CharlieHR vs. OnPay

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CharlieHR
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Charlie, or CharlieHR from the company in London, offers a cloud-based software product designed to enable small companies to automate many of the administrative headaches that they experience as they scale. Charlie also includes onboarding and offboarding features, and its higher tier plan includes HR Advice from a personal advisor from Charlie to handle dismissals, grievances, or redundancies, or other difficult HR challenges.
$4
per employee, per month
OnPay
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
OnPay's payroll and HR is designed for people who want to spend more time running their business, and less on back-office tasks. The application aims to enable users to: • Run payroll • Automate taxes • Let employees do more themselves • Simplify HR processes • Offer benefits in any state OnPay is $49 plus $6 per person each month. The monthly fee includes integrations with QuickBooks, Xero, and time-tracking software, as well as all quarterly and year-end…N/A
Pricing
CharlieHROnPay
Editions & Modules
CharlieHR
£4
per employee, per month
CharlieHR + HR Advice
From £179 (+ £4)
per month (per employee)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CharlieHROnPay
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFirst month free, then $49 + $6 per employee each month.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
CharlieHROnPay
Features
CharlieHROnPay
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
CharlieHR
7.3
Ratings
7% below category average
OnPay
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
CharlieHR
6.0
Ratings
28% below category average
OnPay
9.9
Ratings
18% above category average
Support for external payroll vendors4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Pay calculation00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
CharlieHR
7.7
Ratings
4% below category average
OnPay
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
CharlieHR
7.5
Ratings
7% below category average
OnPay
-
Ratings
Update personal information9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
CharlieHR
7.5
Ratings
5% below category average
OnPay
-
Ratings
New hire portal7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
CharlieHROnPay
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CharlieHROnPay
Likelihood to Recommend
As a part-time employee, it would be better if I was able to book leave on an hourly basis. Also, to be able to set up two leave types, paid and unpaid, and accrue lieu time.
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I'd say if you had someone who wasn't educated on how Payroll should be setup and function OnPay is less ideal. But even then you've got things so well setup and cost efficient, they could afford to put some focus on training. In my mind I imagine OnPay is the best solution for small to mid, even early large, company Payroll processing. We're a small company so I'm unaware of the options provided to streamline importing of large group payrolls, but that might be an area where the interface could provide challenges.
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Pros
  • Ensures personal requests are not lost in email
  • Makes managing leave days easier
  • Provides a standard UI for all
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  • It is easy to add new employees.
  • It is easy to inactivate employees who leave the company.
  • All quarterly and annual reports are completed and filed on a timely basis.
  • Employees have direct online access to their paycheck as well as their W-2.
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Cons
  • Better ability to manage leave for part time / pro rata employees
  • Links to other HR apps such as free agent
  • Management of unpaid leave allowance as well as paid.
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  • I would like to enter some payroll information in advance of the current payroll runs
  • Adding and changing administrators was a bit cumbersome and took several days
  • It works fine for a small number of people being paid if they can be seen on one screen but it might be cumbersome with more than about 10 people. Probably needs a better or different procedure with more people.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We have used OnPay for a few years now and we do continue to renew our annual use of OnPay. We are only a small organization and although OnPay provides a lot of additional services that larger organizations might ind useful, OnPay still meets our limited requirements of running bi-weekly payroll and submitting our quarterly state and federal tax documents, and at a price that we still find affordable.
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Usability
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OnPay is very easy to use. The computer interface is setup very well. You can quickly add people, enter your Payroll, print reports, etc. If your Payroll doesn't change from pay period to pay period (example, salaried employees) it takes mere seconds to enter in your Payroll.
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Reliability and Availability
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OnPay immediately responds to any of my inquiries.
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Performance
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No complaints on OnPay's integration with Xero.
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Support Rating
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I've only had to call a couple of times, and each time the customer service rep is extremely thorough and helpful. I've never had the experience, like I do with some other companies, of feeling stressed or irritated with the reps. They are competent, educated, and easily walk me through the system
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Implementation Rating
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Easy to implement and easy to convert any other payroll reports to the OnPay system when making the switch
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Alternatives Considered
Both the above work in different ways and provide different services to CharlieHR, although if we could use a single app for all, that would be better.
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OnPay is tremendously less expensive and technically superior to Quickbooks in my opinion. OnPay is less expensive and offered the ease of managing a restaurant payroll that was better in my opinion than When I Work. My experience when evaluating all of the payroll products that I felt the company could afford was that OnPay had a superior staff of professionals who knew their product and could explain how to use it most clearly.
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Scalability
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OnPay works.
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Return on Investment
  • Easier to track leave taken and left
  • Still need greater flexibility for leave types
  • Need to be able to book leave by the hour
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  • Reduces payroll processing time
  • Ability for full electronic employee files
  • The overall cost is the best in the industry, saving us money
  • Ability for on/off-boarding ensures our files our complete
  • There are a few limitations but they work with programmers to get those features setup
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ScreenShots

OnPay Screenshots

Screenshot of full-service payrollScreenshot of multiple pay rates and schedulesScreenshot of employee self-onboarding and org charts, which are built-inScreenshot of an e-signable offer lettersScreenshot of calendars, where PTO is managed and approvedScreenshot of centralized finances, viewed with over 20 reports for analyzing employment-related expenses