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Gusto

By Gusto
4.23 out of 5 stars
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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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4.2
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Reviewed by
77
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Listed for
10 years
June 2014

Gusto can help your business

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.

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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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.
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Mersades Dobkin
Posted 27 Feb 2025
3 out of 5 stars

Not Impressed - Not Contractor Friendly

I really enjoy the overall vibe of Gusto, but I'm finding that they seem to sacrifice important details for the sake of ease. So far, I have found that Gusto will not map individual type of payroll taxes to specific accounts in your Chart of Accounts & that they will only track wages for Workers' Comp by Class Code if you use their partner, which means they couldn't be bothered to personally integrate it into their system as a standalone. We were just checking things out, planning to onboard a grip of people for our new subsidiary, but I can't imagine doing that now, these are two pretty large concerns. I'm not doing a bunch of Worker's Comp reports manually just to keep them, especially considering the fact that we have many more class codes we would have needed to track.
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James Bonifield
Posted 12 Jan 2025
2 out of 5 stars
Nice UI but very difficult experience onboarding, and charged in very confusing way

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

90 day free trial available

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