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We are a small company and are looking at various options for payroll; I’ve heard that there is a way to do payroll manually in QuickBooks, but I can’t seem to find any information on how to turn on that feature, everything seems to indicate that we have to buy a payroll subscription and that just isn’t in our budget right now. Can you help? Thanks in advance. ————————————— How to turn on and use the manual payroll option in QuickBooks certainly feels like a highly guarded secret.

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Intuit makes a lot of money selling payroll subscriptions and rightly so as keeping up with payroll tax laws and forms in each and every state is a lot of work! Even so, there are instances when a business chooses to have an outside payroll service do their payroll for them (maybe they get a break on their Worker’s Comp Insurance) or when a business only has one or two salaried employee on the payroll – but they still need to record payroll costs in QuickBooks for accurate job costing. Whatever reason a business has for not purchasing a QuickBooks Payroll subscription – sometimes they just need to be able to record actual paycheck transactions in QuickBooks manually. Below are the steps that you need to follow in order to turn on the QuickBooks Manual Payroll function and assumes that you have never processed payroll in your QuickBooks file before. Please follow these steps carefully (it’s sort of like going on a hunt for buried treasure) and make sure that you read each of the help topics that are displayed:. Make sure that payroll is turned on in your Preferences.

From the Edit menu - choose Preferences - scroll to Payroll & Employees - click on the Company Preferences tab. Select the Full Payroll option. Next go to the Help menu - choose QuickBooks Help. In the Search box, type in manual payroll.

Once the search results appears in the window, click on the topic with the title “Calculate payroll taxes manually (without a subscription to QuickBooks payroll)”. When this help topic displays, scroll down until you find the section titled “Set your company file to use the manual payroll calculations setting” and click on the link manual payroll calculations. This opens another Help window. Here you will want to look for the title heading “If you are sure you want to manually calculate your payroll taxes in QuickBooks” and click on the link that says “Set my company file to use manual calculations.” Once you click this link, you should see the following QuickBooks information window.

This is the ONLY notification that you will receive indicating that manual payroll is now active in your QuickBooks file. If you go to the Lists menu and choose Payroll Item List, you’ll see that QuickBooks has set up some of the more basic payroll tax items for you – you’ll need to enter the rest of them yourself. At this point I would highly recommend that you go through the Payroll Setup Wizard – found from the Employees menu - and choosing Payroll Setup.

The Payroll Setup wizard walks you through seven (7) key pieces of payroll data. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the setup. Set up Time tracking.

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If you wish to enter employee time against various jobs or projects and want that time (as well as wages) to appear in your job costing reports, you’ll need/want to enable time tracking. From the Edit menu - choose Preferences - scroll down to Time & Expenses - click on the Company Preferences tab - check/select the Yes option for Do you track time and set the first day of your work week. More articles on timetracking, job costing, and weekly timesheets:. Notes: If you have had a QuickBooks payroll subscription and wish to cancel it – you would still run through the steps to setup/activate the manual payroll options by going through the Help menu.

All of your current payroll items would still exist in your Payroll Item list and you would enter employee hours and then create paychecks as you always have – the only difference is that you would need to enter the correct amount of payroll tax withholdings. You will have to contact Intuit and cancel your current payroll subscription. There is no way to “enter” payroll tax table information in QuickBooks, so each week when you create the manual paychecks you’ll need to manually enter the taxes using information provided by your outside payroll service, paper tax tables, or from the use of a free. I hope you find this article to be helpful, if so, please take a moment to leave a comment or share it on your favorite social media network. The QuickBooks for Contractors blog is a free QuickBooks Support & Training resource provided by Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. Copyright 2000-2017. All Rights Reserved.

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