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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Gusto

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AGusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.

    $49

    per month

    Sage 100cloud

    Score7.2 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Sage 100 (or Sage 100cloud is a business management software offering a broad range of modules designed to meet the many needs of virtually any business. It encompasses financial operations and accounting, payroll, business intelligence, CRM, eBusiness, manufacturing and distribution.N/A
    Pricing
    GustoSage 100cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Simple: A streamlined set of automatic payroll features and benefits integrations
    $49/month + $6/mo per person
    per month
    Plus: Comprehensive payroll, benefits, and HR tools for employers building a great place to work
    $80/month + $12/mo per person
    per month
    Premium: Scalable payroll and benefits, expert HR, and dedicated support for the complex needs of growing teams
    $180/month + $22/mo per person
    per month
    Sage 100 ERP Standard
    Custom Pricing
    Per Seat per Month
    Sage 100 ERP Advanced
    Custom Pricing
    Per Seat per Month
    Sage 100 ERP Premium
    Custom Pricing
    Per Seat per Month
    Sage 100 ERP Online
    $0
    Per User per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GustoSage 100cloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsGusto offers three pricing plans for payroll, benefits, and HR.—
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    Community Pulse
    GustoSage 100cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Gusto
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    563 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    464 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    576 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    316 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    376 Answers
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    Features
    GustoSage 100cloud
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    9.1
    611 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Sage 100
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pay calculation9.5587 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration8.7417 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Direct deposit files9.7592 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management9.0462 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management9.0196 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    3.8
    11 Ratings
    66% below category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings3.78 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings3.911 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    9.1
    18 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.317 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    6.8
    20 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.213 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.419 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings5.818 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    7.2
    20 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings8.120 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Global Financial Support00 Ratings4.86 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings8.110 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings7.78 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings7.78 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    8.3
    14 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings8.214 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings8.18 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    7.8
    13 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Pricing00 Ratings8.113 Ratings
    Order entry00 Ratings7.713 Ratings
    Credit card processing00 Ratings8.812 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold00 Ratings8.413 Ratings
    Order Orchestration00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Subledger and Financial Process
    Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    8.0
    10 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Billing Management00 Ratings6.98 Ratings
    Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings8.47 Ratings
    Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
    Period Close00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Project Financial Management
    Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Project Costing00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Cost Capture00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Capital Project Management00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings7.83 Ratings
    Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings7.83 Ratings
    Project Execution Management
    Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    5.3
    2 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Definable Resource Pools00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Grants Management
    Comparison of Grants Management features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Procurement
    Comparison of Procurement features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    5.4
    3 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Contract Authoring00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Contract Repository00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Supplier Management00 Ratings8.13 Ratings
    Risk Management
    Comparison of Risk Management features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    4.4
    1 Ratings
    42% below category average
    Risk Repository00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Control Management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Issue Detection00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Remediation and Certification00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Logistics
    Comparison of Logistics features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Fulfillment Management00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
    Manufacturing
    Comparison of Manufacturing features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Production Process Design00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
    Production Management00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
    Configuration Management00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Work Execution00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Supply Chain
    Comparison of Supply Chain features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    7.1
    5 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Inventory Planning00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Product Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Gusto and Sage 100
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Sage 100
    2.6
    2 Ratings
    96% below category average
    Proposal Management00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Product Master Data Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    GustoSage 100cloud
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GustoSage 100cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (633 ratings)
    7.4
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (457 ratings)
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.3
    (27 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GustoSage 100cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Gusto
    I think Gusto is well-suited for any business, big or small, to use for accounting purposes. It makes it easy to keep track of many things, such as pay stubs, benefits, paid time off, and much more. Where I could see it being less useful is maybe for enterprise businesses with way more employees.
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    Sage
    Sage 100 has been well suited for running the monthly accounts receivable and accounts payable aging reports. This helps us track our accounts that need to be collected and payments that need to be made. Our field operations team has been slow and unwanting to adopt the Sage Field Ops just because they're resistant to change and technology. It's less appropriate for really detailed accounting reports spanning for long periods of time with all accounts because it takes a very long time to run and process.
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    Pros
    Gusto
    • New employee/contractor onboarding - all the documents are stored and easily accessible (the same goes for off-boarding).
    • A one-click option for syncing hours worked with payroll.
    • The option to run payroll on auto-pilot.
    • Ensuring I'm tax compliant with the states we have employees in.
    • Always having digital records of payroll runs.
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    Sage
    • Simple to implement and use. Operation very intuitive so new employees are quickly trained.
    • It is very flexible with many modules and many features allows for easy customization to suit particular needs of any department or company.
    • Context sensitive help, training and support make it easy for a company to operate with out a lot of additional outside tech support.
    • Scalable plenty of room to grow as the business grows without being bloated.
    • Pricing is very reasonable.
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    Cons
    Gusto
    • Digital compliance tools for remote teams
    • Gusto upsold us labor law posters, but I later found them available for free online. Since we’re a fully remote team, I had to manually download and distribute them digitally. It would be much more efficient if Gusto offered free, auto-distributed digital posters tailored to remote compliance.
    • Benefits setup is unintuitive for startups
    • While our rep was helpful, navigating the benefits system felt complex and not tailored to early-stage companies. More guided flows or simplified options for small, remote startups would be a big help.
    • Limited dashboard customization for remote workflows
    • As a fully online company, we’d benefit from dashboard options that highlight relevant tools for remote operations—like compliance tracking, digital communications, or onboarding checklists.
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    Sage
    • Sage 100 at times will simply not connect to our server, we get remote support & all is well but, that issue tends to happen 2-3X a year.
    • Other than the above, I really can't complain. Coming from a more custom U.V. type database that used a whole bunch of codes to navigate, I think Sage 100 is 10x easier to use.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Sage
    I would put this out to bid, if I were at the same organization. There have been a lot of improvements and changes in enterprise software and my preference would be to find a good web-based or cloud-based tool. Lower overall cost of ownership and improved efficiency would be my target criteria for a rebid of this.
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    Usability
    Gusto
    Gusto is pretty user-friendly, and the website is easy to navigate overall. They also offer good, responsive customer support and have helpful articles available when needed. So far, I have not had any major issues with the platform and am overall very happy with it.
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    Sage
    Overall Sage 100 has been pretty user friendly. If we have a question on anything, we are able to contact our implementation rep who helps us right away. Some of the Sage Field Operations may not be as intuitive for our field personnel to use. I wish the reports ran faster so that we could run and put together many reports quickly at once.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Sage
    Sage Support is very good. I usually get a person on the phone in a short time frame and usually get my issues fixed in one called.
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    Implementation Rating
    Gusto
    Reach out to support immediately if you are having trouble setting up Gusto. Rather than being confused and trying to figure it out yourself, it's much better to talk to someone who knows what they are doing. Save yourself time and frustration and reach out to support
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    Sage
    We had an advantage in implementing the tool in that our director of Ops had been part of the team implementing the ERP for other users so we knew what to expect and were able to avoid a lot of the challenges people sometimes face with implementations. However, the process still took far longer than desired.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Gusto
    While I never actually got to the point of trying out ADP, I had several conversations with an ADP representative, and it seemed that they would be able to provide the same (if not less) level of service for a significantly higher price
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    Sage
    I didn't choose Sage 100 ERP -- it was already in use when I started at the organization over five years ago. It has the same types of pros and cons as other big hulking software suites meant to power the infrastructure of corporations. It's slow, tough to customize, and doesn't connect well with other software. It does bring all the information into one place, which is great
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    Return on Investment
    Gusto
    • Time tracking + payroll calculations me 30-60 minutes every time I run payroll.
    • Integrated workers' comp, so I didn't have to find an outside carrier and get quotes—it's all taken care of in the same platform.
    • Improved employee experience with onboarding.
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    Sage
    • Sage 100 overall had a very positive overall ROI for the business. All users were making decisions based on the same information and valuable time was no longer spent trying to analyze data from a number of sources.
    • Moving the warehouses to using Sage 100 reduced the operating expense of the distribution side of the business by 5% on an annual basis (~$100K).
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    ScreenShots

    Gusto Screenshots

    Screenshot of Gusto's automated payrollScreenshot of the time-off tracking interfaceScreenshot of the source of truth for HR data

    Sage 100cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of General Ledger uses our exclusive dual grid entry for quick, efficient, and accurate data entry. The grid entry format allows you to easily customize the data entry screens.