What is Gusto?
Gusto is a human resource platform that offers a wide variety of Human Resource management services including payroll, hiring and onboarding services, time and attendance tracking and management, and many more. It is a cloud-based application that, was first launched as Zenpayroll in 2012 and currently has a customer base of 200,000 companies. Gusto’s customer base is consists of small businesses. Gusto helps small businesses to save time and money with its simple, integrated platform.
Services Offered by Gusto
1. Payroll
According to a survey conducted by TechValidate, it was found that generally, it would only take 13 minutes to run a payroll in Gusto. That implies the efficiency in the gusto HR platform. Further, Gusto will not only calculate your payroll tax, it goes one-step further and files them with the appropriate governing body. It enables organizations to hire international contractors, employees (need to fulfil their criteria) from over 80 countries. Most importantly, Gusto helps organizations to set up a workers’ compensation policy easily.
2. Employee benefits
Gusto mainly provides two types of employee benefits. Those are:
– Financial Benefits
– Health benefits 
3. Hiring and Onboarding
Gusto will take care of companies hiring process by posting job listing and tracking applications, and creating customized offer letters (using templates). Further, it offers an onboarding checklist, which includes all the relevant information and secured space to store all your documentation with the sharing facility.
4. Time and attendance
Gusto’s time tracking tool track employees’ working hours and most importantly, it synchronizes all the data into the payroll with a single click. Companies can track hours based on the projects and have a bird’s eye view of the cost of the employees (using reports). Further, it enables to manage paid time offs, generate informative reports, calendar service with payroll reminders.
5. HR Experts
It is essential to adhere to labour laws and regulations to avoid costly consequences. Further, it is important to have knowledgeable people to manage HR-related activities and issues. Gusto simplifies these tasks by providing labour law policy templates, Anti–harassment training, performance evaluations, etc.
The below infographic will give you a concise and clear understanding about the services offered by Gusto. “Thanks to our friends at Crazy Egg for the graphic”
Gusto Resource Centre
– Calculators
Calculating accurate numbers is a necessity in payroll management. Gusto has reduced the complexity connected with calculations. Therefore organizations no longer need to be concerned about the accuracy of the numbers and calculations.
– Talk shop blog
This is an online space where you can find answers to all your questions. This blog is contained with a lot of videos and articles written by industry experts to provide valuable information regarding timely incidents, issues, tax reforms, labour law changes etc.
– Small business guides
Gusto’s small business guides section is contained with some valuable guides, mainly classified as guides for owners of small companies (business guides) and guides about payroll services and regulations (local guides). Local guides are a collection of guides designed to provide knowledge (payroll-related knowledge) relevant to different states while small business guides simply explain about business management, payroll preparation, employee management and so on.
– Partner Directory
Organizations need to get the help of accounting professionals due to the rapid changes in accounting procedures, standards, complexity in transactions etc. Gusto has recognized this need of small businesses and built a community of accountants and bookkeepers as a solution. Therefore, it is very easy to get the help of an expert by simply selecting the details regarding the required services and accounting packages.
Gusto & Accountants
After becoming a Partner in Gusto’s Partner Directory, the Accountant’s firm can use this HR platform at a rate of free. Accountants can easily be trained as a People Advisor by joining hands with Gusto. Further, Gusto offers a valuable set of tools in the training process. Especially, their Gusto Pro Dashboard and People Advisory Certificate will accelerate your career. As a people Advisor, accountants can increase the efficiency in operations, identify issues, suggest appropriate automated technological solutions and save time, money and other resources of the organizations.