Gusto vs. Xoxoday Plum

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gusto
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Gusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.
$496
per month
Xoxoday Plum
Score 4.9 out of 10
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Xoxoday Plum is a rewards, incentives, benefits & payouts infrastructure that helps businesses to simplify their rewards program while making the gratification experience delightful for end-users. Xoxoday Plum's native integration with some of the popular HRMS, HRIS, CRM, Survey, Marketing automation, SSO, SAML tools like SAP SuccessFactors, Zoho People, Darwin Box, Keka, Hubspot, Freshworks, Zapier, Hubspot, Type Form, Survey Monkey, Survey Gizmo, SAML 2.0, etc. provides the…N/A
Pricing
GustoXoxoday Plum
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GustoXoxoday Plum
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsGusto offers three pricing plans for payroll, benefits, and HR.
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Community Pulse
GustoXoxoday Plum
Features
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Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Gusto
9.2
Ratings
11% above category average
Xoxoday Plum
-
Ratings
Pay calculation9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
GustoXoxoday Plum
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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9.5
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
9.5
(0 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
1.2
(0 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
8.2
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User Testimonials
GustoXoxoday Plum
Likelihood to Recommend
Gusto is a great fit for small teams and startups that want a simple, reliable way to run payroll, manage tax filings, and give CPAs access without constant micromanagement. It’s especially useful for founders who need something that “just works.” The human support has been excellent—especially when forwarding confusing IRS mail.
That said, it’s a bit less intuitive when it comes to benefits and compliance for fully remote companies. For example, labor law poster distribution isn’t streamlined for digital teams, and setting up benefits felt more complex than it needed to be. Still, I’d recommend Gusto to any startup looking to get payroll right from day one.
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Based on my experience Xoxoday Plum is suited for any organization out there which needs gifts cards sending platform. They have free and pro plans which make it a great platform for both small and large businesses according to their requirements. They have many features which make them a great platform for all businesses.
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Pros
  • Gusto makes onboarding employees and ensuring their documents are signed very easy.
  • The way you can integrate things like Google Workspace makes both onboarding new employees into the apps you use a breeze, as well as when you need to offboard them.
  • Managing benefits is simple, because they take care of all the heavy lifting. I just have to review the options, make a selection, and they take it from there.
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  • Build a credible pipeline and increase sales velocity.
  • Helps with pushing the sales prospects to complete the deal.
  • Personalize reward campaigns can be run as per the team size and interest.
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Cons
  • Adding in previous time manually could be more accessible.
  • Notifications for when employees manually change hours.
  • We should allow 1099 users to use the mobile app instead of restricting them to the website, especially since they can just log into the full website on their mobile device.
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  • There are many brands that are still not available. Some brands are available for a few countries only which I really hope they fix it asap.
  • When customizing the email design, there is a footer with Xoxoday branding, hope they make it optional. It will help a lot.
  • And many brands require users to go to certain pages and enter the code sent to them to get the actual redeem code which I don't think is a good idea.
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Likelihood to Renew
Unless they break it, I'm never leaving. It's just too easy. Gusto is also really affordable, and for what I pay, it's worth having the historical record within the system. I like that I can go back and pull up W2's for year's past. This sort of easy access reporting, has been helpful especially when getting reports for PPP loans.
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Usability
The overall platform and its speed of response are amazing. I would recommend this to any other business owner for ease of use and reliability. Email reminders are great if I’m super busy and have forgotten a few tasks. The price point compared to local payroll service is hands down a huge win.
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Support Rating
Gusto's customer service has really deteriorated lately and they seem to have really changed their focus. It used to be when you called you were routed to an individual who knew about payroll, benefits, reporting, etc. but now you get someone who seems to have not received the correct training. My last call about a dismissal payroll took me over an hour of my time and the person still could not help me and finally transferred me to someone else.
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Implementation Rating
Reach out to support immediately if you are having trouble setting up Gusto. Rather than being confused and trying to figure it out yourself, it's much better to talk to someone who knows what they are doing. Save yourself time and frustration and reach out to support
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Alternatives Considered
It's been a while since I used QuickBooks for payroll, but it doesn't even come close to it. Gusto is infinitely easier, allowing for employee time tracking, handling calculations and payments of payroll and payroll taxes, managing regulatory compliance in the background, and more. I had a lot of moments using QuickBooks Payroll where I thought, "Am I even doing this right?" — it felt like you had to have additional knowledge of HR regulations in your state to do everything correctly. Gusto has it ALL handled so you can focus your time on higher-impact tasks in your business.
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Return on Investment
  • I am not involved enough to know well, but I would say that Gusto has saved me about 1-2 hours in my onboarding process with my new company compared to my past experiences trying to onboard with ADP. I have also finished the process and am not frustrated like usual.
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  • Employee morale is boosted.
  • Employees feel happy that they get to choose their own gift.
  • Value for money product as it does justice to the entire concept of reward and recognition.
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ScreenShots

Gusto Screenshots

Screenshot of Gusto's automated payrollScreenshot of the time-off tracking interfaceScreenshot of the source of truth for HR data

Xoxoday Plum Screenshots

Screenshot of the interface to send reward pointsScreenshot of the Xoxoday Plum Perks MarketplaceScreenshot of some of the available integrations with tools and tech stackScreenshot of reward codesScreenshot of reward linksScreenshot of an example of the reports and insights available for analysis.