Wondering what payroll provider everybody is using? Currently using Workday & just feels too complex for my needs.
So far looking at Gusto & Paycom & wondering if anybody has used either of them before ?
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I use Intuit Quickbooks Online Payroll for a similar size company. It’s pretty easy to use, but I’m also in a financial-related industry so I have lots of experience with payroll. It is NOT a fully outsourced system, I have to go in and run payroll each pay period, process the electronic quarterly/annual filings, etc. The platform makes it very easy to do all of these things.
I used Patriot Software, it was the cheapest I could find.
Don’t know if it does 401k or anything else fancy.
But it does paper checks and/or direct deposits.
I switched to Gusto from ADP about 6 months back.
Similar to you it just felt… too much for what I actually needed in my business.
Gusto feels better suited to my use case. I only have 8 employees currently but so far have not felt any limitations or had any issues. Onboarding was super easy & management of employees is really straightforward.
EDIT: here’s a referral link if you do decide to go with Gusto. You get $100 credit & to be upfront I get $300 it would really help out.
Thanks if I do end up going with gusto I’ll use your link 👍
Why would you trust the advice of someone that “really could use the help” by signing up for the service they are suggesting? I’d avoid Gusto just because of this now.
Referrals are generally a pretty high form of praise.
And $100-300 isn’t shit. That they even disclosed it. This is a certifiably stupid comment.
FWIW, gusto is a good piece of software. I’ll refrain from posting a referral link so it can go back to being a good recommendation.
We went from quickbooks, to ADP and now homebase. ADP was insanely expensive, complex and way too in depth for 24 employees. Homebase doubles as our scheduling program which is great since we have mostly part time employees who’s schedule changes often.
Which version of ADP were you using? RUN is simple and cheaper than Homebase…
I’m pretty sure homebase was cheaper than ADP AND I was getting 50% discount on ADP run. It was horrible for on boarding and for the employee side and clunky running reports. Also their scheduling program was insanely expensive and terrible for us to schedule people.
What advantages do you notice using Homebase over quick books? We maintain around 25 employees and have been using QB for around 8 years now. Always looking for better alternatives.
Honestly QB was fine until there was a problem. Our accountant was hacked and someone accessed our payroll and sent out 20k in fraudulent direct deposits overnight. This was not QB’s fault at all BUT:
1: They were unable to be contacted in time, even the fraud dept wasn’t responding
2: They refused to work with me, even with police reports to get bank info for the fraudulent accounts so I could get the money stopped.
3: Since they refused to help, I had to chase down 15k worth of deposits that went out.
4: They locked my account and refused to let me pay my team.
5: Held my tax info and payments hostage and sent me to collections for refusing to pay fees on closed account. It was wild.
6: Accountant said QB refused to assist in anyway even with lawyers and police reports.Homebase was always our scheduling program. For simple timecards, payrolls and simple taxes, they have been super easy and fast. Easy to track PTO, punch in times and a easy scheduling issue for my GM and the younger employees we have working for us.
I’ll have to look into Homebase I hadn’t come across that in my searches yet. Thanks for the tip
Can you compare your experience with the difference in expense? I have 6 employees and use adp lol
Gusto for the past 7 years… it works fine.
+1 for Gusto, especially from an employee experience
Does Gusto offer 401k plans?
Amen for Gusto. That tool is awesome.
I’ve been happy with Gusto, though the reason I originally selected them isn’t there any more.
I went with them for the 0% interest payday loan thing they had. I wanted to be damn sure that none of my employees ever wound up in the clutches of traditional payday lenders.
I will,of course, lend my people money if they need, but I know that’s an awkward ass conversation to have, and I figured doing it all online would remove that barrier.
Consider shopping for payroll as well as workman comp insurance and other kinds of insurance including health and HR functions with a PEO. There’s more to taking care of your employees than writing a check
Could you elaborate this a little more? What do you mean?
Peo is short for professional employer organization. I suggest you Google and you will see descriptions of the concept as well as companies near you. There are 300 p e o organizations Nationwide therefore a broker may be helpful in identifying your needs and finding you the best price
Score is a volunteer mentoring organization that is part of the small business administration. (SBA) Score can counsel you one-on-one regarding this issue and many other business issues find them at score.org
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I’ve been using Gusto for five years and am generally pleased. It was originally focused on the small tech biz market i.e. salaried staff but the functionality for businesses with hourly employees has improved. The self-onboarding is pretty easy though there are a few quirks that are mildly annoying.
Gusto offers time tracking but you can’t set up a kiosk, hourly employees would punch in on their own device which is a non-starter for my workforce. We use Deputy for time tracking which is a powerful tool, possible a bit overbuilt, but useful and integrates with Gusto so things are overall fairly smooth.
For my one-man shop, I use Square. Works great. Even allows me to add additional deductions from my paycheck if/when needed. About $40/month. Does all the tax paperwork for me (except 941 quarterly reports).
ADP. Used it for years. 8 employees. Super easy. Relatively inexpensive. I don’t know what the others are talking about.
We use Gusto (I am the business owner) and overall I am very happy.
The information is also very clear so if there is every an issue I can usually solve it quickly.Workday is overkill for 12 people. Less than 800 employees it’s too much.
There’s a number of smaller providers that should cost a fraction of what you’re paying for Workday.
We used OnPay. Very basic, simple, took less than 10 minutes to run the payroll. They also had a benefits broker and we were able to get a choice of plans through them.
Gusto. It’s good.
32 person company, huge Gusto fans over here. We admin pto, 401k, health insurance all through their portal.
Gusto for the win! Especially if you work with an outside HR consultant that can help you implement and manage it etc.