Case Study: Major Houston-based Beverage Distributors achieves 71% faster onboarding and a connected mobile workforce with Paylocity

How a major beverage distributor is leveraging Paylocity to scale their business to new heights

Major Houston-based Beverage Distributors, a 1,100‑employee distributor with five Greater Houston locations and roughly 80% of staff working in the field, faced poor service from a competitor HR platform that lacked a mobile app, delivered inconsistent reporting, and relied on manual, paper‑heavy hiring and onboarding. Seeking a more agile, feature‑rich solution, the company selected Paylocity to address connectivity, reporting accuracy, and slow recruitment processes.

Paylocity implemented its HR and payroll platform — including the Mobile App, Employee Self‑Service, Recruiting and Onboarding, Community, Employee Voice, Learning, and reporting tools — to centralize communication and digitize workflows. The result: onboarding time fell by 71% (from up to two weeks to about four days), the team efficiently onboards roughly 350 new hires per year, field employees now receive consistent communications and engage in programs like quarterly sweepstakes, and leadership trusts Paylocity’s dynamic reporting for better decision‑making.