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Manage Your Small Business See all 18 articles >

• What's the new 2017 R&D tax credit all about?
• Are employee handbooks necessary?
• I just got a wage garnishment letter. What do I do?
• Do my employees earn PTO while on vacation?
• What’s a W-2 and why do I need to know about it?
• What’s Form 941 and why do I need to know about it?

Get Started with Gusto See all 12 articles >

• Get started: Overview of the onboarding process
• Switch to Gusto from a PEO
• Gusto demo for payroll administrators
• Compliance checklist
• Get started: Add company addresses
• Get started: Add employees

State Tax Registration See all 53 articles >

• State taxes filed by Gusto
• Register in Alaska
• Register in Alabama
• Register in Arizona
• Register in Arkansas
• Register in Colorado

Administrators

Account Details See all 26 articles >

• Verify your bank account using instant bank verification
• Protect yourself from an account takeover
• Change company phone number
• Check your company's Secretary of State status
• How to make a change to your Federal Deposit schedule
• Change an employee's addresses

My Team See all 38 articles >

• ★ Add notes to your employee's profile
• ★ Upload documents to your employee's profile
• Upload documents to your contractor's profile
• How to change your employee's S-Corp owner status
• Update your employee's SSN
• Change an employee's or contractor's legal name

Payrolls See all 26 articles >

• ★ Time needed to process a payroll
• Change your pay schedule
• Upload your employees' hours and earnings to payroll
• Give an hourly employee a raise during a pay period
• Schedule a compensation change
• Add a recurring payment to payroll

Other Payments See all 20 articles >

• ACH return codes
• Cancel a contractor payment
• Add a bonus
• Add a garnishment or other post-tax deduction
• Add a one-time reimbursement
• Add a recurring reimbursement

Taxes and Filings See all 21 articles >

• Troubleshoot agency filing and payment errors
• How to claim the research & development federal tax credit in 2017
• Florida: Change your mailing address with the Department of Revenue
• Supplemental wage withholding rates
• State tax agency contact info
• San Francisco gross receipts and payroll expense tax

Benefits Managed by Gusto See all 17 articles >

• ★ Apply for health benefits
• Employee Classification & Benefits Eligibility
• Estimate a new employee's benefits cost
• Make your team eligible for benefits
• View your employer 401(k) dashboard
• Transfer your 401(k) to Gusto

Other Benefits See all 10 articles >

• Manage leave with third party disability insurance
• Setup third party disability insurance
• Add external group term life insurance
• Add a benefit
• Add imputed pay
• Types of imputed pay

Workers' Compensation See all 9 articles >

• Workers' compensation with Gusto
• State requirements for Workers' Compensation insurance
• Get a new workers' comp policy
• Transfer your workers' comp policy
• Set a workers' comp renewal reminder
• Special risk class code assignment

Paid Time Off

• ★ Set up a paid time off policy
• Set up paid time off requests
• View employee paid time off requests for admins
• Approve paid time off requests for admins
• Decline paid time off requests for admins
• Agency resources for mandatory sick leave

Reports and Forms See all 12 articles >

• W-3 and 1096 forms
• Cash requirements report
• Run a report
• Run reports by team
• View your quarterly tax forms
• Access W-4 forms for employees

Integrations See all 32 articles >

• QuickBooks Desktop clearing account instructions
• Integrate with Homebase
• Map Gusto departments to Xero tracking categories
• Map Gusto departments to QuickBooks Online classes
• Start a 529 savings plan with Gusto
• Transition to using journal entries with Quickbooks Online

Employees & Contractors

Account Details See all 17 articles >

• Make your payday email private
• Enter your new employee details in Gusto
• Employees with Gusto accounts
• Contractors with Gusto accounts
• Access your Gusto account
• Reset your password

Benefits See all 14 articles >

• ★ Enroll in benefits
• Gusto benefits card transaction documentation
• General purpose vs. limited purpose health FSA
• Denied Gusto benefits card transactions
• Submit a Gusto benefits card claim
• Compare health plans

Benefits Glossary See all 53 articles >

• Variable Hour Employees
• 401(k)
• 403(b)
• Affordable care act (ACA)
• CA state disability insurance (SDI)
• Certificate of creditable coverage

Gusto Giving

• Charity donations with Gusto Giving
• Donate to your charity
• Cancel your charitable donation

Paid Time Off

• Request paid time off
• View your paid time off balance and requests
• Cancel your paid time off request
• View employee paid time off requests for managers
• Approve paid time off requests for managers
• Decline paid time off requests for managers

Reports and Forms

• View your paystubs
• View and sign your personal forms
• Understand your W-2 form
• View your contractor payments
• Overtime pay calculation
• New employee eligibility documents

Accountants

Partner Program See all 8 articles >

• Turn off accountant email notifications
• Manage clients and partners in your accountant directory
• Add your firm logo to your partner profile
• Gusto demo for partners
• Add a new company to your dashboard for payroll
• Add a company referral to your dashboard