Gusto
Payroll, HR, and employee benefits platform for small businesses, handling payroll runs, tax filing, onboarding, and compliance.
What it does
Gusto is a payroll, HR, and employee benefits platform for small businesses. It handles payroll runs, tax filing, employee onboarding, and compliance, so you can pay your team and stay on top of the paperwork without a separate accountant for every step.
It’s built for small businesses with employees or contractors. You run payroll on your schedule, Gusto files the taxes, and new hires can be onboarded with the forms and benefits handled in one place.
Plans are month-to-month with no long-term contract, and tiers scale with the size of your team and the features you need. There’s no free plan, so it’s a paid tool from the start — but for a business with staff, payroll is one of those things worth paying to get right.
Strengths & trade-offs
Good
- Payroll, tax filing, onboarding, and benefits in one platform
- Month-to-month billing with no long-term contract
- Built specifically for small businesses
Trade-offs
- No free plan — it's a paid tool from day one
- Costs scale per person, so it grows with your team
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