How to Create Pay Check In QuickBooks Desktop Payroll

1. How to Create Pay Check In QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Presented By: QuickBooks Enterprise Support

2. ● How to Create Pay Check In QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Run or create paychecks using different options available in QuickBooks Desktop. Checklist before paying your employees: ● Activate your payroll service, US or Canada. ● Download the latest tax table, US or Canada (if applicable). ● Download the latest QuickBooks Desktop release. ● Set QuickBooks Desktop to Single-user mode. ● Create employee payroll items. ● Enter employee withholding information (W-4 for US, TD1 for Canada) into QuickBooks Desktop (normally done when you initially set up your employee). ● If you want to pay employees through Direct Deposit, set up employee direct deposit information in the employee profile (applies to US only). ● Create paychecks in the same company file where you have been creating paychecks.

3. Paycheck options ➢ ➢ There are three (3) options available in QuickBooks Desktop for creating paychecks. No matter which option you choose, the steps to create paychecks are fundamentally the same. Scheduled Payroll This should be your primary choice if you pay your employees on a regular schedule such as weekly, biweekly, monthly, etc. Scheduled payroll also allows for grouping if some of your employees are paid on a different schedule. Make sure that the payroll schedule dates are correct before running scheduled payroll. To learn more about setting up a scheduled payroll, seeSet up, update, or delete payroll schedules ● Note: If you are a Direct Deposit or QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Assisted customer, the Process Payroll On date is adjusted to include transmit lead times and bank holidays (applies to US only). For more information:Contact QuickBooks Support Dial 1-855-441-4417

4. ● Unscheduled Payroll You select Unscheduled Payroll if your employees are not set up for a Scheduled Payroll. You can also use this option if you do not pay your employees regularly, or are paying them an off cycle paycheck or a bonus check or commission check that is not integrated with their normal paycheck. ● Termination Check This option is used to pay a released/terminated employee's last paycheck. This process assists you in creating a final paycheck, entering the employee's release date and marking them inactive (optional) See Create Termination paycheck or Processing a late payroll (backdating paychecks) (applies to US only) for steps to run or create a termination paycheck.

5. To create paychecks in QuickBooks Desktop 1. Choose Employees > Pay Employees. Select the option that applies to you (click to read more below). Select from the following options: ○ Scheduled Payroll: QuickBooks Desktop will take you to the Payroll Center and Pay Employees tab 1. From the Create Paychecks section, click the appropriate schedule. 2. Click Start Schedule Payroll button. QuickBooks Desktop will open up the Enter Payroll Informationwindow. ○ Unscheduled Payroll: QuickBooks Desktop will take you directly to Enter Payroll Information window. ○ Termination Check: QuickBooks Desktop will open up the Enter Payroll Information window. See Termination paycheck or Processing a late payroll (backdating paychecks) for steps to run or create a termination paycheck. Verify the Pay Period Ends date, Check Date and Bank Account the monies are drawn from. 2. 3.

6. 3.Choose the Printing Option that applies to you. (Click to read more below.) If you are using a US version of QuickBooks: Looking for QuickBooks Error Support

7. For Check Options: ● ● Click Print paychecks on check stock to queue paychecks for printing from QuickBooks Desktop. Click Handwrite & assign check numbers if you're writing your paychecks by hand. Enter a First Check#. When you enter a check number, the number will increase by 1 for each subsequent check written from the account specified in the Bank Account field. Visit for more:Paycheck options:

8. For Direct Deposit Options: ● Click Print DD on check stock to queue direct deposit advice of deposits for printing from QuickBooks Desktop. Click Assign DD numbers to prevent direct deposits from being placed in the check-printing queue. You can still print pay stubs for your direct deposits. You can also indicate an alphanumeric starting number, which will be incremented and printed on direct deposit pay stubs. ● VISIT FOR:How to change your Direct Deposit Bank Account QuickBooks

9. 1. 2. If you're using a Canadian version of QuickBooks Desktop: For Cheque Options: ○ Click Print paycheques from QuickBooks Desktop to queue paycheques for printing from QuickBooks Desktop. Click Assign cheques numbers to handwritten cheques if you're writing your paycheques by hand. Enter a First Cheque Number. When you enter a cheque number, the number will increase by 1 for each subsequent cheque written from the account specified in the Bank Account field. Check mark the name of employee(s) you want to pay. Enter or verify the employee's amounts in the appropriate columns. 3. 4.

10. 1. To edit employee paycheck information for one paycheck only, click the employee's name to access the Paycheck Details. You can do this to add payroll items temporarily or to modify amounts before creating the paycheck. ● If the employee uses Direct Deposit, verify that the Use Direct Deposit box is selected (applies to US only). ● If you do not want vacation and sick to accrue on this specific paycheck, check the box to Do Not Accrue Sick/Vac.

11. Click Save & Next to go to the next employee, or click Save & Close to go back to the Enter Payroll Information window. When the checks are ready to be created, click Continue. In the Review and Create Paychecks window, review the Paycheck Options: ○ Print paychecks from QuickBooks to have QuickBooks Desktop print the paychecks. ○ Check numbers - Step #3 above. ○ Note: If you use direct deposit to pay your employees, you can leave the First Check Number field blank. This field can be used to enter a text memo (for example, DD), limited to 11 alphanumeric characters, which will print out on your employees' pay stubs. If you use direct deposit, but you want to print out on advices of deposit, click Print paychecks from QuickBooks (applies to US only). Verify the amounts for each employee in the Review and Create Paychecks window, and click Create Paychecks. Print the paychecks or pay stubs now or later if desired. See How to print paychecks and Print pay stubs for detailed steps. If you have QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Assisted or direct deposit paychecks, send your payroll information and direct deposit paychecks to Intuit (applies to US only). Note: QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Assisted and Direct Deposit customers must send payroll to Intuit by 5:00 p.m. (Pacific time) 2 banking days prior to the check date. This allows enough time for the processing of direct deposit funds as well as tax payments on your behalf (applies to US only). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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