Who Uses Gusto?
Gusto is built for modern employers. Easy-to-use, cloud-based HR software, backed by expert support. No need to outsource: Gusto helps you take care of your team like a pro, in record time.
What Is Gusto?
Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 100,000 businesses nationwide.
Gusto Details
Gusto
https://gusto.com
Founded 2011
Gusto Pricing Overview
Gusto does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial. Gusto paid version starts at US$25,00/month.
Starting Price
US$25,00/month
Pricing Details
See Gusto's product plans at https://gusto.com/product/pricing
Free Version
No
Free Trial
No
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web
Training
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Support
Business Hours
Gusto Features
Benefits Administration Software
- ACA Reporting
- Benefits Administration Outsourcing
- Benefits Dashboard
- COBRA Administration
- Deduction Management
- Disability Insurance Administration
- Employee Benefits Administration
- FMLA Administration
- HIPAA Compliant
- HSA/FSA Administration
- Health Insurance Administration
- Life Insurance Administration
- Online Benefits Enrollment
- Provider Management
- Retirement Plan Management
HR Software
- 360 Degree Feedback
- Applicant Tracking
- Benefits Management
- Compensation Management
- Employee Database
- Employee Profiles
- Onboarding
- Payroll Management
- Performance Management
- Recruitment Management
- Self Service Portal
- Time & Attendance Management
- Time Off Management
Onboarding Software
- Document Management
- E-Verify/I-9 Forms
- Electronic Forms
- Electronic Signature
- Employee Handbook
- Job Description Management
- Orientation Workflow Management
- Self Service Portal
- Task Management
- Training Management
Payroll Software
- 401(k) Tracking
- Benefits Management
- Check Printing
- Direct Deposit
- Multi-Country
- Multi-State
- Payroll Outsourcing
- Payroll Reporting
- Self Service Portal
- Tax Compliance
- Vacation/Leave Tracking
- W-2/1099 Preparation
- Wage Garnishment
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Gusto Reviews
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Alicia D.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 2020/06/12
"I’m an employment lawyer and I consistently recommend Gusto to my clients"
Comments: Customer support is great. This is a good company. They aren’t the cheapest. And they aren’t the most expensive. I think the extra cost is worth it to ensure compliance.
Pros: Gusto is easy and straightforward to use. But it doesn’t sacrifice accuracy for ease. What I like most about Gusto is that it makes it easy for small businesses to be legally compliant with complicated wage laws across jurisdictions. I haven’t found a legal error yet — and I can’t say that about any other payroll software or service I’ve worked with over the last 15 years.
Cons: I wish the price didn’t jump up so much for time clock feature. Getting clients to use the integrated time clock can be a challenge, and it creates unnecessary problems. It should be included in the base fee.
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- Reviewed on 2020/06/12
Karen A.
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Overall Rating4/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support4/5
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Value for Money4/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 2020/06/30
"Great Payroll Processing Platform for Small Businesses"
Comments: Overall Gusto has been great for our company. We save time and money handling payroll in-house, as opposed to paying an outside service to do it for us. And we have peace of mind that Gusto is there to support us when/if we need it.
Pros: Gusto has been a great resource for us to handle our own payroll processing & HR management in-house. It is super easy to set up and manage and has a really intuitive user interface. Onboarding new employees is a snap, time-tracking is simple to manage for both employees and managers, and running payroll only takes us a few minutes twice a month. Having employees able to manage their own banking info and paycheck splits and W4s has saved our HR dept a ton of time and headaches. And we love having an online library of company forms and documents we can distribute to employees quickly and easily. Also, their customer support is amazing. We are signed up for the Conceriege level service and have a dedicated team of customer service people who are knowledgable and friendly and responsive and have helped us out with innumerable questions.
Cons: Moving from our previous payroll processor (ADP) to Gusto was easy, because we decided to do it at the beginning of a new fiscal year. The one issue we did experience was in setting up our company's Federal and State tax filing details. Gusto does not assist you with this, so we had to track down all of our company's employer account #s and UI tax rates and filing frequencies for the 3 different states where we have employees and manually enter it into Gusto. We ended up making a mistake on one state's filing frequency, which ended up costing us a bit of $$ in penalties. It would have been nice if Gusto had been able to assist us with this as part of the switch over from ADP. Also, Gusto does not offer benefits administration in our state (yet). Hopefully that will be coming soon, as it would be nice to handle payroll and benefits through one platform. And they could cut down on the number of "recommended" services from affiliated companies that pop up on the admin dashboard these days.
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- Reviewed on 2020/06/30
Maria C.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 2020/08/19
"SOFTWARE"
Comments: It has been a life saver. I hate doing payroll and they do all the work for us.
Pros: The ease in which we can enter and keep track of payroll issues.
Cons: Insurance issues need to be explored so that we have more to offer our employees.
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- Reviewed on 2020/08/19
Bryan H.
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Overall Rating1/5
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Ease of Use3/5
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Features & Functionality1/5
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Customer Support1/5
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Value for Money2/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 2019/09/11
"Terrible customer service, average system, Predatory Lender"
Comments: The world has caught up to Gusto. It is just a run of the mill self-service payroll firm. Comparing any self-service firm to a full-service firm, the self-service firm will win on cost, though that is about it. In addition to losing on Customer Service, the constant annoying sales pitches and calls regarding HR benefits as well as the firm charging for simple improvements, such as adding paid-for time tracking is a severe detriment. The fact that it has now morphed into a Payday Lend is the last straw for me. I do not trust Gusto with my firm's or employee's data and am extremely happy that I never moved any healthcare or other benefit systems to their control. I have been with the firm since our beginning, but will be moving on to another system as soon as possible.
Pros: This is one of the many common low-cost self-service payroll solutions. It allows you to pay your Employees and Contractors and handles virtually all of the taxes and processing of payments to the taxing authorities. The interface is on par with the many other UX/UI's in the industry. As is industry standard, Employees are emailed all end of year documents automatically. The company also offers access to two-day payroll processing.
Cons: Customer Service is terrible - an absolute nightmare. When mistakes are made by Gusto, they are hard, if not impossible to fix and/or get them to admit to. The firm has attempted (and mostly failed to my knowledge) to enter the higher margin HR platform and benefits fold. The firm has also just begun predatory lending at rates advertised as 1% which are actually as high as 45.63% (per their own fine print). The Customer Service in this area (from my limited exposure) provides misleading at best and false at worst information. This used to be a great firm, but there was an initial turning point where it began to focus more on marketing than the system, which then led to the constant sales calls for HR and other insurance services, which has led now, to Payday Lending. There had been an Intuit integration issue that seems to have finally been solved. Additionally, the firm has the same problem with missed payments and 941 misfilings that other full-service platforms have, however the customer service is severely lacking and resolutions take forever. The platform also can not handle an employee working in two states (more common in the North East). The cost for paying contractors is too high which limits the usefulness of the system overall - forcing a company to keep Employee Payroll, Contractor Payments, and expense reimbursements on separate systems. I have also received tax filings from another firm as their own CSR system combined two threads and had to speak to the a
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- Reviewed on 2019/09/11
Delene O.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 2020/05/22
"CUSTOMER SERVICE IS OVER THE TOP"
Comments: We have had Intuit (quickbooks) for years and years. And for years and years we have hated it. The customer service is horrible, and so we finally decided to try something else. We found Gusto on an internet search, did a little research and decided that this smaller company might just be what we were looking for. Entering all of the employee information and weekly payroll numbers is super simple. The screens are easy to understand, not cluttered at all. And the Pig - oh the pig - there's a cute little pig that takes a walk when you switch screens. He's a cutie!!!
Pros: We are finally done with Intuit Payroll. So difficult to actually talk to a live person when you need help. I did a little research and found that Gusto does payroll for small companies so I decided to give them a try. My thought was that it certainly can't be any worse than Intuit. And WOW - did they ever Overdeliver! The absolute best thing about Gusto is that you don't have to go through a bazillion menus on the phone trying to figure out which number to press so that your call gets routed to the right person. You actually get to talk to a live person when you call their company. Setting up all of the employees has been very easy, nothing difficult to figure out, the flow from one screen to the next is not complicated at all. So far - we love Gusto!
Cons: The only thing that I think they could improve on would be integrating your existing numbers into their system. In order to be able to print accurate W-2's at the end of the year, I have to enter my employee paystubs from January 1 through today (May) into their system. It makes sense, I know it has to be done. It is just a tedious job and I'd rather not do it. Although I must say, that the 3 times I ran into a snag while entering the information, I called them and the issue was fixed instantly. Their customer service ROCKS!
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- Reviewed on 2020/05/22
