Paylocity ships its first named packages — Express, Enrich and Elite for 1–50 employees — and still prints no price
The small-business payroll page gained three named Small Business Grow tiers plus a full Compare Plans feature matrix between the 2026-08-30 and 2026-09-08 archive captures. It is the first time Paylocity has published plan names anywhere on its site in the six years of archive history checked. Every tier reads Custom.
A single undifferentiated small-business payroll page: one 'Comprehensive payroll capabilities' feature narrative, an FAQ, and a demo form. No plan names, no tier cards, no comparison matrix. Archived in that form on 2026-08-30.
Three tier cards — Express (Payroll + Employee Experience, badged 'Best Value'), Enrich (Payroll + HR + Time + General Ledger, badged 'Most Popular') and Elite (Payroll + HR + Time + Talent + Compliance + Expense, badged 'Best Value') — above a 'Compare Plans' accordion holding a six-band entitlement matrix. Eligibility note: 'Organizations with 1–50 employees are eligible for Small Business Grow tiers.' No tier carries a price. Archived 2026-09-08.
For a company whose entire pricing posture is “Custom”, this is a real move: Paylocity now publishes plan names. The small-business payroll page at /who-we-serve/company-size/small/payroll/ gained three tier cards — Express, Enrich and Elite — between the archive capture of 2026-08-30, which shows none of them, and the capture of 2026-09-08, which shows all three plus a “Compare Plans” accordion containing a full entitlement matrix.
The matrix groups entitlements into six bands: Payroll (processing, Employee Self-Service, tax filing and payments, direct deposit, electronic garnishments, new hire reporting, check signing, check sealing, bank checks, time off, Poster Elite); Modern Pay and Employee Experience (mobile app, On Demand Pay); Talent & Employee Lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, learning); Compliance & Workforce Administration (compliance, E-Verify); Finance Expansion (expense management); and Service Experience (AI-assisted guidance, chat-first access, escalated pathways).
Three things are worth noting.
The packaging is gated by headcount, not by feature appetite. The page states: “Note: Organizations with 1–50 employees are eligible for Small Business Grow tiers.” Above 50 employees the product reverts to the module pick-list with no plan ladder at all — so this is a segment-specific packaging experiment, not a company-wide move to published plans.
Paylocity’s own copy is already inconsistent between the two views. The tier cards label Enrich “Payroll + HR + Time + General Ledger” and Elite “Payroll + HR + Time + Talent + Compliance + Expense”; the comparison matrix headers shorten those to “Payroll + HR + Time” and “Payroll + HR + Time + Talent + Expense”. Two of the three cards also carry the same “Best Value” badge.
The prices are still absent. Naming a tier is the step before pricing it, but Paylocity has not taken that step: all three tiers route to the same demo form, and the page contains no dollar figure. On a dollar-sign scan of 29 archived captures of the pricing and small-business surfaces spanning 2020-08-06 to 2026-09-08, the count of published price figures is zero — and that remains true after this change.
Three Small Business Grow tiers plus a six-band "Compare Plans" entitlement matrix appeared on the small-business payroll page between the 2026-08-30 and 2026-09-08 captures — the first plan names Paylocity has published on any surface in six years of archive history. Every tier still reads Custom.