Happy New Year! We hope you had a restful holiday season, and we are excited to share a number of improvements made in December.

Have questions about anything in the changelog? Please feel free to reach out to [email protected]

Upcoming Deprecations

With the creation of our new form webhooks, we will be deprecating the form.created and form.updated webhooks in favor of company.form.created,employee.form.updated, etc. This deprecation will occur on January 31, 2023. If you cannot deprecate by then, please reach out to [email protected]

API Additions & Improvements

FLSA Tip Credits (aka Minimum Wage Adjustments)

Added new minimum wage adjustment functionality for Employee Jobs/Compensations that will apply minimum wage adjustments to applicable employees when running payroll
Added a new GET endpoint for retrieving minimum wage data for a location.
When creating a job compensation you can now opt in to the minimum wage adjustment adding in the applicable rate you want to use in the tip credit calculations
Added new fields and their descriptions for the payroll object:
withholding_pay_period
skip_regular_deductions
fixed_withholding_rate

Minimum API Versioning

Added minimum API versions which defines the “floor” API version for a particular partner application. To learn more review our API Versioning guide.

Webhooks

Added new events to nearly all of our webhooks including: Payroll (submitted, reversed, processed, paid, partially reversed, canceled) , Employee (onboarded, self onboarding, terminated, deleted), Contractor (onboarded, deactivated, deleted), Company (approved, onboarding, authorized), Signatories (deleted, invited), Employee Job Compensation (deleted).

Miscellaneous API Improvements

Payroll UUID included from creation of Payroll

Documentation Improvements

Added a new request header to our docs for X-Gusto-API-Version to all paths
Added the version field as required to the update company location endpoint
Fixed typo in garnishment
Added documentation for the update termination endpoint
Updated the required effective field in create a termination