Deel

Your Forever People Platform

4.7•257 reviews•

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Your Forever People Platform

4.7•257 reviews•

1.8K followers

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From small teams to Fortune 500 companies, Deel streamlines hiring, managing, and paying global teams with industry-leading speed, flexibility, and compliance built to scale and grow with every business. Deel has 35,000+ customers worldwide, including Nike, Revolut, Shopify, Better Help, Intercom, Product Hunt, Klarna, and Bitpanda.

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Deel HRHRIS platform built for global teams

Launched on January 23rd, 2023

Deel's Global PayrollStreamline payroll for global teams across 90+ countries

Launched on June 28th, 2022

Deel 2.0Payroll for remote teams

Launched on June 16th, 2020

DeelCompliance and payments for remote teams

Launched on March 10th, 2019

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Best Payroll / PEO / EOR / HRIS for Distributed Teams?

Hey everyone! I m Head of Ops at Product Hunt, and I frequently get asked about the best Payroll, PEO, EOR, and HRIS solutions for distributed teams.

I m active in multiple ops communities (LinkedIn, Slack, Circle), and discussions on this topic come up repeatedly but

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Based on 257 reviews

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Reviewers mostly praise Deel for making international hiring, contracts, onboarding, and contractor payments feel simple, fast, and easy to manage, with many calling out its clear interface, broad withdrawal options, and reliable day-to-day use for remote work. Founders from Waydev and Cleo Labs say it helped them hire across countries quickly and offload compliance. Still, negative reviews are serious: some users report payment delays, billing errors, weak support, rigid policies, and unresolved compliance limits for senior cross-border hires.

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Pros

excellent customer support (46)

user-friendly interface (44)

contractor management (27)

international hiring (24)

fast payment processing (23)

global payroll (21)

multiple withdrawal options (17)

compliance support (15)

easy onboarding (9)

intuitive platform (9)

Cons

slow customer support response (10)

lack of transparency in fees (3)

complex withdrawal verification (2)

inaccurate invoicing (2)

outsourced services (2)

poor platform integration (2)

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What's great

contractor management (27)global payroll (21)international hiring (24)

Genuinely a brilliant idea - one platform to hire, pay and stay compliant across countries is exactly what global teams need, and the execution on the basics (contracts, payroll, onboarding) is slick.

For contractor-heavy setups especially, it's a no-brainer over stitching together local providers in every country.

What needs improvement

legal compliance (1)

Honest one: the taxable presence / permanent establishment problem. I tried to roll Deel out at a previous company and employment law pushed back hard, having a senior employee operating from a country where you have no entity creates real PE exposure for the parent company, and an EOR contract doesn't make that go away on its own.

For junior contractors it's fine, but for anyone strategic the risk lands back on you. If they've genuinely cracked this since (proper structuring, indemnities that hold up, jurisdiction-specific guardrails) it's a game-changer. If not, it stays a great tool with a hard ceiling on how senior you can hire through it.

vs Alternatives

Remote

Looked at Remote and a couple of the local PEO route options.

Deel won on breadth and polish, but the real question wasn't which tool, it was whether any of these EOR platforms actually solve the underlying problem at scale, which I'm not fully convinced they do yet (more on that below).

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In the past, I've been using Deel to receive money when I was living in Russia. Then 02/24/2022 happened and they stopped providing services in Russia. I get it, the country was financially isolated. But recently, I have legally moved to the United States and started using the service again. I had to change all my data and sign a new contract, of course. And I also had to prove my new location to Deel, which I did. They have CONFIRMED it. I have successfully received my first payment and withdrawn money to my US card. Now is the time to get the second payment. I have logged in, and there was a warning in my profile that Deel banking provider doesn't work in Russia. I didn't get what Russia has to do with my current situation and my life in general. I thought that was their error because of the old data in my account that had been updated before receiving the first payment. I have opened my withdrawal methods to check if I've set up the automatic withdrawals, and found out that they have DISABLED my withdrawal method with the American card. I decided to check what "russian" could remain in my account and found out that there is a "Nationality" section in the profile, that says "Russian". And that is basically it. Everything else is related to the United States, where I currently live. I've contacted support regarding their issue. And they made it MINE. They have not only stopped the discrimination but also treated me like a 2nd sort person and decided to waste even more of my time, demanding ANOTHER proof of my current location. This time, my leasing agreement wasn't enough; they demanded a local newspaper (because apparently in 2025 this is what everyone reads every day), a receipt from a local store, and so on. AND you should make a selfie with that "proof" AND put a note stating "For Deel" and the current date. This was truly infuriating. They have CONFIRMED my location before, they have ALLOWED me to withdraw the first payment, and right before the second one they decided to play their nationalistic games and waste more of my time proving the obvious. I asked if I could show them my internet bill. They said yes, BUT it should not be older than one week. And of course it was older than 1 week, I don't get them every day, and after the first one, I went paperless, thinking that no one would ask me to prove that I'm who I am like that. So they have created an issue, demanded the same documents plus new ones from me, and then they made an excuse why my documents aren't good enough for them to confirm the obvious the second time. All to waste even more, as much of my time as possible. So there you have it. They ask for your nationality, even though it is not their business. They confirm everything and make sure you get the money the first time. And then, when they receive YOUR money again, they bully you for your nationality if they don't like it. There is NO other reason to start wasting my time and demanding to prove everything for the second time after everything has already been approved by themselves.

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complex withdrawal verification (2)

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OK, so our company used Deel for both the EOR and the PEO (USA) platform services. I will break this down into those two pieces as they are uniquely different, though the service level was equally terrible. First, the EOR services provided by Deel to our company . . . . Avoid at all cost! Their invoicing is inaccurate and full of errors consistently. When you have questions relating to the errors, you do not have anyone you can call. Everything is guided through "AI" which is actually just a google search. If you want a response from an actual person, you have to submit an e-mail ticket, but then it takes anywhere between 3 days to a month to get a response (YES, I said a MONTH!). If you do not pay the incorrect invoice, then they will not pay your employee(s) even if the mistake is on their end. We even had a case where they paid an employee twice for the same period! The employees get frustrated as well as they cannot speak to anyone on the phone to ask questions about their paycheck or their benefits. They have to go through the same e-mail process that takes weeks sometimes to get a response. Second, on the PEO (USA) side of things. Similar issues as the EOR, but way worse. As an administrator / HR Manager, there is no one to speak to about questions or issues with payroll or billing. All communication is through their "AI" which is just a google search. If you go through the e-mail ticket process, it can take 3 - 5 business days to get a response which usually is too late. Deel missed our first payroll to our employees and we had to pay everyone manual checks based on Net check amounts from our previous provider. Then they were supposed to provide payroll reports for that payroll so that the Taxes and Deductions were accounted for properly, but didn't get those to us until a month later and then the bill they gave us for it was wrong. Out of 4 payrolls processed with Deel, only two (2) were processed correctly and those were processed at the very last minute (the day before the employees were to be paid). Our HR team had to constantly reach out to Deel and essentially "babysit" them to ensure that the payrolls were processed in time for the employees to get paid (3 of the 4). After all of that, we still have not received the correct reports or invoices for the first and third payrolls. Trying to get someone on the phone to sort through the problems is virtually impossible. The issue is that Deel outsources all of their services (VensureHR for Payroll, Slavic401k, and others). Deel is just a bunch of "Sales people" and they sell you on a complete solution that fails every time you turn your head! That is why they try to lock you into multi-year contracts, so BEWARE!

What needs improvement

slow customer support response (10)inaccurate invoicing (2)outsourced services (2)

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