Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Collective Health
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Collective Health is a healthcare administration platform designed to help employees better understand and utilized their benefits and businesses to control healthcare costs by centralizing healthcare data in one location.N/A
Gusto
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Gusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.
$46
per month
Pricing
Collective HealthGusto
Editions & Modules
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Simple: A streamlined set of automatic payroll features and benefits integrations
$40/month + $6/mo per person
$12 per employee/contractor
Plus: Comprehensive payroll, benefits, and HR tools for employers building a great place to work
$80/month + $12/mo per person
Premium: Scalable payroll and benefits, expert HR, and dedicated support for the complex needs of growing teams
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Collective HealthGusto
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsGusto offers three pricing plans for payroll, benefits, and HR, so you can choose the plan that meets your business needs.
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Collective HealthGusto
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Features
Collective HealthGusto
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Collective Health
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Ratings
Gusto
8.4
153 Ratings
4% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.4145 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings8.58 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.599 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.4148 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.4124 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings9.511 Ratings
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User Ratings
Collective HealthGusto
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
6.9
(166 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
2.1
(23 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Collective HealthGusto
Likelihood to Recommend
Collective Health
It has been a great and easy experience, and I'd highly recommend it to colleagues. It is easy to navigate, all my information is in one place, and if I need additional help within the tool -- some resources quickly help answer any additional questions I may have.
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Gusto
I would love to use Gusto for companies of all staff sizes but I understand that larger businesses will opt for a PEO and willingly give up flexibility and features to do that. However, I love that Gusto can be customized on so many levels – offer letter, adding documents for new hires, document verification, deploying documents to existing staff, tracking who has signed, helping staff select health benefits (love that this is an entirely paperless process!), screen share support (love this!), a host of integrations with other apps are easy to link up. The interface is delightful (love the piglet!), HR support for Master Admins is very professional. There are templates, forms, rules and updates provided for all States. And the reports are so easy to read, customize and understand. Amazing!
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Pros
Collective Health
  • Collective Health does a good job of breaking down the costs associated with the utilization of any given medical service
  • Collective Health helps users locate the best medical provider and/or facility that is best for them
  • Collective Health provides quick and reliable support channels to users
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Gusto
  • The self-service aspect of the software is very nice. We rarely need to get customer service involved.
  • For the first 2 years of our subscription to Gusto, customer service has been good when we needed it.
  • We have also had good experience with third parties recommended by Gusto including a 401(k) administrator, R&D tax credit analyst, and background check software.
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Cons
Collective Health
  • Logout time, I know there is sensitive information, but sometimes I wish I wasn't auto logged out of my account after some time.
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Gusto
  • The support isn't very impressive, although it's rare that we even need their help.
  • I would like to see a better scheduling tool for the staff. Currently I have to use Homebase for this feature alone because Gusto's offering is lacking in this area.
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Likelihood to Renew
Collective Health
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Gusto
Unless they break it, I'm never leaving. It's just too easy. Gusto is also really affordable, and for what I pay, it's worth having the historical record within the system. I like that I can go back and pull up W2's for year's past. This sort of easy access reporting, has been helpful especially when getting reports for PPP loans.
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Usability
Collective Health
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Gusto
The UI is clean and simple. It's incredibly easy to find what you need to find, and if you can't, a quick search of their help files will direct you where you need to go about 90% of the time. For that last 10%, a support e-mail will result in a quick answer. Almost any time I try to do something new I haven't done before with Gusto, I can do it in a few minutes.
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Support Rating
Collective Health
I've reached out to support a few times, and they are always super responsive over email, and willing to jump on a phone call too to discuss my issue directly.
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Gusto
Gusto's customer service has really deteriorated lately and they seem to have really changed their focus. It used to be when you called you were routed to an individual who knew about payroll, benefits, reporting, etc. but now you get someone who seems to have not received the correct training. My last call about a dismissal payroll took me over an hour of my time and the person still could not help me and finally transferred me to someone else.
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Implementation Rating
Collective Health
No answers on this topic
Gusto
Super easy to implement and use!
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Alternatives Considered
Collective Health
The UI of Collective Health is sleek and intuitive, and the company provides extremely quick and remarkably reliable via their support channels (Message, Chat and Phone Call). Moreover, the descriptions they provide for each medical service is succinct and still very informative.
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Gusto
Gusto was the only payroll provider we used for our business. Before Gusto we were running payroll manually, which was cumbersome and didn’t account for our tax liability. Gusto is heads and shoulders above running payroll manually. It takes the load of payroll management off your shoulders and gives employees and easy to use portal to manage their personal payroll information.
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Return on Investment
Collective Health
  • Collective Health has helped employees more accurately forecast their medical expenses and budget accordingly
  • Collective Health has significantly improved the experience of employees with the submission of medical expenses claims
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Gusto
  • Saves me time and time is money so I've definitely saved money using Gusto over other payroll providers
  • 401k integration was not a good fit for my size company unfortunately, which I was disappointed about initially, but if you are a larger company it could be an excellent asset to your benefits structure for your team
  • Has increased employee retention because of its ease of use
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