Manage recurring reimbursements

Use the Recurring Reimbursements API to manage recurring reimbursements (such as a monthly phone stipend) for employees. Once a recurring reimbursement is created, it will automatically appear when a payroll is prepared for the employee, according to its frequency.

Create recurring reimbursements

Use the POST /employees/{employee_uuid}/recurring_reimbursements endpoint to add a recurring reimbursement (such as a monthly phone stipend) to an employee. The description is the human‑readable label shown in payroll and reports.

Sample request

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/employees/employee_id/recurring_reimbursements \
     --header 'X-Gusto-API-Version: 2024-04-01' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Sample response

bash

{
  "uuid": "dd2c6317-f599-4f5b-a9a3-07eb67f7f2a9",
  "employee_uuid": "7b079bfd-a244-485e-a49c-2ac841c5abb2",
  "version": "e52d91b070d20cf3e682aa16086f5b90",
  "description": "Travel reimbursement",
  "created_at": "2025-10-22T15:07:01.000-07:00",
  "updated_at": "2025-10-22T15:07:01.000-07:00",
  "amount": "250.75"
}

Prepare payroll to view reimbursements

Newly created recurring reimbursements won’t populate on a payroll until that payroll has been prepared.

Prepare the payroll to see new recurring reimbursements.

Managing recurring reimbursements

Action	Endpoint	Note
Update	PUT /v1/recurring_reimbursements/{id}	Recurring reimbursements cannot be edited via PUT /v1/companies/{company_id}/payrolls/{payroll_id} once created. They must be edited via PUT /v1/recurring_reimbursements/{id}.
Get	GET /v1/recurring_reimbursements/{id}
Delete	DELETE /v1/recurring_reimbursements/{id}

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