Embedded-finance provider tracked in the Embedded Finance Index — disclosed by 3 companies across 2 categories.
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Founded as a cloud-based payroll and HCM provider targeting mid-market US employers, Paylocity spent its first decade building out a comprehensive HR suite (payroll, benefits, time & labor). The 2021 acquisition of Airbase brought spend management and AP automation into the platform, marking a clear move to become a financial OS for HR-centric finance teams. By 2023-2024, Paylocity was issuing its own corporate cards, automating AP, and expanding into global payroll with treasury management — effectively layering embedded finance products on top of its core HCM business.
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<img src="https://www.embeddedfinanceindex.com/api/badge/paylocity/install" width="1" height="1" alt="" style="display:none">3 companies disclose Paylocity in their stack in the Embedded Finance Index 2026, including Workrise, Dev OSDental and Fieldpromax.
Paylocity is an embedded-finance provider in Payroll and Unified Payroll/HRIS. It ranks #17 of 34 Payroll providers by disclosed buyers.
The most-disclosed Payroll alternatives to Paylocity are Gusto Embedded (50 buyers), Check (25 buyers), Remote (16 buyers), Salsa (16 buyers), ADP (9 buyers) and Stripe (8 buyers).
Paylocity is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States.
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