Questions to ask when comparing Employment Hero vs Payworks
Can Payworks support growing Canadian businesses?
Payworks is a trusted choice for Canadian payroll compliance. However, its modular design can struggle to keep pace with rapid growth. The lighter HR and scheduling capabilities often require manual workarounds or additional tools to scale effectively.
Employment Hero gives you a powerful, all-in-one solution: HR, payroll, hiring, ATS, LMS, scheduling, time tracking and benefits — all designed for Canadian compliance and supported by local teams.
If you want a platform that helps you move faster, stay compliant and give your team a seamless experience, Employment Hero is the clear choice.
Does Payworks meet my integration requirements?
While Payworks offers payroll, HR, and time management modules, they are delivered as separate components rather than a single, unified workflow. As a result, teams often need to manage additional manual steps when handling employee updates, time approvals, and payroll inputs.
Employment Hero reduces the need for integrations from day one because the core platform is genuinely all-in-one. For the tools you do want to connect, we offer seamless integrations with essentials like Indeed for recruitment.
Can Payworks deliver a unified employee experience?
Payworks provides employee access to payroll information, but the broader experience is limited — particularly on mobile. Core actions like clocking in, requesting time off, or approving leave aren’t fully supported through a modern employee app.
Employment Hero goes further by unifying HR, payroll, scheduling and time & attendance into one consistent experience.The Employment Hero Work app’s, simplified design makes everyday tasks faster and easier to complete.
How easy is it to get started with Payworks?
While Payworks’ modular approach offers flexibility, it can also lead to a more complex and time-consuming implementation as you integrate different components of the ecosystem.
Employment Hero is built for a fast, straightforward and intuitive setup. Because HR, payroll, recruitment and benefits are all part of one seamless system, you can get up and running without the nightmare of connecting and troubleshooting multiple modules or managing disconnected workflows. We get you from day one to done, faster.
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How Employment Hero compares to Payworks
All-in-one HR and Payroll
Employment Hero offers a centralized HR system, offering automation, compliance tools, employee self-service features and an integrated payroll system. This reduces admin time, the tech stack bloat and minimizes errors to improve overall efficiency — freeing you up to focus on growing your business.
All-in-one HR: Integrated payroll, scheduling, time & attendance, and benefits
CRA-ready payroll: Automated T4s, source deductions and remittances
Simple setup, no IT needed
ATS & LMS: Built-in hiring and training
Local experts: 100% Canadian support
Payworks
Payroll-first platform with HR spread across multiple products
Limited automation across HR workflows
Scheduling and time features are more basic, with fewer mobile capabilities
Support designed to tackle real-world SMB challenges
You shouldn’t have to be a certified HR professional to grow your business. Beyond our Canadian support team, we offer expert HR advisory services tailored for operations leaders and founders who handle HR off the side of their desks. We bridge the gap between payroll software and professional HR expertise, providing the responsive, personalized attention necessary to handle local compliance and the unique challenges of a growing Canadian workforce.
Canadian-based support teams
Built for Canadian law and compliance
HR advisory services available beyond support
Payworks
Canadian support available
Strong payroll compliance focus
Limited guidance beyond payroll transactions (e.g. broader HR and workforce compliance)
Streamlined hiring and onboarding
Hiring shouldn’t feel like ten tabs and a spreadsheet. Employment Hero gives SMBs the tools to recruit, onboard and upskill without jumping between systems.
Full-cycle hiring: Postings to offers in one place
Built-in Robust LMS powered by Go1
Hire faster, without missed steps or manual follow-ups
Payworks
No native ATS
No native LMS
Fewer workflow automations (e.g. digital signing, configurable onboarding steps)
Often requires manual follow-ups outside the system
Optimized for payroll entry rather than the full onboarding journey
Employee experience that actually adds value
Retention starts with giving people a workplace experience that feels supportive, modern and connected. Our intuitive, all-in-one platform helps you provide your employees with rewards, recognition, upskilling and an integrated employee benefits experience that employees actually want to use. Plus, our robust mobile app makes that experience seamless for teams who are always on the move.
Integrated LMS: Growth and development tools
Hero Points: Redeemable rewards and gift cards
Central Portal: Unified pay, time off, schedules and announcements
Payworks
Employee experience is payroll-centric
Limited mobile functionality for key actions like time-off requests and clock-ins
Self-service and approvals are primarily focused on payroll and time, rather than broader HR workflows
Hiring success from our customers
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