One star if too generous for this organization. The company is so large and compartmentalized that no problem can be solved no matter how small. If you have a choice, try anyone else first. read more

This is the worst customer service I have ever had. The people who work for this company are aggressive , incompetent and rude. I have done customer service myself, no one at my workplace was being wild, the customer service reps here are unhinged. read more

I was sent to Heartland when my Payroll company merged with them. Unfortunately I had to deal with them for over three years. I had some good reps working with me the first couple years, then it all went down hill. Customer Service is made up of a large group of people, so you can't deal with an issue one on one. I have to explain my issue to numerous people anytime something comes up. An unbelievable waste of time. My issues were always because of there errors which were just so numerous. I might add that nearly every issue was caused by their incompetence. The amount of incompetence with this system is shocking. I finally left last year, but need to retrieve past records, but their website is so poor, it's impossible to print or download my documents. I've been in business for 45 years now and from top to bottom, Heartland Payroll is the absolute, hands-down worst company of any sort I've ever dealt with. read more

Don't use this company! I canceled Their services years ago and they still try to charge me. When I cancel I got a major attitude from them. Almost like they didn't want to cancel Service. Don't use this company! read more

This company is disappointing. They never finished setting up my company, no help to help employees update their own information. didn't help with taxes for out of state. When screen sharing the rep had porn up on his computer. Go to ADP these people are unreliable read more

As a small business owner, I expected basic accuracy from a payroll provider--but Heartland has consistently fallen short. We've experienced repeated issues with PTO policy implementation, including miscalculations, incorrect balances, and policies being assigned to the wrong employees. What's most disappointing is that these aren't complex requests--we're talking about basic math. I do not recommend Heartland to other small businesses that expect timely, accurate, and professional payroll services in return for what they're paying. read more

WORST payroll company ever. Our small business has used them for years and I think they have made at least one error every single pay period without fail. In addition, when you contact them to try and correct the issue their customer service is absolutely terrible. Not only are they rude they are also incompetent. It takes multiple calls to resolve a single issue. Consumers beware-stay away...far away! read more

Once they got rid of the personal payroll representative, the whole thing went south. At least when you had a rep (we had a great one) you had someone to connect with to fix problems that ALWAYS arose. NOW, you're lucky if in an email string you have the same person twice. They are constantly mishandling our withholding and causing the state to send warning letters. We have had money sitting in the state accounts for months and cannot get it back because Heartland just keeps withholding more. They hounded me to do my ERTC and then screwed it up, costing me thousands not to mention the time wasted chasing them down for two years about it. You cannot get customer service to give you a meaningful response. It has been a nightmare and I may have to sue for all the monies we have lost through the two companies we use them for. read more

they are making mistakes over mistakes. either over paying or under reporting ESD and L&I Everytime I complain, they tell me that Washington State is so complicated. If they take a client from a certain State to do Payroll, They HAVE to know the laws. I just got a $75 fine from ESD because they didn't report my SOC code which is a law since 2018. I recently had knee relplacement surgery and asked them how many sick days I have. When they said 24 hrs I was asking what happened to the 40 hours to be carried over from last year, They had no clue what I was talking about. Again, because they had no clue about the WA laws. The never kept track on any of our sick hours. L&I is constantly overpaid. and I have to fill out forms to get a reimbursement. So no, I do NOT recommend Heartland to anyone read more

We have used Heartland since 2017...They have charged us over $1800 in fines and fees for: missing employee information (from their incomplete onboarding process) and submitting payroll within 1-2 days of being processed (we were never told that we would be charged for submitting within 1-2 days of the processing day). Here's the real kicker...They let us continue to be fined for over 4 years without calling or emailing us to let us know what we could do to stop getting charged the fees. Heartland just continued to charge our credit card. They are devious, shady and do not understand what customer service means. Fine me once, explain the problem, give me a chance to fix it so I don't get fined again but instead, Heartland does not tell you you are being fined and continue to rack up fees for YEARS at the tune of over $1800. This is downright criminal. read more

If I could give this Payroll company 0 stars I would. Let me just say DO NOT GET HEARTLAND PAYROLL!!!! If you do you will regret it. Everything about it is a nightmare. We have 300 employees. We moved from QB to Heartland. I thought QB was bad! OH HELL NO IT WAS AMAZING compared to the shit show I have been dealing with for MONTHS!!! Just do yourself a favor. Do better research and pretend you never say the name Heartland. You're Welcome, A Very Angry & Stressed Person! read more

Comically poor service and customer support. Due to their inability to track information across multiple employees, they failed to file proper state forms causing the state to threaten action against my business. Despite bringing this to their attention in September, they still have not been able to provide anything close to a meaningful solution and have passed this issue off from one employee to another, choosing again today, in January, to send it to someone else within the company and request more time to figure out their mistake. Completely unbelievable. read more

Trash company. 4 years we put up with their bs. They lie at every turn. Say one thing and do something else.

Heartland is the worst. They ran payroll for my small business. They misreported payroll to my state (CA) for over a year. Took 10 months to get a hold of a live person in their tax department to even start trying to fix. Now CA is sending me delinquency notices and threatening a levy for a debt that we already paid to Heartland. We will likely need to sue them to collect. Ranking negative 5 stars. read more

The worst company to deal with. Mistakes on the employee checks every single week. No one to speak to. Waiting months and months on end for things. A nightmare I will be switching asap they don't care about their customers. read more

Terrible experience. There were mistakes on the payroll starting the first week. The customer service was terrible. Even the W2s were incorrect and they were not willing to rectify the mistakes. Debbie was unhelpful and not very accommodating. Poor quality work and even worse customer service. read more

I switched to ADP. This company is not organized at all. People missing pay leaving me to hand write personal checks. Terrible company, they need a change in leadership ASAP! read more

I have been with Heartland for 10 years. In the last 2 - 3 months they changed their whole system. They took a perfectly good software program and changed it completely. Now it takes me twice as long to do my payroll. It takes forever to change screens and bring up reports. I have complained many times but they do not want to hear it. It is very confusing. I would never recommend this company. I cannot say enough bad about this company. I would not even give them 1 start. read more

THE WORST at doing everything they say they do. Literally the worst. Bad. Awful. Not good. Terrible.

By far the most annoying platform/service to work with. They add features to make payroll more difficult to process, and their platform is filled with bugs. Slow loading speeds, and constant timeouts make the experience anything but simple. Constantly having issues with reported information not matching up, and the representatives aren't familiar with CA labor laws well. Would never recommend anyone to use this company ever. Extremely unhappy with the service. read more

I had the pleasure of training with Jacob in 2018 at Heartland and am very happy he is focusing his expertise with our payroll division. Heartland has tremendous value as no other payroll provider can make the WOTC process so easy. And since 1 in 3 Californians qualifies for a tax credit, employers are leaving their tax credits on the table when they're not working with Heartland. Also, what if there was a way you could eliminate paper in your onboarding process? Heartland does this all the time. All Jacob needs is your current payroll service user name, password and voided check, and he'll do all the rest. Jacob is my go-to specialist for serving clients in his area and I recommend scheduling time with him to know more about Heartland's value. read more

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Heartland is moving toward, removing any personal contact with the client. I have been processing payroll for several clients with Heartland for the past 10 years. I have always appreciated working with a dedicated payroll rep for the many accounts I process payroll for. Then a few months ago, they changed the system. You no longer have direct contact with anyone person. The e-mail is just payroll@..... and anyone, usually a different person responds. The service had gone downhill. There have been significant errors, and all you get are we're sorry it won't happen again. The error happens again! I have been told repeatedly if I request my payroll rep in the subject line that my rep will get the e-mail and respond. This is NOT the case. I sent in an e-mail a few minutes ago and two new people I have NEVER heard of responded. I fell like I am constantly training new people at Heartland. This is very time consuming! Now I am told they will be raising the fees!!! read more

Looks like the lowest rating I can give is 1-Star. I haven't had a Heartland employee yet who understands the accounting end of how & what they do impacts the client's books. And customer service...egads! No help at all. The last guy I had talked to about a week ago couldn't answer my question and told me to email my question to an email address that I didn't have before. I had him repeat it twice, I read it back to him and he agreed it was correct. That email continues to bounce back after 4-5 days of no one opening the email. On top of that, in every other sentence that customer service guy kept calling me "Boss". I asked him why. He said it was habit. I would never use this outfit. But then, I am an Accountant/Independent Contractor and don't have that latitude. And even though I have voiced my dissatisfaction with Heartland, the actual employee in charge who works with the company has done nothing. Remember "Caveat Emptor" --"Let the buyer beware." read more

I wanted to share with others about the professionalism and dedication that Jacob Fredricks has consistently demonstrated towards me and the businesses that I refer him. I appreciate Jacob for his knowledge in Payroll and HR. Things are constantly changing, and he and Heartland seem to always be on top of providing relevant information. Thank you Jacob! Ray S read more

My employer switched to Heartland Payroll several years ago and they are the worst company to work with. Employees can never log in to their website to access their paystubs and if passwords need to be reset, the employees cannot reset it themselves. The person who handles our payroll needs to be sent an email and she then requests that Heartland email the employee instructions on how to reset their password. Our employees earn PTO (Personal Time Off) that is accrued based on their hours worked. Heartland is constantly messing it up by paying out the PTO earned rather than adding the hours, then taking the money out of the next paycheck and adding the PTO hours back, then doing the exact same thing with the new PTO hours earned. DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THIS COMPANY. THEY HAVE BEEN NOTHING BUT INCOMPETENT, UNPROFESSIONAL, AND A PROBLEM TO DEAL WITH. Save yourself frustration as this company is horrible and employs idiots. read more