view the schedule and enroll.
Managers can easily set up reminders for upcoming or past-due performance reviews, and allow employees to view their performance review history.
Help keep your company OSHA compliant with HR Online's OSHA recordkeeping, tracking, and reporting capabilities.
HR Online can even help you keep track of your company's physical assets, like cars, computer hardware, and other vital equipment.
The Data Export tool enhances the reporting capabilities of HR Online, and can be used to create database queries. The exported data may be viewed in a browser window or saved as a Microsoft® Excel® file for later viewing and printing.
To learn more about HR Online, please view our demonstration.

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"The time [HR Online] saved by not entering data to many different spreadsheets, the data we can obtain through reports, and the ease of handling the payroll off site has eliminated the burden of old fashion 'recordkeeping and paper pushing'."
- Barbara Bruno,
Director of Human Resources,
North American Coating Laboratories
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