KayaPush VS Gusto

Both solutions offer revenue management tools; however, only KayaPush offers cannabis POS integrations - providing real-time labor data and forecasting, including heat mapping technology to help business owners make better scheduling and labor decisions. 

Additional differences include KayaPush’s overtime and clock-in alerts offering and multi-location dashboard functionality.

Both platforms offer key features in navigating payroll for the masses, including automated stat holiday, overtime, and payroll tax calculations. 

However, Only KayaPush was built to navigate the challenges that dispensary owners in the cannabis industry face, such as joint employer overtime support, multi-location employee sharing capabilities and 280e reporting‍

KayaPush also offers more precision when managing employees with variable hourly rates based in Canada and the USA.

KayaPush offers an integrated applicant-tracking solution that allows recruiters to set custom parameters around job applicants.  This is ideal when searching for applicants with specialized certifications or skills.

Both solutions offer self-onboarding functionality, but only KayaPush enables business owners to start this process with the click of a link and offers a unique self-onboarding wizard that makes it easy for new hires to provide key documents and integrating with the rest of the employee life cycle 

Gusto offers recruitment tools such as onboard checklists, software provisioning, and various recruitment and hiring integrations.

Both solutions offer an integrated HRIS solution for employers to manage and centralize their staff documents or payroll tax information, track employee sick leave, and vacation days and offer employees access to the data on the portal.  

‍Beyond that, KayaPush offers customizable alerts notifying dispensary owners when employee licenses are up for renewal.

Gusto does not offer an in-house scheduling solution.  However, it does offer integrations with many scheduling platforms.

After executing a proper integration, KayaPush and Gusto could offer similar scheduling features, including visual schedules with overtime alerts, templates, forecasting functionalities, and employee scheduling apps.

However, because KayaPush integrates with more cannabis POS solutions, it offers labor forecasting based on real-time data more reliably than other, less cannabis-specific solutions like Gusto. 

Both solutions offer a similar suite of time attendance features, including mobile functionality and geotracking and data transfers.

The most significant difference between the two is that KayaPush offers customizable survey clock-in questions that can act as an added compliance feature for budtenders and store managers clocking in.

KayaPush also offers biometric security tools like facial recognition technology to protect employee

Both offer accounting and POS integrations for business owners.

The main difference is that KayaPush offers cannabis-specific POS integrations to allow for deep data and insights and labor vs sales reports.In contrast, Gusto also offers more integrations for every native solution they offer like HR, payroll, insights and analytics, and time tracking to complement elements missing from their native solution.