{"id":631,"date":"2024-07-24T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/embedded.gusto.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2024-07-29T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:05:16","slug":"external-payroll-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded.gusto.com\/blog\/external-payroll-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes: Enhancing Gusto’s External Payroll Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the first thing you do after getting a new mobile phone? Transfer the previous data. External payroll is our version of this data transfer app, but for payrolls. External Payrolls is a way for companies onboarding on Gusto to bring all the previous payroll data relevant for the current calendar year onto the platform. This helps Gusto ensure accurate tax filings for the year. As a Gusto Embedded partner, you can provide this feature to your clients directly through the pre-built UI components (<\/span>Flows<\/span><\/a>) that can be directly incorporated into your product or by calling a set of APIs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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At Gusto Embedded, our goals are twofold:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. To be a complete and efficient payroll solution for our partners<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. To provide a seamless experience for the companies onboarding through our partners<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Motivated by our goals, we recently upgraded our External Payrolls Flow. The upgrades include:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Redesigning the UI for a better user experience<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. New feature release for adding and managing dismissed employees<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Allowing the option to integrate External Payrolls with Company Onboarding Flows<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      This post walks through these major upgrades – what we did, why we did it, and for our savvy partner developers, how we did it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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      1. Redesigning the UI for a better user experience<\/span><\/h3>\n

      We made this upgrade as a result of insights from dogfooding and partner feedback, and an effort towards creating a better user experience for the companies. <\/span>At Gusto Embedded, Flows is a big part of our onboarding training for new engineers as it serves as a guide to understanding the domain and how our APIs are potentially consumed. We also have a dedicated product and technical solutions team that works closely with our partners to understand their requirements and collect feedback about their experiences with our product. Both these processes helped identify the UI issues and the friction they cause in product usage. Some of these issues include:<\/span><\/p>\n

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