Patriot PAY - Top Competitors (Mar 2022)

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 12, 2022

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Patriot PAY vs. Alternatives in 2023

To make the right choice for your businesses payroll and accounting needs, it is essential to analyze which payroll software best fits your business needs. The three most tough competitors are Gusto, Squareup, and Sage.

• Functionality Gusto is a cloud-based payroll software for medium-sized organizations and enterprises. With Gusto, you can automate your payroll needs in no time. It offers payroll reports, expense integration, integrated pre-tax benefits, employee management, paperless employee and payroll management, payment schedules, and multiple pay rates.
  
  In addition, you can integrate Gusto with leading accounting and project management software providing easy access to all your business tools. Overall, Gusto has more features than Patriot Payroll. Squareup offers two modules for payroll management. One module is for employees, and the other one is for contractors.
  
  Squareup is also a cloud-based payroll management software. It offers features such as unlimited payroll runs, automated federal tax payment, online accounts for your team, benefits management, hiring reports, and integrations with other accounting tools. Patriot Payroll and Squareup both offer similar features, but Patriot Payroll has an interactive user interface.
  
  Sage is a cloud-based payroll management software offering customer management, fixed asset management, invoicing, standard and essential accounting, employee management, and data insights. Although both Sage and Patriot Payroll have similar feature sets, the data sights feature is not available in Patriot Payroll.
• Pricing: The cost of the Squareup employee package is approximately a $35 monthly subscription fee along with $5 per employee. Whereas for contractors, the cost is around $5 per person. Gusto offers three packages, namely, core, complete, and concierge. The core feature is priced at $39 per month with $6 per user. Whereas the price of complete and concierge is $39/month and $149/month, both have the per-user fee of $12. The cost of Sage is around $29.95 per month. Whereas the overall price of Patriot Payroll is lesser than as compared to the other three tools.
• Support: Sage has both mobile and web-based applications for the users and phone and online support for the users. It also offers resources for shifting from specific accounting and payroll tools such as QuickBooks. Gusto provides complete support in a blog, tax calculators, embedded payroll guide, and online support. Whereas the support for Squareup includes online support, documentation, and community to help with urgent queries and discussions. Patriot Payroll offers blogs, online support, and documentation for the users.