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What Is Remote?

Effortlessly onboard your global team with Remote with affordable flat-rate plans for any company size. Let us handle payroll, taxes, benefits, compliance worldwide. Our experts ensure user-friendly solutions and unmatched IP protection. Whether you're establishing a new branch or hiring individuals in different countries, trust Remote's comprehensive global employment solutions to have you covered. Simplify your onboarding process and unlock the potential of your global workforce with Remote.

Who Uses Remote?

Remote streamlines the process for companies to hire and compensate individuals located anywhere in the world. We handle all aspects of global team management, including payroll, benefits, compliance.

Where can Remote be deployed?

Cloud-based
On-premise

About the vendor

  • Remote Technology
  • Located in San Francisco, US

Remote support

  • Phone Support
  • Chat

Countries available

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda and 145 others

Languages

English

Remote pricing

Starting Price:

US$29.00/month
  • Yes, has free trial
  • Yes, has free version

Remote has a free version and offers a free trial. Remote paid version starts at US$29.00/month.

About the vendor

  • Remote Technology
  • Located in San Francisco, US

Remote support

  • Phone Support
  • Chat

Countries available

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda and 145 others

Languages

English

Remote videos and images

Remote Software - Employer Landing Page
Remote Software - Employer Cost Calculator
Remote Software - Employer View Employee Onboarding Status
Remote Software - Employer Integrations Page
Remote Software - Employee Expense Reimbursement Request
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Features of Remote

  • ACA Reporting
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Applicant Tracking Software
  • Application Management
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Benefits Dashboard
  • Benefits Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Budget Management
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Built-In Database
  • COBRA Administration
  • CRM Software
  • Candidate Management
  • Candidate Profiles
  • Check Printing
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Compensation Management Software
  • Compliance Management
  • Contractor Database
  • Deduction Management
  • Direct Deposit
  • Disability Insurance Administration
  • Document Management Software
  • Due Date Tracking
  • Employee Benefits Administration
  • Employee Database
  • Employee Management
  • Employee Profiles
  • Employee Self Service
  • Entity Data Management
  • HIPAA Compliant
  • Health Insurance Administration
  • Job Management
  • Job Posting
  • Job Search/Filter
  • Life Insurance Administration
  • Market Data Analysis
  • Messaging
  • Onboarding Software
  • Online Benefits Enrollment
  • Payroll Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Project Tracking Software
  • Provider Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Resource Management Software
  • Resume Search
  • Retirement Plan Management
  • Self Service Portal
  • Subcontractor Management
  • Subsidiary Governance
  • Task Management Software
  • Tax Compliance
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time & Attendance
  • Time Off Management
  • Time Tracking Software
  • Timesheet Management
  • W-2 Preparation

Alternatives to Remote

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Papaya Global is providing global payroll and payments technology designed for the workforce needs of global enterprises. Learn more about Papaya Global
Onboard new employees and contractors across 150 countries in under 5 minutes. We localize every item to ensure compliance. Learn more about Deel
Create easy, powerful Asana reports and dashboards to understand where your team spends time, make estimates, and improve velocity.
As your trusted Employer of Record (EOR), G-P ensures seamless and compliant hiring anywhere in the world.
Oyster offers employment solutions for global teams, ensuring compliant employment, payroll, and benefits.
Onboard and pay talent in 160+ countries with a highly automated platform & best in class support. Compliance made in Germany.
The best home inspection software for home inspectors. It's fast, easy to use, flexible and delivers great reports. Learn more about Horizon
Gusto is the all-in-one HR. & payroll platform for growing businesses—one place to hire, pay, insure, and manage your hardworking team.

Reviews of Remote

Average score

Overall
4.4
Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Service
4.5
Features
4.4
Value for Money
4.1

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Sekhar
Sekhar
Senior Consulatant in Canada
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Easy Remote Work

5.0 last year

Comments: Excellent

Pros:

A wonderful platform for employees working Remotely

Cons:

I have not yet fully experienced the support of HR to understands benefits in details that are offered to employee

Emmy
HR Business Partners in Netherlands
Wholesale, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Easy payroll solution

4.0 last month New

Comments: easy to use software, we are happy with the product

Pros:

easy to use, easy solution for foreign payroll

Cons:

little flexibility: pre-payment for one of our employees was difficult to achieve way of invoicing: pre-payroll and actual payroll: this brings extra work as you have to check everything double

Alternatives Considered: eOriginations

Reasons for Choosing Remote: mainly cost saving reasons -

Switched From: Randstad Welfare

Reasons for Switching to Remote: simular products that offered employer of records

Martin
Operations Manager in Spain
Computer Networking, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Great partner with incredible potential

3.0 last month New

Comments: Since we work in different countries, the topics and circumstances of the individual countries are the challenge. Remote and team are always there when you need them and take care of all your questions.

Pros:

Fast response within 48 hours and very friendly and solution-orientated staff

Cons:

The uncomplicated contact and the totally friendly communication

Remote Technology Response

last month

Hi Martin, Thank you so much for your feedback! I’m thrilled to hear that you’ve had such a positive experience with our team, and that you find the communication friendly and solution-oriented. Providing fast responses and addressing the unique challenges of working across different countries is always a priority for us, If you ever have more questions or feedback, feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]—I’m always here to help and ensure we continue improving. Best regards, Mel Diamond Voice of the Customer Manager

Nicolas
People and Culture Manager in Spain
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Great to hire abroad

4.0 last month New

Pros:

How easy it is to use. The customer service is great

Cons:

Time tracking and hour compensation can bit a bit limiting

Alternatives Considered: BambooHR

Reasons for Switching to Remote: It was a recommendation of another organization

Carolina
Head of Product in Germany
Nonprofit Organization Management, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Good if you're a small company, cost efficacy increases the bigger you get

5.0 last month New

Comments: Great support, health insurance, platform is intuitive

Pros:

Compliance, health insurance, ease of requests on the platform, support is thorough

Cons:

Have to get in touch with team to solve simple problems sometimes

Alternatives Considered: Remofirst

Reasons for Switching to Remote: Health insurance coverage was larger for the same price

Michelle
People and Performance in Zimbabwe
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Remote works :)

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: My experience has been very positive - the team behind Remote do a great job and the platform is well designed and easy to use

Pros:

Customer service is really responsive and personalized. Plus the platform is easy to use for staff and on the back end, with good functionality

Cons:

I wish more countries were covered for employment through Remote!

Alternatives Considered: Deel

Reasons for Switching to Remote: Pricing was more competitive with negotiation

Marina
CEO in Germany
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

seamless payroll solution for international teams

5.0 last month New

Comments: Our company is based in the US, but we needed a simple and efficient way to pay employees in Europe. Remote has made this process incredibly convenient.

Pros:

The platform offers a simple and user-friendly interface, making it incredibly easy to set up contracts and start the process. Everything is quick, accessible, and straightforward, which really streamlines the experience.

Cons:

The pricing could be more competitive, especially for smaller businesses or startups.

Alternatives Considered: Deel

Reasons for Switching to Remote: We found Remote to be more convenient and better suited to our needs. The platform’s ease of use, seamless setup, and straightforward interface made it the best choice for managing payroll for our international employees.

Anthony
CEO in UK
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

99% excellent just a couple annoyances

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Remote is our key EOR partner and enables our business to move internationally without much issue. In general we are very happy with them.

Pros:

Great service, solid tech platform, reasonable pricing

Cons:

Payments used to be immediate now they take a couple days to be reflected, which is especially challenging as the company as a whole is very unforgiving of any payment delays and will freeze your account. It's very disruptive.

Alternatives Considered: Deel

Reasons for Switching to Remote: Better onboarding, responsiveness and tech

Kate
Operations Lead in US
Renewables & Environment, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Very user-friendly service that provides great HR value

4.0 last month New

Pros:

The system is very comprehensive - I am not sure there has ever been a service I wanted to implement that I was unable to. The customer support is also very helpful.

Cons:

It can get expensive, especially with a growing team.

Simone
Human Resources and Office Administrator in Netherlands
Publishing, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Great Support and easy to use platform for HR purposes

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Great experience overall. Great team support always whenever I have an enquiry it is answered professionaly and in a great timely manner.

Pros:

I like the easy to use platform. Everything is clear and there are lots of step by step instructions to use.

Cons:

The only thing I would mention is that now there are compeitors like Oyster. How does the pricing compare?

Erin
HR Director in US
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Satisfied with service

4.0 last month New

Pros:

fairly predictable. Employees are paid, benefits are offered in compliance with country laws. invoices are timely.

Cons:

Employees don't know where to enter their PTO

Alternatives Considered: Canadian Cloud Backup

Reasons for Switching to Remote: Ease of setup, much higher price, could offer us more countries in the future

Peter
COO in Bulgaria
Entertainment, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Great Service

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

[SENSITIVE CONTENT]service in assisting and onboarding.

Cons:

all good I like the service as a whole !

Alternatives Considered: Deel

Reasons for Switching to Remote: better introduction from [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

Eli
CEO in Israel
Retail, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Terrible service, many errors, very frustrating

1.0 4 months ago

Comments: Unfortunately, Remote is the only available international payroll service that partners with Gusto. If I had any other option, I would have changed ten times already. Their service is incredibly slow, and never answers my questions correctly. Not once actually. The answers are broad, not personalized to my cases, and I have to continuously follow up and escalate in order to get resolution. Nearly every step in the setup had an error that I had to catch and fix, and still months in there are errors in employee invoices that take weeks to resolve. Very frustrating experience to work with them!

Pros:

The ability to pay international workers

Cons:

Their terrible service, their slow processes, the incorrect invoices, the unfamiliarity with international labor laws and processes

Remote Technology Response

3 months ago

I’m Amee from Remote. I’m truly sorry to hear about your experience—this is far from the standard we strive for, and I apologize for the frustration this has caused. We’ve requested your contact details via Capterra so we can address these issues as quickly as possible. We’re committed to making this right. If you have any other concerns or feedback, don't hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected]. Thank you for your patience, and we deeply apologize for the inconvenience. Best regards, Amee

Justin
HR Manager in US
Computer Games, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Out of Country Employees

5.0 last month New

Comments: Remote has made it tremendously easy to work with our out of country employees. They handle almost everything and keep us updated on anything we need to know or approve.

Pros:

Easy use for our out of the country employees.

Cons:

We have not terminated any employees with Remote, but we were informed that we would have to give plenty of notice if we were going to work with them to give a severance. This has not been an issue, I just have not used the process yet.

Bart
Head of Finance in Netherlands
Telecommunications, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Positive overall

4.0 last month New

Comments: Overall the user experience is is good. I like the past response times overall

Pros:

Its easy to use, add or remove team members. The customer contact is really fast. Quick to set-up and onboard new team members.

Cons:

Sometimes when you have a question I did not receive the answer I was looking for or the reply was not send to me. This happened only once or twice so not too bad. If would be nice to have Remote connected to the accounting software.

Ana
Operations Manager and Partner Relations Rep in Dominican Republic
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Friendliness, respect and follow-up

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: It has been good because the issue is followed up until it is solved, until the client is satisfied.

Pros:

The respectful, friendly and interested manner in which the staff expresses itself

Cons:

In order to respond, they sometimes need to escalate several levels or areas, which slows down the process.

Theresa
Executive Assistant in Germany
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Easy to use tool that makes international hiring incredibly easy

5.0 last month New

Pros:

Remote was very easy to set up and use, Customer Support was very helpful.

Cons:

Minor detail but remote did not integrate with our HR tool, so we had to use two HR softwares for internal and external employees.

Richard
COO in Sweden
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

A well thought our service

5.0 last month New

Comments: A well thought out user interface which was helpful and quite easy to use.

Pros:

Their fast and efficient support and onboarding process

Cons:

Understanding the invoices and which one referred to which month.

Katarzyna
Office Manager in Poland
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Great platform for hiring talents across the world

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Our overall experience with Remote is great. Customer service especially stands out: it's very responsive and always finds the right solution. We cannot imagine hiring process without Remote.

Pros:

Remote is a prefect platform for hiring people from across the world. The ease of implementation, super intuitive admin panel and truly amazing customer service - those advantages has made it impossible for us to imagine working without Remote. Remote team will take care of every step of the onboarding and offboarding of the employee, ensuring that we are up to date with the process. The payroll administration is very helpful as well. What is also important, with Remote we don't have to worry about regulatory compliance - we are sure at all times that everything is done in accordance with the regulations of the given country.

Cons:

The pricing is a bit high, but taking into consideration the quality of service, it is acceptable.

Alternatives Considered: Deel

Anna
Recruiter in Germany
Marketing & Advertising, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Great platform with amazing customer service!

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

I think what makes Remote special is a customer service. The representative of Remote for my company: [SENSITIVE CONTENT] is always very helpful, reachable and takes care of all the questions we have regarding the contracts, platform etc. I definitely recommend [SENSITIVE CONTENT] expertise to all the clients!

Cons:

The deadline to pay invoices - 1 week is very short to proceed all the documents internally.

Alternatives Considered: Deel, G-P, Oyster, Velocity and Papaya Global

Deborah
C&B Manager in Portugal
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Praise for Customer Support

3.0 3 years ago

Pros:

This review is for the members of the Customer Support team, especially Patricia, who helps ever so patiently through the processes of off boarding an individual. My thanks to everyone on the team that I have dealt with. Everyone is polite, helpful and genuinely interested in solving the problem.

Cons:

In this case I am not commenting on the Software therefore N/A

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Internet, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

I thought it was bad until we've switched to a competitor

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

- Overall the UI is really intuitive and easy to navigate - very straightforward onboarding - lots of good resources to assist with info on each country and their own regulations - easy way to submit expenses and a clear dashboard of where things are at.

Cons:

-they are a victim of their own success support takes ages to get back to you. -original bundles of benefits were somewhat dubious in the UK ( a no name pension provider and medical) -not really geared for contractors but more for remote employees

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Easy to use employer of record

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Integrates well with existing systems. Customer support is very good.

Cons:

Nothing so far. Everything had worked as expected.

Wiebke
Wiebke
Head of HR in Germany
Verified LinkedIn User
Design, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Smooth collaboration and great customer support

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

The collaboration with remote is very smooth and helps our business a lot as it allows us to hire people globally. Our account manager, Florian, is super fast in responding, always friendly and helpful. The tool is easy to use, intuitive and has a modern design.

Cons:

It would be great if our HR admin tool Hibob and the remote software would synchronize automatically (vacation, change of master data etc).

Lynette
Legal and Compliance Manager in Croatia
Computer Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Good overall Product

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Employee profiles and data management - Customer support has been key to the successful use of the software. Our account manager is Florian Prokosch and he has supported us throughout and continues to do so. Very happy with the support provided and ease with which queries and clarified.

Cons:

The initial set up and understanding the cost of an employee to our company as an employer can be tricky.