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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Gusto

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AGusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.

    $49

    per month

    Rippling

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ARippling’s platform for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management automates the entire employee lifecycle, ensures compliance, supports device management, and provides real-time financial visibility from a central dashboard.

    $8

    per month per user

    Pricing
    GustoRippling
    Editions & Modules
    Simple: A streamlined set of automatic payroll features and benefits integrations
    $49/month + $6/mo per person
    per month
    Plus: Comprehensive payroll, benefits, and HR tools for employers building a great place to work
    $80/month + $12/mo per person
    per month
    Premium: Scalable payroll and benefits, expert HR, and dedicated support for the complex needs of growing teams
    $180/month + $22/mo per person
    per month
    Recommended
    $8.00
    starting price per user, per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GustoRippling
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsGusto offers three pricing plans for payroll, benefits, and HR.For additional pricing details visit the Rippling pricing page.
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    Community Pulse
    GustoRippling
    Considered Both Products
    Gusto
    Chose Gusto
    Gusto is better than Square, but more expensive. Worse than Rippling, which is a very advanced offering with a ton of features and customization, but it is more expensive More features than Quickbooks payroll as well and slightly cheaper
    Incentivized
    Chose Gusto
    In my opinion, ADP is a nightmare by comparison. Awful to onboard, awful to use - even logging in can be a total nightmare. One time I had to call some hotline just to be able to login because it kept going in loops and wouldn't let me in my account. The error was on their …
    Incentivized
    Chose Gusto
    I think gusto is better than Rippling. Rippling can be very difficult to use and there needs to be a lot of controls in place to make it work. Gusto is much easier for the employee to use and since it is a more established company there is not all the uncertainty of working …
    Incentivized
    Chose Gusto
    Gusto has a glitch-free on-boarding process that surpasses all of the other systems that I have ever tried and used. Rippling is the only other platform that comes close to the Gusto online experience, but Rippling has its PEO/behind-the-scenes legacy system glitches, and it's …
    Incentivized
    Chose Gusto
    Gusto is the easiest to use out of all the payroll programs that I have tried out at various companies. Manually entering time is less complicated and requires less time on gusto than on the others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gusto
    cost effective, one stop shop, easy to use
    Incentivized
    Chose Gusto
    It’s the easiest to use, visually.
    Incentivized
    Rippling
    Chose Rippling
    Honest they are all better than Rippling in their respective areas, Deel.com international payments / contractor management, and tax filings, Bamboo much better for hiring, and data integrity. Gusto overall easier platform to set up and maintain. Rippling does the best job at …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling beats Gusto on a few things. Rippling is more suited for growing and scaling a remote team in different states from a pricing perspective. Rippling does customer support significantly better than Gusto and is staffed with agents with technical backgrounds who can help …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling provides a higher level of customization and flexibility compared to Gusto. Including workflows, and reporting. Rippling provides a robust self-service portal where employees can manage their own benefits, time off, and other HR-related tasks that I haven't found as …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Light years better from a usability standpoint. Easier to scale with than Gusto, which really starts to fall apart at about 100 employees. And finally, the ability to integrate with a majority of the systems we're already using today and to provision (and deprovision) those in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    I think Rippling is a more suitable platform than Gusto. It is easier for me to navigate and understand.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    I was not involved in the process of choosing our HR software. However, I am glad we switched to Rippling from Gusto because it's easy to use, and from an employee self-service perspective, it makes accessing my benefits, pay schedule, tax documents, and other HR needs easier …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is much more comprehensive than Gusto. With Gusto, we had to use several different HR apps to have the complete experience that Rippling offers. In fact, we could probably get rid of a few apps and software that we still use, and switch entirely over to Rippling.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    With Gusto, payroll was consistently late, which was frustrating. Rippling, on the other hand, has been rock-solid when it comes to ensuring paychecks are always on time.

    Ontop was also good, but we had to manually transfer our pay to our bank accounts, which added an extra …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Simply put, Gusto was a great tool when we were a smaller company. Rippling fits our needs as a growing company with the variety of tools available to us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is much more useful for me to navigate my company since it's almost 10-20x the size of my previous organization. For instance, I could identify who was who in my company, and how long they have been working in NYLAG. I had a better sense of how to utilize my benefits. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Gusto seems to not be as scalable or a suitable option for larger companies. When we used Gusto we had occasional issues that caused a delay.

    Once we transitioned to Rippling I was considered there would be onboarding issues, but everything went over smoothly and there was no …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Gusto was severely lacking in terms of FSA/HSA management.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    At a previous company, we used Gusto, and Rippling stacks up just as well if not better.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    I like Rippling better than Gusto because it feels more professional. Rippling has a premium UI and makes the process more efficient.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling is the perfect balance between a PEO and a standalone payroll system. They have all the functions, features and support that a company needs, but allows the user (company) the flexibility to utilize the system with control. Other systems were missing this feature, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    So far it is by far superior to Paychex and ADP systems
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Significant more features and a much better mobile application. Rippling's mobile application is a serious win! Our employees love the ability of submitting human resources related tasks through their phone at any time. In addition, Rippling has a significant larger pool of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling was the only vendor that allowed us to consolidate all our payroll operations. Had all of the requirements we needed, from HRIS to payroll, document management, reporting automations, etc. and far better functionality and easy of use than the other platforms we tested.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    In my opinion, superior reporting and easier access to manage HR & Benefits. Not too many bells and whistles, the user-friendly platform and data set pulls are great for myself and my clients.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Better benefits overall and lower price to us. The key facotr for us to make this decision was twofold. First, what is the total cost to the company. In this aspect Rippling placed first. Second, was the benefits and options provided to employees, in which Rippling also placed …
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    RIppling feels flexible, innovative and enterprise like while being a very powerful under the hood.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    We liked the simplicity of Rippling as well as the deep integrations.
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    I believe our team availed Rippling because it offered many services so the value for money is on point! We also didn't face any issues with our pays so far, which makes us, the user, happy because we receive our pays in a timely manner!
    Incentivized
    Chose Rippling
    Rippling has one of the best UI, customer service was incredible, lot more offerings for the value of money we are paying to them. We also noted that other service providers HRIS system was not as great as Rippling where it can connect with ERP (without syncing errors) and …
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    GustoRippling
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    9.2
    514 Ratings
    Rippling
    9.2
    871 Ratings
    Pay calculation9.6493 Ratings9.1774 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration8.9358 Ratings8.8772 Ratings
    Direct deposit files9.5497 Ratings9.4765 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management9.3383 Ratings9.2561 Ratings
    Reimbursement management9.5127 Ratings9.3480 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings9.1511 Ratings
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.2
    826 Ratings
    Employee demographic data00 Ratings9.1573 Ratings
    Employment history00 Ratings8.9589 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration00 Ratings9.3683 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings9.2593 Ratings
    Organizational charting00 Ratings9.3707 Ratings
    Organization and location management00 Ratings9.2617 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings9.3479 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.2
    769 Ratings
    Approval workflow00 Ratings9.2742 Ratings
    Balance details00 Ratings9.3693 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings9.1499 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.3
    916 Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings9.4869 Ratings
    Update personal information00 Ratings9.3905 Ratings
    View company policy documentation00 Ratings9.5740 Ratings
    Employee recognition00 Ratings9.1478 Ratings
    View job history00 Ratings9.3632 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.3
    368 Ratings
    Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings9.3368 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.1
    435 Ratings
    Report builder00 Ratings9.2421 Ratings
    Pre-built reports00 Ratings9.1400 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings9.1352 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.3
    637 Ratings
    New hire portal00 Ratings9.5621 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings9.2466 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.2
    325 Ratings
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings9.2272 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings9.2294 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings9.3273 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings9.3290 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.3
    377 Ratings
    Performance plans00 Ratings9.3328 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings9.2310 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings9.2330 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings9.4355 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings9.4298 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.1
    280 Ratings
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings9.1227 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings9.2240 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings9.0247 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings9.0235 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Gusto and Rippling
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    Rippling
    9.4
    318 Ratings
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings9.2250 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings9.2240 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings9.4212 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings9.5218 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings9.5220 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings9.4233 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings9.4292 Ratings
    User Ratings
    GustoRippling
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (538 ratings)
    9.1
    (964 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (362 ratings)
    9.2
    (961 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.3
    (25 ratings)
    9.3
    (771 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)