case study

Gusto’s limitations leave a climate foundation cold

The Foundation for Climate Restoration is a nonprofit organization working to restore a safe and healthy climate by the year 2050. With remote employees scattered throughout the U.S., they knew they needed payroll help — but received an unpleasant surprise when they discovered that Gusto couldn’t help with state filings.

With ADP, payroll is super intuitive. They automatically process all the state filings. And anytime I have a problem, I can just upload a document and say, “Take care of this, please,” and it gets handled.

Erica Dodds, Chief Operating Officer
The Foundation for Climate Restoration

Challenge

  • When their payroll provider was unable to help with state filings for employees that work in different states, expensive delinquency fees and frustration began to pile up.

How ADP helped:

  • With a robust set of offerings, ADP has helped them achieve cost and time-savings that come from staying in compliance with all state requirements.

Gusto was no help with state filings

The independent bookkeeper who handled our payroll through QuickBooks suggested we give Gusto a try. It worked fine for processing payroll, but we have a small team of remote workers spread out across different states and we soon realized that Gusto wasn’t any help with state filings. That was an issue.

A robust set of offerings made sense for us

I started looking at other payroll providers and realized that ADP has a very robust set of offerings that could work for us. Most importantly, they operate across the nation, so they’re well-versed in all the different tax and compliance requirements everywhere we have employees.

With ADP, payroll is super intuitive. They automatically process all the state filings. And anytime I have a problem, I can just upload a document and say, “Take care of this, please,” and it gets handled.

ADP makes life simpler

Everything with ADP is just easier. Sometimes we have reimbursements that need to go to employees, and it’s great that I can enter those numbers when I have them without having to complete payroll in that same moment. I don’t have to run an off-cycle payroll just to do the health reimbursement. It’s very simple.

The best part of working with ADP has been the cost and time-savings that come from staying in compliance with all the state requirements. I would definitely recommend ADP to other small organizations like ours. It’s made our lives simpler.

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