# Prepare a Gusto payroll for review

> Claude Duet can fill hours, bonuses, and reimbursements in Gusto and stop before anything that pays people.

Language: English
Page: https://duetcases.com/workflow/gusto-payroll
Source: Introducing Claude Duet — https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet

## What this does

Claude Duet can prepare a Gusto payroll with hours, bonuses, and reimbursements and hold it for your review. Anything that pays someone still needs your approval. This case does not name buttons inside Gusto.

## Problem

Payroll fails in the small numbers: an hour, a bonus, a reimbursement. Gathering them is the slow part. Paying people is the part that should not happen unattended.

The [launch article](https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet) says Claude Duet can take on Gusto payroll, including hours, bonuses, and reimbursements. The [product page](https://claude.com/product/claude-duet) describes that work as something prepared for you to review. Neither page says Claude Duet pays the team on its own. Anthropic’s approval rule still applies: it is designed to wait before it makes a payment.

This case stops at the prepared run. It does not invent Gusto screen names, and it does not say a payroll submission can skip you. Moving money between accounts remains off limits even if you approve it.

## Steps

1. Connect Gusto yourself. The launch article is the source for this job. It does not publish a click-path inside Gusto, and neither does this case.
2. Paste the prompt before a payroll run. Add anything Gusto will not already know, such as a bonus you decided this week.
3. Read the prepared run against your own numbers. A missing hour should be a question, not a guess.
4. Only after that review, approve a step that would pay someone. Anthropic says payment waits for approval. The product page describes the result as something for you to review.
5. Do not treat this as permission to move money between accounts. That stays off limits even with approval.

## Prompt

```
Prepare my next payroll in the connected Gusto account. Fill in hours, bonuses, and reimbursements from the information I have already given you or that Gusto already shows. Then stop and show me what you prepared. Do not submit a payment, move money, or tell anyone they have been paid until I approve that step. If a figure is missing, ask me instead of guessing.

```

## When to use

- Payroll already runs in Gusto, and the tedious part is gathering hours, bonuses, and reimbursements.
- You will compare the prepared run with your own records before anyone is paid.
- You do not need a documented tour of Gusto’s screens. Anthropic does not publish one.

## FAQ

### What does the launch article say?

It says Claude Duet can handle Gusto payroll, including hours, bonuses, and reimbursements. It pairs that with the rule that payment needs your approval.

### Will it submit payroll by itself?

This template tells it to stop and show you the prepared run. Anthropic says it is designed to wait before it pays. The product page says the work is for you to review.

### Why are there no Gusto button names here?

The public pages do not name them. Inventing a menu path would describe a product Anthropic has not documented.