Puzzle + Gusto: From Paycheck to Posted—Automatically
Connect Gusto to Puzzle to automate payroll entries, simplify reconciliation, and keep your books investor-ready—without manual work.
About
Gusto
Gusto is a modern payroll, benefits, and HR platform built for small and growing businesses. From onboarding to direct deposit, Gusto makes it easy to support your team and stay compliant—without needing a full HR department.
How It Works
Streamline Your Books with Seamless Payroll Sync
Integrate your payroll provider with Puzzle to automatically sync salary, bonus, and tax data—eliminating manual entry and reducing the risk of errors. Get real-time visibility into payroll expenses the moment they hit your accounts, with clean categorization and audit-ready records.
Built for Growth-Stage Teams
Whether you're paying a lean founding team or scaling quick, Puzzle grows with you. Support for multiple entities, and complex comp structures means you're always ready for what’s next—without changing tools.
Instant, Accurate Burn Tracking
Get real-time visibility into payroll expenses the moment they hit your accounts, with clean categorization and audit-ready records.
Simplify Compliance and Close Faster
Puzzle maps payroll entries directly into your accounting, aligning with GAAP and tax requirements from day one. Automate reconciliations and accelerate monthly close with accurate, categorized payroll data flowing in automatically.
How to Connect
FAQs
Yes. Gusto is a direct payroll integration. Connect Gusto from Puzzle’s Integrations page so payroll details import automatically when your provider runs payroll, instead of uploading journals every period.
Puzzle imports payroll details from integrated providers including employee salaries and wages, employee and employer payroll taxes, employee and employer-paid benefits, and payroll clearing amounts used to match bank withdrawals. You can review runs on the Payroll tab. People fields such as name, department, role, and salary also sync for Insights → Analysis → People.
Puzzle syncs payroll integrations on the regular daily/overnight partner schedule. When a pay run is missing, check that the Gusto connection is Active and recently synced, click Sync all, and confirm the ingestion start date—payrolls before that date will not sync.
Puzzle posts automated payroll journal entries that split expenses across accounts such as salaries, bonuses, commissions, benefits, payroll taxes, and retirement contributions, with a salaries & benefits clearing account on the balance sheet. Bank withdrawals to Gusto are categorized to clearing and matched to the payroll run so the clearing balance returns to zero when everything ties out.
From Puzzle, open Integrations, connect Gusto, and approve access with an account that can authorize payroll data. After connect, verify connection status and ingestion start date, then confirm the next pay run appears under Payroll. If employee matching errors appear, contact Puzzle support with the affected pay periods rather than deleting entries one by one.
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FAQs
Puzzle’s Gusto integration turns each pay run into categorized payroll journal entries—wages, taxes, benefits, and clearing—so you are not hand-keying payroll into the ledger. After you connect Gusto, Puzzle imports payroll when Gusto runs payroll; use Sync all if a recent run is missing, and confirm the ingestion start date.
Yes. Gusto is a direct payroll integration. Connect Gusto from Puzzle’s Integrations page so payroll details import automatically when your provider runs payroll, instead of uploading journals every period.
Puzzle imports payroll details from integrated providers including employee salaries and wages, employee and employer payroll taxes, employee and employer-paid benefits, and payroll clearing amounts used to match bank withdrawals. You can review runs on the Payroll tab. People fields such as name, department, role, and salary also sync for Insights → Analysis → People.
Puzzle syncs payroll integrations on the regular daily/overnight partner schedule. When a pay run is missing, check that the Gusto connection is Active and recently synced, click Sync all, and confirm the ingestion start date—payrolls before that date will not sync.
Puzzle posts automated payroll journal entries that split expenses across accounts such as salaries, bonuses, commissions, benefits, payroll taxes, and retirement contributions, with a salaries & benefits clearing account on the balance sheet. Bank withdrawals to Gusto are categorized to clearing and matched to the payroll run so the clearing balance returns to zero when everything ties out.
From Puzzle, open Integrations, connect Gusto, and approve access with an account that can authorize payroll data. After connect, verify connection status and ingestion start date, then confirm the next pay run appears under Payroll. If employee matching errors appear, contact Puzzle support with the affected pay periods rather than deleting entries one by one.