HR & Payroll
GoCo
Modular HR, benefits, and onboarding for small businesses.
4.6· 409 reviews· via G2Founded 2015 · Houston, TX
What is GoCo?
GoCo is an all-in-one HR, benefits, and payroll platform for small and midsize businesses. It centralizes employee onboarding, document management, benefits administration, time off, and payroll in a modular, customizable system.
Best known for: modular, flexible HR software for SMBs
Key features
- Employee onboarding workflows
- Benefits administration
- Payroll built-in or synced
- PTO and time-off tracking
- Document management and e-sign
- Customizable HR workflows
Who GoCo is best for
- SMBs that want benefits administration and a broker-friendly HRIS
- Teams that prefer to keep their existing payroll provider
- Companies wanting flexible, modular HR workflows
Ideal team: US SMBs that want a flexible HRIS with strong benefits administration and the option to sync their existing payroll.
GoCo pricing
Core HR
$5/per employee / mo (from)
- HRIS & records
- Onboarding
- Document management
Popular
HR + Benefits
Custom
- Benefits administration
- Broker-friendly
- Custom workflows
Costs to watch before you commit
- Pricing is quote-based; the $5/employee figure is a starting point.
- Payroll runs through a partner integration rather than being natively owned.
- Time tracking and reporting are lighter than legacy HRIS platforms.
- Implementation experience and feature timelines can be inconsistent per reviews.
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