- Core HR: Keep employee records, onboarding, workflows and self-service in one system.
- Payroll: Process payroll, automate tax work and give employees access to pay documents.
- Benefits: Manage enrollment, eligibility and connections between benefits and payroll.
- Workforce management: Track time, attendance, schedules, leave and employee expenses.
- Talent: Support recruiting, performance, learning, engagement and compensation work.
isolved HCM
Payroll, HR, benefits, and workforce management.
Updated August 11, 2026
isolved HCM Overview
isolved People Cloud is an HCM platform for small and midsize employers. It connects employee records, payroll, benefits and talent work, while also offering workforce tools for time, schedules and expenses.
HR teams can onboard employees, maintain people data, run payroll, handle tax filings, manage benefits and give staff self-service access from one system. Other parts of the platform cover recruiting, performance and learning. Payroll is one part of the wider People Cloud, and isolved also pairs its software with expert services for companies that want more hands-on help.
Key Features
Pricing
| Plan | Price | What is included |
|---|---|---|
| People Cloud | Custom quote | A tailored mix of HR, payroll, benefits, workforce and talent products, with optional expert services |
isolved builds a proposal around the employer’s modules, workforce and service needs. Free trial: none is advertised on the official pricing or demo pages. isolved offers a personalized product walkthrough before a custom proposal.
Pricing source: isolved pricing page and isolved demo page
Pros
| Competitor | Where this tool may fit better |
|---|---|
| Rippling | isolved keeps HR, payroll, benefits, talent and workforce management inside an HCM suite. Rippling reaches further into IT operations. Employers that want a conventional people-platform relationship may prefer that emphasis to a system extending deeply into IT operations. |
| Paycor | A buyer considering Paycor may prefer isolved when payroll, benefits, talent and workforce management need to share a broad HCM record. That can suit an employer that wants to configure several people processes under one vendor relationship. |
| UKG | People Cloud brings payroll, benefits and talent around one workforce record. That can make isolved easier to scope than UKG for some mid-market teams. It can fit a mid-market team that wants broad HCM coverage. The buyer does not have to begin with the largest enterprise platform. |
Cons
| Competitor | Where the rival may have the edge |
|---|---|
| Rippling | Rippling connects HR and IT automation. isolved requires a custom proposal and stays focused on HCM. A fast-growing technology company should compare setup, integrations and employee provisioning, not choose only on HCM module breadth. |
| Paycor | The exact isolved bundle, setup work and total price are not public. Paycor belongs in a process comparison that covers payroll corrections, reporting and administrator effort with the same employee population. |
| UKG | UKG and isolved both need a like-for-like proposal. isolved’s broad feature list can hide which modules are included and what the final bundle costs. Ask both vendors to map payroll, time, benefits and reporting to one written setup plan. |
Reviews
- isolved reviews on Software Advice (3.9/5 from 650 reviews): Reviewers praise the single employee database, easy access to payroll documents, onboarding and the learning library. Common complaints involve difficult report building, payroll errors, slow or uneven support, website or mobile problems and a learning curve in some modules.
The feedback covers different People Cloud modules and service partners. A buyer should check which payroll, benefits, workforce and talent products each reviewer used before applying the comment to the proposed bundle.
