Gusto is the clear winner here if you're exclusively looking at the best Payroll & HR category.
Rippling struggles the all-in-one (master of none) fate. They want you to be using Rippling for everything, and you'll see that there's far better solutions for the other categories that Rippling tries to cover like Expense Management, Time Tracking, and obviously Payroll & HR.
We believe there are better options available in this category, read below to learn what this software does well, and what they could do better. ⤵
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Modern payroll for teams of all sizes.
We have used QuickBooks Payroll amongst many other services, and Gusto is the first one that actually feels like a modern and enjoyable experience.
We figured that going with QBO Payroll was a no-brainer, as our accounting and payroll would be in the same place, right? Wrong. We had nothing but frustrations and realized that it was essentially a totally separate team and product from QBO.
Since switching to Gusto about 4 years back, we've been happy as a clam, highly recommend. Oh, it also integrates natively with QuickBooks Online beautifully 🔥
While Gusto says they offer Time Tracking, it's incredibly barebones, and more for just general time sheet tracking for employees, nowhere near the scale of a tool like Harvest or Toggl.
Rippling lets you easily manage your employees’ payroll, benefits, expenses, corporate cards, bill pay, & more—in one place. The majority of our coverage is focused on their Rippling Spend product.
Rippling Spend could beconsidering if you have 50+ employees or are already in the Rippling ecosystem (e.g., using their Human Capital Management and Payroll products). Otherwise, we suggest exploring either BILL Spend and Expense or Ramp.
Here’s why:
Many of Spend’s core features and value adds are only accessible if you use Rippling’s other products, HCM and Payroll, which enable you to leverage all of your employee data. Without this ability to leverage employee data, you only have access to a subset of features and functionalities that we feel do not offer the same value as both BILL S&E and Ramp, which come at a lower cost. This makes BILL S&E and Ramp strong options for companies seeking standalone spend management solutions.
On the other hand, if you:
You might find value in Rippling Spend. The features Rippling touts in their marketing materials (policies, card groups, etc.), that leverage the data that’s in Rippling’s other platforms, truly are great offerings that undoubtedly save users time – time spent manually entering data, looking across multiple platforms for data, reviewing policies, reconciling expense reports, etc.
Just make sure you watch out for:
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