What Is Gusto?

Whether you’re just getting started or scaling your fast-growing business, Gusto is the partner you need to grow and nurture your team. With Gusto, you get modern HR features like payroll, benefits, hiring, management resources, and more — all in one place.

Gusto is proud to serve more than 200,000 businesses across the US with a single trusted system, competitive compensation tools, and expert guidance to help you empower your team. Because when your people thrive, your business thrives too.

Who Uses Gusto?

Gusto is the all-in-one HR platform for growing businesses. No matter the size or stage of your company, Gusto puts the tools you need to hire, pay, and manage your team at your fingertips.

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Reviews of Gusto

Average score

Overall
4.6
Ease of Use
4.7
Customer Service
4.4
Features
4.5
Value for Money
4.5

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Alicia
Alicia
Lawyer in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Legal Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

I’m an employment lawyer and I consistently recommend Gusto to my clients

5.0 3 years ago

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.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Gusto review

4.0 2 weeks ago New

Comments: Overall experience is good but there is some space for improvement.

Pros:

It has a user friendly interface and has an affordable price.it can easily integrate with other tools.

Cons:

It has limited customization and reporting capabilities and also limited scalability.

Hank
Accountant in US
Accounting, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Gusto-Not as good as it once was

3.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Started out great but fizzled fast once they took away amenities and doubled their price for basic stuff.

Pros:

It came with alot of great features for the price and the app was great.

Cons:

It started to cost more for everything and they took away some of their best amenities.

Phillip
Attorney in US
Law Practice, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Gusto has worked well for our law office

5.0 4 months ago

Comments: I considered several different options for payroll/HR management before settling on Gusto. I was a bit hesitant to choose Gusto, due to it being a bit more expensive than other options. However, the product has worked very well. It provides excellent value for the price paid.

Pros:

Benefits to using Gusto:- Ease of use, both for employer and employees.- Employees can clock in and clock out using an app on their smartphone. My employees comment on how much they like this compared to other time tracking systems they have used as past employers.- I was able to easily connect my CPA in with Gusto so he can monitor tax and accounting items.- Gusto automates the employee onboarding process, making the whole process a lot easier than it would otherwise be.- Bottom line: the product works well, is intuitive to use, and is efficient.

Cons:

Gusto's ability to work seamlessly with 401k contributions is limited. I have to manually send our financial advisor the 401k contribution information for employee elective deferrals. Not the end of the world and certainly not a deal-killer, but it is a mild inconvenience.

Parth
Parth
Software Engineer in India
Verified LinkedIn User
E-Learning, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Make HR task Easy with the help Of GUSTO

4.0 4 weeks ago New

Comments: Helping ADMIN team to resolve any documentation realted task of the Employees

Pros:

1. Reduce the hectic of HR team of manually gathering information and put in on Online database2. Have a decent and interactive interface which allow employees to complete onboarding task in a quick and easy way .3. Reduce the hectic of Admin team by reducing their work load of managing salary flow in a company

Cons:

1. Sometime error occur while uploading the onboarding documents.2. Everytime need to remove all the cache memory of the browser