Gusto includes a built-in time clock: hourly employees clock in and out from the web or Gusto's mobile app, approved hours feed directly into the next payroll run, and PTO balances track automatically against whatever policy you've set. For a single location with staff on phones or a shared computer, that covers the job on its own. It gets thinner once a business runs multiple sites, dedicated time-clock hardware, or staff who clock in through a tool that isn't Gusto at all.
A retail or warehouse location with a wall-mounted badge clock, or a field-service crew clocking in through a job-dispatch app, isn't using Gusto's own clock at all, even though their hours still need to land in Gusto before payroll runs. Someone ends up exporting that data and importing it, or just typing totals in by hand, every pay period.
PTO tracking has a smaller version of the same problem: Gusto tracks the balance correctly, but if a manager approves time off somewhere else first, a scheduling tool, a shared calendar, a Slack message, that approval doesn't automatically update what Gusto shows until someone logs in and enters it.
If one or more locations run a badge clock, biometric reader, or job-dispatch app instead of Gusto's own clock, we pull those hours into Gusto automatically ahead of each pay run, so nobody's reconciling a separate export before payroll.
When time off gets approved in a scheduling tool or a shared calendar before it ever touches Gusto, we sync that approval into Gusto's PTO tracking the same day, instead of leaving the balance stale until someone remembers to update it.
Tell us what your hourly staff actually clock in through, and we'll map out whether it can feed Gusto on its own.
Tell us what hardware or app your other locations or crews actually use to track hours, and we'll look at getting that data into Gusto without the manual export step. And if time tracking isn't your real bottleneck, we build automation around whatever part of the business actually is.
Let's talk →Yes, Gusto includes a built-in time clock for hourly employees to clock in and out from the web or its mobile app, with approved hours flowing directly into the next payroll run.
No, Gusto's time clock records when someone works, it doesn't build the shift schedule itself. Businesses that need real shift planning typically run a separate scheduling tool and need those hours reaching Gusto before payroll.
Yes, PTO balances accrue and update automatically based on the policy you set up. Where it needs help is when time off gets approved somewhere other than Gusto first, since that approval doesn't reach Gusto's balance on its own.
Gusto's own clock doesn't support third-party hardware directly. If a location already runs a badge or biometric clock, getting that data into Gusto before each pay run is usually a custom sync rather than a built-in option.