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Gusto

By Gusto
4.2 out of 5 stars
 77 reviews
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Behind every successful business is a thriving team. Hire, pay, insure, and support your employees with Gusto’s all-in-one people platform.
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Listed for
11 years
June 2014

Gusto can help your business

  • Manage people

    • Collecting and processing pay
    • Payroll tax filing and reporting
    • Manage expenses
    • Contractor payments, taxes or 1099
    • Offboarding employees or contractors

Overview

Gusto is built for modern businesses and accountants who want a refreshingly easy, automated way to manage payroll, benefits, HR, and workers’ compensation all in one place, entirely online.

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Gusto + Xero

Payroll transactions sync with Xero each time you run payroll, keeping your books up to date and making your bank reconciliations a piece of cake.

Control how much detail you’d like to see in Xero - choose to sync entries broken down by Employee, Departments, Job Titles, or Gusto Projects.

Gusto also supports Xero tracking categories so you get better visibility into payroll expenses without the need to manually tag transactions.

Getting started

To sync your Gusto account to Xero:

1. Log into Gusto and click on the App Directory tab. 2. Search for Xero, or select Xero from the Accounting category. 3. Click Connect and authorize the connection. 4. Customize the integration to your liking under the settings tab. 5. Map your Xero Chart of Accounts to your Gusto payroll categories.

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Mersades Dobkin
Posted 16 Apr 2025
1 out of 5 stars

DO NOT USE: Look on Trustpilot First!

Let me tell you, it's a terrible look for XERO that they promote Gusto as their main payroll app, Gusto is awful. Terrible customer service like 90% of the time, an insane number of errors, complete lack of control due to internal settings, severely lacking in features... Without a doubt, not contractor friendly, I can say that with complete certainty as they do not allow you to run Workers Comp reports unless you use THEIR Insurance partner (offensively out of touch). This is nothing more than a pretty, simple little program that takes you for a ride without your consent.
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Richard Young
Posted 25 Mar 2025
2 out of 5 stars
We used to view them as you get what you pay for, a low cost/low support payroll for simple payrolls. Nowadays the costs have been rising and the support has been diminishing more. They don't even use their own platform for their payroll.
JB
James Bonifield
Posted 12 Jan 2025
2 out of 5 stars
Nice UI but very difficult experience onboarding, and charged in very confusing way
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Additional info

Shared data

Xero
Gusto
Invoicesshared from Gusto to Xero
Accountsshared from Xero to Gusto
Tracking Categoriesshared from Xero to Gusto
Manual Journalsshared from Gusto to Xero

Functions

Payroll HRAccountant tools

Industries

Professional servicesAccounting

App details

By Gusto
Added in 2014

Countries

United States

Languages

English

Support

Setup walkthroughContact supportsupport@gusto.com

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