Gusto is cloud payroll, benefits, and HR software built for small and midsize businesses: it runs pay, files payroll taxes, manages benefits enrollment, and covers the core HR side of having employees. Once Gusto is running your payroll, we build the automation around it, so new hires, hours worked, and HR data move in and out of Gusto without anyone retyping them somewhere else.
New hires, hours worked and HR changes still get retyped between Gusto and the tools that create them.
Got a Gusto problem? Let's solve it →Gusto itself handles the payroll run cleanly: wages get calculated, taxes get filed, direct deposits go out. What it doesn't automatically handle is everything happening around that run, in the other systems your business actually uses day to day.
A new hire gets added in Gusto, and now someone still has to create their email account, add them to Slack, get them into whatever tool tracks their hours, and tell their manager they're starting Monday. An hourly employee's time gets tracked in a scheduling tool that has nothing to do with Gusto, so someone exports hours and keys them in before every pay run. HR wants to know who's taking time off next month, and the honest answer is "log into Gusto and check," because nowhere else has that information.
The moment onboarding is completed in Gusto, we trigger everything that used to happen by hand afterward: an email and Slack account get created, the person gets added to the right project or client in your PM tool, and their manager gets a note that they're starting. Nobody has to remember to loop HR's work back around to the rest of the stack.
If your hourly staff track time in a scheduling or field-service tool that isn't Gusto, we sync those hours into Gusto automatically ahead of each pay run, so nobody's exporting a spreadsheet and double-checking the math before payroll goes out.
Gusto runs the payroll piece well on its own. Everything connected to it, onboarding, time tracking, getting HR data to the people who need it, is usually where the real manual work lives. Tell us what that looks like at your business.
Gusto for payroll, onboarding spread across email and chat.
The problemA new hire finishes onboarding in Gusto and then someone creates their email account, adds them to Slack, orders a laptop and notifies the manager, in that order, when they remember.
Completing onboarding in Gusto creates the accounts, opens the equipment request and tells the manager together. Day one starts with a working login.
What we build on top of specific parts of Gusto.
Tell us what's manual once Gusto's done its part, onboarding new hires, tracking hours, getting HR data where people can actually see it. We'll look at it and tell you what's worth fixing first. And if payroll isn't actually your bottleneck, that's fine too, we build on top of whatever's slowing your team down, not just Gusto.
Let's talk →Gusto is cloud payroll, benefits, and HR software for small and midsize businesses. It runs payroll, files payroll taxes, manages health insurance and other benefits enrollment, and handles core HR tasks like onboarding and time-off tracking, all from one platform.
Gusto prices in tiers based on how much HR functionality you need on top of payroll, plus a per-employee fee on most plans. Exact numbers change periodically, so check Gusto's own site for current pricing rather than treating any figure here as current.
On Gusto's standard plans, your business stays the legal employer and Gusto just runs payroll, benefits, and HR for you. Gusto PEO is different: Gusto becomes a co-employer on paper, which can open up better group benefits rates and shifts more compliance risk onto Gusto, at the cost of a different, usually pricier structure.
Both. Beyond running payroll, Gusto covers onboarding, time-off tracking, org charts, basic performance tools, and benefits administration, which is why it's often described as HR software rather than a pure payroll tool.
Yes, Gusto has native integrations with several accounting platforms that post payroll data automatically after each run. Whether that native sync fits how your business actually needs costs broken out, by department, location, or job, is usually where we get involved.