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Gusto

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

Great for payroll

10 out of 10
March 28, 2024
Incentivized
We are a small business with a relatively small team of 6 people. We use Gusto for everything related to payroll, managing paid time off, …
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Terrible with State Taxes

1 out of 10
February 14, 2024
Incentivized
Works well for payroll, but it has been a nightmare with State taxes. I have been trying to resolve the issue since June, and I cannot get …
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Gusto is just the best!

10 out of 10
May 05, 2023
Incentivized
We use Gusto to on-board new hires, to pay our staff, and manage integrated benefits. Gusto has a delightful, intuitive and easy-to-use …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Pay calculation (145)
    8.4
    84%
  • Direct deposit files (148)
    8.4
    84%
  • Salary revision and increment management (124)
    8.4
    84%
  • Benefit plan administration (99)
    7.5
    75%

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Pricing

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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

Cloud

Premium: Scalable payroll and benefits, expert HR, and dedicated support for the complex needs of growing teams

Exclusive pricing, contact Gusto

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://gusto.com/product/pricing?utm_s…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $46 per month
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Product Demos

Gusto Payroll Demo

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Gusto Demo: Refreshingly intuitive payroll, benefits, and HR for small business

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.4
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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

Gusto Screenshots

Screenshot of Flexible, automated payrollScreenshot of Time-off trackingScreenshot of The source of truth for HR data

Gusto Video

Gusto is more than payroll and benefits

Gusto Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnited States
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Paychex Flex, ADP Streamline Payroll, and QuickBooks Online are common alternatives for Gusto.

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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Reviews and Ratings

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March 28, 2024

Great for payroll

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a small business with a relatively small team of 6 people. We use Gusto for everything related to payroll, managing paid time off, distributing tax documents, and so forth. This service addresses many problems associated with handling payroll, it makes everything really easy. That is the full extent of our use case.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Gusto has caused me 10 times more problems than they have solved. I was doing my own payroll before hiring them to try to delegate some of my work, and hopefully reducing the stress I experience as a business owner. I was referred by a colleague to Gusto as a trustworthy payroll service, and I can with complete confidence say I will never take advice from that person again.
February 14, 2024

Terrible with State Taxes

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Works well for payroll, but it has been a nightmare with State taxes. I have been trying to resolve the issue since June, and I cannot get a serious person to help me. They have not been able to file our state taxes as a result. They say there's a missmatch between out EIN and name with the stat and the IRS, but there is nothing, we have called and called and called and emailed and emailed and emailed, and no help.
Ruth Ann Moss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Gusto to manage HR operations and process payroll/taxes. It handles all of our organizational HR processes and we use it broadly across the team. In Gusto we store personnel information, file new hire reports, onboard folks, and store important documentation, such as performance reviews, pay history, signed employee handbooks, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Gusto to on-board new hires, to pay our staff, and manage integrated benefits. Gusto has a delightful, intuitive and easy-to-use on-boarding process. Best of any system that I've tried, and every aspect of it is digital – including all document signing. This is great for virtual teams! We also easily, paperlessly and seamlessly sign up staff for benefits. Everything is integrated and simple to administer. We also use Gusto to manage payroll for all our clients. It's easy to toggle to different clients, and stay on top of the varied payroll and reporting schedules that our clients have.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Gusto for Payroll, Benefits Administration, HR Compliance, Employee Engagement Surveys, and Expense Reports.

We us it to administer employee payroll 2x month.

We use it for mandatory HR training to remain compliant with state laws.

We use it for monthly engagement surveys.

We use it for expense reporting on personal cards for reimbursement.

We use it to administer benefits and FSA management.
Zafar Abraev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
April 26, 2023

Gusto, get Paid!

Todd Glad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Within Alleva we used Gusto to get pay, to request time off, and to manage and organize an org chart. All these things were super easy to use in Gusto, and were simple enough that not much training was needed. The pay stubs were easy to find, and it was simple enough to request time off, and check time off balances.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Gusto to manage benefits and payroll and using it has been a great experience so far. I can easily modify bank account information, split up paychecks between banks, request time off, and manage my benefits. Gusto makes it easy to handle a lot of administrative tasks that were previously headaches.
Teri Maco | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We advise small business startups, and strongly recommend Gusto for their payroll needs. Gusto is affordable, and very easy to use. After the start up phase (which is a bit cumbersome registering with all the state taxing authorities), gusto is on point, and payroll is completed accurately, all the time. Problem solving is thorough when a notice is received from a taxing authority. All of the employees I have dealt with have been professional and helpful.
Elisha Montgomery | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Gusto to run payroll and pay all payroll taxes. We didn’t want to run into end of the year headaches due to unpaid or inaccurate payroll taxes. We also wanted an easy way to work with contractors and easily provide them with the proper payroll forms. Gusto made doing this very straightforward.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Gusto daily as the punch clock for the employees. However, in an industry with unfortunately high turnover, it turns the hiring process into a very simple task. Especially in todays modern workforce where everyone has a phone in their hand at all times. I can literally email the potential candidate while they sit across the desk from me, and we can complete the entire hiring process in just minutes. From interview, to offer to official forms being submitted to the federal government - literally less than 20 minutes total. It's also extremely helpful for the employees to be able to obtain their W-2's and paystubs at the click of a button. My job would be much harder without this very useful online tool.
Jackie Ramieri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We transitioned from another payroll / HR system to Gusto in December of 2022. Gusto's pitch was that they would automate all of our onboarding for tax registration and would automate filing our quarterly taxes.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Gusto on a weekly basis for all of my payroll needs for both of my companies. It's fast and easy to learn and use. They take care of all of the new hire onboarding paperwork with new staff members and hire the new staff paperwork with the state for me. Everything is easily contained in one location for easy access to retrieve payroll and employee documents. At the end of the year they email and mail employees copies of their W-2 so you don't need to print it out and manage it yourself. The functionality is fantastic and it's an absolute breeze. I can easily hire and send a new employee new hire paperwork to fill out digitally in less than 5 minutes and I don't need to keep multiple hard copies stored on site for my business since Gusto takes care of all of that. They also have very sweet reminders about employee anniversaries and birthdays so you can send out happy birthday digital e cards to get signed by the rest of the employees to be delivered on the birthday employee's birthday. Highly recommend using Gusto!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
October 24, 2022

Best Solution So Far

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Gusto for payroll. We subscribed to the Concierge service level because we had had problems with customer service at previous payroll processors. The subscription levels are changing, so we are unsure how this change will affect their service. We also switched our 401(k) administrator to be the one integrated with Gusto.
Josh Winnegrad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gusto is our core HR platform. We use Gusto to manage and run payroll, pay contractors, pay taxes, complete and file required tax/compliance documents, and provide employee benefits. We wanted an easy to use, cost-effective tool to handle payroll, benefits, taxes, and all the HR paperwork and Gusto has been an excellent solution for years.
Robert Lloyd | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I needed a better payroll system. I've tried the local big name ones and the reps all leave within a few months. Gusto is so much easier to process payroll. New employees can sign up and do all the paperwork on their own. Super easy. Fees are similar or better than the others.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Having used local payroll companies with increasing rates, bad service, and reps that disappear made moving my payroll to Gusto easy. The reports are fine, the website works well and support has been available when needed. The pricing is simple and easy to figure out. No more calculators is needed for that. The portal sends reminders and you can automate a lot of it.
October 11, 2022

No More Headaches

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I discovered Gusto while looking for a payroll platform that allowed for custom tax withholding options. One of my employees had a unique tax position that Gusto could easily accommodate, unlike many other platforms.
Payroll was a breeze each week as Gusto took care of everything for you, including filing and paying the necessary taxes. When there was an issue during the onboarding process, Gusto was there to quickly remedy the problem.
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