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Bank Accounts

Create a company bank account

This endpoint creates a new company bank account.

Upon being created, two verification deposits are automatically sent to the bank account, and the bank account's verification_status is 'awaiting_deposits'.

When the deposits are successfully transferred, the verification_status changes to 'ready_for_verification', at which point the verify endpoint can be used to verify the bank account. After successful verification, the bank account's verification_status is 'verified'.

🚧 Warning

If a default bank account exists, it will be disabled and the new bank account will replace it as the company's default funding method.

A new bank account cannot replace the default if the current default has unprocessed payments. In that case, a 422 invalid_operation error is returned. To resolve, fund or cancel the pending payments first.

scope: company_bank_accounts:write

post/v1/companies/{company_id}/bank_accounts

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.gusto-demo.com
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Path parameters

company_idstring required

The UUID of the company

Headers

X-Gusto-API-Version'2026-06-15'

Determines the date-based API version associated with your API call. If none is provided, your application's minimum API version is used.

Request body

routing_numberstring required

The bank routing number

account_numberstring required

The bank account number

account_type'Checking' | 'Savings' required

The bank account type

Response

Bank account unchanged

uuidstring required

UUID of the bank account

company_uuidstring

UUID of the company

account_type'Checking' | 'Savings'

Bank account type

routing_numberstring

The bank account's routing number

hidden_account_numberstring

Masked bank account number

verification_status'awaiting_deposits' | 'ready_for_verification' | 'verified'

The verification status of the bank account.

'awaiting_deposits' means the bank account is just created and money is being transferred. 'ready_for_verification' means the micro-deposits are completed and the verification process can begin by using the verify endpoint. 'verified' means the bank account is verified.

verification_type'bank_deposits' | 'plaid' | 'plaid_external'

The verification type of the bank account.

'bank_deposits' means the bank account is connected by entering routing and accounting numbers and verifying through micro-deposits. 'plaid' means the bank account is connected through Plaid.

plaid_status'connected' | 'disconnected' nullable

The Plaid connection status of the bank account. Only applies when verification type is Plaid.

last_cached_balancestring nullable

The last fetch balance for the bank account. Please be aware that this amount does not reflect the most up-to-date balance and only applies when the verification type is Plaid.

balance_fetched_datestring nullable

The balance fetch date associated with the last_cached_balance. Only applies when verification type is Plaid.

namestring

Name of bank account

reverse_wire_enabledboolean nullable

Whether the company has at least one bank account with active reverse-wire funding. The same value is returned on every bank-account row in this response.

Changes

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