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    Overview
    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

    WizIQ LMS

    Score5.4 out of 10
    N/AWizIQ LMS is designed to meet both teaching and training needs and to give users more control over the learning process. Users can build their learning environment within minutes, add and manage multiple teacher accounts, create online courses, and schedule live classes. This solution provides a space that can be built and customized to the user’s liking.N/A
    Pricing
    GustoWizIQ LMS
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GustoWizIQ LMS
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    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
    GustoWizIQ LMS
    Considered Both Products
    Gusto
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    AuthorGen Technologies
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    563 Answers
    50%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    464 Answers
    50%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    576 Answers
    50%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    316 Answers
    50%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    376 Answers
    50%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    GustoWizIQ LMS
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Gusto and WizIQ LMS
    Feature
    Gusto
    9.1
    611 Ratings
    9% above category average
    WizIQ LMS
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation9.5587 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration8.7417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files9.7592 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management9.0462 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management9.0196 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Gusto and WizIQ LMS
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    WizIQ LMS
    5.3
    7 Ratings
    41% below category average
    Course authoring00 Ratings5.86 Ratings
    Course catalog or library00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Player/Portal00 Ratings3.56 Ratings
    Learning content00 Ratings5.87 Ratings
    Mobile friendly00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings5.87 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings5.87 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings5.36 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
    Gamification00 Ratings3.53 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings5.53 Ratings
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    GustoWizIQ LMS
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    Score5.7 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ADP Streamline Payroll
    Score6.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GustoWizIQ LMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (633 ratings)
    5.4
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    1.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (457 ratings)
    1.1
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.3
    (27 ratings)
    9.2
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    1.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GustoWizIQ LMS
    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.
    Incentivized
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    AuthorGen Technologies
    They have to try out within their own use case scenarios with a sample learner, and test the features of their course and delivery needs. As there is not a content structuring tool, the course author has to have expertise in content and instruction design to create their own materials. The rest is easy to test and check. Test it on all browsers and test the functionality under various internet service speeds.
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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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    AuthorGen Technologies
    • WizIQ virtual classroom offers an Interactive whiteboard, Screen Sharing, youtube video play, media content upload option.
    • Class Recording in MP4
    • It provides you with a wonderful experience of a Virtual classroom with better Audio and Video streaming.
    • The platform offers courses feature where users can create a paid course, enroll the student in a course and earn.
    • Search functionality to find courses/classes from the list
    • 24*7 after sales customer service
    • Supported languages for the virtual classroom: English, Arabic, Spanish, Czech, French, Greek, German, Turkish, Hindi
    • It provides a Virtual Classroom integration option with Moodle, WordPress, Joomla, Java, PHP, .NET websites.
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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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    AuthorGen Technologies
    • Although all are good but WizIQ needs to improve in these fields...It goes offline once in a while which is a headache as it needs to be constantly managed and needs to be kept under observation all the time.
    • It is better for less userbase management as its browser platform is not stable for a larger number of participants.
    • We need to manage each online department separately.
    • Audio sound needs to be more clear.
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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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    AuthorGen Technologies
    I need to overcome some of the important limitations which have been pending for more than 6 months indicating inability of the vendor or lack of clarity among the development team about what we want and how it can be done easily on their platform and MySQL at virtually no cost without ending up in a feature modification custom development and cost. Teaching and learning with respect to an Indian scenario is different and needs to be adapted to the local needs and realities.
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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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    AuthorGen Technologies
    I have understood and used most of it by now after 6-7 months of exploration and use. Though there are small glitches that could be easily resolved by WizIQ, I feel comfortable to handle the product by now. However, clients find it a challenge to explore and do not wish to spend time to learn
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    Reliability and Availability
    Gusto
    No answers on this topic
    AuthorGen Technologies
    It has been very good till date.
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    Performance
    Gusto
    No answers on this topic
    AuthorGen Technologies
    I have not experienced any of these issues as yet.
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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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    AuthorGen Technologies
    Very responsive and accommodating during the sales period, then totally unhelpful, rude and dismissive when you are unhappy with the product. Now ignoring my messages.
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    In-Person Training
    Gusto
    No answers on this topic
    AuthorGen Technologies
    It was remote and not in-person.
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    Online Training
    Gusto
    No answers on this topic
    AuthorGen Technologies
    It was a product presentation and not a live work through kind of training. I had to remember the presentation from remote and then go about the tool/ builder. It was difficult to handle and I had a lot of doubts and clarifications to address in my initial rounds of launching my courses.
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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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    AuthorGen Technologies
    I have developed my own expertise and that is for sale to my clients as a part of my consulting services. I have much to share for assignment and assessment models, course design aspects and mentoring aspects as this is a remote self paced service. If the courses are live and managed still there needs to be mentoring and support to help the learner.
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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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    AuthorGen Technologies
    I selected WizIQ because I used them when I subscribed for org.wiziq for nearly 10 years. It was firstly trusting in their technical support system in place and their new plug-in. Other products that are available for free or a nominal amount, e.g. Zoom and Google Meet are way better in their performance and features in my opinion.
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    Scalability
    Gusto
    No answers on this topic
    AuthorGen Technologies
    Seems pretty good to me as of now. Of course there are usage slabs and commercials to handle before scaling up.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    AuthorGen Technologies
    • By using the WizIQ our team has launched more than 130 courses for internal staff capacity building.
    • We also monitor which learner is doing well in the overall assigned courses.
    • Created a list of courses which help everyone who is new to the organization.
    Incentivized
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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

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