You'll receive various notifications from Gusto—some notification types can be customized, while others cannot.
We’ll send emails to your personal email unless a work email has been added in Gusto. At this time, which email address is used for specific notifications cannot be customized, and account emails cannot be disabled.
Account notifications for domestic employees and contractors
Context | Type | Work | Personal |
Account access & security | Email address updated | x | |
Password updated | x | ||
New hire onboarding | Receive offer letter | x | |
Invite to create Gusto account | x | ||
Reminders to finish onboarding to Gusto | x | ||
Employee I-9 reminder (day before they start) | x | ||
View your welcome wall and notes written by co-workers | x | ||
Checklists tasks notifications | x | ||
Invitations to join tools that are provisioned when hiring a new employee in Gusto (Slack, Zoom, etc) | x | ||
Co-worker onboarding | Sign new employee’s welcome wall | x | |
Checklists tasks notifications | x | ||
New hire introduction | x | ||
Documents | Personal document request | x | |
Benefits | All health Insurance / 401k / Commuter / other benefits notifications | x | |
Payroll | Payday emails | x | |
Your W-2 is ready | x | ||
Time tools | All time tracking notifications | x | |
All time off notifications | x | ||
HR features
| Team Insights notifications | x | |
Celebration cards | x | ||
Performance Management | x | ||
Gusto Learning | x | ||
Financial prosperity | Cashout / Savings / Gusto Wallet | x |
Account notifications for managers
Context | Type | Work | Personal |
Time tools | Time tracking notifications | x | |
Time off notifications | x |
Opt in or out of certain marketing categories, or unsubscribe from all marketing emails. You can also manage these email settings by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any marketing emails you've received.
You can also toggle to unsubscribe from all marketing emails—if you do, you'll also be unsubscribed from any future marketing email categories.
Unless you change your settings, Gusto won’t send any text messages. You can opt in to receive account and promotional messages.
What kind of Gusto texts should I expect?
For now, we send texts when the actions below occur:
Hide the pay amount in the payday emails that get sent to you.
Reminder
Company admins can set payday emails to private for the whole team, but not specific individuals.