G2 Vendor Directory

Lightyear vs. Paylocity

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricLightyear

by Lightyear

Paylocity

by Paylocity

Overall rating4.94.4
Review count206,320
Ease of use9.69.0
Ease of setup9.68.4
Quality of support9.98.8
Meets requirements9.69.1
NPS9563.221347
Small Business42.1%19.8%
Mid-Market57.9%70.8%
Enterprise0.0%9.5%
Total page views14016,085
Total LLM citations70642,548

Lightyear

Lightyear is an industry-leading cloud platform providing intelligent automation solutions for large SMEs & Enterprise Purchasing & Accounts Payables processes. Our end-to-end approvals workflows allow purchase orders & bills to be approved in seconds, saving businesses more than 80% of their costs and time. Lightyear's AI-data extraction feature, Smart Extract+ enables businesses to get a real-time overview of their payables data & our business intelligence feature allows them to make smarter & better-informed cash flow & forecasting decisions.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Accounts Payable Efficiency
  • Ease of Learning
  • Time-saving
  • Automation
  • Customer Support

Paylocity

Paylocity is an award-winning HCM platform that brings HR, Finance, and IT together in one connected system, covering payroll, benefits, talent management, time and labor, spend, and IT provisioning on a single employee record. Cut manual HR tasks, run payroll faster, and get new hires up and running sooner. Get full visibility across expenses, accounts payable, corporate cards, and procurement in one place. Automate account creation and manage IT provisioning without juggling separate systems. AI is built into everyday workflows across all three.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Helpful
  • Customer Support
  • Intuitive
  • Simple
  • Efficiency