Comparing the Top 5 Gusto Alternatives

Gusto is a platform for payroll management, benefits, and everything related to HR. It specializes in payroll management for your workforce and has good features in this domain. However, in other areas of HR, it might not do the best and you might be better off by looking into alternatives to Gusto.

Whether you are looking for a new HR tool or replacing your existing one, this article will give you a good idea about the alternatives to Gusto.

Comparing the Top 5 alternatives of Gusto

Rippling

Rippling is a platform that helps you manage 3 areas of human resources; general HR, your employees’ IT resources, and employee related financing (including payroll).

Its HR cloud offers everything you’d expect from an HR platform. These include capabilities to streamline onboarding and offboarding, performance management, and learning management.

Its IT cloud, something not offers by alternatives, allows you to manage your employees’ IT resources such as laptops. It covers everything from buying laptops to securing them, and eventually wiping data when an employees leaves.

Its finance cloud is also great for employee payments. Unlike Gusto, Rippling not only offers payroll, but also features to manage employee expenses.

Pros

• Great automation features for HR-related tasks.
• Offers custom reporting capabilities.
• Features to automate employee expenses.
• Flexible enough to work with global employees.

Cons

• Does not offer great employee engagement features.
• Limited tax filing capabilities for US employees.
• No AI capabilities.
• Reviews have complained about inadequate customer support, particularly among employees.

Namely

Namely is a general platform to manage employees and everything related to HR. It offers features for hiring, employee onbaording, talent management, employee engagement, and payroll.

What makes Namely stand out is its ease of implementation and customer support as stated by reviews online. Namely also has great employee engagement features.

Payroll capabilities are limited as compared to Gusto, but if you pay for extra managed services, most of the issues here would be sorted out.

Pros

• Ease of implementation and use.
• Offers good customer support.
• Great employee engagement features.
• Seamlessly integrates with your existing systems and payroll software.

Cons

• Lack of flexibility in terms of data analytics.
• No AI functionality.
• Expense management capabilities aren’t so great.
• Time-off management capabilities are less flexible.

BambooHR

BambooHR is another easy-to-use platform for managing everything related to HR; from onboarding to talent management, hiring, offboarding, employee engagement and payroll.

The platform is mostly better in terms of its intuitive interface and the performance management capabilities. The other capabilities offered are relatively simpler. For example, payroll management does not include expense management capabilities.

Pros

• Offers all the features to manage employees across their lifecycle from hiring to offboarding.
• Offers the basic required payroll management features.
• The platform is easy-to-use for all employees.
• It offers great support, as stated by online reviews.

Cons

• The platform offers no AI features.
• Lack of employee expense management capabilities.
• Offers basic employee engagement capabilities.
• Doesn’t offer employee learning management capabilities.

Workday HCM

Worday as a company offers multiple solutions for enterprises. Amongst one of these is there HCM product, which has in fact been named as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM solutions for 8 consecutive years.

Workday is more suited for large enterprises with a large workforce and hefty budget for HR management. It offers all the capabilities needed for an HR system; from hiring, onboarding, payroll management and much more.

It offers payroll management for companies other than in the US, with its website stating support for UK, France and Canada as well.

Pros

• Great support and managed services for large enterprises.
• Payroll support for countries other than the US, which includes France, the UK, and Canada.
• Great analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Great employee engagement and employee voice capabilities.
• Offers AI capabilities.

Cons

• Higher price than simpler alternatives.
• The platform takes time to implement and has a learning curve.
• Lacks certain capabilities such as expense management.

Zoho People

Zoho offers multiple tools for businesses and one amongst these tools is their People solution. This is a cloud-based HR software for managing everything related to HR.

Zoho is an alternative to Gusto, which is available across multiple countries around the world; either directly or through means of partners.

Its AI capabilities make it stand out, with its unique feature to create an AI chatbot to handle employee queries. This greatly helps improve HR efficiency. Zoho People also offers learning management capabilities, which is also not offered by most alternatives.

Pros

• Availability in multiple regions around the world.
• Great AI capabilities.
• Offers learning management capabilities.
• Offers case management functionality for HR staff to resolve employee queries timely.

Cons

• The user interface isn’t the best.
• Employee engagement capabilities aren’t as good as competition.
• Data reporting and analytics is basic.
• Offers surveys to collect employee feedback, but no anonymous whistleblowing feature.