Create a Time Off Policy

To support our partners with and without time-tracking solutions, Gusto Embedded offers the ability to create and manage time-off policies.

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At this time, we only support “vacation” or “sick” policy types.

1. Create a Time Off Policy

To create a time off policy use the POST companies/{company_uuid}/time_off_policies endpoint.

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/companies/{company_uuid}/time_off_policies \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer <<COMPANY_API_TOKEN>>' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
     "name": "Intermission Policy",
     "policy_type": "vacation",
     "accrual_method": "per_hour_paid",
     "accrual_rate": "4.0",
     "accrual_rate_unit": "80.0",
     "paid_out_on_termination": true,
     "accrual_waiting_period_days": 30,
     "carryover_limit_hours": "200.0",
     "max_accrual_hours_per_year": "120.0",
     "max_hours": "240.0"
}
'

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const url = 'https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/companies/{company_uuid}/time_off_policies';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    accept: 'application/json',
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    authorization: 'Bearer <<COMPANY_API_TOKEN>>'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    name: 'Intermission Policy',
    policy_type: 'vacation',
    accrual_method: 'per_hour_paid',
    accrual_rate: '4.0',
    accrual_rate_unit: '80.0',
    paid_out_on_termination: true,
    accrual_waiting_period_days: 30,
    carryover_limit_hours: '200.0',
    max_accrual_hours_per_year: '120.0',
    max_hours: '240.0'
  })
};

fetch(url, options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error('error:' + err));

2. Add Employees to Policy

Once the policies are created, you can add employees to or remove employees from a policy by using the PUT time_off_policies/{time_off_policy_uuid}/add_employees endpoint.

curl --request PUT \
     --url https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/time_off_policies/{time_off_policy_uuid}/add_employees \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer <<COMPANY_API_TOKEN>>' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
     "employee": [
          {
               "uuid": "56c672b4-3918-45cd-a3bb-a62ae0ff1307",
               "balance": "40.0"
          },
          {
               "uuid": "28e7a45d-32dd-4925-a82a-9a3ccc6d302c",
               "balance": "40.0"
          },
          {
               "uuid": "f60650da-ba18-417a-b2ab-3c9b6f0fe4f2",
               "balance": "20.0"
          }
     ]
}
'

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const url = 'https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/time_off_policies/{time_off_policy_uuid}/add_employees';
const options = {
  method: 'PUT',
  headers: {
    accept: 'application/json',
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    authorization: 'Bearer <<COMPANY_API_TOKEN>>'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    employee: [
      {uuid: '56c672b4-3918-45cd-a3bb-a62ae0ff1307', balance: '40.0'},
      {uuid: '28e7a45d-32dd-4925-a82a-9a3ccc6d302c', balance: '40.0'},
      {uuid: 'f60650da-ba18-417a-b2ab-3c9b6f0fe4f2', balance: '20.0'}
    ]
  })
};

fetch(url, options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error('error:' + err));

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You can always remove an Employee from a time off policy using the PUT time_off_policies/{time_off_policy_uuid}/remove_employees endpoint.

3. Update a Payroll With Paid Time Off

To update a payroll with PTO hours taken during a pay period, an optional policy_uuid can be passed on to the paid_time_off array object instead of the hard coded “Vacation Hours” and “Sick Hours”. If no policy_uuid is provided, we will attempt to look up the hard coded types above.

curl --request PUT \
     --url https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/companies/{company_uuid}/payrolls/{pay_period_start_date}/{pay_period_end_date} \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer <<COMPANY_API_TOKEN>>' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
     "employee_compensations": [
          {
               "hourly_compensations": [
                    {
                         "name": "Overtime",
                         "hours": "10.000",
                         "job_id": 2,
                         "job_uuid": "9d3760f0-d1f9-4700-8817-0fe2dce5cf23"
                    }
               ],
               "paid_time_off": [
                    {
                         "name": "Intermission Hours",
                         "hours": "8.000",
                         "policy_uuid": "1bad01e2-140c-49ed-9542-2388ce4a19b3"
                    }
               ],
               "employee_id": 1123581321345589,
               "employee_uuid": "187412e1-3dbe-491a-bb2f-2f40323a7067"
          }
     ],
     "version": "19289df18e6e20f797de4a585ea5a91535c7ddf7"
}
'

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const url = 'https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/companies/{company_uuid}/payrolls/{pay_period_start_date}/{pay_period_end_date}';
const options = {
  method: 'PUT',
  headers: {
    accept: 'application/json',
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    authorization: 'Bearer <<COMPANY_API_TOKEN>>'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    employee_compensations: [
      {
        hourly_compensations: [
          {
            name: 'Overtime',
            hours: '10.000',
            job_id: 2,
            job_uuid: '9d3760f0-d1f9-4700-8817-0fe2dce5cf23'
          }
        ],
        paid_time_off: [
          {
            name: 'Intermission Hours',
            hours: '8.000',
            policy_uuid: '1bad01e2-140c-49ed-9542-2388ce4a19b3'
          }
        ],
        employee_id: 1123581321345589,
        employee_uuid: '187412e1-3dbe-491a-bb2f-2f40323a7067'
      }
    ],
    version: '19289df18e6e20f797de4a585ea5a91535c7ddf7'
  })
};

fetch(url, options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error('error:' + err));