Pinpoint is an ADP Workforce Now recruitment module alternative for teams who need more flexibility than ADP Workforce Now offers. It combines enterprise-grade flexibility, and an easy experience that drives strong adoption among recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates, and an out-of-the-box deep integration with ADP Workforce Now's HR platform.
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Best fit | Enterprise, mid-market, growing teams that want to do more with less and believe strong user adoption, and an all-in-one recruitment platform incorporating ATS, CRM, careers site, background checks, alongside powerful automation will enable them to be more efficient and deliver better hiring outcomes | Organizations already standardized on ADP for payroll and HR that want recruiting inside the same suite for single-vendor convenience |
Ease of use | An interface designed for ease of use that drives strong adoption across recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates; rated highly for usability on G2 and Capterra | Some customers report the recruiting module is less intuitive than a dedicated ATS and that new users face a learning curve |
Ability to evolve configuration over time | Deeply configurable: users adjust workflows, forms, templates, and reporting themselves, with or without Pinpoint's team, as the market, your organization, and the product change | Highly configurable, though some customers report that complex or non-standard recruiting workflows can be limited |
Multi-stream hiring | A flexible architecture built for multi-stream hiring in one platform, across corporate, frontline, high-volume, early-career, and experienced hires | A general recruiting module within the ADP suite, not purpose-built for the full range of hiring shapes a multi-stream organization runs |
All-in-one pre-hire breadth | A comprehensive pre-hire suite across Plan, Attract, Engage, Select, and Onboard; one of few ATSs to include native background checks, one-way video interviews, reference checks, and interview transcription within the suite allowing more consolidation of systems than other vendors | Covers core recruiting (job posting, candidate management, onboarding handoff); background checks and other pre-hire steps are available through integrations, other ADP products, and ADP services |
Works with your ADP system of record | Keep ADP for payroll and HR and run hiring on Pinpoint, connected by a strong two-way ADP Workforce Now integration that keeps new-hire data in sync | Recruiting lives natively inside ADP, with data flowing to ADP onboarding and payroll under one vendor |
Support | Every customer gets a named Customer Success Manager, access to the Technical Account Management team, and human support answering in under two minutes on average | Some customers report slow support, including long hold times, among the most frequently cited themes in ADP reviews |
Switching and data migration | Migrate your jobs, candidates, pipeline stages, resumes, and notes yourself, or our migrations team does it for you in 15 business days. There's no hiring freeze, we remap and test your integrations before go-live, and you choose what to bring across. | ADP Workforce Now's recruiting module sits inside its payroll and HR suite, with hiring data flowing into ADP onboarding and payroll. Pinpoint integrates with ADP, so you can move hiring to Pinpoint and keep ADP for payroll and HR. |
Pinpoint covers the full pre-hire process (Plan, Attract, Engage, Select, Onboard) and is one of few ATSs to include native background checks, one-way video interviews, reference checks, and interview transcription within the suite. Fewer separate tools to license, integrate, and maintain lowers the cost of running your recruitment stack, and a strong two-way ADP Workforce Now integration keeps payroll and HR exactly where they are.
Pinpoint is deeply configurable, and the control stays with you. Adjust workflows, automations, forms, templates, and reporting yourself, with or without our team, without waiting in a queue. As your hiring changes across regions, brands, and role types, the platform changes with it, no rebuild required.
Launch on-brand careers pages fast with a full, customizable careers-site CMS, in multiple languages and tailored per brand, department, and location. Candidates can apply without creating an account or password, which matters when around 60% abandon an application that's too long or complex.
Pinpoint isn't just another ATS with AI. Pinpoint has invested heavily in creating the conditions under which automation and AI deliver: flexibility, control, and ease of use drive the adoption that produces complete, accurate data, and AI works on that. It matters now, when TA teams are asked to do more with less. AI is opt-in, transparent, and human-supervised, and your data is never used to train external models.
Every Pinpoint customer gets a named Customer Success Manager, access to the Technical Account Management team, and human support answering in under two minutes on average. Implementation is the start of the partnership, not the end. Our job is to help you evolve your implementation of Pinpoint as your needs change, and Pinpoint delivers new functionality.
reduction in time to hire
casting day coordination
candidate communication
candidate engagement
candidate trust
reliance on paid ads
risk of candidates stalling
visibility for TA leaders and stakeholders
employees supported in the states
visibility on all candidates
locations supported
hiring manager adoption
Pinpoint is a strong ADP Workforce Now alternative for teams that want a purpose-built ATS that goes deep on recruitment, rather than a recruiting module bolted onto payroll. It pairs enterprise-grade flexibility with an easy user interface that drives strong adoption across recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates.
ADP Workforce Now is a payroll and HR suite with a recruiting add-on; Pinpoint is a dedicated, all-in-one pre-hire platform. Both handle core recruiting, but Pinpoint differs on ease of use and adoption, breadth of functionality and automation, and it integrates with ADP so payroll and HR stay in place.
Teams that have outgrown ADP's recruiting module are usually being asked to deliver more work with the same resources. Or they are struggling to get ADP to work the way they need. They want an experience that's easy to adopt for hiring managers as well as TA professionals, the flexibility to adapt workflows to the way their business operates, and a platform that enables them to consolidate multiple tools onto a single pre-hire platform -- all while keeping ADP for payroll and HR.
Pinpoint is designed for ease of use and is rated highly for usability on G2 and Capterra. Some ADP customers report the recruiting module is less intuitive than a dedicated ATS, with a learning curve for new users. Ease of use is what drives the adoption that makes hiring data complete and reliable.
Yes. Pinpoint serves enterprise, mid-market, and high-volume teams, with a global client base recruiting in 160+ countries, a track record of rollouts for organizations hiring 15,000+ people a year, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and SOC 2 Type II, SSO and SCIM, and deep integrations including with ADP Workforce Now.
For organizations already running ADP for payroll and HR, ADP offers single-vendor convenience: recruiting, onboarding, and payroll under one provider with native data flow and no separate contract, plus the procurement weight and compensation-benchmarking data of a large, long-established provider.
Pinpoint is purpose-built for hiring: broader native pre-hire capability in one platform, configuration your team controls directly, and a powerful AI, automation, and reporting. Pinpoint is known for its ease of use and strong adoption among hiring managers and candidates as well as recruiters.
Yes. Pinpoint's flexible architecture is built for multi-stream hiring in one platform, across corporate, frontline, high-volume, early-career, and experienced hires. You can keep ADP as your system of record and run hiring on Pinpoint, connected by a strong two-way ADP Workforce Now integration.
Switching is guided. You migrate your data yourself with in-platform tools and our API, or our migrations team does it for you in about 15 business days. We remap and test your integrations before go-live, and because more of the pre-hire process runs natively in Pinpoint, there are fewer separate point tools to unwind.
No. Your jobs, candidates and their pipeline stage, talent pools, resumes and files, and historic notes and comments come across, so your team keeps its hiring record. You decide how much history to bring.
Yes. Pinpoint integrates with ADP, so you can move hiring to Pinpoint and keep ADP for payroll, HR, and benefits, with hiring data flowing between them. You get a purpose-built ATS for recruiting while your system of record stays in place
