Terrible Customer Service in my opinion, mentioned that they have paid late payment from IRS
We use them for payroll for our S Corp
Starting at $46 per month
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What is Gusto?
Gusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.
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- Direct deposit files (158)8.484%
- Pay calculation (155)8.383%
- Salary revision and increment management (134)8.181%
- Benefit plan administration (107)7.676%
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Simple: A streamlined set of automatic payroll features and benefits integrations
$40/month + $6/mo per person
Cloud
$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
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Premium: Scalable payroll and benefits, expert HR, and dedicated support for the complex needs of growing teams
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $46 per month
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What is Gusto?
Gusto is an online people platform that aims to help small businesses take care of their teams. According to the vendor, their products and services help customers onboard, pay, insure, and engage their team in one integrated, easy-to-use platform used by over 300,000 modern employers. Gusto aims to make taking care of teams a joyful experience, while helping users manage their bottom line and stay compliant. Gusto promises that users will feel like a pro no matter how complicated the situation.
Full-service payroll - According to the vendor, Gusto makes running payroll easy. Gusto automatically calculates and files payroll taxes, help keeps companies compliant, and provides awesome support.
Benefits that work for any team and budget - Gusto aims to make offering employee benefits a reality for any small business. Whether an organization is buying health insurance for the first time or wants to integrate an existing plan with payroll, Gust can provide expert guidance. They'll help with add-ons like 401(k), life insurance, and commuter benefits, which the vendor says allows companies to create a competitive package that attracts and retains employees. The vendor promises their modern, intuitive software and team of licensed advisors helps customers navigate benefits with confidence.
Gusto Features
Payroll Management Features
- Supported: Pay calculation
- Supported: Payroll history for each employee
- Supported: Benefit plan administration
- Supported: Direct deposit files
- Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
- Supported: Salary revision and increment management
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | United States |
| Supported Languages | English, Spanish |
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Gusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.
Gusto starts at $46.
Reviewers rate Reimbursement management highest, with a score of 9.5.
The most common users of Gusto are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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The Gusto was used
for payroll of the contractors and employees, who were worked for our company. It made tasks
which were apprehended with ease and it helped to achieve in establishing a
working system. The great option of Gusto, is that it gives you to choose the
1099 for you or you can do it yourself, which is very vital if your contractors
from different states. And the last, but not least a positive greeting
at your dashboard and upon completing tasks give you a really nice feeling in
your work routine.
- It is great to keep up yor payroll schedule
- Good report management
- You can even consider international contractors for payroll
- It gives forehand alert for upcoming bank holidays
- The scheduled payment always arrives on time
- In my personal opinion, so far so good. However, my evaluation only as a user
- Timely managed Payroll
- A positive masages which will give you a boost
- The reporting system
95%
9.5
- It is affordable, with fair prices on plans
- ROI is 0.53 %
3
General Manager, Accountant and assistant
2
Managing and finacial skills are best requirements to support the Gusto
- Payroll
- Tax reporting
- Payment management
- The resolving an issue on delayed payroll
- International contractors payroll
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Gusto provides payroll for our company, and we originally switched to it for improved ease of use compared to our prior payroll provider, whom we had to call into each pay period. Gusto, being natively online, is modern and overall better than who we'd used previously. We saved about 50% as well. We also went remote fully prior to the COVID-19 pandemic setting in. During the pandemic, we had an employee move out of state, and Gusto proved to be super easy to setup for the new state, including ensuring we were properly set up to pay local city taxes in addition to the new state taxes. As the company owner, I've hired employees and contractors since using Gusto, and have converted some contractors to full-time employees. Gusto makes this easy as well, and having an intuitive platform that I trust to calculate deductions and everything else, frees my time up to do paying work. Oh, and Gusto is fully integrated into my bookkeeping software, QuickBooks Online, so when I approve a payroll, there's nothing more for me to do from a bookkeeping standpoint.
- Handles federal, state, and local tax withholdings
- Easy onboarding of contractors and W-2 employees
- Real-time access to paystubs and W-2s
- Intuitive, natively online platform
- Seamlessly integrated with QuickBooks Online
- Some items take too many clicks to get to, like paystubs
- I'd like to permanently skip some features I don't use, like sick time tracking
- At times, reminders can become redundant
- I like that Gusto handles all of the federal, state, and local tax withholdings and payments. This really is the basics of a payroll system, but I'm a small firm, yet I pay employees across 4 different states. Gusto makes it easy.
- Gusto integrates with QuickBooks Online, and that's key for me. Once I approve a payroll, there's nothing else I need to do to keep my bookkeeper happy. Before Gusto, I had to make manual entries, and that was a pain and just busy work in hindsight.
- Gusto is natively online. I can manage employees and payroll from anywhere with an internet connect, even my phone.
95%
9.5
- I currently pay $57 a month to pay employees in 2 states. I used to pay $147 a month with ADP, and the Run system I was on with ADP paled in comparison to Gusto's ease of use.
- As the owner, I love that I can login and adjust withholdings, or split paychecks across multiple accounts at any time, without waiting for changes to take effect after hitting submit.
- I can approve payroll in about 5 clicks, but could cut down on this by switching to Gusto's AutoPilot if I wanted. I don't mind the 5 clicks though, gives me the control I like.
- RUN Powered by ADP®
This system allowed us to approve payroll online, which was an improvement from the prior ADP system where we had to call in via phone to dictate hours and pay for employees. But, RUN was clunky, and seemed cobbled together. It was also expensive for what it provided. Also, I ended up with stacks of paystubs and reports that were mailed to me each pay cycle. None of my employees wanted a paper copy, so this, along with the plastic security envelopes, just stacked up and became a hassle to deal with. When I transitioned to Gusto, employees got their own login to view their paystubs if they wanted, and I cut down on all the paper and plastic waste (I had to eventually shred it all). And Gusto has much better ease of use at less than half the price I was paying for the RUN by ADP system.
1
Owner/General Manager
1
If you're not an idiot and you can use a computer and understand a website, Gusto is the right choice for you! It helps to have a basic understanding of payroll and tax functions, but setup is super easy and Gusto guides you through this. Once set up, there's very little required to "support" Gusto. You need to approve payroll if you want to get paid, but that's about it!
- Paying myself and staff
- Federal, state, and local tax withholdings and payments
- Tracking of retirement benefits
- Setting up additional states to hire staff across the country. In the work-from-anywhere era, we've employed people in 4 different states. Gusto made this very easy for us.
- I can literally run payroll from my phone. Super easy.
- Integrating with QuickBooks Online made my bookkeeper happy and saved busy work.
- More full featured benefits tracking
- Tracking of sick days (we don't bother keeping track now)
June 07, 2022
Gusto is annoying for users
We use Gusto to clock in and clock out in order to get paid. Gusto handles the payroll processing for our accountants. Gusto is used for all employees in order to get paid properly.
- Handles state/federal taxes for each user
- Handles direct deposit
- The website appears simple enough for users
- The Gusto website often times won't load the page you want and will load the wrong page multiple times before it will finally work
- Gusto won't allow anyone to manually input a clock out time in the future. It will only accept the current timestamp or a previous timestamp
- Gusto sends out multiple annoying emails
- Handles direct deposit
- Handles state/federal taxes
40%
4.0
- It saves time for the accountants compared to the prior system
- It frustrates users more than the prior system
- Unanet and Justworks Hours (formerly Boomr)
Gusto is much easier to use than Unanet, both for the users and the accountants. Gusto appears to have additional features than Boomr, but is more annoying than Boomr to use on a daily basis.
60
Everyone from CIO/CFO to the entry-level Techs use Gusto for tracking their time
Technically no user supports Gusto, so any actual support needs to come from Gusto's own Support Techs themselves. Any easy and basic help needed in Gusto would be handled by our Accountant and/or the 2 Clerks that help with the payroll.
- Pays employees on time
- Includes 401k options
- Tracks PTO accrual and usage
- Can't think of any
- It would be nice to import CW Manage timesheets directly into Gusto
Yes
It replaced Boomr. Boomr was just a temporary system while we transitioned to something that could handle numerous employees spread across multiple timezones.
- Price
- Product Usability
The single biggest factor in the decision was simplicity. The previous system was convoluted and required lots of manual input, so we were looking for something that was simple to use from a user standpoint and a payroll standpoint.
I would want to trial a couple other payroll systems with the actual users because they have to use it everyday. Gusto isn't the best user experience, even though it's nice from the payroll side of things.
March 10, 2022
Make Your Payroll Task Easy With Gusto
We at Arcadio Consulting use Gusto to do payroll for our own company and clients. But unfortunately, payroll involves a complicated set of tasks. That's when Gusto comes into play. Gusto is a fantastic payroll tool that helps you automate payroll tasks for both employees and contractors, no matter how hard or complex. In addition, it makes the onboarding process easy and enables you to avoid any errors. Finally, its user-friendly approach to setting up payroll is the tool anyone would enjoy using.
- Easy onboarding process
- Clear and accurate tax reports
- Running payroll is pretty straightforward. It is easy to pay employees and contractors.
- Gusto's support department is super bad, very slow, and hard to reach. In my opinion, I'm better off with the help center.
- There is not an easy termination process. Accountant firms are too controlled and can't do much when suspending a payroll account.
- Dashboard messages are a pain in the neck; even though the feature isn't supposed to be on, it still reminds you about it. So, for example, when a client doesn't need worker's compensation insurance because of state law, the dashboard messages still remind you to add the insurance information.
- Onboarding process
- Payroll management
- Pay calculation report detailed
100%
10.0
- Gusto has simplified our payroll tasks.
- Gusto is affordable and is user-friendly for small businesses.
- Gusto provide integration with accounting software such as QuickBooks and Xero.
2
Payroll management
2
Payroll calculation knowledge and federal and state laws.
- Payroll
- For detailed tax reports
- HR
- Benefits system
- PTO