Create and manage a company benefit (plan-level) in Gusto Embedded Payroll

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Verified steps

  1. List supported benefit types via GET /v1/benefits to get the canonical benefit_type enum values and whether each type supports employee and employer contributions.
  2. Create a new company benefit plan using POST /v1/companies/{company_id}/company_benefits with the benefit_type, description, active flag, and whether the plan is employee-deductible.
  3. Optionally set employer contribution defaults at the plan level; individual employee overrides are set at the employee_benefit level.
  4. Activate or deactivate the plan by sending a PUT to /v1/companies/{company_id}/company_benefits/{company_benefit_id} with active set to true or false.
  5. Retrieve the updated plan to confirm settings, then proceed to enroll individual employees.

Known gotchas

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